Skin care — hashimotos

Feeling tired? Lethargic, feeling the cold when it’s not really cold, putting on weight or generally not firing on all cylinders? It’s a good time to visit your Doctor for a blood test and general check up.  But the bloods come back as normal, including the thyroid specific markers and still feeling dismal? This could be the case for a few different reasons (once other causes have been ruled out)… often standard thyroid level blood tests aren’t enough to determine whether your thyroid gland is underperforming.

There has been some recent and exciting developments about the use of low dose naltrexone.. it is a medication that has been used for some time as a more non-conventional medical treatment. It has multifaceted benefits by assisting with pain by reactivating opioid receptors as well as stimulating endorphins (feel good chemicals in our bodies) and it has an underlying immunomodulatory effect by modifying the progression of auto immune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple schlerosis, hashimotos disease and many others.