EP 835 When Your Body Attacks Your Thyroid

More than 35 million Americans have Hashimoto's, an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks the thyroid... and some people may not even know they have it.

Symptoms can include weight gain, fatigue, hair loss, forgetfulness, acid reflux, IBS and chronic pain. Yet, the usual treatment with synthetic hormones doesn't resolve most of these symptoms and can have many life-altering side effects.

In Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back, author Dr. Izabella Wentz details how to reverse the autoimmune damage at the root of the disease.

She talks to Dr. Roizen about her firsthand experience with Hashimoto's and how she turned her health around with lifestyle tweaks. She also outlines a 90-day plan to feel better that includes inflammatory foods to avoid, liver-boosting supplements to consider, and personalized treatment plans.
EP 835 When Your Body Attacks Your Thyroid
Featuring:
Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP
Izabella-WentzIzabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP, is a New York Times bestselling author of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and one of the pioneering experts in lifestyle interventions for treating Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2009.


Trained as a pharmacist, Dr. Wentz decided to take on lifestyle interventions as a personal mission in an effort to help herself and others with the same condition. She self-published her first book, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Finding and Treating the Root Cause, in 2013.

Her popular programs on her website thyroidpharmacist.com include one-on-one health consultations, a Hashimoto’s Institute geared towards physicians and other practitioners, and a 12-week self-care program. Wentz currently lives near Boulder, CO, with her husband Michael and their dog Boomer.