Dealing with Your Child's Diagnosis is Hard... | Cindy Lee Kennedy

You know you need to go gluten-free and dairy-free, but you feel completely overwhelmed. Where do you even start? I mean seriously, what on earth is left for breakfast if you can’t have toast and cereal, and how do you even begin to pack a school lunch without sandwiches? I totally get it. My youngest daughter was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s the week of her 8th birthday.

What is the thyroid? Where is it located? What does it look like? What is it made up of? What is colloid? What is thyroglobulin?

I was starting to get worried. We don’t have icecream in our house. It doesn’t really go well with a full blown dairy allergy, and to be honest...

Expecting an allopathic doctor to give you gluten-free advice (which they are not trained to do) is like asking a car spray painter to rebuild the engine.

A section of the brain called the Pituitary Gland secretes a hormone called TSH. It tells the thyroid that the body needs more thyroid hormones.

Search any thyroid forum, and one of the most common questions you’ll see asked is “Which thyroid supplements should I be taking?”

Yes it sucks, but it is necessary. Here are a few tips to get you through the process a little easier….A Day or Two Prior to Your Test...

Thyroid Stimulating Hormone TSH will most likely be the first blood test ordered by your doctor. It measures the amount of ...

Free T3 Free T3 is the active component of thyroid hormone. It’s full name is triiodothyronine. It is the form of thyroid hormone that your body is able to

So now that you know you need a better night’s sleep, how do you actually go about it? How can you sleep better? Here are 5 tips that you can...

Free T4 T4 is the storage form of thyroid hormone. It is also known as thyroxine. Your body holds thyroid hormone in this form until it is required for use.

Having a child, or in many cases – children with life-long health conditions can be incredibly isolating and lonely. Whether it’s because your kids can’t...

Auto-antibodies occur when the immune system becomes “confused” and fails to recognise its own self. It attacks and kill its own cells.

Thyroglobulin is a normal protein produced by the thyroid gland. It is not normally tested in the case of auto-immune thyroid disease.

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the cause of 90% of hypothyroid cases in the US! It is diagnosed by the presence of antibodies to...