Margaret Floyd Barry is a certified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Master
Restorative Wellness Practitioner who specialises in Thyroid function and autoimmunity
She talks with Angela about the role of digestive dysfunction in chronic illness and how the thyroid and your gut are affected by stress, toxins, diet, lifestyle, and lack of sleep. With this combination of stressors exhausting the immune system, it can be in a constant inflammatory loop but as Margaret explains the key is to identify and systematically remove the stressors from the immune system whilst also supporting it to calm down and pull it away from the pro-inflammatory loops, she shares great content on how this can be approached along with invaluable information about the links between the thyroid and fertility
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS

There are thyroid receptors on every single cell in the body
The vast majority of the immune system lives in or around the gut and digestive tract, so this is a good starting point
Much of the conventional diet causes damage to the digestive system and triggers the immune system resulting in a consistent burden and drain on it
Focusing on digestive healing and removing inflammatory foods, can be enough to put some individuals into full remission from autoimmune conditions such as Hashimoto's and Graves
Some of the proteins in gluten containing grains can look very similar to thyroid tissue so removing gluten from the diet is essential
Our immune system gets really good at doing what we ask it to do most frequently and we ask it to inflame all of the time
Helping your immune system to calm, resolve and anti-inflame is critical
Changes and imbalances in any hormone affect the signalling to glands
The thyroid and adrenals are closely linked and if you have dysregulation in one the body often makes adjustments through the other
The adrenals play a vital role in the transition from peri menopause through to menopause
how robust and healthy the adrenals are will often dictate how smooth the transition will be
when you have an underactive thyroid it affects the hypothalamus hormone GRH which in turn can lead to hormone dysregulation and an anovulatory cycle
The research indicates there is some form of autoimmune mechanism that is contributing to complications with fertility

 
BEST MOMENTS
‘It has an incredible role in our metabolism and energy levels’
‘There isn’t a body system that the thyroid isn’t impacting in some way’
‘We are supporting the immune system to come back into balance and this means supporting the digestive system’
 
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ABOUT THE GUEST
Margaret Floyd Barry is a functional nutritionist, writer and real food advocate who’s been on the pursuit of the most nutritious and delicious way of eating for the better part of her adult life.
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