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Back to EpisodesWhy Your "Normal" Labs Might Not Be Optimal: Thyroid, Hormones, and Functional Medicine | Ashley Cruz Arata
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Have you been told your labs are "normal" while you're exhausted, gaining weight, and not sleeping? Integrative health practitioner Ashley Cruz Arata lost half her thyroid, gained 40 pounds, and kept hearing "normal" until an oncologist asked if she'd ever tried natural medicine. She left a decade at Amazon to help women find the root cause.
This episode is for education, not medical advice. Talk with your own provider about your care.
Ashley had to learn the tech and email side of business from scratch. If that's the part you dread, that's exactly what I help with: https://www.lindspaulson.com
IN THIS EPISODE
- A fall on black ice, a CT scan, and the thyroid nodule nobody was worried about
- Why weight gain, hair loss, and broken sleep were early thyroid signals
- "Normal" vs. optimal lab ranges, and why normal includes people who are already unwell
- The three hormone buckets: thyroid, reproductive, and stress
- How gut health affects thyroid hormones and estrogen clearance
- The minerals your thyroid needs to work: iodine, selenium, and zinc
- Why integrative health means the best of both worlds, not ditching your doctor
- Losing two father figures to cancer in one year, and deciding not to wait for "later"
- Leaving Amazon and learning the business side as she went
- You are the expert on your own body
ABOUT ASHLEY
Ashley Cruz Arata is a Certified Integrative Health Practitioner who helps women over 35 get to the root cause of hormone and thyroid imbalances using functional lab testing and natural approaches. After years of hearing her labs were "normal," she healed her own body and now helps women feel seen in theirs again.
CONNECT WITH ASHLEY
Free guide, Normal Isn't Optimal (the hormone lab guide that shows what "normal" labs are missing): https://ashleycruzarata.myflodesk.com/normalisntoptimal
Website: https://ashleycruzarata.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashleycruzarata/
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