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The Power of Your Metabolism and The Role Of The Thyroid: Why it's MORE than just Weight-Loss

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Your body is whispering to you, but we're too busy listening to outside noise.

Brittany Nicholson interviews hormone nutritionist Samantha Gladish on metabolism, thyroid health, and why metabolism encompasses much more than weight loss. Samantha shares her personal health journey: seven years on birth control without understanding hormonal impacts, followed by 2017 Hashimoto's diagnosis despite healthy lifestyle. The conversation explores thyroid function as metabolic regulator, discusses how perimenopausal women's metabolic needs differ from younger women, identifies metabolism-damaging habits (intermittent fasting, meal skipping, carb avoidance, sleep deprivation), and emphasizes trusting body's internal wisdom over external health noise. Topics include protein importance, the role of deep sleep in metabolic reset, how cortisol and insulin interact, and why holistic body health should be primary focus rather than scale weight.

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A practical health conversation that treats body signals as information rather than background noise.

The Balance with Brit treats thyroid health as part of a larger habit of paying attention to the body instead of brushing off what it is trying to say.

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Listen if your body has been whispering and you keep trying to power through.

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