My wonderful client Eleanor chats about her current thyroid health journey
If you, or someone you know, is facing health challenges, I trust that this interview will cheer you up and stoke HOPE.
I’d been wanting to interview a client for a while now - and then, just before Christmas, my wonderful client Eleanor got in touch to share how she was getting on.
A few months had gone by since we finished working together, so I was thrilled to read her encouraging update:
"I wanted to let you know - hot off the press - that my numbers are now officially in range … I have gradually tapered off medication altogether … and I feel good energy-wise and sleep-wise”.
Alongside her doctor’s oversight of medication, Eleanor and I had been working towards these goals for a number of months (this is how nutrition and lifestyle medicine work: tortoise that wins the race kind of thing).
We used carefully tailored nutrition and lifestyle medicine approaches, to address the autoimmune issues that were the driving factor behind her health challenges.
But NB this isn’t a smug, “everything’s totally fine and resolved” kind of conversation.
Eleanor is generously sharing a journey that has been challenging and hard, that is a lot easier now, but isn’t pretending to be entirely over.
And yet, having persistently put in the changes, Eleanor is now gloriously (and understandably) cheerier now than when we first met.
Have a listen, and find out how and why.
And if any of the things we talk about feel relevant to you or someone you know, drop me a line, and let’s have a conversation.
PS for anyone wondering, yes her hair did stop falling out!