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00:01 Hi, I'm taking thyroid medication
00:03 it's just not working for me. 00:05 There are so many baleful side effects what can I do? 00:08 Well, today's program is just for you entitled 00:11 "The Master Glands." 00:12 So stay by. 00:48 Hi, this is Curtis Eakins co-host of Abundant Living. 00:52 And this is my beautiful bride Paula Eakins. 00:54 Why are you laughing? 00:55 Happy today to be with me on this program? 00:59 Okay. 01:00 And, oh, that's a nice pink blouse there. 01:04 You know, I let you dress first 01:05 and then I'll match what you wear in color. 01:10 Good. Not in garments. 01:11 Okay. So, you look nice though. 01:13 Thank you. Well, thank you. 01:14 Okay, the master gland. The master gland. 01:17 You talk before about it also being called 01:19 the butterfly gland. 01:20 The butterfly gland. 01:21 And when we were talking last time 01:23 we were getting into all the statistics 01:25 and all that kind of information stuff about, 01:27 what was gonna with thyroid? 01:28 And so we're just continuing on. 01:29 Yes. Just go ahead, honey. 01:30 Because my next-- my next question 01:32 is gonna be about a person who has hypothyroidism, okay. 01:37 What kind of drugs or the type of drugs 01:39 that are given for that? 01:41 And just a recap in case those 01:43 who missed the program before the thyroid gland 01:45 is called the master gland 01:47 and it's controlled by the hypothalamus 01:49 and pituitary gland, the base of the skull. 01:52 They are and of course they control the thyroid gland. 01:55 And the thyroid already produces 01:57 two main hormones T4 and T3. 02:01 Those two hormones stimulate every tissue in a body. 02:08 Therefore it's called the master gland, all right. 02:12 So if this not working properly then, a lot of symptoms, 02:15 we missing that last time the extremities of cold hands, 02:19 feet, lethargy, tired, feeling depressed, weight gain, 02:24 depression, constipation, menstrual problems. 02:29 I mean, the list goes on and on. 02:30 So that's why it's called a master gland. 02:32 So of course, there is drugs for this condition, 02:36 hypothyroidism, low acting. 02:39 And one other drugs probably of choice is Synthroid. 02:44 And probably everyone heard of Synthroid 02:46 and of course the word Syn-throid. 02:52 Throid- thyroid, Syn- synthetic. 02:57 So it's a synthetic thyroid drug. 03:04 Syn-throid. Syn-throid, meaning? 03:08 Synthetic. Meaning? 03:09 Yeah, synthetic. The thyroid hormone. 03:12 Man made. Right. 03:14 Synthetic. So Syn-throid. 03:16 And with that synthetic 03:19 there's baleful side effects of that to name just a few. 03:24 First you have abnormal heart rhythm. 03:29 That's not good. Arrhythmia, all right. 03:32 Two, congestive heart failure. That's not good. 03:37 Hives and rash for some people 03:40 and an increased of fractures of the wrist, 03:45 forearm, shoulder, spine, leg and ankle. 03:55 Synthroid. Synthroid. 03:57 That's not sound any holy good. Does not sound good-- 03:59 It really doesn't. It's not sounding good. 04:00 And that's the drug of choice for hypothyroidism. 04:06 And a lot of people have this condition 04:08 that we're missing some of the things 04:10 that people, you know, would do 04:13 that will cause this gland to be under active or hypo. 04:17 And so that's the choice and that's the main drug 04:20 of choice for this condition. 04:21 So a lot of people they are taking up 04:23 but they are not satisfied, the baleful side effects 04:26 and so it's not really efficacious 04:29 for this type of condition. 04:31 Now a lot of people, they would do 04:33 is they will go to another type of drug 04:36 which is bio-identical hormone. 04:40 More similar to the body's hormone, 04:42 all right and this is called Armour thyroid, all right. 04:47 Now let me talk about that because that's a little bit 04:51 more positive as far as outcome 04:55 is concerned as supposed to Synthroid, all right. 04:58 This is not synthetic, it's bio-identical. 05:01 So it's more tuned to what the body produces. 05:04 Now the body produces like I said before T4 and T3, 05:10 but the ratio is 11:1. 05:12 In other words the body naturally 05:13 produce T4, T3 at 11:1 ratio. 05:19 Armour thyroid drug is a 4:1 ratio. 05:24 So it's not exact what the body produces 05:27 but it's closer than Synthroid 05:30 therefore you have better results. 05:32 The down side for a lot of people 05:35 is dried thyroid cells from the pig. 05:40 Wait a minute, hold up. Okay. Okay. 05:44 I mean it's better but at least it's not synthetic 05:48 but it's for a the pig, dried thyroid cell for the pig, 05:51 Armour thyroid. 05:53 So it's little bit better tolerated 05:55 but and you have to really get that more 11:1 05:59 the way the body produces to a compound pharmacist 06:01 which is sometimes hard to do. 06:03 And that's really the choice of the people have, 06:06 either Synthroid, synthetic or bio-identical 06:10 which is Armour thyroid is a oral 06:13 and of course the Armour 06:14 is a little bit more better than Sythriod 06:17 but again some people are not too happy about 06:20 it coming from dry thyroid cell from a pig. 06:26 That should be help. I know. 06:28 I know for a fact that surely its like, 06:30 okay, I'm not happy with either one of those. 06:33 So you know that we're always looking at an alternative 06:38 and in alternative is there any alternative medication? 06:43 I don't want to say what drug 06:45 they can be used as well as that 06:48 and I guess-- I'm just thinking about myself. 06:52 Okay. 06:54 I'm not really sure or how long or it was 06:57 but I know that I was having some issues 06:59 at least with my nails, because I think-- 07:01 oh, might have brought that up. 07:03 Yes, a whole list. Okay, okay. 07:04 I mean, 47 conditions 07:05 but nails, yeah, that some nails. 07:06 My nails, my hair, okay, my skin was acting up 07:11 and of course going in to have my regular physicals. 07:14 Well, I mentioned it to my doctor 07:17 he automatically said, 07:18 it's probably a problem with your thyroid. 07:20 And let me say this 07:21 as my wife continues her TSH was very high. 07:25 And remember in the last program-- 07:27 we're talking about the TSH. 07:28 Let me say this before you finish up. 07:31 TSH is really most labs it will 0.5 to 5.0 07:37 and we decided that, 07:39 that's really too much of a wide range. 07:41 It should be 0.3 to 3.0 in a more optimum range. 07:46 And your range were like, 07:47 I think its eight or something like that, yeah. 07:50 So what happened as far as you can tell 07:52 because we didn't go with the Synthroid. 07:54 Did you? No. 07:55 You didn't go with the Armour thyroid, 07:57 dry thyroid cell from the pig. 07:58 No. Okay. 08:00 So this-- you began to do some major research. 08:03 And in that research, trying to find an alternative 08:06 because you know, well, one thing about, 08:07 I know for myself and that is that 08:09 when I began taking any kind of drug, 08:11 even aspirin, my body don't like it, okay. 08:13 So with that in mind I'm not ready 08:15 to start on something that's gonna be damaging. 08:18 Okay, so I know the hair and the nails 08:19 and the skin was acting up. 08:21 And now you talked about the hormone issue, 08:23 so that's definitely estrogen, the estrogen test. 08:24 Estrone has either issues that's having to do 08:26 with the hormones, female hormones. 08:29 And so we started looking at all the things 08:32 that are part of helping to keep the thyroid healthy 08:35 and or putting it back into the state 08:37 it needs it to be in so it can function like it needs to. 08:41 So what are some of the things 08:42 you began looking at that need to be in a formula 08:46 that I could actually take and I ask my doctor this. 08:49 Okay, every time I go to a doctor 08:52 and he tell me something 08:53 and he say something is going on. 08:54 I'm always like, let me step back 08:57 and breathe, you know. 09:00 Because there's something about when you step back and breathe 09:02 when someone tells you something, 09:03 that helps you make a better decision 09:05 than to jump automatically when someone says that jump. 09:07 It's true. It's true. 09:08 So I step back and I breathe a little bit there, 09:11 you know, and I breathe some more 09:12 and I began to have some research 09:13 on what type of compounds or bio-identical things 09:18 can we use to see if we can help 09:20 that thyroid get back in place. 09:23 And some are things you did well, 09:24 we're gonna walk through with you today in this program 09:29 because it's very good as far as your number 09:32 has came down from eight to seven to six. 09:35 I think it's right now it's five. 09:37 And some of things that you're doing to form up, 09:40 we're gonna walk through each one of those items 09:42 separately within a next 10 minutes or so. 09:45 Actually, actually, it's not a 5, it's 4.7. 09:49 Oh, that's the latest one. 09:50 4.7. Oh, okay, yeah. 09:52 But you-- you getting in there, all right. 09:54 And not right away, okay. 09:56 It was a gradual process. Yes, gradually. 09:58 We always tell people a lot of time 09:59 when someone is asking us questions about herbs, 10:01 herbal medicine, lifestyle. 10:03 It's not a just all of sudden you do it and it's over. 10:06 You really have to move it into the lifestyle. 10:09 So I would say, over a period of time about, 10:11 can we say at least three or six months 10:13 I was actually doing the formula 10:15 and it made a different when I went back to my doctor. 10:17 Okay. Now so what does she do? 10:19 And what was the formula that we used for her? 10:22 Number one, we talked about thyroid 10:23 and most people know about some of the herbs out there, 10:28 probably the most popular herb when it come to 10:30 under active thyroid is kelp, all right. 10:33 We call that a gift of the sea. So we use that. 10:38 That's one of the main herbs in a formula. 10:40 We're gonna build a formula for you. 10:42 We're gonna walk through each one 10:43 of these items out of formula. 10:44 The first one, how to eat kelp? 10:46 Any formula that doesn't have Kelp has a thyroid formula, 10:49 you know keep it on your shelf. 10:50 So kelp is gonna be one of the main ones. 10:53 Another herb is called bladderwrack, bladder-wrack. 10:58 Has nothing to do with the bladder 10:59 it's just a name of the herb. 11:01 So kelp and bladderwrack those are two herbs, 11:03 they are precursors thyroid hormone, 11:07 kelp and bladderwrack. 11:08 Now the other herb 11:10 that we can include in this formula, 11:13 most people may not have heard off 11:15 and that's the one we're gonna highlight. 11:17 Let's go to screen and see what that herb is 11:19 in addition to the kelp 11:20 and the bladderwrack at this time. 11:23 It's called Ashwagandha root 11:26 and now that's the botanical name in parenthesis. 11:28 Let me read this. 11:29 This is from the Journal of Pharmacy 11:31 and Pharmacology, it says this. 11:34 "This herb has been shown to stimulate 11:38 thyroid activity by," get this now, 11:41 "increasing T4 production and convert T4 to T3." 11:49 Now remember we mentioned that two of the main hormones 11:53 that the thyroid produce is T4 and T3. 11:58 And T4 helps to covert into T3. 12:02 This herb does that from the herbal kingdom 12:06 one of the main herbs that can do that 12:07 in a whole herbal kingdom Ashwagandha. 12:11 So therefore we look at a lot of herbal formulas 12:13 when it comes to thyroid. 12:15 Then we're talking about hypo. 12:16 Okay, we gone missing hyper before we close. 12:19 Then kelp needs to be there, 12:22 bladderwrack needs to be there, also Ashwagandha 12:26 that's another herb too needs to be there. 12:29 And sometimes you have other herbs out there as well 12:31 but those are kind of like the top three, 12:33 there's maybe others we can mention as well 12:35 but just want to get a idea 12:36 of what to look for in your health food store 12:39 when you're looking for some type of a thyroid formula 12:42 from a natural standpoint, herbal standpoint at first 12:46 they has no side effects, so that's one of those. 12:48 So you want to make sure 12:49 those three are present in the actual formula itself. 12:51 Yes. Yes. Okay, okay. 12:54 Well, I guess my next question then, we talked about that. 12:58 What about another food item like-- 13:01 I've been hearing a lot also about selenium. 13:03 And now, is selenium a part of my supplemental thing 13:07 or is that something separate? 13:10 You're so pretty. 13:11 I just lost my train of thought. 13:13 Oh, yes, selenium is good. 13:15 It's a mineral and it's very good. 13:17 Now selenium is very good because number one, 13:21 Selenium has the highest thyroid gland. 13:24 It has the highest amount of selenium, the thyroid gland. 13:30 So it seems to reason that selenium should be 13:33 apart of a thyroid formula 13:36 since the thyroid has more selenium 13:38 than other gland in the body. 13:41 So having said that, let's go to the screen. 13:44 Let's talk about selenium. 13:46 So let's go to the screen at this time. 13:48 The Selenium's Impact. 13:49 This is from the Clinical Endocrinology. 13:52 It says this. 13:54 "Patients with Hashimoto's disease," 13:56 that's the type of hypothyroidism 14:00 "selenium decreases anti-thyroid antibody levels 14:04 and improves the ultrasound structure 14:08 of the thyroid gland." 14:10 Therefore this mineral selenium really needs to be 14:13 a part of some type of with thyroid formula 14:17 because that's the mineral, 14:18 that's more present in the thyroid 14:20 than any other gland, selenium. 14:22 So now we're building a case, a formula for thyroid. 14:26 We had a kelp, we've the bladderwrack, 14:30 Ashwagandha, the mineral selenium. 14:34 I want to add one more. 14:35 There's one called-- it's the amino acid 14:38 that the body naturally produces 14:39 is called L-thyroxine, L-thyroxine. 14:45 The body naturally produces this. 14:47 Okay. 14:48 It converts into, get this, T4 and T3. 14:53 So the body naturally builds this. 14:55 So therefore we want to put in that 14:57 as part of the formula too. 14:59 So we look at any formula, you will see probably kelp, 15:03 bladderwrack, Ashwagandha, selenium, L-thyroxine. 15:10 That is the good formula for the thyroid. 15:13 Now let's look at the food for the thyroid. 15:16 For selenium and then we're gonna 15:17 close out with a hyperthyroidism. 15:19 So let's go to the foods. 15:20 Well, food contain a lot of selenium. 15:22 Where number one, I mean, number two 15:24 is not even close, Brazil nuts. 15:26 We're talking about three ounces, folks. 15:28 We're talking about 544 micrograms 15:31 of selenium in a Brazil nuts. 15:34 We can also add some seeds too. 15:38 And then light, Tuna three ounces, 63, 15:40 you got the Beef, three ounces 35. 15:43 You have the Cod 32. 15:44 So you see there's not really close to the Brazil nuts 15:48 as far as a selenium food is concerned. 15:51 I think there's another seed out there as well. 15:53 Sunflower seeds. 15:54 Sunflower seeds are really up there high in selenium as well. 15:56 So Brazil nuts, sunflower seeds 16:00 also top two right there as far as producing 16:04 health food to have selenium in them. 16:06 So the Brazil nut. 16:08 Now of course, you know, for those individuals 16:09 who are vegetarian and even vegans, 16:12 they are other ones about the beef 16:13 and all the other stuff, that's not even one of them. 16:14 Yeah, we'll see. 16:16 And a matter of fact it doesn't have 16:17 that much in the first place. 16:18 I see that. Like 35, 32 micrograms. 16:21 So it doesn't really have that much of the impact anyway. 16:23 So let's hit then on the hyperthyroidism. 16:27 Let's finish up with the hyper-- 16:29 of course it's not as parvenus as the hypo. 16:32 Hyper of course is over active thyroid. 16:36 You tell that by the typical signs 16:38 of the wide eyes, you know. 16:41 And rapid heart rate, heartbeat. 16:45 You also have sweating. We have weight loss. 16:50 Just a hyper and that's eight to one women. 16:54 Hypo is ten to one. 16:56 So both of these are kind of like 16:58 women dysfunctions, you know, diseases. 17:01 But the hyper is one that's not as parvenus to hypo 17:05 but it's out there as well. 17:06 So there's one herb that really cater to the hyperthyroidism. 17:12 Let's go to screen at this time and see what that herb is. 17:16 It's called Bugleweed. 17:18 Again in parenthesis that's the scientific name. 17:21 This is a find of medical journal called Phytomedicine. 17:23 Is says this, "These findings confirm 17:28 positive effects of bugleweed in forms of hyperthyroidism." 17:35 So again that's one herb 17:37 that can be used for those who are hyper 17:39 because it helps to slowdown the heart rate. 17:43 It's anti-thyroid. 17:46 So it lessens the T4 amount that the body produces. 17:49 So this is one of the main herbs for hyperthyroidism. 17:55 Okay. And mostly no side effects. 17:57 Again you can get that 17:58 as any major health food stores as well. 18:02 Okay, well, that's a lot of information. 18:03 And I'm sure is that they are gonna ask the question. 18:06 Somebody is gonna call us up and say, 18:08 could you give me more information on that? 18:09 So you know, once again feel free 18:11 to get a hold of us at abundantlivingtv.org 18:13 and we'll be glad to talk more with you about this subject. 18:16 I know you're asking a question so we close the time. 18:18 Is she gonna cook anything? 18:19 Yes, we are going into the kitchen. 18:21 This time we're gonna do a black soybean salsa. 18:25 And we're gonna do our homemade tortilla chips. 18:27 So get your paper and your pencil 18:30 and meet us in the kitchen. |
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