YOUR LIBIDO IS DEPENDENT ON THYROID FUNCTION
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I’m telling you, your thyroid is one powerful little gland.
This is the thing, your sex drive is really not that important. I mean, yes, we all enjoy it, and it’s important for conception, but it’s not that vital to keep you alive. Like at all.
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When your body is under some type of stress, whether it be mental, physical, environmental- you name it, the metabolism will purposely slow down so it doesn’t over expend energy so it can preserve it for more important functions. Therefore, our libido is energy dependent.
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Our libido is synonymous to if we can ovulate, and ovulation only occurs as both estrogen and testosterone rise in our ovulatory phase, peaking, and then dropping an egg to be fertilized. That empty egg sack becomes the corpus luteum, a gland that then starts producing progesterone for the second half of one’s cycle. In order to grow a robust corpus luteum and adequate progesterone levels, we are dependent on the nourishment of our CELLS.
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Cue here that in order to produce energy we need a few things:
🔸️Adequate fuel coming in
🔸️Not over doing energy expenditure
🔸️An array and balance of nutrients (such as vitamins, minerals)
🔸️Thyroid hormone (all of our cells need this to produce energy!)
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In order to produce adequate thyroid hormone we need things like
🔸️Adequate amino acids from protein such as methionine, phenylalanine, tyrosine
🔸️A variety of nutrients like retinol, iodine, magnesium, potassium, selenium, zinc,
🔸️Fat, for all hormones are produced by cholesterol
🔸️And proper stress management which goes beyond just managing mental stress, but also creating a healthy environment such as mitigating and reducing exposure to heavy metals, pollutants, environmental toxins, xenoestrogens, avoiding medication that can increase TBG (thyroid binding globulin) and (sex hormone binding globulin) (like the birth control) because this can inhibit our thyroid hormone to binding to our cells.
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