103: Unmasking Thyroid Health: Boost Energy and Success by Addressing Root Causes

Feeling constantly drained no matter how much sleep you get? Your thyroid might be the silent saboteur behind your fatigue, weight gain, and brain fog. Today on the Breaking Boundaries podcast, we unravel the critical role of the thyroid gland and its profound impact on your energy, productivity, and overall success, especially for entrepreneurs and busy professionals. Discover how both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism uniquely disrupt your daily performance, and why conventional thyroid testing might leave you feeling unsupported.

Join me, Jeffrey Mort, as I uncover the often-overlooked issue of thyroid health and its direct influence on your business and personal life. Learn about the comprehensive methods to identify and address potential thyroid problems, and why understanding your thyroid function is crucial for achieving limitless possibilities in both your life and business. Listen in and stay tuned till the end for actionable insights on avoiding failure and reaching your next level of success with integrative health. For more details and resources mentioned in today's episode, visit jeffreymort.com and click on that SHOP button.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:29

Have you ever felt completely drained like? No matter how much sleep you get, you still wake up feeling exhausted. What if I told you that your thyroid might be the culprit and that you're not alone? Today we're diving into one of the most overlooked and misunderstood areas of health that impacts millions of people your thyroid. Get ready to learn how this tiny little gland plays a massive role in your energy, your productivity and even in the success of your business. Stay tuned hello, I'm Jeffrey Mort. If you're like most entrepreneurs, you're busy taking care of business, yet who's taking care of you? If you're ready to take your energy and performance to the next level in your life and your business, then this podcast is for you. If you're ready to take your energy and performance to the next level in your life and your business, then this podcast is for you, because today you're going to start breaking boundaries of your mind, body and business with integrative health, and when you do that, your possibilities are limitless. I'm grateful you're here. Yes, always grateful for you joining me here today.

Speaker 1: 2:34

Welcome to another episode of the Breaking Boundaries podcast. For purpose-driven entrepreneurs like yourself, this is episode number 103. And, of course, you'll want to stay to the end when we bring it together, as always, on how to avoid failure and reach your next level of success with integrative health. And for all the show notes and links from today's episode, visit JeffreyMoorecom and click on that podcast button. Don't forget to utilize that. Send us a message feature in the show notes as well. You can always reach me with a question, a comment, let me know what your favorite episode was, or if you have any ideas for future episodes or guests, you can use that feature there and we'll get back to you as soon as possible, usually on a future episode.

Speaker 1: 3:21

And just a quick little disclaimer here some housekeeping. This podcast doesn't claim to provide any medical advice or diagnose or treat or cure any diseases. But what we do, my, my friends, what we do is we get to the root cause of the problem, and today we're talking about thyroid issues. They're more common than you might think. They actually affect roughly one in eight women and millions of men worldwide. Yet the symptoms they often go unnoticed or misdiagnosed Things like fatigue and weight gain and brain fog. These are just a few signs that something might be off. And if you're an entrepreneur which most likely you are because you're listening to this podcast or a busy professional. These symptoms can directly impact your business in your ability to perform at your best.

Speaker 1: 4:16

Your thyroid, your thyroids like the thermostat for your entire body, controlling how much energy you have throughout the day, and when it's functioning properly, it regulates everything from your metabolism to your mood and your energy levels. But when it off balance, you can feel sluggish, you can feel irritable and just plain off on your daily day-to-day. So there are two main ways your thyroid can go off course. There's hypothyroidism, which is where the thyroid isn't producing enough hormones, and hyperthyroidism, where it's producing too much. With hypothyroidism you might feel tired, you might gain weight or experience things like hair loss and, on the flip side, hyperthyroidism can make you feel anxious, cause weight loss and lead to something like a racing heart. So both conditions affect your energy, but in different ways. So low thyroid function, especially hypothyroidism, can be a silent killer of productivity. Imagine feeling drained every single day, no matter how much coffee you drink. Even if you're drinking that good purity coffee, you can't think clearly, you're less creative and your motivation plummets. For entrepreneurs, that can be a death sentence for your business. Low thyroid doesn't just affect your health. It can directly impact your income and your success.

Speaker 1: 5:54

When it comes to thyroid testing, conventional medicine usually only looks at one marker, tsh, or thyroid stimulating hormone. It's not even a thyroid hormone, by the way. If you fall within the normal range according to conventional medicine, which is about 4 up to 5, like 5.0, your doctor might tell you that you're fine. Everything looks normal, even if you're still feeling terrible. And if your levels are off. The typical solution is medication, which often comes with side effects like mood swings, lower energy or weight changes. The problem with this approach is that it treats symptoms without addressing the root cause.

Speaker 1: 6:39

So in functional medicine, we dig a little bit deeper. We always want to know why, because there's always a reason why. So we look at a full thyroid panel. This is TSH between 0.5 and 2.6, not way up there at 5, but at 2.6. If it's above that 2.6, that's what we consider functionally high and there could be an issue. And then, of course, if it's below 0.5, that could be functionally low and that could be an issue. Now we also look at something that's called TPO antibodies and free T4 and free T3. Why is this important? These markers give us a complete picture of how well your thyroid is functioning. For example, free T3 is the active hormone your body actually uses. So if that's low you're going to feel low energy, no matter what your TSH says.

Speaker 1: 7:36

Now here's where things get exciting. You don't need to wait for months to get an appointment, drive to a lab or get a quick five-minute explanation from your doctor, who may or may not be dismissing your symptoms. At Love Energy Wellness, our private wellness practice, you can test your thyroid with precision at-home functional lab testing kits. These are sent right to your home. It's super easy, it's convenient and it gives us the data we need to create that custom plan for you. So now here's a surprising fact Most of the time, thyroid production issues aren't really about the thyroid itself.

Speaker 1: 8:15

That's right. They're usually driven by other factors, like nutrient deficiencies, like inflammation, or even environmental toxicities or biological toxicities. The thyroid is more of a canary in the coal mine and it shows signs of distress, but it's not the root cause and that's why you know, we recommend running more than just a thyroid panel. We like to recommend what's called the Big Five lab test, which can look at those nutrient deficiencies, the vitamins, the minerals, to make sure those are on par. It can look at inflammation markers. It can also look at adrenal hormones and sex hormones and vitamin D3, food sensitivities and things of that nature, so that we can get a full, comprehensive picture on what some of those deficiencies and toxicities are that are affecting the thyroid that we're also looking at. So that's why it's important to discover and address underlying root causes. So in functional medicine we look at those nutrient deficiencies you know are you getting enough iodine? Are you getting enough selenium? Are you getting enough zinc, as well as those toxicities like heavy metals or mold exposure? Correcting these imbalances can actually help your thyroid function naturally without relying solely on medication, because those conventional medications to bring up thyroid levels and introduce that synthetic thyroid hormone into the body is not taking care of those nutrient deficiencies or those toxicities that are actually causing the thyroid to respond accordingly.

Speaker 1: 9:51

So imagine this waking up feeling so rested, with the energy to crush your goals, that energy that you deserve to be able to lead your team and still have energy left to your family at the end of the day. No more brain fog, no more dragging yourself through the week. Balanced health equals what it equals a balanced life, and it all starts with understanding your thyroid. So why guess when you can test. If you're struggling with the low energy or brain fog or weight gain or weight loss and you just can't figure this out, these are all thyroid symptoms. I invite you to take that guesswork right out of it with our thyroid panel or our stress mood metabolism test. You'll get those answers that you need and you deserve. And, as always, I offer complimentary consultations to be able to understand what is right for you. And then, of course, if you do the lab testing, you know. If you do the lab testing, you know. If you're not in one of our coaching packages that actually comes with the labs. If you just want to do a single lab test, you'll get a consultation, a lab review, explanation and you'll also get a personalized wellness plan to get your energy back on track. So all of that information will be linked up in the show.

Speaker 1: 11:07

Notes. Can always visit, visit. You can always visit love energy wellness comm to learn more and schedule your free consult today. You know your thyroid could be the key to unlocking more energy and a higher level of performance in your business and in your life. Don't settle for fine, don't settle for normal. Let's get you. Let's get you feeling your best. Until next time, stay energized, stay well and keep breaking those boundaries. Bye-bye.