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  From Exhausted to Energized: I Beat Hypothyroidism with a Plant-Based Diet

  Hypothyroidism saddled Ashley Sharples with chronic fatigue for a decade—until she changed up her diet. In 2009, not long after suffering a heartbreaking miscarriage, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I just wasn’t feeling myself: fatigue, aching joints, poor digestion, brain fog, the list goes on. The doctor prescribed me levothyroxine and sent on my way […]

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  I Use Less Insulin, Got off Statins, and Lost 50 Pounds on a Plant-Based Diet

  Yvonne McGill had type 1 diabetes and a host of other health issues, including hypertension, hypothyroidism, and rheumatoid arthritis. Going plant-based enabled her to use less insulin to manage her diabetes and get off blood pressure pills and statins completely.  Plant-based eating was not a part of my family’s traditional culture. Growing up Dominican, all […]

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