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How To Heal Your Thyroid Naturally | Dr. Neal Barnard

October 23, 2025 33:46 5.73 MB ( 42.88 MB less) Downloads: 0

Your thyroid could be the hidden key to your energy, mood, and metabolism. What you eat may be making or breaking it.

 

In this episode of The Exam Room Podcast, Chuck Carroll sits down with Dr. Neal Barnard to uncover the powerful connection between thyroid health and diet.

 

Discover how eating certain foods and reducing stress can help restore hormone balance, boost metabolism, and reduce inflammation. Dr. Barnard also reveals how dairy, iodine, selenium, and soy all play surprising roles in thyroid function — and what you can do starting today to protect and restore this vital gland.

 

🍎 In This Episode You’ll Learn:

 

- How dairy proteins can trigger autoimmune thyroid disorders

- Why people eating a plant-based diet have the lowest rates of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism

- The best foods for your thyroid — including seaweed, Brazil nuts, and antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables

- The truth about soy and cruciferous vegetables like kale and broccoli

- How stress, sleep, and crash diets affect thyroid hormones

- The role of environmental toxins and processed foods in hormone disruption

 

🌱 Start your journey to better thyroid health today!

Work with the expert doctors and dietitians at the Barnard Medical Center: https://www.BarnardMedical.org

 

📕Order your copy of Dr. Barnard’s book Your Body In Balance which covers thyroid dysfunction: https://amzn.to/3JcPrcI

 

This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation. Visit their website: https://gregoryreiterfund.org

 

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