One Important Metabolism Supplement Well Worth Investigating
Before starting a healthy eating plan when you next need to lose weight, investigate how healthy your thyroid gland is and whether or not you need to take a metabolism supplement to help normalize the functioning of this gland.
Your local doctor or homeopath is likely to be able to assist you to do this with a simple blood test and you can even start this investigation at home. Take your temperature (under your arm pit) the moment you first wake in the morning for 10 mornings in a row. Read the result 10 minutes later after staying in bed.
Checking your thyroid is an important step to take as this gland has a vital role in controlling your weight. The thyroid secretes hormones that burn up calories and maintain your metabolic rate. If your thyroid is under-active you are likely to feel tired, cold, gain weight easily and find it hard to shed this. In effect your thyroid is not doing its part in burning up the calories you consume. If you have an over active thyroid you burn up calories too fast and can become thin.
The chemical required by the thyroid to do its metabolism boosting sufficiently well to keep you healthy is iodine. Iodine is unique among minerals as it is an essential ingredient in hormones. It acts on the hormones of the thyroid gland, which control the body's activity rate along with the healthiness of skin and hair. Iodine is found in kelp, seaweed and iodized salts. It is found naturally in high quantities in seafoods like haddock and cod.
Although an iodine supplement is important for an under performing thyroid, also check your levels of nutrients including copper, zinc and vitamins A and B2 as part of your blood test as these are all necessary for the thyroid’s role in maintaining your healthy metabolic rate.
Kelp powder or tablets or a seaweed vegetable are all effective ways of adding this metabolism supplement to your diet and assisting your thyroid to do its job well enough for you to lose weight without hindering the progress you’d like because of a body mis-function.
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