Show Notes
You have been doing the work. The therapy, the somatic practices, the self-care. And your body still will not come online.
You have also been doing the gut protocol. Months of it. And the exhaustion has not lifted.
Here is what almost nobody tells you. The thyroid governs gut motility. When it runs low and slow, the bloating and the constipation you have been treating from the gut end may have been downstream of the thyroid the whole time. So you can do everything right, in the right order, and still be working the wrong end of the problem.
This is Part 2 with Dr. Amie Hornaman, known as the Thyroid Fixer. She was misdiagnosed six different times in her twenties before anyone found it.
In this episode she gets practical about selenium, about which system to start with, and about why she thinks adrenal fatigue is overdiagnosed. She also gives a number for how long before your energy and stress resilience actually shift, with the caveat that belongs beside it.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
Which to treat first when your gut and thyroid are both struggling
How a slow thyroid produces constipation, bloating and SIBO
The foundational nutrients she starts everyone on, and why selenium leads
Why one morning cortisol reading cannot tell you what you think it does
How long before energy, mood and stress resilience begin to move
The full show notes have the research behind the SIBO connection, every quote from the episode, the chapter list, and the optimal lab ranges to ask about.
Read the full show notes: https://www.biologyoftrauma.com/post/gut-or-thyroid-first-when-you-are-in-chronic-freeze
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