Why Am I Always Cold, Tired, and Gaining Weight? (It's Your Thyroid — Fix It in 30 Days)
In a Nutshell
A slow thyroid (hypothyroidism) often causes eyebrow hair loss, high cholesterol, puffy face, carpal tunnel, depression, headaches, and feeling cold, yet standard TSH tests frequently miss it. Diagnosis requires a full thyroid panel plus morning underarm temperature below 97.8°F; over 90% of cases are Hashimoto’s autoimmune thyroiditis. Key fixes include selenium, high-dose vitamin D3, gluten removal, intermittent fasting, and addressing stress, estrogen, and high insulin that block thyroid function.
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Seven signs your thyroid is slow, and most doctors miss this. Number one, the outer third of the eyebrows are disappearing. The thyroid hormones literally power the follicles of your hair, and one of the first places you're going to notice the hair loss is right on the outer part right here.
Number two is high cholesterol. Think about how many people have high cholesterol, and they're immediately put on medication without realizing it could be a thyroid issue. And if you have a thyroid problem, everything runs slowly. Many people find when they fix the thyroid, their cholesterol goes back to normal.
Next one is you wake up with your face puffy. It's a thyroid issue that's trapping water within the proteins underneath the skin.
The next two signs are the ones that doctors never connect to the thyroid. Number four, carpal tunnel syndrome. Your body becomes more swollen and it holds fluid in different tissues. Well, it's going to hold more fluid in the tissues around the medial nerve on your wrist, and that's going to cause carpal tunnel syndrome, a classic hypothyroid symptom.
Number five, depression or anxiety. The thyroid hormones have everything to do with controlling energy production inside your brain cells. And so, when the thyroid is slow, the person tends to be more depressed or they have anxiety. Over 50% of people with a slow thyroid develop depression as their primary symptom. And so, you can take all the antidepressants in the world, it doesn't correct it because it's treating the wrong thing.
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