Women's Healing Circle

          Hypothyroidism can present as a complicated complex of unrelated symptoms, making it both difficult to diagnose and treat.  When one brings in a holistic approach to healing, this approach may appear over whelming and un useful. Due to the complicated diagnostic, symptomoligical and healing approaches that are warranted when dealing with hypothyroidism, a simplistic, almost check list approach is useful. 

            The approach has to be multi faceted. This approach may include adressing digestive problem, food sensitivities, low grade infection, mercury toxicity, etc. Perhaps the difficulty in setting an approach stems from the complicated nature of the endocrine system and the tentacle-like effect the thyroid exhibits on the body.
There seems to be no smoking gun when it comes to secondary hypothyroidism or functional hypothyroidism, and this may come as no surprise to health care practitioners using a holistic approach. There is not one trigger, but there seems to be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. For many women, that straw is pregnancy. This quilt work approach to the cause and healing approaches to secondary hypothyroidism approaches art, but that does not exclude science or assume that the two are mutually exclusive. It may be simpler to prescribe various pharmaceuticals from, thyroid medication, statins and anti-depressants and hope for improvement rather than to take the approach I am suggesting.

            The current challenges are that thyroid dysfunction is under diagnosed and it is only treated when there is a diagnosis made, leaving those with sub clinical or functional hypothyroidism to continue to remain in a state of less than optimal health. Biochemical individuality is over looked and there is not enough emphasis on clinical symptomologies.

            Due to the metamorphic nature of the thyroid gland, biochemical individuality is even more applicable in understanding thyroid dysfunction.  The thyroid expands and contracts in response to stressful events occurring in the body. If the thyroid gland is unable to meet the body's new demand or diminished demand for thyroid hormone, the body will not function properly, i.e. hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. We all respond differently to stressors that we encounter (environmental, emotional, physical) and as such our physiological responses will vary as well. It is of paramount importance to understand this.  

 In addition, the onset of postpartum hypothyroidism (PTH) is not addressed adequately in the literature. The whole person approach is not utilized enough in clinical settings and as a result, even those with a diagnosis of hypothyroidism or Hashimoto's seldom regain health.              

At Women's Healing Circle we have synthesized years of experience and research to provide our clients with an easy -to -follow 9 Step approach to regaining thyroid health.  

At Women's Healing Circle, our practice places a special emphasis on working with hypothyroid clients

This commitment stems with Anisa's own struggle with thyroid and adrenal glad problems.  She brings her experience to understanding your health experience and offers her lived advice as well as years worth of conversations she has had with other women who too suffered with thyroid issues.

"Searching for answers to my own health concerns, I discovered that there was no well designed program for maintaining and regaining thyroid health. As a busy mother of four, it was a daunting task to formulate my own program from scientific studies, thyroid experts, patient advocates and popular media. As I pursued my M.S. in Holistic Nutrition, I met many mothers with the same “ailments” that I once suffered from. They also did not know what to do and above all they did not know what to eat."

Anisa Abeytia from her unpublished MS Thesis

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