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The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
556. Weight Loss Supplements Beneficial to the Thyroid
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You have questions about your thyroid, about your labs, what they mean. What about your hormones? What about insulin? Why are you gaining weight? Why are you so tired? Why are you losing your hair? Why won't my doctor listen to me? Why won't my doctor test these things? All of these questions that you have running around in your brain and you know that if you just had the answers that that could push you over the edge into optimal health, that you could be that badass human that you are meant to be. Well, I got you covered there because I am going live every single week in the just fix your thyroid Facebook group. That is my Facebook group. A beautiful community just filled with amazing people. Where I am in there, my nurse practitioners are in there, my health coaches are in there. There are patients in there that have been with me for so long, they're experts in their own right, and they answered just the way that I would. So we have you completely covered in this group. So not only can you post your question every single day, every single hour, if you want, you can mark your calendars for our weekly live Q and A sessions where you get to ask your question to me and I'm going to answer it live on air. And not only that, we are doing product giveaways. We're doing working with our team giveaways. You're going to want to be in there and actually be live on that call. If you're at work, go into the closet. Just shut the door. Take minutes for yourself. Take a half an hour for yourself. Take an hour for yourself so that you can get the information that you need to bring yourself into optimization land where you're not looking sideways at a brownie and gaining weight at the same time, where you can feel amazing every single day. Because that's my goal for you. You know that I love, love, love to answer your questions, and this is the place where you can get them answered live. Are you absolutely frustrated with working with doctors that keep telling you that you're normal and everything is fine, or are you frustrated with going the functional medicine or integrative medicine route and you're still not getting optimized? Maybe because they're focusing on other things other than the thyroid and hormones, or they're not a thyroid and hormone expert. Listen, just because you go to a functional medicine practitioner, it does not mean they know what they're doing with your thyroid and with your hormones. They might tell you they do, but the reality is, if you claim to be good at everything, you're really good at nothing. That is why we focus on thyroid and hormones now? Yes. What else is involved in thyroid and hormones? You got insulin, you got your adrenals, you got cortisol. Of course the gut is important, of course it is. Nutrient deficiencies, all the things. But we look at all of that and the bottom line is you could do all the gut healing protocols, detoxes, adrenal fairy dust sprinkling that you want to do. And if your thyroid is in the toilet, if you're not being treated properly, if your free T3 is low, if your reverse T3 is high, if your hormones are in the tank, then it doesn't matter. You're going to be wasting your time, you're going to be wasting money, you're going to be throwing a bunch of supplements at it, just getting more and more frustrated and getting supplement fatig. You need to work with people that will hold your hand, actually care about you, ask you how you're feeling, not have a cap on any kind of dosing. Oh, that drives me crazy too. All those docs out there that say, well, you can't go above XYZ dose of T3. That is complete BS. Do not listen to them. Or doctors that tell you that hormones cause cancer. No, no, do not listen. We can get you to optimization land where you feel amazing, where you're not gaining weight, looking sideways at a brownie, where you have consistent energy through the day, your hair is not falling out, and yes, you actually poop and detox every single day. That is a win. So you're going to want to book a call with my team and this is totally free. And this is where we go over, hey, what have you tried? What has worked, what hasn't worked? Where are you at on the frustration spectrum? And, and here's how we can help. And we are going to tailor a program for you and your needs to get you to optimization land. Because I always talk about it. It's a beautiful place to live and I invite you all to join me there because in optimization land you are confident and strong. You want to go out, your brain works, you have energy, you have motivation and you feel so good every time you get dressed. Oh, and you have a libido. It's a beautiful place to live. So I'm going to invite you to click the link below. We always put it in the show notes how to work with us. So you're going to book a free call, no obligation. We're just going to go over everything with you and at least you'll have some guidelines and Know what your next steps should be if you really want to get optimized. We got you. We've been doing this long enough. You're not a tough case. I always say that. But it is time to put you first. Because like I say, we only have so much time on this planet. Let's live it in optimization land because you deserve to be the badass human that you're meant to be. So I look forward to seeing you in one of our programs so we can help you level up and bring you into optimization land. Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, where we dive deep into the world of thyroid and hormones, especially for you, ladies and gentlemen, navigating perimenopause and menopause. And really for anyone struggling with hypothyroidism, I'm your host, Dr. Amy, thyroid and hormone specialist and CEO of a global telemedicine practice where we prescribe the right thyroid treatment and bioidentical hormones to all 50 states and most of Canada, helping you become that badass human that you're meant to be. So if you're battling weight gain and hair loss, you can't lose weight no matter what you do. Your energy levels are plummeting and your libido left town. Then you're in the right place and you have found your tribe. Remember, I want you to embrace every inch of that badass woman that you truly are. So if you're ready to dive in and fix things, let's get started. Today, we're talking about weight loss supplements that are safe for the thyroid and for individuals with hypothyroidism or Hashimoto's. Since weight is one of those big symptoms that come with having a sluggish thyroid or having Hashimoto's, we often try to find supplements that we can use alongside our thyroid medication to optimize our weight, to burn off our stored body fat, to become an efficient fat burner instead of a sugar burner. But there's a lot out there. So even if we go back into the days when I was competing, those days were filled with ephedra, caffeine, and aspirin stacks. And then that got replaced by Yerba mate, which was another stimulant and that was normally stacked with extra caffeine. And then we had the energy drinks come out and with that came over stimulation of the heart afib, tachycardia, and people just dropping over dead because their heart rate was jacked up through the roof. And many of these fat burners on the market are simply not safe. So if you are a thyroid patient, and especially if you're a thyroid patient, taking T3 of any kind, whether it's you're taking it in NDT form or you're taking lyothyronine cytomel or a compounded T3, T3 in and of itself is a stimulant as well. So we don't want to stack a stimulant upon another stimulant. It's very, very important for those with hypothyroidism, Hashimoto's to look for safe yet effective fat burning ingredients or fat burning supplements. The reason why we don't want to overstimulate in addition to just protecting our heart and not having a heart attack, is because that will actually contribute to an intolerance of T3. So if you're a hypothyroid patient and you are in the process of optimization, you're increasing your T3 medication, you're increasing your NDT. With each increase, we want to make sure that you tolerate that increase, that you don't have a rapid heart rate, that you don't have high blood pressure, that you don't go into an afib or tachycardic situation. We want that increase to be nice, slow and steady and have your body get used to it to where you might feel a little bit of an energy improvement, but you're not feeling like you're having a heart attack or that your heart is pounding out of your chest. Now if we're doing that and then you add on a stimulating fat burner that can actually mask your tolerance of T3 to where we may have to stop before you get optimized with your T3 simply because your heart rate is much too high, your blood pressure goes way too high and it's just not a safe situation. So it's imperative for anyone across the board, not just those with hypothyroidism, but for anyone across the board to look for safe, safe weight loss or fat reducing supplements. Okay, number one right out of the gate, of course I am going to mention T2 or 35 dieto L thyronine because I have been studying this for 15 years and there is over 30 years of research on T2. Now I have a couple other podcasts on this as well. We can link to those in the show notes if you want to go deeper. I'm just going to do a nice Solid overview today. T2 or 35 diine actually increases your basal metabolic rate. Now what does that mean? That is the amount of Fat that you are burning at rest. So it's coming in and literally pushing up the amount of calories or fat that you are burning at rest. So for an example, let's say that you have a low and slow metabolism. That's why you're obviously looking to burn body fat and burn more body fat off of your body. You have this low and slow metabolism. So your daily caloric burn or your basal metabolic rate, which is a measure of how many calories that you are burning, not doing anything else. So it's not taking into account active calories. It's not even taking into account the, the movement, the not aware of involuntary. It's not taking into account the involuntary movement and calories burned from that. So people who are fidgeting or those who are, you know, they'll be sitting there and you'll see them, their legs move in, they're tapping their feet, they're tapping their hand. That's an involuntary movement that does produce caloric burn. We're not taking into account anything that involves movement. This is literally. If we set your body in a chair and say, do not move whatsoever, we are going to measure the energy expenditure or the amount of calories that you are burning. Literally just sitting there in a slow or low metabolic state, you might only burn, let's say, a thousand calories per day. And then of course, when we add in activity and movement, that can increase. So your basic caloric burn for that day might be 1800-2000. But BMR, basal metabolic rate at rest. Let's say it's a thousand. When we add in T2, we can take that basal metabolic rate up. So now you move from a thousand. So let's say 1500, 1700, 2000. So you are now burning more calories or energy, I. E. Stored body fat at rest than you would without T2 in your system. So it increases your base of metabolic rate. Number two, it browns white adipose tissue. So white adipose tissue is the squishy fat. It's a, it's the fat that we grab the, that we want rid of. It's the fat that surrounds our organs that causes disease. When we can brown that white adipose tissue, we become more metabolically active. So brown adipose tissue, I want you to think of it, it's full of mitochondria. We normally find it in very thin areas. So babies will actually have a boatload of brown adipose tissue? Yes. And you say, well, babies are so. They're like, they got the fat and they are so Cute. But as babies start to grow, most babies are really lean. Like, they are metabolically efficient. They don't have a large amount of white body fat. They have that brown body fat on them to be more metabolically active. We also find it around our clavicles, of all places, around our rib cage. So the normal adult human being does not have a boatload of brown adipose tissue on them. We want to brown that white adipose tissue. That's why we're all jumping in cold plunges. Because in addition to lowering inflammation and providing other metabolic benefits, jumping into a cold plunge will stimulate that browning of white adipose tissue. This makes us more metabolically active. That brown adipose tissue lowers insulin, improves our cholesterol panel, and, and makes us more metabolically active. We have a better metabolism the more brown fat we have. And in addition, T2 only targets body fat. It leaves muscle alone. And this is important as well, because when we go back to the ephedra days or the stimulating fat burning supplements that are out there, that stimulation does not differentiate between burning body fat and burning muscle. Even T3, that beautiful active thyroid hormone that we want you to have enough of, that we want you to be optimized on, does not differentiate between stored body fat and muscle. It will burn both. Whereas T2 only burns body fat and it leaves muscle alone. We also see an improvement in insulin resistance and improvement in lipid panels with the use of T2 as well. Moving on lyroine, let's dive into this bad boy. L tyrosine is an amino acid. It's a non essential amino acid, and it actually is a backbone. It is, it is an amino acid bone backbone for the formation and production of thyroid hormone. So it plays a role in producing neurotransmitters like dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine. It also plays a role in the production of thyroid hormones, which we know are crucial for metabolism and for overall energy. All right, so let's deep dive into L tyrosine number one. It's a precursor to both T3 and T4. Now, when we're looking at L tyrosine's function in the body and specifically how it supports and helps your thyroid, this is one of those supplements that I would say in combination with T2 and in combination with a few others could be used in place of thyroid medication. I know that's a, that's a big statement coming from me, and I promise you I will have another podcast where I deep dive into all the different things that you can do if you are stuck on T4 only and or you want to get off your thyroid medication and support your thyroid naturally, we'll do that at another time. For the purpose of today, we want to deep dive into how L tyrosine can actually help with metabolism and weight loss. So you're not using those jack you up, send you into a heart attack weight loss supplement. So like we said, it's a non essential amino acid. If you're trying to consume L tyrosine naturally or from food, it's, it's high quality protein, animal based protein that will have this amino acid but oftentimes there's just not enough and we simply can't eat enough. So number one, if you have hypothyroidism or Hashimoto are most likely deficient in L tyrosine. If you don't consume enough animal based protein, you are going to be deficient in L tyrosine. So many, many people are deficient in L tyrosine. This is one of those nutrients that you're just going to have to take and supplement with in order to get an optimal level. Now what do we see with the correlation with thyroid? Like I said, it is a, it's a building block. So it actually works with iodine. So L tyrosine and iodine partner up and that combination actually turns into thyroxin. Thyroxin, which is another name for T4, the most abundant thyroid hormone in your body. Now T4 is not bad. When our thyroid glands produce enough T4 and we properly convert, then that is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Adding an iodine actually helps with that conversion of T4 to T3 along with other things that you can do to lower reverse T3 and improve that conversion of T4 to T3. So if you have Hashimoto's and you're down that Hashimoto's path, where destruction has been going on for decades, years if not decades, then your thyroid gland cannot produce enough T4 and T3 by adding in L tyrosine and iodine. Now you're giving your body a building block, a precursor building block to produce more thyroid hormone. And then you just have to help it in that conversion, factor in that conversion process. Now iodine has to be taken the correct way. I'll just put iodine over here on the side. I won't call it a weight loss supplement. I'm going to come back to L tyrosine, so bear with me. But because these two work together, it's, it's worth mentioning iodine is on a Weight loss supplement iodine will help with weight loss in that it lowers reverse T3, improves thyroid hormone production, and improves conversion of T4 to T3. What we see with hypothyroidism, number one, low levels of L tyrosine, lower than normal levels of L tyrosine. And in hyperthyroidism, we also see irregular or low levels of L tyrosine. So even though the thyroid gland is overproducing in a hyperthyroid state, we still see low levels of L tyrosine. Which is why it's very, very common for those with Graves disease or hyperthyroidism to swing to the other side and go hypo and have Hashimoto's and also experience the weight gain. The struggle is real when it comes to losing weight. Listen, I know because I've been there. You're trying all the things. You're doing the diet, you're tracking your macros, you're getting to the gym, you're going to the Pilates, you're doing all the things, but it's not working. It's not working. And this is independent of a thyroid problem. Maybe you have a thyroid problem. Maybe you have low hormones, or maybe you don't, and you're just like, I just have a really crappy metabolism that I am putting on weight or I can't lose weight no matter what I do. Then you need some help. But what you don't need is a stimulant fat burner of the old days where you literally thought you were having a heart attack. You need something that is actually going to work to increase your metabolism without jacking up your heart rate. Enter Thyroid Fixer. Yes, I know it's called Thyroid Fixer, but I named it after myself and the brand because it's my baby, it's my child. It's. It's a product that I have been studying for 15 years and using it on patients for 15 years before I brought it to you. Thyroid fixer contains T2. And what this does, I call it the forgotten thyroid hormone. No, there's no tests for T2, but your body does produce T2 in small amounts. T2 will increase your basal metabolic rate, literally the amount of fat that you're burning at rest. It's also browning white adipose tissue. So this is why you jump into cold plunges. Or maybe you're like, I don't want to jump in a cold plunge to brown your white adipose tissue. That helps with insulin resistance, it helps with metabolism, it helps with inflammation, helps with overall health. So that's a good thing as well. And here's the other thing with T2, it's not going to affect your thyroid. So many of you know, if you take T3, if we give you T3, or if you abuse T3 when you're not supposed to, it will have a feedback loop, a negative feedback loop on your thyroid and you're going to either look like you're hyperthyroid or you're going to shut down your own Thyroid Production. T2 doesn't do that. It's working at the cell level to just simply increase your metabolism. That's a win all the way around because now you're going to burn fat, now you're going to lose those extra lbs, and that's ultimately what we want. It also bonus, helps with ATP production at the mitochondrial level. This means steady energy through the day. No highs, no lows, no caffeinated red bull spikes, just really nice steady energy through the day to keep you going. So you want to add in thyroid fixer and just literally watch your body change over the next couple months. Because, listen, I mean, it's, it's time. Well, it's time all year long. I mean, there's no good time of year to lose body fat. We want to be in shape, we want to look, feel and perform our best. Add in thyroid fixer and your body will absolutely thank you and then you'll come back and you'll thank me. Now, L tyrosine is most, it is most studied actually, in the adrenal connection area. So even though L tyrosine is that key building block for thyroid hormones, for thyroxin, the majority of studies with L tyrosine is in relation to adrenal health. So what do we know? There are many, many studies that show that using L tyrosine can help reduce the negative consequences of stress on the body. So, number one, tyrosine is a backbone for adrenal hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine, and epinephrine and norepinephrine are pumped out when your body is under perceived stress. Now, this is important because we can't just say when it's under stress, because then you go, well, I'm not really under stress. You know, I didn't just lose my job, I didn't just move. I didn't just have a death in the family or go through a divorce, but it is perceived stress. So it can be the co worker that doesn't like you. It could be the fight that you had with your husband or Your friend is that perceived stress, that it's not mega stress, it's not really life altering, but wow, it really sucks and affects our mood. That is enough. Or a wedding, you know, you always hear about like, oh, there's good stress and bad stress. Planning a wedding, planning a baby shower, happy, good stress, though still stress on the body. So epinephrine, norepinephrine are secreted. The more stress that you're under, the more epinephrine and norepinephrine and cortisol is pumped out. So this is going to lead to eventually adrenal burnout where your poor adrenal glands are so damn tired they cannot produce enough cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine. So this is where the fatigue comes in or the feeling of being wired. But tired weight gain comes in when your adrenal glands are tanked out. So using L tyrosine in addition to it, literally improving your mood, because it can improve your mood because it helps produce dopamine. I'll get to that more in a minute. It's also you're providing your body with that building block of the stress hormones so that you become more resilient to stress so that you don't get your ass kicked. When you are under that perceived stress or, or real stress. I mean, let's say you really are going through a move, a death in the family, a divorce, a job change. That's high level stress. Money problems, high level stress. When you're under that amount of stress, weight is going to come on, inflammation is going to increase, your sleep is going to be all jacked up. And we know when we're not sleeping, our insulin regulation goes off the charge glucose. Why am I getting a 120 or a 180 reading on my glucometer? Because you're under stress. All I ate was a steak. Well, because you're under stress. So everything gets thrown off when we're under stress. L tyrosine coming in and just supporting our brain, supporting neurotransmitters, giving us more dopamine, which is our dopamine really is that feelgood hormone. We always think of serotonin. Serotonin is like called the happy hormone. If you think of antidepressants. It's selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So serotonin always gets put into the category of mood. We can't forget about dopamine. Dopamine is what people are seeking to stimulate when they take drugs, when we have sex, when people gamble, when they do things that, that light them up. Chocolate, even eating chocolate increases your dopamine. So it's, you want to think of dopamine as that burst of feel good. It's that feel good hormone. Well, L tyrosine actually helps with that. So when we come out of that deep depressed state, when we come out of that low mood state, we have more energy, Our, our brain lights up, we feel good. And just in doing that alone, in addition to supporting our adrenals, in addition to supporting our thyroid hormone production, all of that can stack upon itself and help with weight. L tyrosine can also increase energy by supporting thyroid function. And the produ production of dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, L tyrosine can actually improve energy levels. So that's going to make it easier to stay active, maintain a regular exercise routine, which of course comes back to weight loss. Coleus for scoli. Coleus for scoli is actually a plant in the mint family and it contains a bioactive compound called for scolin, which this has been studied for decades, decades for its effects on weight loss. So what are the keys to colus for Scoli activates cyclic amp or camp porscholin activates an enzyme called adenate cy. I know. Say that again five times fast, which increases levels of cyclic AMP in cells. So higher camp levels are associated with the breakdown of fat stored in fat cells, promoting fat loss and energy release or calorie burning. And then this is one of the mechanisms which for scolin can actually help with weight loss. In addition to that, when we increase camp, Forskolin will, which forskolin does, it's going to help enhance the body's ability to burn fat. So a few studies showed that it can increase lipolysis or the breakdown of fats and reduce fat accumulation, making it easier to lose fat. And you're not continuously putting on the fat. And I know, I, I know how it is when you're in that hypothyroid state. It's like you wake up and you swear to God that five pounds of fat just crept on your body overnight. And I will literally hear my patients say, no, I put on 5 pounds of fat over the weekend. That's not really possible. No, no, no. I put on 5 pounds of fat over the weekend. Well, how could it be possible if you have that low metabolism? Because we know it takes 3500 calories to equal 1 pound. So if you are slightly overeating your basal metabolic rate, remember we talked about that with T2, your basal metabolic rate is in the toilet. Maybe it's down to 500 calories a day, but you're eating 3,000 calories a day and you have a thyroid problem. On top of that. Let's throw in some insulin resistance. Yeah. It is possible that you could put on five pounds in two days, especially if you were, let's say, out partying, went to a birthday party, went out with some friends, ate a little something something here and there. And you just don't have the metabolism to support that. Absolutely. So if we can reduce fat accumulation, bonus for also maintains muscle mass, so it actually preserves lean body mass while promoting fat loss. And I would say this is very, very important if you are taking a GLP1. So if you're taking semaglutide or tirzepatide, I would make sure that you are taking something with coleus for scoli in it so that we can preserve your muscle mass. For actually stimulates thyroid hormone release, which enhances metabolic rate. So colis for scoli. I mean, really, it, it seems to be a powerhouse. It is a powerhouse when it comes to metabolism. Fat burning, supporting thyroid function, preserving muscle mass. There's one other I want to dive into called Google. G U G G U L Not, not Google. Google. And this is derived from the resin of the mukul tree. And usually this is used in ayurvedic medicine, but it is gaining some attention. I remember this Google extract being in supplements. Oh my gosh. When I was a teenager because, you know, I was a fat kid and I always dealt with excess weight. Who knows if I had a thyroid problem back then or not, But I was always looking for supplements. Oh my goodness. Left and right. What, what could be the next thing to help me lose weight? And then when I moved into fitness competitions and fitness modeling. Yeah, I needed to be as lean as possible. So I remember this, this supplement literally back in the 90s and I always wondered about it because, you know, when taken alone, it doesn't really work. But when taken in conjunction with everything else that we talked about today, the tyrosine, the Coleus, the T2, then it, it has some potential here. So diving into the studies on Google, it's been shown to stimulate the thyroid gland and support the production of thyroid hormones, particularly T3. We know thyroid hormones, we know T3's importance in having a metabolism. So again, if we can use tyrosine, we can use iodine and we, we can use Google. I'm saying Google. Google to enhance the production of T4 and T3. Oh my goodness, that is huge. Okay. Promotes fat breakdown. So some studies suggest that Google can enhance fat metabolism by increasing lipolysis. So we saw this also with the colus for Scoli that increasing lipolysis or the breakdown of fat, it has anti inflammatory and antioxidant properties, it improves cholesterol, it balances blood sugar. And there's a few studies. It's not really a well known appetite suppressant, but some studies showed that it does help to regulate hunger and reduce overeating. I would probably. If you're looking for the appetite suppression and you're not using a GLP or microdosing GLPs, I would lean toward suppressa, which that's what I have in Metabolism Fixer suppressor. Really? I mean that has a 69% reduction in appetite. So if it is food noise and appetite suppression you're looking for, then that would be suppress. So that's another podcast though. I mean, in this podcast I could pull in berberine, obviously balancing your blood sugar and your insulin. But I really just wanted to dial in on the fat burning supplements what we can actually add in to stimulate the burning of body fat. And I wanted it more direct, not indirect. So berberine is fantastic for weight loss because it balances your blood sugar and your insulin. And when you balance your blood sugar and insulin, you're not in that high insulin, high blood sugar state where you are nothing but a sugar burner. We want you to be a fat burner. So that's more of an indirect effect on our weight. I wanted to look at the direct effects on our weight. Now these individual ingredients I like I said, I've been studying these for a long time. So I have L, tyrosine and coleus for scoli in Thyroid Fixer and in Metabolism fixer along with T2. And that is why I put them together. T2 in and of itself is fantastic. It is fantastic. But when you combine these powerhouses. Now I do not have the Google in Thyroid Fixer or Metabolism Fixer. I'll look into that though for you all because maybe that'll be something that I can come up with separately or maybe the next time we run Met Fixer, we'll put it in there because it's pretty darn impressive. It is pretty darn impressive. But Metabolism Fixer also has the green tea which I could go into. Oh my goodness, purple tea. That helps as well. But if you really want that powerhouse stack for fat burning thyroid fixer with T2, L, Tyrosine and Coleus, that's the perfect stack right there. You can add in the Google separately. Now, is that a shameless plug? Absolutely freaking lutely it's a shameless plug. The reason I'm bringing you this information is to also show you where to get it. Why would I bring you the information if I didn't give you a resource on where to obtain these different ingredients? Now you can take L tyrosine separately. Absolutely. I don't believe, although I haven't really looked for it, I don't believe I have found a coleus for scoli supplement in and of itself. It usually is in a metabolic or fat burning blend of some sort. But yes, you could take these ingredients individually on their own. Like I said, you can get L tyrosine through the consumption of animal based protein foods. There's no known source that I know of for colus for scoli because like we said, that is the colus is part of the mint family. I don't think we're going to be munching on a whole bunch of mint leaves, although you could, but I don't think you're going to get the amount that you would absolutely need to have that boost in fat metabolism. You're going to have to take it as a supplement. So these are the safe fat burning supplements that you can take if you have a thyroid problem. Like I said, we did not go into the indirect mechanisms. Please don't send me a boatload of email saying, well, what about this one, what about that one? I get it. There's so many that have that indirect effect. Yes. If we improve sleep with melatonin, we're going to get more fat burning. If we improve insulin and blood sugar, we're going to get more fat. Fat burning. If we use an adrenal support and get your adrenals working properly, that's going to improve fat burning. If you meditate, that's going to improve fat burning. If you build more muscle through creatine or through boosting your natural levels of testosterone, that's going to promote fat burning. But those are all indirect mechanisms. I wanted to look at direct effects, something that you could take that would actually work on your body body to stimulate that lipolysis to stimulate the burning of your stored body fat. So hopefully this helps you release and burn more stored body fat and not gain weight looking sideways at a brownie anymore. The information shared on the Thyroid Fixer podcast is intended solely for informational and educational purposes. 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