Autoimmune Health Secrets | Ease Fatigue & Improve Your Health With Autoimmune Disease Using Simple Feel-Good Habits
Ever wonder the real reason autoimmune disease leaves you exhausted, overwhelmed, and unsure what to do to actually feel better?
Welcome to Autoimmune Health Secrets, the podcast revealing the smarter, simpler way to create habits that ease inflammation, boost energy, and bring back confidence in your health and life.
Hosted by Dr. Amy Behimer, a nationally board-certified health and wellness coach living with multiple autoimmune diagnoses—including MS—Amy shares the science, stories, and small steps that make big health changes feel good and last for good.
By listening, you’ll learn how to:
• Build feel-good habits that can make or break your health with autoimmune disease while also lessening fatigue and uncertainty
• Simplify healthy living without feeling like you’re either “on” or “off” the consistency train
• Shift from managing autoimmune disease to creating autoimmune health in your everyday life
It’s no secret that better habits lead to better health, especially with an autoimmune diagnosis. What’s missing is an approach to make them fun, effective, and inevitable.
Enter The Habit Hub Approach to Autoimmune Health—six spokes of mindset, food, movement, rest & relaxation, connection, and “good stress”—to strengthen your body, steady your mind, and finally feel like yourself again.
Start with #1 to kick off your autoimmune health journey to feeling and functioning better. Or, if you stop your scroll on an episode that speaks to you, lean in and trust it's the perfect place to start!
Autoimmune Health Secrets | Ease Fatigue & Improve Your Health With Autoimmune Disease Using Simple Feel-Good Habits
#186 | Thyroid Health & Autoimmune Disease: 3 Ways To Boost Energy (Without Another Protocol)
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Have you ever been told your thyroid labs are “normal,” yet you still feel exhausted, foggy, and not like yourself?
If you’re navigating autoimmune symptoms, unexplained fatigue, stubborn weight changes, or brain fog, this episode will feel like a deep exhale. So many women are told their labs are fine while their energy says otherwise. The truth? Your thyroid influences far more than a single lab number. It impacts your metabolism, stress response, gut health, mood, and how energized you feel every single day—even if you’ve never been diagnosed with a thyroid condition.
In this conversation, I'm joined by functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner Sophie Shepherd to unpack what’s really going on beneath the surface—and how to support your thyroid in simple, sustainable ways without adding another overwhelming protocol.
By listening, you’ll discover:
- How your thyroid actually regulates energy beyond just TSH—and what markers may be missing from your basic lab panel
- Three practical, doable ways to support your thyroid starting today through food, stress regulation, and lowering toxic load
- Why chasing symptoms can keep you stuck—and how learning to listen to your body can completely shift your healing path
Press play now to learn how to support your thyroid naturally so you can restore real, steady energy without piling on another complicated plan.
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This podcast explores health and wellness through the lens of autoimmune disease—multiple sclerosis (MS) and others—diving into how challenges like fatigue, brain fog, flares, and other symptoms related to the nervous system, inflammation, and mitochondria can be supported by healthy habits in food, movement, sleep, and rest, while fostering consistency, effective self-care, and a resilient mindset. If you’ve read the bestseller Atomic Habits by James Clear and still don’t have the healthy habits you want, this show is for you. Adjacent to functional medicine, holistic health, the AIP diet, and the Wahls Protocol, the podcast offers guidance from a health and wellness coach to help those navigating chronic illness feel better and thrive.