Jennifer Gebhard, ANP, HNP, AHN-BC, RH(AHG)

When my husband broke his pelvis in two places, he was recommended Bone-up supplement by Jarrow. His doc was impressed how quickly he healed.

Good question. Some people who are low thyroid take synthroid/levothyroxin for their thyroid replacement. However about 20% of the poplulation do not convert the nonactive form of T4 to the active form that your body actually uses, T3. Armour thyroid is a brand that is comprised of both T4 and T3. I highly recommend Dr Aviva Romms book, The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution where she goes into the care of our thyroid and our tired adrenals. She started out as an herbalist, then graduated as a Yale trained MD. She specializes in womens health and primarily uses nutrition and herbs to treat her clients. She has excellent recommendations on managing the whole adrenal-thyroid-pituitary axis.

I agree with all the answers thus far. I take a simple route first with my patients, asking them to stop all dairy products and go gluten free. People can be allergic to the casien protein in milk and or be lactose intolerant, when they don't have the enzymes to break down the milk sugar( lactose). There can be a connection for those who are both lactose sensitive and gluten sensitive. If you dont want to research all the gluten in foods, I have found the Paleo diet is fairly easy to follow and takes out many of the foods that can cause gastric distress, including beans. Adding a good quality probiotic that has at least nine probiotics combined with a prebiotic like FOS (fructooligosaccharides) is very helpful. Have you ever had IGg food allergy testing?