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Nature's Sunshine Products — Conference Presentation
31 slides from Nature's Sunshine Products's conference presentation
Slide 1: Type Two Thyroid Imbalance & Liver Metabolism
Type Two Thyroid Imbalance & Liver Metabolism www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 2: Dr. Matthew Hollist
Dr. Matthew Hollist ✦ Executive Director of The International Institute of Natural Wellness Education - KnowYourWellness.org ✦ Nationally Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor ✦ Nationally Board Certified Diplomate in Naprapathy ✦ Knight in the Sacred Medical Order of the Knights of Hope www.KnowYourW
Slide 3: In This Lecture
✦ The Role Of The Thyroid ✦ Where Iodine Fits In ✦ Types Of Endocrine Dysfunction ✦ 3 Steps For Balancing The Thyroid 1. Support the Thyroid 2. Support the Conversion 3. Cleanse the Metabolic Pathway In This Lecture www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 4: The Thyroid's Role
The Thyroid’s Role www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 5: The Thyroid
The Thyroid ✦ The endocrine system is one of the most uniquely interconnected systems of the body so be aware that thyroid imbalance is often more than thyroid imbalance ✦ The thyroid is an integral part to the entire endocrine system - it will effect and be effected by the entire system www.KnowYou
Slide 6: Primary Function
Primary Function ✦ The thyroid’s primary function is the production of tyrosine-based hormones called thyronines ✦ Triiodothyronine (T3) ✦ Thyroxine (T4) ✦ These thyronines act on nearly every cell in the body www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 7: What They Affect
What They Affect ✦ Affect the basal metabolic ✦ Regulate protein, fat, and rate carbohydrate metabolism ✦ Affect protein synthesis ✦ Affecting how human cells use energetic compounds ✦ Regulate long bone growth & neural maturation ✦ Turn on the mitochondria ✦ Increase the body's ✦ Stimulate vitamin
Slide 8: The Thyroid
✦ This connection to the mitochondria and energy production of every cell in the body is why thyroid imbalance can have such a range of effects on people ✦ A thyroid imbalance can quite literally slow down the function in every system of the body by slowing its cellular metabolism The Thyroid www.Kn
Slide 9: Why Iodine?
Why Iodine? www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 10: Why Iodine?
Why Iodine? ✦ The simple reason that proper iodine intake is linked to T4 & T3, is that iodine is the primary element required for the production of T4 & T3 ✦ Selenium is the secondary element required ✦ The body can NOT produce either substance, they must be consumed regularly www.KnowYourWellness.
Slide 11: Modern Deficiency
Modern Deficiency ✦ Dietary iodine and selenium deficiency ✦ Low level radiological pollution ✦ Receptor site toxicity ✦ Autonomic nervous system imbalance (stress) www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 12: Periodic Table of the Elements
Periodic Table of the Elements © www.elementsdatabase.com hydrogen @ poor metals 7 alkali metals O nonmetals (e) alkali earth metals @ noble gases transition metals rare earth metals 24 Cr Wellness ao
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Slide 14: Assessing Iodine Lack
✦ Iodine patch test ✦ Already determined thyroid imbalance ✦ Metabolic imbalance ✦ Living in modern culture ✦ It’s really a foundational nutrient Assessing Iodine Lack www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 15: Endocrine Dysfunction
Endocrine Dysfunction www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 16: Type 1 - Type 2
Type 1 - Type 2 ✦ In natural wellness, we recognize type 1 and type 2 endocrine gland dysfunctions in all endocrine glands ✦ Modern medicine generally only makes this distinction in pancreatic dysfunction, commonly called diabetic dysfunction ✦ We also don’t see it as just one or the other, it’s a q
Slide 17: Type 1 Dysfunction
✦ Type 1 dysfunctions are primarily a production imbalance ✦ Production imbalances can be caused by a defect in function - often genetically ✦ In the thyroid, this can often be the result of a deficiency in iodine or selenium Type 1 Dysfunction www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 18: Type 2 Dysfunction
✦ Type 2 is not a production breakdown, it is a metabolism problem ✦ Type 2 dysfunctions are commonly caused by lifestyle imbalances (toxicity) ✦ In the thyroid, it is a result of a breakdown in the thyronine (T4 into T3) metabolism pathway Type 2 Dysfunction www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 19: Metabolic Pathway
Metabolic Pathway ✦ In the case of thyroid hormones, specifically T4 into T3, it is metabolized primarily in the P/450 pathway of the LIVER ✦ Further metabolism takes place at the cellular level as a result of decarboxylation, but it’s only secondary after T4 is converted into T3 www.KnowYourWellnes
Slide 20: Ratios of T4 to T3
✦ At the cellular mitochondria level, your body uses T3 ✦ T3 is highly available and less stable in the body and so the thyroid releases as much as 20 to 1, T4 vs T3, into the blood ✦ The hypothalamus then can signal the liver to metabolize T4 into T3 as needed Ratios of T4 to T3 www.KnowYourWellnes
Slide 21: 3 Steps To Balance
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Slide 22: 3 Steps To Balance
3 Steps To Balance 1. Support the thyroid’s production of T4 with proper amounts of iodine 2. Support the conversion of T4 into T3 with liver support formulas and selenium 3. Support the conversion of T4 into T3 by cleansing the liver www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 23: Step 1
STEP 1 ✦ Proper consumption of sea vegetation primarily kelp ✦ Liquid sea vegetation extracts will sometimes help those with compromised digestion or absorption ✦ BEWARE of what you get along with kelp & ONLY use properly tested sources! www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 24: 3 Steps To Balance
3 Steps To Balance 1. Support the thyroid’s production of T4 with proper amounts of iodine 2. Support the conversion of T4 into T3 with liver support formulas and selenium 3. Support the conversion of T4 into T3 by cleansing the liver www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 25: Step 2 – Liver Support
STEP 2 – Liver Support ✦ Daily vitamin and mineral formulas with Selenium (approx. 100 mcg) ✦ Liver balancing formula known in Traditional Chinese Medicine as Tiao He ✦ Milk Thistle, Dandelion, Beet Root, Bupleurum www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 26: 3 Steps To Balance
3 Steps To Balance 1. Support the thyroid’s production of T4 with proper amounts of iodine 2. Support the conversion of T4 into T3 with liver support formulas and selenium 3. Support the conversion of T4 into T3 by cleansing the liver www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 27: Step 3 - Cleanse
STEP 3 - Cleanse www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 28: Step 3 - Cleanse
STEP 3 - Cleanse www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 29: Final Considerations
Final Considerations ✦ NEVER cleanse the liver until you have cleansed the elimination pathways of the large and then small intestines!!! ✦ People are OFTEN told they have a thyroid imbalance when the thyroid is really not the cause, it’s just the common test. A liver cleanse will help with all endo
Slide 30: In Closing
✦ The Role Of The Thyroid ✦ Where Iodine Fits In ✦ Types Of Endocrine Dysfunction ✦ 3 Steps For Balancing The Thyroid 1. Support the Thyroid 2. Support the Conversion 3. Cleanse the Metabolic Pathway In Closing www.KnowYourWellness.org
Slide 31: Wellness Is A Choice
Wellness Is A Choice “One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedence of chemical therapy over nutrition. It's the substitution of artificial therapy over natural, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poison trying to correct the reactions of starvation.” Dr. Roy