Let's Talk Thyroid – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode of the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I am speaking with Dr. Sam Shay, a functional medicine expert, discussing the complexities of thyroid health. We explore the importance of comprehensive thyroid testing - not just the thyroid panel but other tests that can help unpack solutions to managing thyroid health. Dr Shay identifies 6 often overlooked categories of tests to explore:

1. Nutritional deficiencies
2. Mitochondria
3. Gut Health
4. Genetics
5. Hormones
6. Adrenal

Here is some of what we talk about and where to find it

00:00 Introduction to Functional Medicine and Thyroid Health
05:29 Understanding Thyroid Testing and Nutritional Deficiencies
11:00 The Role of Mitochondria in Thyroid Function
17:01 Gut Health and Its Impact on Thyroid
22:40 Genetics and Thyroid Health
28:10 The Influence of Hormones and Stress on Thyroid Function
33:42 Holistic Approaches to Thyroid Management

Dr. Sam Shay, DC, IFMCP is a functional medicine expert, speaker, and stand-up comic who helps people get out of survival mode and reclaim their energy, focus, and vitality through personalizedfunctional lab testing and his signature NeuroHarmony Model™

After overcoming years of chronic fatigue, insomnia,and digestive issues since childhood, Dr. Sam turned his recovery into a mission. He’s spent the last 25 years mastering the science of nutrition, mind-body medicine, and clinical lab testing to decode the root causes of burnout, overwhelm, and chronic health issues.

Known as the “friendly lab nerd,” Dr. Sam makes advanced lab testing approachable—combining deep data analysis with relatable insights to help clients balance hormones, heal the gut, optimize
sleep, and reduce inflammation. His unique NeuroHarmony Model™ weaves together functional
testing with nervous system regulation to create sustainable health—not just short-term symptom
fixes.

He’s been featured on over 200 podcasts and summits and brings an engaging, humorous tone to even the most complex health topics. Dr. Sam empowers his audience with practical tools to feel
better and function at their best.

Connect with Dr Shay:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tenpointwellness/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sam.shay.792/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsamshay/

Head to drsamshay.com/DNA-decoded and enter code GOLD100 for $100 off the Gold program

Let’s Talk Thyroid is a podcast where we explore different aspects of living thyroid-friendly lifestyle positively & practically to help you thrive and not just survive.

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📚 Let's Talk Thyroid BOOK: buy via https://letstalkthyroid.com or Amazon.

➡️ Instagram or Facebook @letstalkthyroid.annabelbateman

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Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

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The last few months I've been managing the ups and downs of my own thyroid health, so I thought it was time for an update!

In this episode, I go over the details of my experiences with weight loss, the fasting mimicking diet, and the impact on my thyroid hormone levels too. 

Here is a basic outline:

00:00 Annabel's Health Journey Overview
10:24 Leptin Resistance Program Insights
18:45 Weight Loss Progress and Challenges
25:49 Thyroid Health and Blood Test Results
31:41 Lessons Learned and Future Plans

Here is the link to Dr Jack Kruse's leptin reset - you'll find you can link to more of his articles and protocols from this link.

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Let’s Talk Thyroid is a podcast where we explore different aspects of living thyroid-friendly lifestyle positively & practically to help you thrive and not just survive.

⭐️  WEBSITE: https://letstalkthyroid.com

📚 Let's Talk Thyroid BOOK: buy via https://letstalkthyroid.com or Amazon.

➡️ Instagram or Facebook @letstalkthyroid.annabelbateman

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

The vast majority of us with hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism have autoimmune conditions (Hashimoto's/Graves' Disease) that have causes the issues with our thyroid hormones. This is why it's so important to 
a) know if you have an autoimmune condition and 
b) what you can do to calm the autoimmunity (ie put out the fire).

To help unpack this topic, I'm joined on the podcast by Risa Groux.

Some of the topics covered in this conversation include:

• Understanding autoimmunity and it's impact
• What is the fire of autoimmunity that needs to be put out?
• Role of thyroid antibodies
• How to manage thyroid antibodies
• What is a functional nutrition approach to autoimmunity?
• The Autoimmune Protocol
• Developing a personalised approach to managing your autoimmunity
• Digestive healing
• Lectins - what are they and what impact can they have?
• Root causes
• A look into Risa's daily routine

What is ONE THING you can take away from this episode?

Connect with Risa:
RISA GROUX, CN is a Functional Nutritionist and Certified Autoimmune Coach in private practice in Newport Beach, California. She has always been passionate about nutrition and good health. Risa was so concerned about purity that she made her children’s baby food from scratch. Today she is passionate about cooking and creating healthy, nutritious food. She works with a wide array of clients from professional athletes, adults, and kids to the Biggest Loser from season four. Risa works with issues like diabetes, autoimmune disease, cancer, digestion, thyroid, and hormone imbalances, to name a few. Risa firmly believes that the body can heal itself with whole foods we obtain from the earth and sees living proof of that in her office each day. She looks at root causes using functional nutrition guidelines, blood and stool tests, and knows that weight loss is a side effect of wellness. 

risagrouxnutrition.com
Instagram: @risagrouxnutrition

Let's Talk Thyroid:
WEBSITE: https://letstalkthyroid.com
✅ Download your FREE Printable Thyroid Health Checklist.
📚 Let's Talk Thyroid BOOK: buy via https://letstalkthyroid.com or Amazon.
🔥 Coaching Programs: https://letstalkthyroid.com/thyroid-coaching-programs/
📝 Full shownotes
🎙 Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

There is so much gold in this episode make sure you listen to it all! Also now available on the Let's Talk Thyroid YouTube Channel.

We cover:
* Angela's personal story of being diagnosed & treated properly with hypothyroidism (which took 7 doctors and 12 years)
* The difference between hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's and the impact that has on treatment/management and priorities.
* Medications and our personal experiences of how tricky it can be to get the right medication and the right dosage.
* Minerals - specifically calcium, potassium & selenium - testing, symptoms and management
* Mindset - a positive mindset is critical  - we cover how to develop one!
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About Angela Brown

Angela is a holistic health coach from St. Louis, MO. She is a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P), a licensed physical therapist, as well as a personal trainer. She specializes in advanced testing and thyroid healing for women. She has recovered from hypothyroidism herself after being diagnosed at the age of 22. She used her experience and education to create her program called “The Sexy Thyroid Solution” to help women no longer suffer like she did and get to the root cause of their health issues.

Connect with Angela:
angelabrown.org and

Instagram @angelabrowncoach
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Let's talk further with Annabel...

Book your 60 min Strategy Session  with Annabel and get clear on your thyroid health strategy.

Subscribe to the podcast, share & review. Thank you!

Go to annabelbateman.com for show notes, download my thyroid freebie, book a strategy session...

Join the Let's Talk Thyroid Community on Facebook.

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

Tapping, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique is a tool where you use your fingers to 'tap' on a sequence of acupressure points on the body.

I know it does sound a bit crazy, but think of it as acupuncture without the needles. It's a tool that has been shown in different studies to reduce cortisol (stress hormone). In one sense it's a form of active meditation.

In this episode of Let's Talk Thyroid, I'm chatting with internationally renowned 'tapper', Brad Yates about the technique which really is quite simple, so once you know how, it's easy to use anytime and anyplace on pretty much anything!

Stress can be a trigger for auto-immune thyroid diseases (Hashimoto's and Graves). Stress also creates inflammation which wreaks havoc on thyroid (& much more) health, so the more tools we have in our stress relief toolkit the better.

As Brad says, if our bodies aren't constantly dealing with 'ambient stress', all the time, there is more bandwidth for the body to heal. So whether tapping directly or indirectly helps our thyroid health, it doesn't really matter!

There are times of course when it's best to seek professional support or to even tap with a friend. If you're dealing with some really big emotions, stress or trauma, please get support. 

You'll find it easier to WATCH the actual tapping sequences. We go through 2 in the episode. They can be found:

Intro stress sequence: @ 31 min

Longer thyroid sequence: @38.45

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Brad Yates is known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Brad is the author of the best-selling children's book "The Wizard's Wish," the co-author of the best-seller "Freedom at Your Fingertips," and a featured expert in the film “The Tapping Solution.” He has also been a presenter at a number of events, including Jack Canfield's Breakthrough to Success, has done teleseminars with “The Secret” stars Bob Doyle and Dr. Joe Vitale, and has been heard internationally on a number of internet radio talk shows. Brad also has well over 1000 videos on YouTube, that have been viewed over 32 million times.  

Connect with Brad:
www.tapwithbrad.com

YouTube

Instagram & Facebook @tapwithbrad

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Let's talk further with Annabel...

Book your 60 min Strategy Session  with Annabel and get clear on your thyroid health strategy.

Subscribe to the podcast, share & review. Thank you!

Go to annabelbateman.com for show notes, download my thyroid freebie, book a strategy session...

Join the Let's Talk Thyroid Community on Facebook.

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

Leanne's Thyroid Story, like so many is long and windy and reveals a deeply personal struggle and commitment to her own health.

Leanne has really taken her health into her own hands and, together with the help of a couple of different naturopaths has been able to identify a key root cause/trigger and how to really manage that part of her health.

We talk about:

• Reducing antibodies
• How to include your partner in the health process
• How important it is to find the right practitioner to work with at the right time
• Liver support
• How to pace yourself - Leanne says this has been critical for her as a way of empowering her to exercise self-care - she has a few practices she's built into her calendar too.
• How resting is not lazy.
• Our favourite essential oils - how to use them safely (& what NOT to do!)
• Leanne's top 3 tips for others.

Thank you Leanne for sharing your story with me, I know it will be an encouragement to many others as they travel their thyroid journey's too.

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Let's talk further with Annabel...

Book your 60 min Strategy Session  with Annabel and get clear on your thyroid health strategy.

Subscribe to the podcast, share & review. Thank you!

Go to annabelbateman.com for show notes, download my thyroid freebie, book a strategy session...

Join the Let's Talk Thyroid Community on Facebook.

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

Unresolved stress or past trauma (big or small) may be getting in the way of your thyroid healing.

In this chat with Justin Janoska, we dive into

• How helping his Mom/Mum (😀) with her Hashimoto's lead him into this space.
• Is there a thyroid 'personality'? ie common personality traits that he sees commonly with the women he works with. (Enneagrams 1 & 3s take note)
• How you can 'get in your own way'.
• The importance of unscheduled time-out.
• The inability to heal in a toxic-environment.
• Common other auto-immune diseases that those with Hashimoto's tend to 'collect'!
• Where to start when it comes to improving your thyroid health
• How the process of being diagnosed/treated can be a trauma in and of itself.
• Hashimoto's as a lifestyle driven disease.

AND, we have a discussion about the corona virus and how it might impact on those of us with thyroid issues and/or auto-immune diseases.

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About Justin:
Justin Janoska is a clinician and the founder of The Autoimmune Revolution – an emerging company that guides women in their healing journey to reverse their autoimmune disease and reproductive disorder.

Currently, Justin places specific attention on Hashimoto’s, IBD, Multiple Sclerosis, PCOS, Infertility, Anxiety, Eating Disorders and Trauma.

He holds a Master’s in Human Nutrition from The University of Bridgeport and has done post-graduate work studying mind-body medicine for the past 3 years. This has become an integral part of his teachings and work with his clients. Through the therapeutic relationship, he helps clients acquire a deeper understanding of how they got here with their illness, supports them to be with their pain, and embrace their truth.

Ultimately, Justin is deeply committed and, on a mission, to help revolutionize how we address and heal women who are struggling with autoimmune disease.

Connect with Justin:
www.theautoimmunerevolution.com

Connect on Instagram. @justinjanoska

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Let's talk further with Annabel...

Book your free 30 min Strategy Session before March 14 as after that they will be $147 for 60min.

Subscribe to the podcast, share & review. Thank you!

Go to annabelbateman.com for show notes, download my thyroid freebie, book a strategy session...

Join the Let's Talk Thyroid Community on Facebook.

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

We are exposed to hundreds, if not thousands of chemicals each day - in the air we breath, the furniture we sit on, food we eat, medications, skin care, hair care, perfumes and air fresheners. So in this episode let’s talk all things 'detox'.

• How does our body deal with these chemicals?
• How can we help our bodies deal more efficiently with them?
• Special considerations for those with thyroid issues.
• How can we reduce our chemical exposure/toxic load?

I get a little bit science-y (in my limited way!) and share some practical outworkings of how we can support our body's natural biotransformation (detox) pathways and how to reduce chemical exposure in the first place!

Join in the discussion in the Let's Talk Thyroid Community.

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Book your free 30 min Strategy Session

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This episode is proudly supported by ⭐️ ME ⭐️

Here is how you can support me & the Let's Talk Thyroid Podcast:

Leave a Tip via PayPal if you're loving it to help me spread the thyroid message (thank you).

Buy Essential oils

Buy What Annabel Cooks Paleo Cookbook

Take one of my online courses :-)

My Year By Design Course

Kickstart Your Thyroid Wellness Lifestyle Challenge

Collaborations:

Veralany.com Wear your Words. Use the code annabel to get a $21 discount.
i-screen.com.au - Use this affiliate link to get your blood tests done if you can't get them through your doctor.

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

Angela feels like she's spent her life tired and looking back thinks she's probably had thyroid issue for decades before being properly diagnosed. Although diagnosed with an underactive thyroid is wasn't until over a decade later she was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. 

She says she didn't really identify with many of the typical symptoms so tended to downplay it, but can see that it's crept up on her to the point that the last 2 years she's required medication and has really embarked on the research and self-empowerment health journey!

This research has, in part led her down a path of switching to toxic free products, having been exposed to a lot of chemicals growing up on a farm and working as a Dental Nurse. She's switched her to clean cleaning products, personal care products and loves her doTERRA essential oils and their Lifelong Vitality supplements.

Angela is a Personal Trainer and is a firm believer in food, nutrition and gut health being critical to her over all health. She's found that a paleo based diet works best for her and has loved my Kickstart Your Thyroid Wellness Lifestyle Challenge so much that she's back for a second round ;-)

 Enjoy listening to Angela share her story.

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Let's talk further...

Book your free 30 min Strategy Session

Subscribe to the podcast, share & review. Thank you!

Go to annabelbateman.com for show notes, download my thyroid freebie, book a strategy session...

Join the Let's Talk Thyroid Community on Facebook.

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This episode is proudly supported by ⭐️ ME ⭐️

Here is how you can support me & the Let's Talk Thyroid Podcast:

Leave a Tip via PayPal if you're loving it to help me spread the thyroid message (thank you).

Buy Essential oils

Buy What Annabel Cooks Paleo Cookbook

Take one of my online courses :-)

My Year By Design Course

Kickstart Your Thyroid Wellness Lifestyle Challenge

Collaborations:

Veralany.com Wear your Words. Use the code annabel to get a $21 discount. 
i-screen.com.au - Use this affiliate link to get your blood tests done if you can't get them through your doctor.

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.

Having a word for your health for 2021 can bring your focus, clarity, direction and can help reduce stress.

In the first episode for 2021, I share with you my ideas around having a word for the year. I’ve been doing this for 6 years now and have found having a guiding theme for the year really empowering. I have mostly focussed the discussion around HEALTH, although you can have a word that traverses many areas of your life, or a specific one for your health.

In this episode I cover:

The benefits of having a word for your year.

How to find your word

I step you through 3 out of 5 of the steps in my Year By Design course:

1. Reflect
2. Dream
3. Create

How to cement your word and create a vision for your health.

If you’d like help finding your word, you can book a free 30 min Strategy Session with me.

Links:

Word jewellery: Veralany.com use the code annabel to get a $21 discount

My Year By Design Course

Kickstart Your Thyroid Wellness Lifestyle Challenge - next group intake starts 1st Feb.

Word for the year ideas – download here.

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Let's talk further...

Book your free 30 min Strategy Session

Subscribe to the podcast, share & review. Thank you!

Go to annabelbateman.com for show notes, download my thyroid freebie, book a strategy session...

Join the Let's Talk Thyroid Community on Facebook.

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This episode is proudly supported by ⭐️ ME ⭐️

Here is how you can support me & the Let's Talk Thyroid Podcast:

Donate via PayPal if you're loving it to help me spread the thyroid message (thank you).

Buy Essential oils

Buy What Annabel Cooks Paleo Cookbook

Take one of my online courses :-) 

Have you got your copy of my book, Let's Talk Thyroid: Positive & Practical Thyroid Help yet?

If not, you can grab a yours from Amazon or from letstalkthyroid.com

My KISS Thyroid Coaching Program is now available as a 1 on 1 program to work with my directly.

For more information: letstalkthyroid.com/kiss

Support the show

⭐️ NEW Become a monthly supporter from $3/month

If you get value from the Let's Talk Thyroid podcast, I'd love to invite you to become a monthly supporter from US$3/month. This will help me enormously to cover the costs of producing the podcast and making the content available freely.