Join Dr. Patrick Garrett to learn everything you ever wanted to know about your thyroid and how to restore its natural function.

1. DR. PATRICK GARRETT, DC, B.SCI, DCCN, DABFM, FAAFM
CONCIERGE NATURAL HEALTHCARE
301 NORTH MAIN SUITE 301
316-212-5429
DOCTORGARRETT@YAHOO.COM

2. Who is Dr. Garrett?

3. Dr. Patrick Garrett
Chiropractic College / Medical School
12 Years of Functional Lifestyle Practice
Specializing in reversing acute & chronic
conditions naturally
Patients / clients all over the country & world
Clinical focus on reversing diabetes, asthma,
allergies, eczema, psoriasis, migraines and
epigenetic food therapy.
Physician

4. Postgraduate Educator
300 Hour / 2 Year Diplomate Functional Medicine
/ Clinical Nutrition Program in Denver, Colorado
National Speaker
Internal Disorders
Functional Medicine
Applied Nutrition & Clinical Chemistry
Clinical Nutrition
Functional Approaches to Reversing Diseases
National Speaker

5. Lifestyle Medicine Program
Celiac Disease
Lifestyle Medicine – Metabolic Syndrome & Nutrition
Lifestyle Medicine – Stress Management
Lifestyle Medicine – Weight Management
Lifestyle Medicine – Prescribing Exercise
Lifestyle Medicine – Osteoporosis
Lifestyle Medicine – The Biology of Normal Sleep &
Consequences of Insufficient Sleep
Infertility & Endocrinology & More
Postdoctoral Education

6. Lifestyle Medicine Program
Lifestyle Practices for Weight Management & Health Promotion
Models of Behavior Modification
The Pressure System Model of Lifestyle Counseling in Primary Care
Rationale for Lifestyle & Weight Management Counseling
Weight Bias in Clinical Settings: Improving Health Care Delivery for
Obese Patients
Postdoctoral Education

7. Diplomate of the American Board of Functional Medicine
Board Certified in Integrative Medicine
Diplomate of the American College of Clinical Nutrition
Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Functional
Medicine
Diplomates & Certifications

8. Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Association– Member
American Academy of Integrative Medicine – Member
Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine - Member
American Board of Functional Medicine - Past President
American Academy of Functional Medicine - Chairman of the Board of Directors
Green Med Info – Board Member
Bloodid - Medical Director
Leadership / Membership

11. What does the thyroid do?
Metabolism - BMR
Hormone cycle
Reproduction
Brain development
Pretty much
everything else too

12. Your
Thyroid
Hormones
TSH
(high) (low)
rT3 T3 T4
T3
Bound T3 Free T3

13. Your Thyroid Should Work
But then again, we are Americans

14. We create our own epidemics

17. How do we
mess up the
thyroid with our
lifestyle?
TSH
(high) (low)
rT3 T3 T4
T3
Bound T3 Free T3
CHRONIC Stress

18. We cause it through our lifestyles

19. Why the meds make worse

20. Let’s stop exhausting our cortisol
Let’s stop exhausting our thyroid
Let’s eat for our thyroid
Let’s live a lifestyle that is consistent with life and longevity
Complexity sells – Simplicity cure
So let’s un-cause it

21. Alfalfa Anise Apples Carrots Cherries
Dates Fennel Green Beans Garlic Hops
Licorice Parsley Peas Pomegranates
Potatoes Sweet Potato Pumpkin Pumpkin seeds
Red beans Rice Sage Sesame
Eating for Progesterone

22. Selenium rich foods
2 Brazil nuts a day, button mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, cod, snapper, tuna,
halibut, calf's liver, and salmon.
Iodine rich foods
Sea Salt, Kelp (Highest by a long shot), wakame, nori, strawberries, tuna,
salmon
Eating for Thyroid

23. 1. Purposeful & Mindful Meditation
a. 10 to 20 minutes a day
2. Power posing for 2 minutes, 3 times a day
a. Wonder woman pose
b. No crossed legs / arms
c. Cuts stress hormones by 45%
d. Increase testosterone by 25%
3. Imagery (Find your happy place)
a. Take a mini mental vacation
b. Engage all 5 senses in the memory
4. Take mini breaks throughout the day to visualize a safe,
relaxing thought
a. Imagery (finding your happy place)
b. Staring at a fish tank
c. Petting dog / cat
d. Lava lamp
Stop EXHAUSTING Hormones

24. Stop EXHAUSTING Hormones
•Repetitive prayer
1.Mini prayers in which you find solace
2.Positive & motivating
•Positive self talk
1.You can do this
2.You will improve
3.Things will always work out
4.That’s not the worst thing in the world
•Repetitive physical exercises
1.Exercise that you find enjoyable. 10 minutes
2.Up to 3 times a day for quick moments of exercise
3.Jogging the stairs, desk pushups
4.YOGA

25. Stop EXHAUSTING Hormones
•Breath focus
1.Deep slow breaths that extends the stomach
2.Fill that ball in your belly up
3.Breathe through your nose & hold for 2 seconds
4.Breathe out through pursed lips
•Low glycemic foods & drinks
1.Decreases epinephrine & cortisol
2.Real food, raw or least amount of cooking
3.Sweet fruits but not sugar foods
4.GREEN SMOOTHIES!!!!!!!
•SUNLIGHT
1.15 minutes a day between 10am and 2pm
2.No sunscreen, increase B vitamins in food
1.No SPF as much as possible

26. What ifs….
• Auto immune driven
• Hyper versus hypo
• Cysts or nodules
• Family history
• Worst case ever
• High numbers

27. QUESTIONS?
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