Random updates

A couple of random updates. First, I ordered and just received a book called “The Thyroid Connection” by Amy Myers, MD. It’s all about the thyroid, how it affects the body and how to possibly fix it, or at least how to get help and find the appropriate medication to treat it. It’s very food centric though which is the big reason I got it. Having hypothyroid myself and having been on thyroid meds for nearly 10 yrs, I wanted to get back into studying the thyroid. My thyroid condition is a big reason why I got into nutrition in the first place. I have been super strict in the past about gluten free and done lots of blood tests to try and figure out the root cause of my thyroid condition, to no avail. I’ve done most of the extensive labs including TSH, T4, freeT4, T3, freeT3, rT3, and Thyroid antibodies, most of which aren’t done unless you beg/plead/convince your MD to do. I’m currently on Levothyroxine and live pretty normally. No real complaints other than crazy dry skin in the winter. My TSH is still a little higher than I’d like though and I think my skin could be better. I’m excited to learn some new things and understand the thyroid even better. I know it will also be useful when helping clients feel and be their best in the future too.

Second, our cover crop is coming in pretty well, but a little more sparely than expected. We got a pound of cover crop seed and thought it would be plenty, but seems like we should’ve gotten more. :-/ We are really trying to help condition the soil for Spring 2017 when we’d like to really get to planting some crops. We also got a couple pear trees in the ground! We’re hoping I dug the holes deep enough to allow the trees to not drown…. darn non draining VA clay, and all the excessive rain recently! img_6260 img_6251