In this episode 21 protocols
▶ 4:33 Iodine Diet “iodine is most common in sea salt in kelp and in seaweed and most people can get enough iodine from the food they eat Andor the table salt they consume almost all table salt from all over the world regardless of where you are contains iodine” ▷ 4:52 L-Tyrosine Supplements “the thyroid needs iodine in order to produce thyroid hormone iodine combines with an amino acid that we've talked about before called el tyrosine” ▷ 5:45 Selenium Supplements “the how much selenium you need will depend on where you live it actually varies country by country some countries I found uh say that you should get 100 microgram some say 200 some say 155 the average was about about 155 micrograms the countries I looked at people who are trying to increase thyroid levels might want to uh consume more selenium” ▷ 6:13 Brazil Nuts Diet “Brazil nuts are the heavyweight champion of foods to get selenium from it has very high concentrations of selenium in just six or eight uh Brazil nuts contain something like 550 micrograms of selenium” ▷ 7:06 Check Selenium Intake Behaviors “you can have these uh levels measured or you can just check what you're consuming um and figure out whether or not you're re meeting the ration that you need in order to get healthy levels of thyroid” ▷ 7:32 Get Enough Selenium Behaviors “if you're somebody who's interested in keeping thyroid function healthy and productive then you certainly want to make sure you're getting enough iodine you're getting enough selenium and you're getting enough L tyrosine” ▷ 7:32 Get Enough L-Tyrosine Behaviors “if you're somebody who's interested in keeping thyroid function healthy and productive then you certainly want to make sure you're getting enough iodine you're getting enough selenium and you're getting enough L tyrosine” ▷ 7:32 Get Enough Iodine Behaviors “if you're somebody who's interested in keeping thyroid function healthy and productive then you certainly want to make sure you're getting enough iodine you're getting enough selenium and you're getting enough L tyrosine” ▷ 9:15 Consult a Physician About Thyroid Symptoms Behaviors “if you're concerned about having excessively high or excessively low levels of thyroid hormone absolutely uh look up what the symptoms are talk to your physician” ▷ 13:37 Avoid Eating Within 2 Hours of Bedtime Behaviors “you need blood insulin and glucose to be relatively low so eating within 2 hours of going to sleep is going to suppress growth hormone release that's very clear” ▷ 16:11 Meditation Behaviors “for for people that are interested in increasing growth hormone a meditation practice that allows you to get into these slow wave delta type frequency uh activity in the brain may be very beneficial because as I mentioned before that's what's gating growth hormone release” ▷ 16:48 Exercise Behaviors “one of the things that can have a dramatic effect on levels of growth hormone release in waking as well as in sleep the following night is ex exercise” ▷ 18:14 Train Close to Failure Behaviors “if it's weightbearing exercise it would be getting close to that um final repetitions where you can't complete them but not pushing through those or even going to failure but getting close leads to anywhere from 300 to 500% increases resting growth hormone levels” ▷ 18:42 Avoid Eating Too Close to Exercise Behaviors “probably not eating too close to exercise or not ingesting a lot of sugars during the exercise that was supported by the fact that ingestion of a sport drink that contains caloric sugar immediately flatlined the growth hormone levels” ▷ 18:50 Avoid Caloric Sports Drinks During Exercise Diet “that was supported by the fact that ingestion of a sport drink that contains caloric sugar immediately flatlined the growth hormone levels” ▷ 19:07 Cool Body Temperature Back Down After Exercise Behaviors “even after the exercise taking body temperature back down to normal levels relatively quickly seemed to be associated with these big spikes in growth hormone” ▷ 19:48 Keep Blood Glucose Low When Taking Arginine Behaviors “some people will take Arginine before bedtime some people will take it before exercise the prerequisite again is low blood glucose blood glucose is high it's going to quash the effect” ▷ 19:59 Arginine Supplements “the amounts of arginine that people take are anywhere from 3 G to 10 gram or sometimes even more although this is definitely a case of more is not better there's a threshold at which growth hormone release is actually blunted by taking more than n grams of arginine” ▷ 21:49 Optimize Sleep Behaviors “the things that we're supposed to be doing anyway like exercising like trying not to eat too close to bedtime trying to optimize sleep all of these are wonderful tools that we should um be pursuing” ▷ 24:56 Sauna Tools “entering environments with where it's very hot for short periods of time anywhere from 20 minutes to 30 minutes where the temperature is 80° C to 100° C has been shown to increase growth hormone release 16 fold” ▷ 30:15 Deliberate Safe Hyperthermia Behaviors “maybe sauna or things like it you know deliberate safe hyperthermia with the emphasis on safe might be things that are of use”