Ketones and Coffee Podcast with Lorenz
Ketones and Coffee Podcast with Lorenz
Episode 176: Dr. Elizabeth Bright ON Thyroid Health and the Carnivore Diet
In this episode of the Ketones and Coffee Podcast, host Lorenz welcomes Dr. Elizabeth Bright, an esteemed osteopath and naturopath, to discuss holistic health, particularly focusing on the high-fat carnivore diet she has embraced since 2016.
Dr. Bright, a graduate of Columbia University, brings a wealth of knowledge about the natural healing mechanisms of the body. She reveals how a high-fat carnivore diet has been an effective therapeutic tool in her practice, particularly for thyroid health and adrenal functions. The discussion delves into her personal journey, the crucial role of iodine in thyroid hormone production, the pitfalls of modern nutrition, and the impact of stress and overstimulation on health.
Dr. Bright also shares insights on the misdiagnosis of thyroid issues, the adverse effects of certain medications, and the benefits of eliminating antinutrient-rich foods. The episode serves as a comprehensive guide to understanding thyroid health and the benefits of the carnivore diet for overall wellness.
00:00 Welcome to the Ketone Sink Coffee Podcast
00:13 Introducing Dr. Elizabeth Bright
01:54 Dr. Bright's Journey to a High Fat Carnivore Diet
05:25 Understanding the Thyroid Gland
06:55 Challenges in Diagnosing Thyroid Issues
07:55 The Role of Modern Medicine and Pharmaceuticals
12:47 Detecting Thyroid Disorders Early
14:31 Impact of Diet on Thyroid Health
18:04 Metabolism and Cortisol Levels
22:09 The Carnivore Diet and Thyroid Health
23:16 The Importance of Iodine
25:38 Factors Affecting Iodine Absorption
27:44 Exercise and Stress Management
30:53 Diagnosing Thyroid Issues
32:18 Success Stories and Program Details
36:16 Final Thoughts and Contact Information
Connect with Dr. Elizabeth Bright
Website: https://www.elizbright.com
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ElizabethBrightNaturopath
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to the Ketone Sink Coffee Podcast. I'm Lawrence and I'm so grateful to have you joining me on this journey. Every week, I bring in guests to have the knowledge and experience to help you on your own journey to a better health. I'm so excited for this, guys. Today, we have a very special guest with us, Dr. Elizabeth Bright. An esteemed osteopath and naturopath who stands at the forefront of holistic health. A graduate of Columbia University, her journey into wellness has marked by a pioneering spirit and a commitment to empowering her patients. Since 2016, she has embraced a high fat carnivore diet, utilizing it as a potent therapeutic tool in her practice with a profound understanding of the body's natural healing mechanism. Dr. Bright has authored two books, Good Fat is Good for Women, Menopause and Good Fat is Good for Girls, Puberty and Adolescence. It's an honor, Dr. Elizabeth Bright. Welcome to the Ketones and Coffee Podcast.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Thank you, it's an honor to be here.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:I mean, Dr. Bright, it's an honor. You have I wanted to have you on the podcast because you firmly believed in alternative diet approaches to optimal health, which is, you know, we talked about the carnivore diet, a meat, an all meat diet focusing on thyroid health and adrenal functions. You believe that it is not just. the most effective way in treating thyroid issues, but also the lifestyle that you have adapted since 2016. So I would love to hear more about that story on what first led you to discovering that. Now, we all have that programming of what it is to be healthy, you know, coming into the low carb lifestyle, but what was that experience like and what led you to adapt and Advocate for a high fat carnivore diet.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I went into menopause at 52. I was already eating a ketogenic diet. I had already removed carbohydrates, except vegetables. So, at 52, I went into menopause and I read about how awful it was supposed to be and I didn't believe it. And then for some reason, I guess, expediency, we stopped eating vegetables as well. I had remembered a time when I had had a lot of stress and I couldn't digest anything except meat in my thirties. And so I started reading, I actually started reading L. Abner Hearn's articles because I am a thyroid expert and she had written about T3 on the carnivore diet. And so I just. followed suit and I started I just, we just removed all plants from our diet. No,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:And you said that you can, you could only process meat. Is that right? Like, how, how, when, when was that?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I was in a, in, in my thirties, when I was in a, when I was in a particularly stressful state, there was a time I was doing a lot of Kung Fu. I was working and I found that I had indigestion if I ate anything other than meat and I didn't, Do it for very long. I did it weeks, but it stayed in my memory as a time then Oh that worked then that was that seemed okay, so I'll go back to it
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mm. So like you, what, what was the change that you made at that time? When you, in your thirties, did you stick to a, a, a only meat diet? Not knowing that you're doing a carnivore diet? Mm hmm.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Yeah, I only made diet for about two weeks. It seemed I seemed to digest only meat better, but then ignorance and not knowing enough about it and not following through on it. I thought I needed I was doing a lot of as I said, Kung Fu. So I hadn't yet looked into ketosis. I mean, I knew about the Atkins diet, but I had yet made the switch to using ketones for energy instead of carbs. So all that working out, I thought I had to do, you know, had to have some carbohydrate in my diet, which is completely wrong. And I sort of circled back to that. 20 years later. Well,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:And how it's essential deemed as essential for, you know, we talked about exercise. We talked about just the overall health. And for me, I switched to a carnivore diet and they're, It's nothing easier to adapt to for me, coming off of a keto diet. It's simple. I love how I feel on it and I'm just depressed when I'm not on it. Not understanding what's going on. Until I really did my research and really talked to experts and having these discussions. And one thing I really love is, is that it just gives me a heightened sensitivity to food and helps me get better. Helps me eat intuitively. I always say it's a superpower of mine. I'm so, connected to how I feel now. And I'm, I'm not sure how long I've had that you know, sensitive. Feeling to food, but I didn't have that before and it was just brushed off to depression. I feel like a few years ago I went on keto for weight loss and then slowly my energy improved and my symptoms of depression back then slowly My symptoms are gone. Basically. Before we get into the, yeah. I want to talk to you about, before we get into all the different ways to treat thyroid issues is, which is your expertise. Let's understand its functions for our body, right? You talked about menopause in the beginning. We'll, we'll discuss that a little bit later on. Can you get into what the thyroid gland is? Also what is, what it is and what it's made of and what's its main function?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:the thyroid gland is actually the first thing formed in the body in the fetus. So, when the endoderm is formed, the thyroid gland, you know, this is a little tiny, little tiny ball and the thyroid gland is the first thing that's born before the neural tube, which becomes the brain and actually thyroid tissue and the intestines are made from the same tissue. So then, obviously the fetus expands, it gets bigger, more organs are formed, but the thyroid promotes, provokes, and starts the formation of all the other organs in the body. So the thyroid is really the the kickoff for the formation of the fetus. So it has, it's, it's, it's related to every single function of the body for that reason. So, it's part, it has, it, it can turn on genes, it can turn on and off, switch genes on and off, it can it regulates heart rhythm, it regulates the adrenal function, it regulates everything in the body. So it's a thermoregulator, it's an energy hormone, and it's a healing hormone. So there isn't really anything, any function in the body that the heart is not involved in. Okay.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:You know, my, my real not, I don't want to say concern, but what I really want to understand is why isn't that a common knowledge, right? I talked to obviously doctors on like the, the person, the doctors I personally know the, and the fact that there's a lot of misdiagnoses going on, right? In the health medical industry, the conventional way of treating thyroid issues. I mean, it is, I, I believe that I've, I've had these discussions before with experts and Thyroid issues are really hard to detect because there's so many different symptoms, right? Since we talked about how it can affect multiple functions of the body, right? There's a plethora of how a thyroid issue can manifest, right? That's why it's so difficult to detect. Right. How it is. Yeah.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I wouldn't say it's difficult to detect. In the 50s they had one of the most famous American thyroidologists, George Kreil, wrote a book about thyroid function. Unfortunately, you have to understand that medicine started out, basically, modern medicine was born in the 1800s, and what they did was surgery. They did a lot of surgery, or they did poisons, laudanum, mercury, and things like that. So there was a whole movement away from, I wouldn't necessarily say, plant medicine because plants are just as medicinal as the modern medicines that all medicines were made out of were made where they are they started out as plants, but at the time you would look at thyroid textbooks at that time and You'd have you know pages and pages and pages and pages of symptoms as you just said because people would come in with all these symptoms and back in the day in those days until about 74 when they Isolated TSH. They would send somebody with Arrhythmia, not send them to a cardiologist, they would send them to a thyroid specialist.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:What changed now? I mean, we see over prescription. Yeah.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:drugs, more different drugs to address any symptom is going to be the body's attempt to express a deficiency or an imbalance. So we address symptoms with drugs so that the symptom goes away, but then you have a Symptoms that come from the negative feedback mechanism of the body saying hey, I was trying to tell you this You shut me up over here with that medicine so Naturopathy and osteopathy are the removing obstacles to healing what happened is that pharmaceutical companies Make a ton of money from addressing 5 000 things with medicine with different medications instead of one function
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Isn't that something that always comes up, right? You know, the pharmaceutical industry coming up with, you know, an idea or. A treatment for a symptom, right? As opposed to looking into what really goes on in the body, what really is causing issues within the body, right? We call it root cause healing, which is not really something that, When you go to your doctor, right, a typical doctor's visit wouldn't be about, you know, what, what's causing this, what's, what's the root cause is it would always be about asking you about what's your symptom and how can I, how can we relieve that symptom right now? And then all of a sudden, obviously, if you take. a medicine for a symptom, that symptom will go away. But what happens next is it may cause another issue down the line or You may be you may be not addressing what actually is going on in the body. We talked about overprescription, we, we talked about how you know, even teenagers, you know, not understanding what's causing issues within the body. And they. You know, taking antidepressants for symptoms, taking well, also, they did can you take us to a textbook visit to a doctor? What does that look like when you come forward with all of these symptoms? Like what happens in there?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:It depends. Well, which all the symptoms that we're talking about are associated with thyroid function. You come out
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Yeah. Yeah.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:medications. So hypertension, you're going to say hypertension medication. Have a rhythmic, you're going to get a something that regulates the rhythm of your heart. If you cry a lot, you're going to get Prozac. If you have,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:yeah.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:you're constipated, you're going to get laxatives. If you have endometriosis, you're going to get. Oh, you're going to get Hormone pills. So all of these things are caused by irregular thyroid function But you're going to get all these different medications I mean it would be it would go on forever if we talked about all the symptoms, but you can it's it's just unfortunate that and I will be writing my third book about that when I have time, but It is something that could be addressed without and Without medication, but it's not just that medications create other symptoms in my in my books. I actually go to the mayo clinic's list of side effects for every medication and sometimes you have the things that the person the things that the Medicine is prescribed for the symptom is prescribed for the scent the symptoms get worse the actual symptom worsens
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Hmm. I can't wait for the book first of all, but I want to address that because how do we, how do we finally. Catch this before it worsens, right? That's the main thing for me, for people, right? Obviously there's, oh, it's not, it's never too late to change your lifestyle or diet or whatnot before we, we talk about diet and lifestyle. How do we, how do we even detect this early on? Is there any. Is there any most common thyroid disorder or symptom that we should be alarmed at to get your thyroids checked? So that we cut to the chase and just get to the root cause. How do we do that?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Oh, okay. So for adolescents, it would be PMS, painful periods depression anorexia, anxiety. For males, it would be obviously not the menstrual issues, but there would be acne. Possibly irregular hormones because thyroid, thyroid decides how many of each hormone is made. Depression again eating disorders that's an, but then when you get to older people gallstones it really is unfortunately unending. And if we talk about
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Yeah.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Yes, you can change your lifestyle, but the best way to know is that what I talk about in my book for the puberty and adolescence is, if you remove all this crap, then you're basically removing obstacles to healing and you're allowing your function to do the best it can. So the carnivore diet is basically a way for you, plus iodine, is a way for you to allow your body to do the best that it Can Yeah,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:yeah. Can we summarily say that what we're eating right now, modern nutrition, Is causing thyroid issues.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:it's not nutrition
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:That's the main thing that changed. Yeah.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:oatmeal, lack of iodine, the thyroid needs iodine to make hormones, so, broccoli, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, oatmeal, flax seeds. You know, those, tea, tea, all kinds of tea, black tea, matcha, green, white tea mint tea, they'll all interfere with the absorption of iodine. So then you can have thyroid issues because you are taking all these substances, because you don't have enough iodine, and it's already hard to get iodine from our food sources anyway. Then, the older you get hypertension, as I said, gallstones, 80 percent of all cholecystectomies are done to women. Mostly women are hypothyroid. Hyper, hyper, I say it's the same to me because a hyperthyroid is a sick thyroid. Because they've been hypothyroid often since they were adolescents.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Are you saying checking your thyroid should be the first line of defense? If you have any of these symptoms, can we say that?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:But Yeah. constipation is one, another one. Yeah, I would definitely, I've had patients who've been diagnosed with mental health issues who were hypothyroid. Someone who was schizophrenic, someone who had bipolar disorder, somebody who had borderline. I checked their thyroid. Now they're not on medications.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:So here's what I always say about the carnivore diet. It's not about the carnivore diet. You know, people say, Hey, well, how can the carnivore diet do all these things? I always say it's about what you eliminated from your diet. Is that,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:That's
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:is that accurate? No,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:accurate. That is absolutely, you're you're eliminating stimulants, you're eliminating toxins, and you're giving the body what you're not in. You're not stressing the body because you're not interfering with it. We humans evolved to eat meat and fat. We are able to eat some other food, so we don't die. If there's no meat, that's basically all it is. It's like an ability to. to address stress. So when you eat a carnivore diet, yeah, it's not just, it's, it's what you, yeah, you said it perfectly. You're removing things that can interfere with your function. And you're enhancing that function because you're, you're removing anti nutrients. So if you eat anti nutrients, the cabbage the broccoli the the beans the the the nuts the, things that have fidic acid, lectins, things that prevent you from absorbing. Magnesium, zinc, et cetera, et cetera, iron thyroid needs that. The thyroid needs those nutrients which are in meat and water. Those are water soluble and fat soluble ones are in the fat. If you remove those foods that are, then you're enhancing your ability to make your thyroid work better and everything work better.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:we, there, there's so many issues that we can get into when it comes to thyroid, but we talked about stress. We talked about how the carnivore diet can help with. All these, the thyroid issue by eliminating, ultimate elimination diet. I want to talk to you about what we can do right now. I thought of getting us started with metabolism. You know, something I am familiar with. And we, we know that blood sugar has been proven to raise cortisol levels more than fat and protein, which keeps insulin signaling down, causing insulin resistance and elevated blood sugar levels. So, it is an important piece to discuss, that's why I want to discuss our diet, it's a very, it's a very important discussion. I think where the answer lies is understanding how glucose can raise cortisol levels, and then follows by, how does, Raise cortisol levels directly impact our metabolism.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:hmm. Well, it makes, yeah, sugar. The facts are, our metabolism, if you're in a stress state, and then your liver's making more sugar, gluconeogenesis. So, when you're in a stress state, your liver's pumping out sugar all the time to get to your muscles. It thinks you're running away from danger, but you're just sitting there eating french fries. So,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mm-Hmm.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:you know, it's doing all the things that it thinks you need. It's upping your upping your blood sugar so you need that sugar to run like hell. Defend yourself. But you're just sitting there eating french fries. It's a stimulant.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mm. How, how does that work? Like how does glucose raise cortisol levels? Like, explain that mechanism.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Glucose is a
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mm
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:So because it being a stimulant, it will make any stimulant raises cortisol levels. Coffee, nicotine, ice baths, ultramarathons, marijuana, Fighting with your partner. All those things are stimulants and they raise cortisol levels. And we know that fat brings cortisol down.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:mm
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:fat.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:How does that, how does that happen? How does fat l lowers cortisol levels? Do we have, we do we have that mechanism,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I guess because it is a, it will lower, if you have fat, you will lower glucose, right? So we know that it, for instance, if you have, Hypoglycemia, right? You are, your blood sugar drops too low. and then your liver makes a ton of sugar and then your insulin is, you have too powerful an insulin response. So you're on this roller coaster and that's stressful, right? If you dump fat in there, the glucose goes down. You're, you're switching from glycolysis to ketosis.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mm mm And it's therapeutic. For our cells, it reverses chronic disease. How, how true is that? How true is it, it reverses chronic disease? Can we say that it reverses it? Or can we say remission?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:inflammation. It reduces inflammation. Whenever you reduce inflammation, you are able to heal whatever caused the chronic disease.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Can we say heal? Is that something that we can say? Can we say we healed type 2 diabetes on the carnivore diet?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I say, yeah, sure, sure. If somebody has joint pain, they can't move their hands and they have arthritis because they've been diagnosed with arthritis, and after removing, eating a high fat carnivore diet for two weeks, they can move their fingers, I would say their arthritis is in remission. It's
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mmm, in recovery,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:you don't want to say it's healed because okay, so medically speaking Maybe you can't you know, if you've been done once you've been diagnosed with something. They don't like to let it go
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:right,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Like a person who has positive thyroid antibodies They don't say you're healed of Hashimoto's if they go away. They say they're You're in remission But I don't see the difference
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:to avoid, to avoid you know, it's risking their career. Basically, they can't say it.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:yeah, right. Well,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:know, that's why this is so fascinating to me. You, you are, you, you are an advocate of the carnivore diet. You publicly say that the Carnivore Diet reverses or heals the thyroid condition, right? Which
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:it helps it heal, right?
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:yeah, helps to
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:heal. You also need iodine, right? If you don't have any iodine, you're not going to heal the thyroid. And if you, don't reduce the stress, you're still, if you are, if you remove all, if you remove all, if you remove the french fries and you go and run if you do your exercise at 5 pm, you're going to be producing stress. So then you're going to hinder the health. You have to, there are a lot more, it's not, it's a lot more than just the food you eat. You could be eating a high fat carnivore diet and then go, you know, do a marathon every other day. You'd never recover and you would be stressed. Your cortisol would still be there and that would cause the inflammation again over and over again.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:you talked about iodine. Can you explain the role of iodine and other nutrients found in animal based foods in thyroid hormone production or regulation?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Okay.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:How does that help?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:isn't in foods anymore. So it used to be in dairy. It used to be more cows. They, when they milk cows, they would put iodine on the teats to clean them. Now then they started using chloride. So unfortunately, We have many people deficient in iodine. Also fluoride is in water and everywhere in car seats, bromide. There's, there's so many substances and everybody's told to eat broccoli and cabbage and flax seeds so that there's not really, there isn't a food that's rich in iodine. You know, meat is rich in iron and everything, but it's not rich in iodine. So it's not really, it's something that we, It's the only thing I think people need to supplement in. Well,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mmm. It's the only thing. If you supplement iodine, all functions of the body should work as it should.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:you
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:How,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:also address stress. It's not, it's never that simple, friends. It's not like,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:yeah,
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:know, if, if you take iodine and you run four marathons a week and you are on a carnivore diet, you're still gonna, you have to address stress. You have to, you can't just say, not one thing is a magic bullet. I just wrote an article and I, it's on Judy Cho's website because there's a lot of misinformation going on. About iodine. So if anybody's interested that would be a good idea to look at but it's it's an essential nutrient You can't it's like vitamin D. You got vitamin D. You got to have iron. You got it. It's it's that Important.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:But you have to supplement it. You said it's not found in foods anymore. You have to supplement it.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Yes, you do. You can't get enough what you have to if if we lived in really lived Okay used to be only mountainous areas where iodine deficient You know, people would have goiter in Switzerland and the Andes and in Michigan, places where there were mountains and the soil was devoid of iodine. So the iodine was in the atmosphere, not in those places, but every other, most places, right? But then we invented all these things that interfere with the absorption of iodine. So today, today, it's no longer. It's more, you would say that the goiter belt has expanded to the whole world because of these substances.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:so you could, you know, so even though You, let's say I'm supplementing with iodine and if I do things or I eat things that prevents me from absorbing iodine, what, what are those things that may prevent other things that may prevent some absorptions of iodine if I may supplement it?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:You would not be supplementing because those things would prevent the absorption, it would just be coming out. It wouldn't go into the cell, so, as I said, cabbage, broccoli, flax seeds, oatmeal.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:All right.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:or however, millet fluoride hypertension medication. There's so many things that prevent the function of Iodine getting into the cells.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:All right. So if you supplement with iodine and you pair that with a good diet and you manage stress lifestyle, that's how you reverse or start to heal your thyroid, which affects all the functions of your body. So you're saying you can't just
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Excellent. Yeah,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mmm.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:perfect. You need the iodine and you need to address stress. You need to make sure that, I mean, I'm an athlete. I go up paddleboarding in the sea. I went three days in a row. I'm not going to go tomorrow because I needed to take a break. But if I did it seven days, if I will never race. I will not race even though I'm good because I know from my experience in martial arts, it's too stressful for me. So I will be affecting my health. So I'm a carnivore diet, take iodine, and I'm making sure that I don't overstress.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:What's the optimal, because you said, you know, if you run marathons three times a week, then you're overstressing yourself. What's enough exercise? Like, can you talk about that? Because a lot of people you know, talk about, you know, working out five days a week and how can that be unproductive, right?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Very easily unproductive. Yeah. Okay. So, people didn't use to exercise. People you just used to work. This exercise thing is new. They came out in the 50s when they told us to stop eating fat. I mean, you had boxers, you had people who were weightlifters, you had these isolated sports, but most people didn't exercise. They worked, they went to work, they walked, they lifted things, they So this exercise thing is pretty new. It doesn't save anybody's life. And if you think about the guy who ran the first marathon, he died when he got there. When he arrived, tell the Greeks Spartans were coming or I can't even remember who was coming. He dropped dead. So there's an excess. It's an extreme. I've all, I love exercise, but it messed up my adrenal health because I did it too much. So what is good for everybody? There is no what is good for everybody. It has to be fun. It's good to move your joints. It's good to have muscles so that when you fall down, you don't break. It's good to be agile, but it's not going to save your life. It's not gonna make you live longer. It is going to make you live better quality life. Absolutely for sure.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:So what is fun? Like if it's not fun anymore, if it's too straining to your body, if you feel like you're always fatigued. time to
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:if you don't sleep. Yeah, if you don't sleep. your cortisol, exercise is going to raise your cortisol. More than, if your heart rate is higher, high for more than 15 minutes, your body thinks it's in danger. So, I usually tell people with issues to try to, if they're trying to heal something, to try to keep their cardio, you know, I don't recommend cardio. I would say weight training and walking would be the best. to do.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Is there, does time of the day affect it?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Absolutely. Morning cortisol high in the morning. Yeah. Morning
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:so do it in the Morning
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:morning between I would, I wouldn't exercise later than noon because you have to, if you look at the cortisol curve, it's high in the morning and then it descends, it reaches, it reaches its apex in the morning and then it goes down to the near the lowest possible way. possible, you don't want it too low because then you won't sleep either. But for you to sleep and produce melatonin, it has to be low. So if you go out for a jog, it's seven or eight, or if you get up at four in the morning, when your cortisol hasn't peaked yet, your body's, you're messing up your circadian rhythm, which is causes stress, which will cause your liver to make sugar, which will cause inflammation.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:If I have all the if I, if I have all the signs of somebody with a thyroid issue, what are you going to check? Like, let's say I'm a patient of yours. What do you check? What do you ask me? What are the things that comes up in the, in the first initial conversation?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I have a really long questionnaire because of all those symptoms, right? I asked history And I look at labs. So I, I asked for temperature. Low temperature is an indication of, of low thyroid function because thyroid is a thermoregulator.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mm. Is that the, the giveaway?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:It's one of many constipation hair falling out. Literally, it just goes. So I take, I look at a lot of material in order to diagnosis. Sometimes it's immediate. Sometimes people have great numbers, but there's something else hidden. That tells me that they are hypothyroid from, from the years of experience I've had,
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:How drastic is the change? Let's say, for example, hey I'm eating the I'm eating a standard American diet. I'm not supplementing thyroid. I'm eating all these antinutrients, and then come to you. Did your, did the program. If you do have a program, we'll, we'll link everything down in description box. Both they're interested, connect with you. What's the, what's the. What's the drastic change? Like what happened? Like, give me an example of a, somebody that adapted this lifestyle. It did everything that you said. What was the result?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:pain, pain, goes away two weeks to a month
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:two weeks.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:where maybe we've talked pain. If you remove, if you go on a high fat carnivore diet, you're eating Hostess Twinkies and French fries. And I don't know what oatmeal and, and, and, and avocados and stevia or those weird drinks, sugar thing weird sugars. I don't even know. Cause I live in Italy. If you stop all those, two weeks is what I asked for, right? High fat carnivore diet, a lot of stuff gets better. And then we figure out what you can add, again, it doesn't cause inflammation.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:If you adapt the current word diet and then add. iodine supplement. What, what, what changes?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:It depends. It depends how, how your health is. Some people are so far along the line, there's a lot of stuff to unpack. Some people say, again, pain or my thoughts are clear. I don't have brain fog anymore. I can go to the bathroom. I can sleep better. Or they get worse. Some people get worse because there are more things to unpack because when you're healing all of a sudden your body's like oh, man She was so sick. I couldn't complain about this before but now she's feeling better. I'm gonna tell her this is messed up, too
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:That's interesting, right? You know, I've been on a carnivore diet and I never thought of supplementing iodine. And I'm really thinking about it now. If you have any recommendations.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:You have a prostate, so it's not just the thyroid that needs it. Prostate tissue in males, mucous tissue in females need a ton of iodine. Every mucus, so your nostril, your respiratory tissue, your intestines, there's tons of iodine in all those tissues. So, you know, two drops is not going to, two drops of 5% You get it in the U. S. very easily and no harm done. Unless you have an inflamed thyroid, you might overreact to it or you're toxic with halides. If you're toxic with fluoride, if you've been using fluoride toothpaste and getting fluoride washes all the time, one drop of iodine might, you might have a reaction to it like like, you know, palpitations because you got to get that stuff out before you can properly process the iodine.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Alright, let's talk about that. I mean, that's pretty serious. What, what are those what are those things that people need to address first or know first before they take Iodine supplement? Cause you know, this is also something that I want to do, right? Iodine supplementing right now. You've convinced me, but what are the things that I need to watch out for? Aside from those two that you
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, Yeah, that's it. Really. That's it. That's really it. It's very rare. It's usually palpitations. Some of you might have palpitations because their thyroid is inflamed. So then you'd have to figure out if your thyroid is inflamed or got so much fluoride in you, the iodine is like, I'm trying to get in and the fluoride is like, I'm here. And that's very easily fixed with a salt loading protocol, which Dr. Brownstein in his book, Iodine I don't remember the title of it, but you take salt and water until you, and iodine, and you flush out the toxins that are taking the spot where the iodine should go.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Mmm. Awesome. Awesome. And do you have any program if anyone's interested? Dr. Elizabeth?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:I have, I see patients online. That's my program. Okay. That's it.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Alright. Awesome. Awesome. Well, I learned a lot from you today. I am, again, I've been, I'm in, I've been on a carnivore diet for, for a few months. Been on a keto diet for years. I haven't, Really thought about, you know, supplementing iodine. And it's really interesting to me with exercise too, where, you know, you really have to, you know, we, we think about, hey, we gotta build muscle. We gotta work out five times a week to build muscle and not really thinking about it may be counterproductive to, you know, overexercise and we never really think of that. Right? And we talk about, you know, a thyroid issue being. That we, he called it something is it master hormone you talked about?
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:That's a mastermind. It's the conductor. Higher orchestra in the body. It rules everything. It regulates everything.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Yeah, it's definitely worth it to get that checked. If you have all of those symptoms, obviously you know, hopefully the listeners wrote out of those symptoms to make sure that you are not. Taking any type of medication if you don't have to, right? And I think that's the most important piece is just to be able to re educate yourself about what you can do holistically you know, there, there are a lot of alternative ways to really heal the body from within, right? So, Thank you so much, Dr. Elizabeth, for coming on and sharing your story with us today. This is a wonderful conversation. I really love having you here. Learned a lot from you. Where can people find you and connect with you? Dr. Elizabeth.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Elizabrite. com. That's my website.
lorenz_1_05-30-2024_110533:Elizabethbright. com. We'll link it down in the description box below. You guys can check that out. Work with, connect with Dr. Elizabeth Bright. Dr. Elizabeth Bright. Thank you so much.
squadcaster-3i5j_1_05-30-2024_170533:Okay. Have a nice evening.
