Posts Tagged healthy diet

Thyroid health is something I deal with everyday, not just professionally as a Nutritionist but because I work hard to keep my own thyroid happy, since being diagnosed 11 years ago with Hashimoto’s, along with a pituitary adenoma – code for a benign tumor on the master hormone gland. Every cell in the body has receptor sites for thyroid hormone, which is why thyroid hormones influence the function of every cell in your body!  Their primary responsibility is to regulate your metabolic rate, which affects every system of the body.  So in a nutshell –  an unhappy thyroid can wreak havoc

I was chatting on the phone to a friend the other night, having one of those conversations that close friends do – sharing stories, listening and supporting one another through whatever it is we were going through, when something he said disturbed, or should I say triggered an emotion in me.   The conversation had turned towards a mutual friend and the emotional challenges they had been going through recently.  My friend commented that “making change is hard”, as the reason why our friend had been struggling to overcome his ‘demons’ so to speak and shift the direction of his