Balance Your Life

This week on Balance Your Life podcast I am joined by Missy Beavers. Missy is a lover of puns, her 6-year-old’s-knock-knock jokes, dogs, kindness, and chocolate. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease at 8 years old after gaining 50 pounds in a matter of months. For years, she took thyroid meds yet struggled with anxiety, hair loss, depression, gut issues, and her weight ballooned to over 275 pounds. The doctors insisted her labs were "normal" so she began seeking out her own solutions. She got a master’s degree in nutrition and even bought a health food store in an attempt to solve her nagging thyroid symptoms. Through trial and error, she discovered that all disease begins in the gut and fixing her underlying issues helped her end the exhausting Hashimoto’s battle and drop the weight after 28 years. She now helps women everywhere do the same! On this episode we talk about signs and symptoms you may have thyroid issues, how gut health is directly connected to poor thyroid health, and hypothyroidism vs hy