How serious is Hashimoto's disease? Nobody answered that at your appointment.

You got a prescription and a follow-up in six weeks. Or you got told your numbers are fine for now and we are just going to keep an eye on things. Either way, you walked out not knowing whether to brush this off or worry about it every day.

The answer sits in between those two. Hashimoto's is two things and not one. It is a thyroid that cannot keep up, and it is an immune system attacking that thyroid. Medication can help handle the first one. The second one is all yours to work on.

In episode 216, Esther gives you the facts without the fear, including what she reads in her own thyroid books about what happens when hypothyroidism goes unwatched, and why she gets most serious about this with women who are pregnant or trying to be.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the immune attack is not the life-threatening part, and what actually is
• How long your antibodies can be elevated before symptoms or your TSH ever reflect it
• The five labs to look at so you know which side is asking for your attention right now

Hit play and get the answer you did not get at your appointment.

Resources mentioned:

Esther's first episode, where she shares her own diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

You did the sorting. Thyroid on one side, immune on the other. So why does it feel like nothing has actually changed?

Here is the trap. Sorting feels like progress, and it is, but so far it is all in your head. The buckets are full and nothing in either one has moved. Sorting feels safe. Starting feels like a risk.

In this final episode of the summer sorting series, Esther walks you through what to do after sorting Hashimoto's into thyroid and immune. Not twelve things to do tomorrow. One thing, chosen on purpose, small enough that you will still be doing it next month.

Hit play and pick your one next thing.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune, inside the classroom in the Skool community https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

Jumpstart to Refreshing Sleep and Rest, also in the Skool classroom

Single coaching sessions. You do not have to book the full six sessions of Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching. If you have sorted your two buckets and just need help with one thing, a single session is built for that.

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

You have the lab printout in front of you. You circled the flagged numbers, looked them up, and maybe compared them to somebody else's results in a group. So why do you still not know what they mean?

In episode 214, Esther walks through the full panel and sorts every lab into thyroid or immune, so you can do the same thing with your own results in about five minutes. Sorting Hashimoto's labs is simpler than it looks once you know which list each one belongs on.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Which labs report on your thyroid gland and which ones report on your immune system
• Why reverse T3 is the lab that goes missing most often, and what a high number is asking you to look at
• Why vitamin D and C-reactive protein are helpful even though they are not on the standard thyroid panel

Hit play, then pull out your most recent results and start sorting.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

Episode 1, my diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/

Episode 3, What Do My Thyroid Labs Mean: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/thyroid-labs/

Episode 39, Beyond TSH: How to Get the Thyroid Labs You Actually Need Using an Independent Lab: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/039-labs/

Episode 78, Success at the Doctor's Office: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/thyroid-questions-for-your-doctor/

Episode 80, Labs: T4 vs Free T4: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t4-not-converting-to-t3/

Episode 94, Labs: T3, Free T3, Reverse T3: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t3/

Episode 103, Thyroid Labs to Check: [link needed, page not live yet]

Episode 190, Why Your TSH Looks Normal but You Still Feel Tired with Hashimoto's: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/190-tsh-normal-but-still-tired/

10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your Doctor (free guide): https://healthwithhashimotos.com/questions-for-your-doctor/

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Six common Hashimoto’s symptoms: fatigue, weight resistance, brain fog, hair loss, constipation, and feeling cold all the time.

You've been told they're all just your thyroid. Some of them are. And some of them were never going to be fully fixed by your thyroid.

In episode 213, Esther sorts the six most common Hashimoto's symptoms into thyroid or immune. Two landed in the thyroid bucket. Four landed in both. That isn't bad news. Two buckets is not two problems. It's two places to look instead of one dead end.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why feeling cold all the time is the cleanest thyroid bucket symptom, and what to ask about if you're still cold on medication
• How constipation, hair loss, brain fog, and weight resistance end up in both buckets for two different reasons
• Why weight gain when you're eating the same and moving the same is physiology, not willpower

Hit play and start sorting.

Resources mentioned in this episode

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune ($27, about an hour, self-paced) https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

One-time coaching call with Esther

Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching, six one-on-one sessions

Episode 80, Labs: T4 vs free T4 https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t4-not-converting-to-t3/

Episode 94, Labs: T3, Free T3, Reverse T3 https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t3/

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

You started the summer with a question. Now you have a longer list of root causes and the exact same question you had in May.

Which one am I supposed to do something about first?

That is not an information problem. It is a sorting problem.

In this episode, Esther goes back through the summer root cause series and sorts every topic covered into one of two buckets using the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework. Each one gets sorted out loud so you can see how the filter actually works when you apply it to real information, including the one topic that landed in both buckets and changed how she thinks about minerals.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why vitamin D belongs in the immune bucket even though it matters for every cell in your body
• Why the hair mineral test lands in both buckets, and what changed Esther's mind about it
• How to take 25 saved screenshots and sort them down to one next step

Hit play and get a filter for everything you already know.

Resources mentioned

10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your Doctor

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune

Episode 204, the hair mineral test with Dee

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

You have all the information. So why are you still stuck?

If you have spent years reading, researching, and following every account you can find, you already know a lot about Hashimoto's. The problem is not information. The problem is knowing what to do with it.

In this episode, Esther walks through the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework and shows you exactly how she used it on herself, back when she was first diagnosed. She shares which bucket she focused on first, why she skipped over diet even though she knew it mattered, and how she figured out her very next step instead of trying to do everything at once.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How to sort your own symptoms, labs, and next steps into the thyroid bucket or the immune bucket
• Why Esther focused on sleep and stress first, even though she knew diet was important too
• How to figure out your one next step instead of feeling like you have to fix everything at once

Hit play to hear the whole story, including the moment her teenage son asked her a question that says everything about why she does this work.

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

What if your thyroid is a victim, not the cause, of Hashimoto's

Your thyroid isn't broken. It's overwhelmed.

Esther talks with Dr. Jess Armine, a healthcare provider with almost 50 years of clinical experience. His take on Hashimoto's: the thyroid is a victim, not the cause. It's a downstream effect of something else happening in your body.

If your fatigue has ever been written off as laziness, this one will shift how you see it.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why your thyroid isn't the real problem in Hashimoto's
• Why your fatigue is a cellular energy crisis, not laziness
• The one simple starting point Dr. Armine recommends before chasing every root cause

Guest bio:

Dr. Jess Armine has spent nearly 50 years in healthcare as an EMT, RN, and chiropractor. After his son's schizophrenia diagnosis, he dove into genetics, endocrinology, and mitochondrial function, developing what he calls bio-individualized medicine. He now specializes in complex illnesses that haven't found success elsewhere.

Make a free 30 min "Get Acquainted" consultation with Dr. Jess. Click here: Get Acquainted

Resources mentioned:

• Codeage Beyond Vitamins Platinum Women's Multivitamin (liposomal), on Fullscript: https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/eyunkin
• Full blog post: https://healthwithhashimotos.com

NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions

READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about

Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Do you keep starting a new Hashimoto's protocol, only to abandon it a few weeks in when something newer shows up?

If that cycle feels familiar, you are not lacking discipline. You are missing a filter. In this episode, Esther explains why do I keep starting over with Hashimoto's protocols, and it is not the reason you think. The real issue is that every new supplement or protocol lands with equal weight because there is no way to sort it against what you are already doing.

In this episode, you'll learn:

The real reason starting over feels like progress, even when it isn't The two bucket filter (thyroid or immune) for sorting anything new that crosses your feed Four questions to ask before you try another supplement or protocol

Hit play to get the filter that stops the cycle for good.

Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune

Finally understand what's actually happening in your body.

https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/

Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching

Not more information. A way to think about all of it.

https://healthwithhashimotos.com/book-now/

ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER:

The Health with Hashimoto’s podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.