Let's resume our journey 🧳 to the heart of our precious gland.
We saw last week the importance of having a healthy liver 💪 so that this gland is at its best 💪💪💪 and above all can produce hormones that exert their full effects 👌.
Liver and digestion thus work hand in hand 🤝... if one sticks out its tongue 👅 well the other will stick out its tongue too 👅👅👅.
These signs are sent to you by your belly raising its hand 🙋♀️ and saying: eh, oh 🙋🏼♂️!!! I'm here 🙋🏻!!! And it's not going well today 😩. Can anyone hear me 👂❓
Sometimes we tend to tell ourselves that it's normal, that it's always been like this and that it's not so bad after all 🤷♀️.
If it goes on for too long, poor digestion can cause the lining of the gut to become inflamed and become porous, letting in lots of substances that shouldn't normally pass 🤦♀️.
This is the open door to several diseases including for example autoimmune diseases: your body no longer knows what is yours and what is foreign to you, it messes up 🤯 and ends up producing substances (antibodies) that instead of attacking "enemies" turn against your own cells for example 😨.
It's the immune system that loses its mind a bit 🤕 !
This is the case with Hashimoto's thyroiditis which is an immune based inflammatory disease.
All of this is to say that if you have thyroid problems and associated digestive problems, don't neglect the latter 😉.
Another big factor for the thyroid is stress management 😨 or stresses 😨😫😩 ...
Quite a programme you might say 🤔 ...
Indeed, from the top of our beautiful humanity, it is still in some cases more a concept than a practical reality 🙄 ... to manage stress and all the emotions that go with it 😬 ...
And yet, our thyroid, that beautiful butterfly 🦋 needs calm 😌 and serenity 🧘🏻♀️ to fully spread its wings, otherwise it can quickly go to hell 🙃.
So stress and thyroid dysfunction are often linked.
Now, let's sum up - the little guide 📒 to a top thyroid tells you this:
*️⃣ Make sure you get enough :
👉 Selenium: one Brazil nut a day and the count is good!
👉 Omega 3: fish 🐟 , walnut, camelina, rapeseed or linseed oil.
👉 Vitamin A: orange vegetables 🥕and butter (a little 😉 )
👉 Vitamin D: in drops or in the sun 🌞
👉 Iron: animal proteins but also lentils, egg yolk, parsley, dried beans, almonds, nuts, spirulina
👉 To be combined with vitamin C for better intestinal absorption: raw peppers 🫑, black radish, broccoli 🥦 and BXL cabbage, watercress, blackcurrant, kiwi 🥝, papaya, lemon 🍋, orange 🍑, mango 🥭.
*️⃣ Do not force on:
👉 Foods that decrease iron absorption: tea 🍵 and coffee ☕️ during meals and excess red wine 🍷 + whole grains.
👉 Gluten 🍰🍞🍕🍮 and dairy 🐄.
*️⃣ And again:
👉 Avoid the combination of animal protein (meat, fish, seafood and egg) + starches, cereals or flours - it slows down digestion.
👉 Favour white meat, eggs, fish, vegetable proteins (legumes / grains) + avoid too much fatty meat: beef, lamb, pork, mutton and cold cuts as well as excess cheese.
👉 Choose whole grains over refined grains.
👉 HALF OF YOUR ASSIETTE should contain VEGETABLES
👉 Eat beetroot which contains betaine, it thins the bile and helps digestion
👉 Drain your liver at seasonal changes for example.
👉 Eat seaweed because it is rich in iodine ... oops 🙄... freeze frame ✋ and need to open a parenthesis :
Seaweed ❓❓❓ ... well okay ... not always easy 🙆♂️ depending on our culture and then, we're not fish 🐟!
Well personally, I love it!!!
But I still suggest an alternative 😉, we still stay in the marine universe 🧜♀️ : fish 🐟 and seafood 🦐, 2 to 3 times a week please.
Yes, they contain iodine, omega3, selenium, zinc, iron, etc ... you win every time 🏆 !
I'm thinking that maybe this is what you already know 🤓 ...
So, despite all the above, let's not bother too much anyway about which food or foods are preferable 😆 ... as long as you eat everything 😋, quality unprocessed products 😋 and your plate is full of vegetables 😋 and well I say: we're good!
Wanting to "do too well" can create tension 😟 and can be the source of not really helpful stress 😬 right?
That's all we want to avoid 🔴 !
One final clarification: if you have hypothyroidism and contrary to the above, I would advise you to limit cruciferous vegetables, anything cabbage in fact: broccoli 🥦, cauliflower, kale, sauerkraut, radish, horseradish as well as watercress or soy.
These foods contain substances that interfere with the binding of iodine, which is essential for the synthesis of thyroid hormones.
That concludes this great thyroid parenthesis 😅 .
It is a very complex subject that I tried to summarize as well as possible 😅😅😅 .
⚠️ Warning ⚠️: however, do not try to turn yourself into a doctor's apprentice 👩🏻⚕️🩺 👨🏻⚕️: thyroid problems are solved by your doctor 😉.
Finally, when you have a check-up 📝 always ask to check your thyroid (TSH dosage). This is often done but hey ... sometimes you don't think about it 🙄 ...
Come on, from me to you, next week it will be much lighter 😄.
I promise 😄😄😄!
✨✨✨✨ MIAM la Vie ✨✨✨ , have a great weekend 😎 and I'm sending you the most beautiful smile 😄😬😆 .
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