When thyroid symptoms appear in your 40s and 50s, they are almost always blamed on hormones. But before we reach for the menopause explanation, it is worth asking a different question: is it really your hormones, or is it your…
How gut inflammation, intestinal permeability and metabolic endotoxemia disrupt thyroid conversion, hormones and metabolism in women over 40.
Many women are on multiple medications — thyroxine, HRT, and GLP-1 drugs like Monjaro or Ozempic — yet still feel fatigued, brain foggy, and unable to lose weight. Here’s why these medications often fall short, and what a thorough investigation should actually look at.
Sylvia had lived with Hashimoto’s since she was 19. By the time she sought integrative care at 52, her thyroid antibodies had been elevated for over three decades. What happened next surprised even her practitioner. Sylvia was 52 years old…
Inflammation in menopause is one of the most misunderstood challenges women face as they age. Most assume it’s simply an oestrogen issue — but the real story goes much deeper. Lots of women are simply told to accept a “new…
Bacterial inflammation plays a major role in many of the painful and frustrating changes women experience from perimenopause through post-menopause. Joint and inflammatory pain may only become noticeable now or in recent years, but the underlying process often began earlier,…
Before oestrogen begins to drop, for many women, there was already a bubbling undercurrent developing over the years. Monthly progesterone and oestrogen helped cover it. Menopause didn’t make it happen. It just pulled back the curtain. Fluid retention. Puffy eyes.…
The thyroid gland plays a vital role in regulating metabolism, energy, body temperature, and more through hormones like T4 (thyroxine) and the active T3 (triiodothyronine). The pituitary gland releases TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone) to signal the thyroid to produce T4, which…
Nearly 80% of women in Australia suffer from thyroid-related problems. But only 40% of Australian women TSH levels meet the blood levels to diagnose hypothyroid, hyperthyroid, parathyroidism, hyper parathyroidism, Hashimoto’s or Graves disease. Many women suffer with subclinical hypothyroidism, or…
We’ve had a number of patients come through recently suffering from a number of symptoms that fall into Thyropause. It’s been a little while since we discussed Thyropause, so today we wanted to highlight Thyropause further. Thyropause categorises the significant…