5 Ways to Boost Your Energy with Hashimoto’s
Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired?
I know the feeling and have been there many times on my own Hashimotos journey. Low energy with Hashimotos can often come from a variety of physical and emotional toxins.
While the thyroid often gets a lot of blame for low energy symptoms, its often not the root cause of why your energy is feeling tanked.
Here are the most common culprits behind low energy:
Inflammatory foods
Blood sugar imbalances
Nutrient defeciencies
Adrenal dysfunction
Over-exercising
Environmental toxins
Poor sleep hygiene
Trauma, Stress, and Nervous system dysregulation
The good news is, you don’t have to live with low energy forever. Here are are few of my top tools for increasing your energy with Hashimotos:
1. Prioritize Blood Sugar Stability
If you find yourself with low energy throughout the day or crashing in the afternoon, this is often because your body isn't getting enough nutrients like protein throughout your day. Inflammatory foods like gluten, conventional dairy, and refined sugar can cause your glucose to spike leading to low energy and a sluggish metabolism.
Eating anti-inflammatory foods like high quality animal protein, healthy fats, and a variety of fruits and vegetables while avoiding fasting or skipping meals keeps your glucose and blood sugar levels stable throughout the day which keeps your energy levels stable as well.
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2. Address Nutrient Deficiencies
Environmental toxins, stress, and certain medications like birth control can deplete essential vitamins and minerals needed for thyroid health. As a result, this can often deplete energy levels. The most common deficiency that I often see correlated with fatigue are methylated B vitamins. This can often be a great starting point for addressing nutrient deficiencies.
3. Sleep Hygiene
Not getting good quality, deep sleep can create low energy levels and your impact your mood. One of my favorite tools for supporting your sleep include taking 1-2 capsules of magnesium glycinate before bed (ideally by 10:00pm) or rubbing Good Night Magnesium lotion (code: Hashimotos10) on your feet and legs before bed. Epsom salt baths before bed are also a favorite of mine.
I also recommend getting off screens 1-2 hours before bed to avoid the blue light from technology. I like to also put my phone on airplane mode to cut down on the stress of EMF (electromagnetic frequencies) from the phone while I sleep.
Lastly, I love wearing my Aeon phototherapy patch to help calm my nervous system and lower my cortisol levels. Sleep has always been a struggle for me and this phototherapy patch uses your own body’s own infrared light to help lower inflammation and calm me down so I sleep deeper.
4. Support Your Adrenals
“Adrenal fatigue” is the term that often gets mentioned, but I really view this as a nervous system issue. Your adrenals are a gland that sit at the top of your kidneys. when the body is on constant alert from physical and emotional stress and trauma, this gland kicks into overdrive depleting your minerals and electrolytes and increases your cortisol (stress hormone) levels.
I love putting 1 scoop of my adrenal cocktail powder in 8 oz of water daily which contains vitamin C and electrolytes to replenish your adrenals throughout your day. I also recommend avoiding coffee or any caffeine on an empty stomach.
5. Regulate Your Nervous System
“Manage your stress” just doesn’t work for those of us with Hashimotos. This is because it’s your nervous system that is stuck in in fight or flight from trauma stored in your body. This creates a cycles of high cortisol levels and fatigue that seems like it never ends.
If you find yourself overworking, people pleasing, or having difficulty telling others no, this isn’t a mindset issue — it’s a nervous system issue that can create ongoing fatigue and exhaustion. I love somatic exercises (link takes 10% off) for getting yourself out of fight or flight stress/anxiety cycles. These help you release stress that is stored inside your body. I’ve had many emotional releases from doing these exercises consistently.
I also recommend laying off intense/cardio type exercises that over-exert an already stressed out nervous system. Your adrenals, nervous system, and metabolism will thank you for it!
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Sending you so much love, healing, and HOPE.
Big hugs,
Allison
Disclaimer: This is for educational and informational purposes only and is not to be used as medical advice. Always consult with your practitioner to see if these could be right for you.
