In this episode of The Dr. Hedberg Show, I interview Dr. Izabella Wentz about her new book, "Hashimoto's Food Pharmacology."  We had a great talk about Hashimoto's disease, Dr. Wentz's Hashimoto's healing journey, foods that can help heal Hashimoto's disease, green smoothies, bone broth, and some recipes that can help heal Hashimoto's disease.

I highly recommend all of Dr. Wentz's books and her new book will help you make food easier and healthier so you can heal your Hashimoto's disease.

Dr. Hedberg: Well, welcome, everyone, to "The Dr. Hedberg Show." This is Dr. Hedberg, and I'm very excited today to have my good friend and colleague Dr. Izabella Wentz on the show. She has been on the podcast before, and I am excited to have her on today. So, Dr. Wentz, thanks for being on.

Dr. Wentz: Thank you so much for having me, Dr. Hedberg. I'm a huge fan of your work, and it's an honor to be here with you.

Dr. Hedberg: Great. So for those who don't know about you, why don't you just tell everyone a little bit about yourself and what you've been working on and your new book that's coming out?

Dr. Wentz: Sure. So, I'm a pharmacist by training and, in full disclosure, I wasn't interested in the thyroid until I became diagnosed myself with Hashimoto's after almost a decade of some pretty confusing symptoms. So I had fatigue, and I had pain all over my body, acid reflux, hair loss, brain fog, and you pretty much name the thyroid symptom, I had it, but it had gone undiagnosed.

I was a pharmacist and was super excited about taking medications for my thyroid once I found out that I had a thyroid condition, but unfortunately they only helped a tiny bit. At that point, I realized there was something else going on in my body, and I wanted to figure out if there was anything I can do to help myself, one, feel better and two, potentially reverse the condition, and that's sort of how I became a Hashimoto's expert/human guinea pig was really through my own journey with Hashimoto's and having a lot of different symptoms that nobody seemed to be able to solve.

My official bio is that I am an author of multiple books on Hashimoto's. One of them is "Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: Finding and Treating the Root Cause." This was published in 2013. And then "Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back." So this has been really my life's work is to help people with Hashimoto's take back their own health. After being able to do so myself, I have a brand new book coming out, "Hashimoto's Food Pharmacology." And this is really focused on nutrition, nutrition protocols, and then healing recipes to help people really kind of do it themselves.

I know that there is a lot of forward movement for thyroid health in the world of functional medicine, but not everybody has access to an excellent functional medicine provider like Dr. Hedberg, for example. And there is a lot of things that people need to do in their own day-to-day life to take back their health and part of that is nutrition. So my new book is focused on helping you take back your own health and being your own nutrition guru when you have Hashimoto's.

Dr. Hedberg: That's fantastic. So most of my listeners have Hashimoto's. So, for those who don't really know that much about it,