Hypothyroidism and Resistant Weight Loss Part 2

Drs. Eric Balcavage and Erica Riggleman discuss the connection between resistant weight loss and hypothyroidism. This podcast builds on the information discussed on Episode 4.

The doctors discuss the role stress plays in hypothyroidism and the struggle to lose unwanted body fat. There are four primary forms of stress: physical, chemical, emotional, and microbial.

• Physical stress can be falls, injuries, poor posture, lack of physical activity, excessive exercise, improperly performed exercise.
• Chemical stress can come from the foods we eat, the things we drink, the air we breath, the chemicals in our environment, medications, alcohol, our soaps lotions, and the toxins we consume in food.
• Emotional stress can include all the things that have happened to us in the past, things that are impacting us in the present (relationships, finances, jobs, etc), and the things that we worry about in the future.
• Microbial stress relates to the organisms that live within us. There is a delicate balance organisms within us.

Stress beyond the body’s ability to adapt triggers a natural, innate survival response called the “cell danger response”.

The doctors discuss how we are bombarded by stressors that promote inflammation, the cell danger response, hypothyroidism, reduced metabolism and makes fat storage a natural consequence of the chronic stress response.