Radiate My Thyroid? What?! No Freakin' Way!

In 1996 I was diagnosed with an incurable thyroid condition.

I had a goiter (pictured above) plus an auto-immune thyroid disease.

Also, I was suffering from allergies, cold sores, poor immunity, and was 25 pounds heavier than I am today.

My doctor recommended that we “radiate my thyroid.”

My gut instinct said, “no freakin’ way!” I questioned that treatment. And, if I hadn’t, I would not have a thyroid today.

Years prior to my diagnosis, I watched my mother go through modern medical treatments for cancer. In the 1980’s she had a radical mastectomy plus radiation. Subsequently, five years of blood testing and MRI’s showed her to be cancer-free. The surgery and radiation had apparently worked.

But, eleven years later, mom fainted and couldn’t stand up. At the hospital, they discovered that breast cancer had come back with a vengeance.

It was now everywhere: in her lungs, her brain, her liver, and her bones.

I remember taking my mom to the hospital in Long Island for weekly radiation and chemo treatments. She never wanted to go. She told me it made her feel sick and she wanted to stop. But, we didn’t stop. We followed the modern medical protocol and didn’t question it.

As I watched her suffer, I began questioning that medical treatment. So did my father. He read an article about a doctor that had healed himself from pancreatic cancer using a natural diet.

We switched mom from eating standard American foods (packaged foods, sugar, sweets, etc.) to a more wholesome diet and immediately noticed changes. Her lips regained their pink color instead of the bluish-gray they had become from the cancer treatments. And, the ashen color of her face was growing peachy once again.

It was obvious this new food was giving her a little more life. Like a houseplant that hadn’t been watered for a while; once you add water the plant perks up. That’s exactly what happened; she perked up a bit, but it wasn’t enough to bring her back. You can read more about that here: Honoring My Mother’s Journey.

After mom died, I vowed that if I got sick I would not destroy my body with surgery or radiation. I would try a natural approach first.

So there I was… exactly four years to the date after my mother’s death, sitting on the examination table listening intently as my doctor advised me to take radioactive iodine to destroy my thyroid gland.

She said my condition was “incurable.”

She was right. At, least according to what she had learned in medical school, my disease was indeed incurable.

Thankfully, I didn’t go to medical school, so I had a different perspective.

I said, “Hey doc, instead of destroying my thyroid, what if improved my diet?”

She said, “Your diet has nothing to do with your thyroid.”

From my experience with my mom, I simply didn’t believe that.

Instead of leaving her office with a prescription for thyroid destruction, I left with a focus on improving my diet and lifestyle to heal my body.

I began my journey by eating wholesome foods direct from the earth that didn’t come out of colorful pre-packaged boxes.

Four months later I returned to the doctor and my blood tests showed that my thyroid was indeed changing. My hormone levels had dropped from dangerously high to just above normal.

My doctor said, “it’s still not in the normal range. You need to take medication.”

I said, “Thanks, but no thanks, doc. I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing.”

For the next two years, I went for periodic blood testing with a new doctor each time to get a second and a third opinion. Each doctor informed me I had a new and exciting disease.

First, it was hyperthyroid, then it was hypothyroid, and then it was Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

Each of those medical professionals recommended a thyroid medication to eliminate the symptoms my body was experiencing – all of which I refused.

Two years after my initial diagnosis with “incurable thyroid disease,” I no longer had that large goiter and my thyroid tested normal.

And, over two decades later, my thyroid is still normal and that goiter has never come back.

It took time, patience, and a whole lotta self-love and self-care, to rebalance my body’s condition.

Sickness doesn’t happen overnight; my thyroid disease took twenty-eight years to develop.

Keep in mind that health and wellness doesn’t happen overnight either.

Improved health won’t come after one magical cup of soup. It can take months and years of eating well, exercising, and other natural healing practices to correct imbalances.

Here are the basic steps to start healing your thyroid right now:

Eat Organic and Clean Foods

This is a no-brainer.

Pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are endocrine disruptors.

The thyroid lives on the endocrine system.

Eat clean food to ensure the endocrine system is not disrupted.

Eat Local and Seasonal

Food grown in or near the environment where you live is the BEST choice for your body.

The pineal gland takes information from outside your body and relays it to the inside of your body.

Eating out of season and/or out of climate sends mixed messages to your internal system, throwing the thyroid and endocrine system out of balance.

Plus, eating seasonally feeds your microbiome, and that is vital to your health and wellness.

Eat Naturally Raised Animal Products

Factory-farmed animals live in highly stressed conditions without access to fresh air, clean food, and sunshine. If you eat animals that live a crappy life you will absorb that energy.

This can disrupt the body physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

The above tips are a great place to start, and there is always so much more to healing.

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And, if someone tells you to radiate your thyroid or that your disease is incurable, question it.

Then give your body the best physical, emotional and spiritual food (plus patience and lots of love), that it needs to heal.

You can do it!

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