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The Recipe For Reigniting Your Youthful Energy
While you can use herbs to enhance your energy and vitality, remember
that many health problems, some of them quite serious, can leave you
feeling
fatigue. If you have the run-down feeling which doesn’t subside
in a few
weeks and you still feel sluggish, consider seeing a doctor.
One of the leading causes that causing you the “run-down feeling” is an
underactive thyroid gland, a condition called hypothyroidism. The thyroid
plays a key role in regulating metabolism. If the gland is underactive,
you don’t burn enough calories to fulfill your body’s energy requirements.
Symptoms of hypothyroidism include fatigue, loss of appetite, inability to
tolerate cold, a slow heart rate, weight gain, painful menstrual periods, a milky
discharge from the breasts, fertility problems, muscle weakness, muscle cramps,
dry and scaly skin, a yellow-orange coloration in the skin (particularly on
the palms of the hands), yellow bumps on the eyelids, hair loss and depression.
The most common symptoms are fatigue and intolerance to cold. If you
consistently
feel cold while others around you are hot, you may be
suffering
from reduced
thyroid function.
The thyroid gland is the body’s internal thermostat, regulating the
temperature
by secreting two hormones that control how quickly the body
burns calories
and uses energy. If the thyroid secretes too much hormone,
hyperthyroidism
results; too little hormone results in hypothyroidism.
Hypothyroidism affects about 13 million people in the United States, about
90 percent of whom are women. Women between the ages of thirty and fifty
seem to be most prone to this condition. It is estimated that one in eight
women will develop a thyroid condition at some point in her lifetime.
Thyroid problems can cause many recurring illnesses and fatigue. The thyroid
can be affected by poor diet =, fluoride in the water, excessive consumption
of unsaturated fats, endurance exercise, pesticide residues on fruits and
vegetables,
radiation from x-rays, alcohol, and drugs.
Thyroid Self-Test
To test yourself for an underactive thyroid, keep a thermometer by your
bed at night. When you awaken in the morning, place the thermometer
under your arm and hold it there for fifteen minutes. Keep still and quiet.
Any motion can upset your temperature reading.
A temperature of 97.6°F or lower may indicate an underactive thyroid.
Keep a temperature log for five days. If your readings are consistently low,
consult your health care provider.
The Proline-Rich Polypeptide component found in colostrum, with its ability
to regulate underactive immune response can be indispensable to people
with hypothyroidism. Other factors contained in colostrum repeatedly
contribute
to the healing of the intestinal lining; in some cases of autoimmune
disease,
the triggering agents filter from the “leaky” gut into the bloodstream.
This is why individuals with autoimmune diseases usually respond so well to
colostrum- it helps to repair the gut that may be leaking foreign bodies into
the bloodstream that trigger autoimmune response.
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