96: Your Thyroid Is a Barometer: What Chronic Disease Can Teach Us About Stress, Environment, and Prevention with Kelly McKenna
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The episode discusses how thyroid health can reflect broader health issues and emphasizes the importance of prevention and understanding chronic diseases.
What if your thyroid symptoms aren’t an isolated problem, but one signal from a body asking you to pay attention? In this episode of Modern Thyroid & Wellness , McCall McPherson sits down with Kelly McKenna, CEO and Co-Founder of End Chronic Disease , to explore thyroid health, autoimmunity, chronic stress, environmental exposures, nutrition, and what it really means to focus on prevention. Kelly’s health journey began with a celiac disease diagnosis in high school, followed by nearly two decades of autoimmune and chronic health challenges. In her early 30s, thyroid labs disrupted her plans to freeze her eggs and pushed her to ask a different question: instead of accepting hypothyroidism as inevitable, what might actually be driving it? That curiosity eventually changed both her health and career. Key Topics Covered Kelly’s experience with celiac disease, hypothyroidism, and Hashimoto’s How childhood stress may influence long-term health Why sleep, nutrition, movement, relationships, and environment matter Environmental exposures and thyroid health The conversation around paraquat and chronic disease Why prevention should begin in childhood Iodine, selenium, vitamin D, iron…
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