Inflammation, food and your thyroid…

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So, many of you know I treat patients with hormone imbalances. As part of the lab work-up I always evaluate thyroid hormones. One of those tests includes a lab that checks for thyroid antibodies. If antibodies come back high that's an indication that the patient has something called Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Hashimoto's is basically an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system goes a little hay-wire and attacks the thyroid gland. No bueno! What causes this? Well, there is more and more evidence that points toward the ingestion of inflammatory foods as the culprit for the rise in autoimmune diseases like Hashimoto's. 

 Matt Baran-Mickle via RobbWolf.com says:

There are two main mechanisms that appear to play a large part in the development of inflammation and loss of tolerance that leads to AD: a breakdown in the intestinal barrier that allows the activation of potentially self-reactive lymphocytes, and metabolic disregulation in lymphocytes themselves that may also drive activation. 

And what kind of foods breakdown our intestinal barriers? Grains, namely. Click here to read more of Matt's article and stay tuned for more info on what foods to avoid in order to avoid AD like Hashimoto's: http://robbwolf.com/2013/10/03/impact-nutrition-autoimmune-disease/


Growth Hormone- What the heck is it and why women make more!

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I recently wrote another article for breaking muscle. This time, the topic was growth hormone. Did you know that as we age the amount of growth hormone we naturally produce goes down? And did you know that along with the decrease in growth hormone a natural increase in body fat, loss of skin elasticity, and loss of muscle occurs. Yikes! Below, is a little of the article and a link to the full meal deal. Check it out and then stay tuned in for how to increase and maximize your own GH production.

Growth Hormone (GH). You’ve probably heard of it if you’re into fitness. Maybe you’ve read some articles about maximizing your production of growth hormone to improve muscular hypertrophy and decrease body fat. Perhaps, you’ve also heard of peopleinjecting growth hormone or taking growth hormone boosting supplements to improve body composition and performance or to stall the aging process. But, do you really know what it does in the human body or when, why and how it’s produced? And did you know production varies due to gender and probably not in the way you’d expect?

For the complete story click here: http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/growth-hormone-how-does-it-work-and-why-do-women-have-more


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