Can exercise really be bad for someone who has hypothyroidism or low thyroid? You betcha.
Get the skinny on how exercise affects hypothyroidism HERE
Many hypothyroidism sufferers are incorrectly and dangerously using exercise as a means of trying to control their weight.
Your doctor, who is supposed to actually know what is best for your health, tells you that you need to exercise to lose weight and get healthy. But,nobody stops to actually look at how intense aerobic exercise like running and hypothyroidism - or an under active thyroid- is actually harmful.
If we would take a minute to step back and look at the big picture then we could begin to see that exercise isn’t always healthy, and in fact, can be quite thyroid suppressive and dangerous to your health when you have Hashimoto's disease or hypothyroidism.
Here are two (2) very common exercise myths about your metabolism and thryoid hormone levels.
Myth #1 – Exercise Improves Thyroid Function
If you look at the current research, a lot of people are incorrectly led to believe that exercise improves thyroid function. There are studies where they have taken blood samples immediately before and then immediately after exercise in order to analyze the amount of thyroid hormone in the blood. Many of these studies have found that some forms of exercise cause an increase in blood level thyroid hormone, and so they interpret this as evidence that exercise improves thyroid function. But this is a misinterpretation.
There are plenty of studies showing the negative effects of exercise on thyroid hormone that demonstrate a decrease in resting metabolism.
Forcing yourself to exercise as a means of losing weight or trying to “boost” your metabolism can actually have the opposite effect and result in the further suppression of your thyroid, a slower metabolism, and ultimately more future weight gain.
Myth #2 – Running Burns More Calories than Walking
This is one of my favorites because it goes to show you how far behind we are when it comes to our understanding of exercise and physiology.
The media, your doctor, your next door neighbor and everyone else who still has a bit of sanity left will tell you that running is one of the best ways to burn calories and lose weight?
Running is far better than walking, right?
Just because you’re running on a treadmill doesn’t mean that your brain shuts off and stops working. It’s still working and expending energy, just like your muscles.
Russian physiologists on the other hand are accounting for the brain. And by stimulating the brain and therefore increasing its energy expenditure, your brain can burn significantly more calories.
So, stimulating your brain while you walk can actually be more beneficial than running on a treadmill while your brain is minimally stimulated. If you take into account that walking would be far less damaging to your thyroid and metabolism, you can effectively support your thyroid and burn more calories on average from walking in a mentally stimulating environment than running while bored.
Millions of people today are not only hypothyroid, but are also making their hypothyroidism worse by following all of the bad advice out there. When millions of people are led to believe that something like running is always beneficial to their health, while it’s unknowingly causing more damage to their thyroid, then we really have an epidemic problem.
Hopefully this opens your eyes up to the fact that exercise, as it relates to hypothyroidism, is something that needs much more attention if we are ever going to make real progress in properly understanding and treating hypothyroidism.
Excerpts taken from Tom Brimeyer who designed a Hypothyroidism Natural Treatment Plan. Find out more at HERE***************
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