High Thyroid

This Hormone Type means thyroid support may need boosting. This is common when you’re high-achieving, active, and driven. 

High-thryoid symptoms can happen when you’re exposed to higher levels of physical, physiological, mental, or emotional stress for an extended period without adequate recovery or buffers to balance it. This includes a consistent schedule of adequate and restorative sleep.

If this resonates, you’re not alone!

Thankfully, there are many things you can do to help improve symptoms (which don’t include expensive lab tests, supplements, or meds).

It can be simple and starts with a personalized approach that includes: balancing stress and blood sugar, optimizing sleep, reducing your exposure to common endocrine disruptors, and improving elimination pathways (think sweat and gut health).

Read on to find out more.

How it happens

A hyperactive thyroid could have you feeling nervous, anxious, irritable, insatiably hungry, sweaty, or trembly. You might be losing hair, have gut issues, trouble keeping on weight, and more.

Symptoms could be subtle or more severe, and often, women struggle with symptoms long before an issue is or can be medically diagnosed. Taking care of your thyroid health can help put you on a path to improve symptoms and overall well-being.

Ways thyroid hormones get turned up

There are numerous reasons our thyroid hormones can be affected and are often multifactorial.

These include but are not limited to:

• Chronic stress
• Toxic exposures or overburdened body
• Inflammation, especially of the thyroid gland
• Inadequate diet for your hormone type or nutritional deficiencies
• Overexercising for your body’s hormone type
• Gut issues, including a permeable gut
• Too much or too little iodine
• Certain medications
• Goiters or nodules of the thyroid gland
• Hashimoto’s (this is quite rare as it usually causes symptoms of hyperthyroidism)
• Grave’s Disease

High Thyroid symptoms

Thyroid imbalances will present differently in different people. You might have a few or many of the above symptoms, while someone else could have completely different ones. We’re all wonderfully unique like that.

Common symptoms include:

• Anxiety
• Jitteriness, restlessness
• Extreme or insatiable hunger
• Hair loss
• Trembling, tremors
• Fatigue
• Insomnia
• Itching or hives
• Brittle hair
• Shortness of breath
• Intolerance to heat
• Excessive sweating
• Gut issues, including frequent bowel movements or loose stool
• Aggression or anger
• Menstrual changes
• Infertility
• Increased blood sugar

Dearest Reader,

This information is for educational purposes only and not intended to diagnose or highlight imperfections. You've likely landed here following my quiz at YourHormoneQuiz.com.

No matter what you discover in these results, you're beautiful and perfect as you are. You're good enough and trying hard enough.

We're all unique and will experience hormonal shifts differently. This information is here to highlight that, despite what we've been told, we're not just little men — our bodies work differently — and if our hormones have us feeling less than our best, we absolutely can do something about it.

My aim is to support and empower you on your journey, where you need and want it. Take what you need, leave what you don't.

No judgement here, just good honest support.

XO, Laurie

How thyroid affects other hormones

Your thyroid regulates the metabolism of every organ in the body. It regulates hormones, body temperature, growth, brain function, heart rate, and more. When thyroid hormones go high, you’ll feel it.

A hyperactive thyroid can impact sex hormones and every other hormone. Not only do our thyroid hormones impact other important hormones, but other hormones can also affect our thyroid hormones.

When thyroid hormones go high, it’s important to pay attention to our stress hormones, inflammation, and blood sugar balance.

What we can do about high thyroid

When dealing with hormone imbalance, it’s important to address the cause. What could be at the root of a hyperactive thyroid? 

Could it be stress, inflammation, diet, blood sugar control? Dealing with the root cause is essential.

Restoring balance most often requires — first and foremost — reestablishing a strong foundation with a supportive diet and lifestyle. This includes optimizing nutrition and sleep, incorporating movement and stress management techniques for your unique body and hormone type, reducing toxic exposures, and working on mindset and social support.

A qualified health practitioner can help you with a full thyroid panel that includes the following (be sure to have a look using functional lab ranges vs the conventional pathological ranges):

• TSH
• Free T4
• Free T3 (our active thyroid hormones)
• Reverse T3
• Thyroid antibodies: TPOab and TgAb

Other helpful functional lab work to see the bigger picture:

• Sex and adrenal hormones and their metabolites (DUTCH Test is the premier test)
• Full iron panel, including ferritin, serum iron, % saturation, TIBC
• B-12
• Vitamin D
• Complete metabolic panel
• SHBG

Check out this post for even more ways to get your hormones back in harmony.

This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, manage, or treat disease or serious conditions. Always check with your doctor before making any changes. It's important to consult a well-informed health practitioner for personal advice about your situation before relying on general information — we're all wonderfully unique.