Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

Esther Yunkin - Registered Nurse, Holistic Health Educator
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Thyroid or immune. Finally sorted. Your doctor gave you a pill for your thyroid. Nobody gave you a plan for your immune system. Those are two different problems, and only one of them got addressed. The Health with Hashimoto's podcast teaches you to sort everything you know about Hashimoto's into one of two buckets: thyroid function or immune function. That's the shift. Not more information. A way to use what you've already got. If you've read the books, followed the accounts, and still don't know what to do Monday morning, you don't have an information problem. You have a sorting problem. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse with 25 years of experience, this podcast covers what Hashimoto's actually is, why it happens, and how to work with your doctor (not against them) while you build a plan that fits a real life. What is Hashimoto's, and why does it happen How to sort what you already know into thyroid or immune, so it finally makes sense Practical lifestyle strategies, without the overwhelm How to be the CEO of your own health Grounded in science. No woo, no shame, no urgency New here? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor: https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions Ready to sort your Hashimoto's? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through it in under an hour: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

  1. 2d ago ·  Bonus

    How are you doing - Guest Post by Pastor Jason Lang

    Someone asks how you are doing. You say fine. You both move on. Fine is not an emotion. And most of the time, it is not the truth either. This bonus episode is a little different. Instead of a book review, I am sharing a sermon from my church, because this message applies to everyone. It is the full meaning of "how are you doing?" Pastor Jason Lang walks through the five questions hiding inside that one simple question. If you have gotten good at saying fine while you are running on empty, this one is worth your time. How are you doing? (five questions in one) Physically: eating, sleeping, moving, fighting off illness Mentally: healthy thoughts about yourself, godly thoughts, kind thoughts about others Emotionally: stuffing or exploding, using feeling words Spiritually: how God sees you in Christ, and living in Christ Relationally: relationship with God first, then others (anger, strife, kindness, openness) This will be an ongoing series at Word of Life Church in southern Minnesota. Get the rest of the series on YouTube or Podcast or join us live in person.

  2. 4d ago

    Which one first when everything needs attention ⎸ Ep. 217

    You finished the list. You sorted everything into thyroid or immune. And somehow that made it worse, because now you are looking at two full buckets and every single thing in them looks like it should be the thing you do today. So you did nothing. Or you picked five things, went hard, and lasted about eleven days. That is not a discipline problem. Sorting is triage, not treatment. It tells you what to work on first. But nobody ever explains the "first" part, and that gap is where most women get stuck. In this episode I walk through the three rules I use to decide what actually comes next, why the most important thing is almost never the right place to start, and what six winters of working on one single trigger taught me about doing less at a time. What you'll learn Why "address everything at once" sounds responsible and still falls apart in eleven days Why the thyroid bucket comes first (fatigue, brain fog, cold, and weight resistance show up in both buckets, and you cannot tell them apart through the static) How to pick your first immune bucket step by choosing the cheapest repeatable thing instead of the most dramatic one Why changing five things at once teaches you nothing, even when you feel better The question that replaces "which one is most important" and actually gets you moving Resources mentioned 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor (free guide) https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions Episode 214, Sorting Hashimoto's labs into thyroid or immune buckets https://healthwithhashimotos.com/214-sorting-hashimotos-labs/ The Simple Habits Program. Twelve weeks of structure, not intensity. One small habit each week. This is a text message based program. Enrollment opens Sunday, September 13 and closes Saturday, September 26 at 10pm Central. The cohort runs September 27 through December 19. This is the last time it runs as a cohort. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/simple-habits-program/   NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions   READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience.   This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

    Which one first when everything needs attention ⎸ Ep. 217

  3. Sep 3

    How Serious is Hashimoto's Disease? ⎹ Ep. 216

    How serious is Hashimoto's disease? Nobody answered that at your appointment. You got a prescription and a follow-up in six weeks. Or you got told your numbers are fine for now and we are just going to keep an eye on things. Either way, you walked out not knowing whether to brush this off or worry about it every day. The answer sits in between those two. Hashimoto's is two things and not one. It is a thyroid that cannot keep up, and it is an immune system attacking that thyroid. Medication can help handle the first one. The second one is all yours to work on. In episode 216, Esther gives you the facts without the fear, including what she reads in her own thyroid books about what happens when hypothyroidism goes unwatched, and why she gets most serious about this with women who are pregnant or trying to be. In this episode, you'll learn: Why the immune attack is not the life-threatening part, and what actually is How long your antibodies can be elevated before symptoms or your TSH ever reflect it The five labs to look at so you know which side is asking for your attention right now Hit play and get the answer you did not get at your appointment. Resources mentioned: Esther's first episode, where she shares her own diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/   NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/ JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/ ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

    How Serious is Hashimoto's Disease? ⎹ Ep. 216

  4. Aug 27

    What to do first once you have sorted your root causes ⎸ Ep 215

    You did the sorting. Thyroid on one side, immune on the other. So why does it feel like nothing has actually changed? Here is the trap. Sorting feels like progress, and it is, but so far it is all in your head. The buckets are full and nothing in either one has moved. Sorting feels safe. Starting feels like a risk. In this final episode of the summer sorting series, Esther walks you through what to do after sorting Hashimoto's into thyroid and immune. Not twelve things to do tomorrow. One thing, chosen on purpose, small enough that you will still be doing it next month. Hit play and pick your one next thing.   RESOURCES MENTIONED Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune, inside the classroom in the Skool community https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   Jumpstart to Refreshing Sleep and Rest, also in the Skool classroom    Single coaching sessions. You do not have to book the full six sessions of Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching. If you have sorted your two buckets and just need help with one thing, a single session is built for that.    NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions   READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

    What to do first once you have sorted your root causes ⎸ Ep 215

  5. Aug 20

    Sorting Hashimoto's labs into thyroid or immune buckets ⎹ Ep. 214

    You have the lab printout in front of you. You circled the flagged numbers, looked them up, and maybe compared them to somebody else's results in a group. So why do you still not know what they mean? In episode 214, Esther walks through the full panel and sorts every lab into thyroid or immune, so you can do the same thing with your own results in about five minutes. Sorting Hashimoto's labs is simpler than it looks once you know which list each one belongs on. In this episode, you'll learn: Which labs report on your thyroid gland and which ones report on your immune system Why reverse T3 is the lab that goes missing most often, and what a high number is asking you to look at Why vitamin D and C-reactive protein are helpful even though they are not on the standard thyroid panel Hit play, then pull out your most recent results and start sorting.   RESOURCES MENTIONED Episode 1, my diagnosis story: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/my-journey/ Episode 3, What Do My Thyroid Labs Mean: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/thyroid-labs/ Episode 39, Beyond TSH: How to Get the Thyroid Labs You Actually Need Using an Independent Lab: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/039-labs/ Episode 78, Success at the Doctor's Office: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/thyroid-questions-for-your-doctor/ Episode 80, Labs: T4 vs Free T4: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t4-not-converting-to-t3/ Episode 94, Labs: T3, Free T3, Reverse T3: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t3/ Episode 103, Thyroid Labs to Check: [link needed, page not live yet] Episode 190, Why Your TSH Looks Normal but You Still Feel Tired with Hashimoto's: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/190-tsh-normal-but-still-tired/ 10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your Doctor (free guide): https://healthwithhashimotos.com/questions-for-your-doctor/   NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions   READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

    Sorting Hashimoto's labs into thyroid or immune buckets ⎹ Ep. 214

  6. Aug 13

    Thyroid or Immune? Sorting the 6 Symptoms Every Woman with Hashimoto’s Knows ⎸ Ep 213

    Six common Hashimoto’s symptoms: fatigue, weight resistance, brain fog, hair loss, constipation, and feeling cold all the time. You've been told they're all just your thyroid. Some of them are. And some of them were never going to be fully fixed by your thyroid. In episode 213, Esther sorts the six most common Hashimoto's symptoms into thyroid or immune. Two landed in the thyroid bucket. Four landed in both. That isn't bad news. Two buckets is not two problems. It's two places to look instead of one dead end. In this episode, you'll learn: Why feeling cold all the time is the cleanest thyroid bucket symptom, and what to ask about if you're still cold on medication How constipation, hair loss, brain fog, and weight resistance end up in both buckets for two different reasons Why weight gain when you're eating the same and moving the same is physiology, not willpower Hit play and start sorting.   Resources mentioned in this episode Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune ($27, about an hour, self-paced) https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/ One-time coaching call with Esther  Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching, six one-on-one sessions  Episode 80, Labs: T4 vs free T4 https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t4-not-converting-to-t3/ Episode 94, Labs: T3, Free T3, Reverse T3 https://healthwithhashimotos.com/t3/   NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions   READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

    Thyroid or Immune? Sorting the 6 Symptoms Every Woman with Hashimoto’s Knows ⎸ Ep 213

  7. Aug 6

    Hashimoto's thyroid or immune ⎸ Root Cause Series Ep 212

    You started the summer with a question. Now you have a longer list of root causes and the exact same question you had in May. Which one am I supposed to do something about first? That is not an information problem. It is a sorting problem. In this episode, Esther goes back through the summer root cause series and sorts every topic covered into one of two buckets using the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework. Each one gets sorted out loud so you can see how the filter actually works when you apply it to real information, including the one topic that landed in both buckets and changed how she thinks about minerals. In this episode, you'll learn: Why vitamin D belongs in the immune bucket even though it matters for every cell in your body Why the hair mineral test lands in both buckets, and what changed Esther's mind about it How to take 25 saved screenshots and sort them down to one next step Hit play and get a filter for everything you already know.   Resources mentioned 10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your Doctor Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune Episode 204, the hair mineral test with Dee    NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions   READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

  8. Jul 30

    Using the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework for yourself ⎸ Ep. 211

    You have all the information. So why are you still stuck? If you have spent years reading, researching, and following every account you can find, you already know a lot about Hashimoto's. The problem is not information. The problem is knowing what to do with it. In this episode, Esther walks through the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework and shows you exactly how she used it on herself, back when she was first diagnosed. She shares which bucket she focused on first, why she skipped over diet even though she knew it mattered, and how she figured out her very next step instead of trying to do everything at once. In this episode, you'll learn: How to sort your own symptoms, labs, and next steps into the thyroid bucket or the immune bucket Why Esther focused on sleep and stress first, even though she knew diet was important too How to figure out your one next step instead of feeling like you have to fix everything at once Hit play to hear the whole story, including the moment her teenage son asked her a question that says everything about why she does this work.   NEW HERE? START HERE. New to the podcast? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor. https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions   READY TO SORT YOUR HASHIMOTO'S? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through sorting everything into thyroid or immune, in under an hour, with a workbook to help you figure out your next step. https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/   JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Join the free Health with Hashimoto's community on Skool. It's a supportive space for women navigating Hashimoto's, and it's free to join. https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all my other resources, including products and supplements I recommend, on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER The Health with Hashimoto's podcast helps you sort your Hashimoto's into thyroid or immune, so you can finally understand what's happening in your body and what to do about it. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and holistic health educator with 25 years of nursing experience. This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Thyroid or immune. Finally sorted. Your doctor gave you a pill for your thyroid. Nobody gave you a plan for your immune system. Those are two different problems, and only one of them got addressed. The Health with Hashimoto's podcast teaches you to sort everything you know about Hashimoto's into one of two buckets: thyroid function or immune function. That's the shift. Not more information. A way to use what you've already got. If you've read the books, followed the accounts, and still don't know what to do Monday morning, you don't have an information problem. You have a sorting problem. Hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse with 25 years of experience, this podcast covers what Hashimoto's actually is, why it happens, and how to work with your doctor (not against them) while you build a plan that fits a real life. What is Hashimoto's, and why does it happen How to sort what you already know into thyroid or immune, so it finally makes sense Practical lifestyle strategies, without the overwhelm How to be the CEO of your own health Grounded in science. No woo, no shame, no urgency New here? Start with the free guide, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor: https://health-with-hashimotos.kit.com/10-questions Ready to sort your Hashimoto's? Hashimoto's Decoded: Thyroid or Immune walks you through it in under an hour: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/hashimotos-decoded/ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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