I Have Low-Thyroid, Will the Freese Method Help?

Today we are answering the question, “I have hypothyroidism, will the Freese Method help?”

This piece is specifically for women who have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or are on either Synthroid or it’s generic version levothyroxine.

The Goal is a Stable TSH

The ultimate goal of thyroid treatment is get a stable TSH. TSH is thyroid stimulating hormone and it’s the most commonly checked lab. It’s the hormone that your pituitary sends to your thyroid to send out more T3 & T4.

Most thyroid issues are autoimmune issues and need to be treated with medication.

Hashimoto’s in particular is caused by inflammation that basically causes too much thyroid hormone to be released until it basically peters out and now you're left with a thyroid that can’t keep up. So you need to take Synthroid or the generic version levothyroxine for sure.

You should have your TSH checked often until you find a stable dose that keeps you in a good range.

If you’re on thyroid medication and you’re stable, you’re ready to rock.

You’re good. It’s fixed.

Once you have a stable TSH, you’re no longer held back by your thyroid at all as far as your metabolism or your weight is concerned.

Once you replace the T4 via medicine and get a stable TSH, you are no longer suffering from any effects of hypothyroid.

This is where women get super bummed, because they don’t see this stunning, effortless turn around in their weight or energy levels. It’s very anti-climatic.

Some women do, but they are less common and usually need much more replacement thyroid medication and they were very, very low to begin with.

If your dose is between 25 and 75 mcg, you may not notice a huge difference in your weight and energy after taking medication.

It’s still good for your bones and brain to have balanced thyroid levels, so it’s still worth it.

This is where women start to become more and more despondent on what the heck is going on with their weight.

Do you want to know what’s going on?

Your Thyroid Doesn't Control Body Fat

I’ll tell you. Thyroid is actually a smaller cog in the big machine that controls your body fat accumulation.

There is a bigger, main cog that sits right in the middle of your body fat and energy control and that cog is a different hormone called insulin.

Insulin the biggest, most centralized cog in the machine and it controls body fat and energy.

Thyroid is a smaller cog that hooks to the insulin cog.

So when you fix your thyroid, it’s good for your bones and your body temperature, but it’s not powerful enough to turn the big insulin cog by itself.

Thyroid doesn’t turn that cog. Insulin turns independently based on what and when you eat.

While having a stable TSH is important, it’s not the key to lasting weight loss.

Stabilizing your TSH does not repair metabolic damage.

Because not only is thyroid not the biggest cog, but the way thyroid works is that it tells our little mitochondria, the little energy plants found in each of our cells, it tells them to speed up or slow down. 

If you have metabolic damage your mitochondria aren’t firing well. So fixing the signal to turn up or down the mitochondrial machinery isn’t gonna help much.

You have to fix the mitochondria machine first. Then your amazingly balanced thyroid hormones can tell it what to do.

Stabilizing your TSH just stabilizes your throttle to the mitochondria, but if you have metabolic damage, you need to fix your mitochondria now.

So to answer the question, “I have hypothyroidism, will the Freese Method help?”

The answer is absolutely yes!

The Freese Method is perfect for women with hypothyroid because now that the signal from your brain to your cells is correct, it’s time to fix your cells and balance out the bigger cog. And that’s what the Freese Method does.

The Freese Method controls that huge insulin cog and repairs your mitochondrial machinery by fixing what and when you eat.

Food is the key to that insulin cog.

Food is the key to our mitochondria.

Our mitochondria are the tiny keys to our energy and body fat levels.

The Freese Method helps support your thyroid in the job it’s trying to do by making sure the machinery that it’s trying to signal is actually working.

Is this coming full circle for any of you?

The follow up question I get asked often is, “Can I get off my thyroid medication if you fix my metabolism?”

And the short answer is no.

If your hypothyroidism is caused by inflammation or auto-immune damage, food can’t repair that organ. The damage is done.

Most of us, myself included, who are on thyroid replacement medicine need it and will need it forever.

Because that auto-immune response or damage by inflammation can’t be reversed.

Metabolic damage done to our mitochondria and metabolic hormones can be reversed. Damage to our thyroid gland cannot.

You may be able to reduce your dose, I’ve seen that a handful of times. Now that your cells are more responsive and you’ve lowered your whole-body inflammation levels, the signal just works better.

But it’s not like blood pressure medications or diabetes medications where as you get healthier you can actually get off the medications entirely.

So, the best thing you can do for yourself and your remaining thyroid function is to not stress it out with malfunctioning mitochondrial machinery or inflammatory foods and lifestyle habits.

You need to support what you have left.

And you can do that by eating in the way I teach you to do in the Freese Method.

This includes choosing foods high in nutrients like iodine and selenium that provide the essential building blocks of the thyroid hormones.

And avoiding inflammatory, damaging foods like toxic oils and other toxins.