How to Shrink Thyroid Nodules Naturally - Dr. Berg

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let’s talk about how to shrink thyroid nodules naturally now before i get into it i want to make a disclaimer this is not meant to replace your medical care check with your doctor before taking any of this advice this information is just to give you more data so when you do your evaluation of what to do you have both sides you have the medical side and you have the alternative side unfortunately a lot of the alternative advice is buried on google and it’s very difficult to find so that being said let’s first talk about how to do a self thyroid examination now for this little exam you’re going to need a mirror and a glass of water okay so the first thing you want to do is identify where the thyroid is so if i take my finger and come down my neck right here this little bump right here that’s the atom’s apple it’s actually called the thyroid cartilage even though the thyroid is not in that area it’s lower okay now if i take my finger and keep coming down a little bit more i’ll go right into a little indentation right here okay now from this point down through here i’m going to be feeling these little rings of the trachea they’re little pieces of cartilage and you can feel them as little bumps right here now if we go downward we’re gonna feel two little bumps okay that’s two of the little rings we’re gonna get to the thyroid so if you go down two and just put your finger right there and then also right through here at the bottom of where your collarbone joins that’s where the thyroid is it’s right here and it’s like a butterfly you have these little wings with a little center piece that right in the center okay so the thyroid is right through here and if you put your fingers on it okay and you swallow you drink water and look into the mirror it’ll raise up a little bit as you drink water what you’re looking for when you’re swallowing is you’re looking for a little bump or a little lump or protrusion that sticks out you’re also feeling the symmetry between the left side and the right side okay if there’s an enlargement on one side versus the other that is abnormal what you should feel is an equal amount on both sides and you should not feel any lump bump or protrusion if you do you could have either a nodule or some type of an enlargement now the first thing you need to know is that these nodules are very very common extremely common in young adults and children and 50 of people over the age of 40 have them and they can come and go and 95 of them are benign so only a very small percent are cancer related if you went to a doctor they would probably do a blood test and an ultrasound test and they would look at the thyroid hormones they would also look at antibodies because 90 percent of hypothyroid conditions are hashimoto’s that’s an autoimmune condition where there’s inflammation and in the condition hashimoto’s thyroiditis there’s this little itis which means inflammation and so you can see more nodules in hashimoto’s now i’ve done a lot of videos on hypothyroid conditions and the symptoms and what to do when we discuss hashimoto’s we’re really talking about an autoimmune condition more than a thyroid condition itself and what triggers hashimoto’s is your immune system going out of whack more than anything else that can come from severe stress or trauma where stress or shock like for example let’s say you lost a loved one can literally put your immune system into a state where you’re susceptible to getting all sorts of problems especially autoimmune but let’s go through the six things that can contribute to thyroid nodules the first thing that i would do is i would eliminate all dairy to see if your thyroid nodule disappears because dairy has a lot of different hormones and it can stimulate the growth of your thyroid i mean if you think about milk in general milk is created to grow animals okay like like in calves like in sheep babies humans and animals so milk has a lot of different growth hormones and so if you’re consuming milk that can be a contributing factor so just by avoiding dairy you may find these nodules disappear the second thing is gluten now if you’ve been watching my channel you’re probably not consuming gluten but for those of you that are new gluten is in grains it’s a protein in grains and it is majorly associated with hashimoto’s without getting into the details there’s actually a similarity or a crossover with the genetics of gluten and your thyroid in other words if you consume gluten your body is going to identify that dietary gluten as an external invader a pathogen and start developing antibodies and it can actually then cross over and now you have antibodies to not just attack gluten but your own thyroid but at this point i don’t want to get into too many details on that i’ll put that link down in the description but you may find that these nodules completely disappear just by avoiding gluten now i’m going to recommend going on the ketogenic diet because there’s some additional data that insulin resistance okay which occurs when you consume a lot of carbs predisposes you to developing nodules on the thyroid gland and the combination of both keto and intermittent fasting can greatly help you in reducing these nodules simply because of the anti-inflammatory effect now as a side note vitamin d is really beneficial for hashimoto’s especially when you’re taking about 30 or 40 000 international units of vitamin d but i have not found any type of causation between low vitamin d and thyroid nodules but i will say if you have autoimmune diseases you’re going to be deficient in vitamin d so vitamin d can help you all right number three selenium deficiencies low selenium is associated with thyroid nodules so that’s definitely a mineral that i would recommend taking you can get selenium in brazil nuts just one brazil nut can give you a whole day requirement of selenium selenium is also in fish like tuna sardines salmon and other types of fish selenium is actually really good to counter mercury in the fish as well selenium is also in organ meats as well as in meats in general and eggs now a lot of people think that you should take iodine if you have a nodule and they may or may not be correct with that because if you take excessive amounts of iodine you can actually create nodules so iodine may help you if you have a deficiency but if you’re already taking a lot of sea kelp for example i wouldn’t recommend taking more c-califor iodine because that could be causing it so here’s my viewpoint with iodine if you’re already taking a lot of c-cap or iodine and you have these nodules then you need to reduce that if you haven’t been taking c-calp or iodine i think a little bit of sea kelp might help you in reducing the size of the nodules and the cool thing about sea calp is it has selenium as well as iodine and the next mineral i’m going to talk about which is zinc a zinc deficiency can increase your susceptibility to getting these nodules now where do you get zinc well it’s in red meat it’s in shellfish and oysters and it’s in a lot of other foods as well if you decide to take a supplement for selenium or zinc i’ll put the values down below of what i recommend all right number five estrogen dominance if you have too much estrogen because the thyroid has receptors for estrogen that can cause nodules this is why women who are estrogen dominant many times will be more susceptible to getting these nodules especially when they get pregnant or they’re taking birth control pills or when they’re taking some type of estrogen as in hormone replacement therapy so if that’s your situation get with your doctor uh maybe you could come up with some other form of birth control pill or some other natural hormone replacement therapy because estrogen does affect the thyroid very greatly and there’s also a lot of natural remedies to help lower estrogen