Why Am I Always Cold, Tired, and Gaining Weight? (It's Your Thyroid — Fix It in 30 Days)

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Seven signs your thyroid is slow, and most doctors miss this. Number one, the outer third of the eyebrows are disappearing. The thyroid hormones literally power the follicles of your hair, and one of the first places you're going to notice the hair loss is right on the outer part right here. Let's get to number two, high cholesterol. Think about how many people have high cholesterol, and they're immediately put on medication without realizing it could be a thyroid issue. And if you have a thyroid problem, everything runs slowly.

[00:00:31]Many people find when they fix the thyroid, their cholesterol goes back to normal. All right, next one is you wake up with your face puffy. It's a thyroid issue that's trapping water within the proteins underneath the skin. Now, the next two signs are the ones that doctors never connect to the thyroid. Number four, carpal tunnel syndrome. Your body becomes more swollen and it holds fluid in different tissues. Well, it's going to hold more fluid in the tissues around the medial nerve on your wrist, and that's going to cause carpal tunnel syndrome, a classic hypothyroid symptom.

[00:01:06]And just so you know, I'm going to show you what I would recommend to correct a slow thyroid. Okay, I'm getting there, but let me just cover the rest of these.

[00:01:16]Number five, depression or anxiety. The thyroid hormones have everything to do with controlling energy production inside your brain cells. And so, when the thyroid is slow, the person tends to be more depressed or they have anxiety.

[00:01:31]Over 50% of people with a slow thyroid develop depression as their primary symptom. And so, you can take all the antidepressants in the world, it doesn't correct it because it's treating the wrong thing. You are a fish living in an environment that's very toxic. Welcome to planet Earth, where everything around us is engineered for dependency or addiction. From the screens that we watch to the food that we eat, I developed a program that works in the exact opposite. It focuses in on your environment, the water in the tank, not the fish. Because if we can change your environment and make the good habits easier and the bad habits more difficult, then you don't have to rely on willpower or discipline because focusing in on the environment first allows you to focus on the real problem.

[00:02:23]Click the link down below, take the quiz, and find out the key changes in the exact environment to make a huge difference in your health. All right, number six is headaches or migraines. A slow thyroid really can lock up your muscles, especially in the back part of the neck, which then create tension headaches and even migraines. And number seven is cold. I want to talk about the temperature test that you can easily do in the morning to rule out a slow thyroid. When I was in practice, I had this patient come in. She was about 42 years old. She had high cholesterol, carpal tunnel syndrome. She was on antidepressants for 2 years. And the big clue was she was not only freezing all the time, but she kept gaining weight no matter what she did. She suspected the thyroid, so she went to the doctor. The doctor tested the thyroid. He said it was normal, so it must have been something else. So he gave her another prescription. She didn't take it. What I did is I did something that many doctors are not really aware of. I had her check her temperature.

[00:03:22]Not in her mouth, but actually in her armpit every morning for 3 days. And so she came back, she showed me her temperature, and I averaged it out. It was 96.4°.

[00:03:32]Now, a normal temperature should be 98.6. Hers was 96.4.

[00:03:38]So you just need a thermometer. They're like $3. And you want to hold this thermometer underneath your armpit for 10 minutes, okay? Each test that you do.

[00:03:47]And if your temperature is below 97.8°F or below 36.6°C degrees Celsius, suspect a slow thyroid.

[00:03:59]One of the biggest ways they diagnose your thyroid is with this hormone right here called the thyroid stimulating hormone. It's measuring what the pituitary is telling the thyroid to do.

[00:04:11]So, you can think about the thyroid stimulating hormone as kind of a thermostat on the wall, but the actual furnace in the basement is the thyroid that is controlling the temperature.

[00:04:22]48.5% of the people tested with a subclinical low thyroid, they were diagnosed incorrectly. And they also found 31.2% that were diagnosed with slightly elevated thyroid hormones were found normal. And I'll tell you, out of all the things that you could do to a patient, the worst is misdiagnosing them because here they are prescribing medication when they really don't need it. Typically, the thyroid hormone is between 0.5 and 4.5. But, if you're like over 60, it can actually go much higher. If you're female, it can go higher. If you're white versus black, it can be a little bit higher. So, a lot of people ask me, "What supplements do I recommend?" Now, of course, I'm not biased with my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and type Dr. Berg supplements, you'll find more information. So, now the question is, "What do you do if you have a slow thyroid?" Let's get to that next. So, if you're ever going to test the thyroid, make sure you get a complete thyroid panel.

[00:05:25]Yes, you can check thyroid stimulating hormone, but don't just go by that.

[00:05:28]Also, look at free T4, free T3. And by the way, T4 is the inactive thyroid hormone. T3 is the active form of the thyroid hormone, and it has to be converted. Many people just can't convert T4 to T3. 90% of the time with a hypothyroid condition, you will have thyroid antibodies. These are immune cells that are attacking your own thyroid, okay?

[00:05:59]Over 90% of the time, this is going to show up. And if this does show up, you have Hashimoto's. If you don't have these antibodies, and you just have, you know, hypothyroidism, then the protocol is going to be a little bit different. So, let's start with the most common Hashimoto's. The trace mineral that I would highly recommend is going to be selenium.

[00:06:22]Selenium has been found to decrease these antibodies, also help you convert T4 to T3. And I would recommend taking 200 mg per day. I'm also going to recommend vitamin D3. I would recommend at least 30,000 IU per day. Why? Because vitamin D is one of the most powerful things to help with an autoimmune case.

[00:06:47]The protocol I recommend is from Dr. Coimbra. He uses high doses of vitamin D3. There are certain doctors that you can work with within the US or even outside the US that can help you monitor this, and I will put some information down below. Of course, also when you take vitamin D, you might want to take the cofactors as well. And that would be zinc, K2, and magnesium. That's a side note.

[00:07:12]But, this can really drop down the inflammation in the thyroid because with that immune reaction, you're going to just get a lot of inflammation.

[00:07:20]Removing gluten from your diet is going to be super important. And also to reduce even more inflammation, you want to do intermittent fasting. Let's switch over here. Let's say you don't have these antibodies. It's just a hypothyroid case. Well, then you definitely need selenium as well because selenium helps in the conversion process. It does a lot more than just reducing the antibodies, okay? Also, iodine, but don't take too much iodine because that can aggravate it. So, you really want to make sure you're doing iodine test because sometimes people don't even need iodine for a hypothyroid. It's not always the reason why the thyroid is becoming sluggish. Zinc is super important in getting the thyroid to work normally. This is a trace mineral.

[00:08:04]Magnesium is a cofactor to help the thyroid as well. And then, also, this liver needs to be healthy for T4 to convert to T3, the active form.

[00:08:16]And sometimes when people have their gallbladder removed, that creates a bile deficiency, and now they also cannot convert this that well. So, taking bile salts at the end of the meal can greatly help this conversion process. So, in other words, there's a couple different pieces of this puzzle that you might need to address. Here's another piece.

[00:08:38]If you're going through a lot of stress, that can cause the thyroid to be lower.

[00:08:43]Estrogen can inhibit the thyroid function. Hormone replacement therapy, birth control pills, consuming a lot of soy products, also, if your insulin is too high because you're eating too many carbs, that can inhibit the thyroid. So, you want to cut that down as well.

[00:08:59]Anyway, I wanted to do this quick video to give you the basics on these key factors to identify if you have a thyroid problem.

[00:09:07]If you want more details on the thyroid, I created an even more in-depth video right here. Check it out.