Nourishing Women Podcast: 206: How Disordered Eating Impacts Your Thyroid with Kelsey Pukala RD/N

206: How Disordered Eating Impacts Your Thyroid with Kelsey Pukala RD/N

Sep 25, 2020

I couldn’t be more excited about today's podcast episode! Today on the show I have one of the amazing dietitians at my virtual private practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition, Kelsey Pukala back on the show. Kelsey is an incredible non-diet dietitian and I am so honored to have her (and Megan, our other dietitian who will be on the show next week!) as part of our team supporting you in your goals with intuitive eating and wellness without obsession.

Kelsey is so great at breaking down complex conversations into an easy to understand way, so I asked Kelsey on the show to discuss how the thyroid is impacted with eating disorders and disordered eating.

In this episode we discuss:

Kelsey gives an update of what she has been up to lately
What exactly is the thyroid and what it does in the body
What a healthy functioning thyroid looks like
How eating disorders and disordered eating disrupts the thyroid and how this impacts other hormones in the body
Signs and symptoms that something may be wrong with your thyroid
What kind of lab tests should be ordered and what indicates altered lab values for your thyroid
What healing your thryoid looks like in application
How Kelsey practices wellness without obsession

Kelsey’s past episodes on the podcast:

Episode 100: Disordered eating as a root cause to digestive issues
Episode 113: What happens to your body when you lose your period
Intuitive eating during the holidays

Lab work to order if you are concerned about your thyroid, we recommend not only looking at TSH but also T3, T4, reverse T3 and thyroid antibodies. This is considered a full thyroid panel. While optimal ranges of TSH are technically anywhere from 1-4, a woman in their fertile years should usually have a TSH range of 1-2.

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Click here to download my free e-book, Ditch the Diets.

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