Your Thyroid Should Not Stand in Your Way.

Lifestyle factors like sleep, stress, and recovery are often overlooked. Optimizing them as part of your system along with nutrition, fitness and movement will help increase metabolism which , in turn, creates sustainable weight loss.  Researchers found that when a group in a calorie deficit cut back on sleep over a 14 day period, the amount of weight lost was reduced by 55% although calories remained the same.  Stress is another factor that contributes to negative impacts on all of us, but especially those of us with thyroid imbalances like Hashimoto’s.  Stress causes your thyroid to slow down metabolism. When thyroid function slows, T3 and T4 levels fall. The conversion of T4 to T3 may not occur, causing a higher level of reverse T3.  Reverse T3 is like the brakes on a car while T3 is like the gas. You want metabolism to be firing on all cylinders!