Six holistic ways to keep warm this winter:
Winter in the Northeast is notoriously unpredictable—balmy 50-degree days, pummeling blizzards the next week—but to me, it always feels the same:. I have more than a slight aversion to the chill that others in New England might simply call “invigorating.” Three years ago, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes my body to attack my thyroid gland, and has left me with a sluggish, underactive thyroid, or.
“The thyroid gland plays a central role in regulating body metabolism,” explains Shelly A. Im, M.D., an endocrinologist with Westmed Medical Group in Yonkers, NY. When this butterfly-shaped gland doesn’t produce enough hormones, certain metabolic processes tend to slow down, “such as basal metabolic rate and thermogenesis,” she says. “This can manifest as fatigue, weight gain and intolerance to cold.
In the battle over the thermostat, women often feel that they run colder than their male counterparts. Interestingly,, a condition that affects about one in 20 Americans. Hashimoto’s is a common culprit and—like many autoimmune diseases—the causes of it are not completely known, says Cheryl R. Rosenfeld, D.O., FACE, a partner at North Jersey Endocrine Consultants and an adjunct clinical associate professor of medicine at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.
I clearly remember a point, around age 12, when all the classic symptoms came rushing in. My period was irregular. I felt depressed and lost in a mental fog. I couldn’t get out of bed or retain basic facts . And I was cold—cold. The thickest jacket couldn’t warm me up, the hottest radiator couldn’t thaw me out. At the bus stop, I shivered so much that my cheeks took on a strangely rippled appearance—another thing for me to self-consciously angst over.
Not that I said anything to my doctor. I thought it was me, not a “condition,” and a normal part of, you know, puberty, or the way my body was calibrated. “There’s a tendency to blow off the symptoms of hypothyroidism because they sound so vague,” says Dr. Rosenfeld, who herself developed the condition after the birth of her son, but suffered for months until she was eventually diagnosed by a blood test in 1999.
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