Hello and welcome listeners to Shumain's model health podcast for those who wish to optimise their health for fat loss and long term goals. I am Shumain Lini and I am a fitness and nutrition expert. So today this podcast is going to be short and sweet but we're looking at our part two of our podcast on thyroid. And part one you can find it was published at the end of June I believe and we discussed basically what the thyroid is.
And today we are going to look a little bit more about thyroid function in the body. So I held off until now to continue the series as our thyroid model 101 live event is coming up in less than two weeks and I wanted this information to be fresh in your head. So let's go. This week we look at your thyroid and weight change.
So how does your thyroid affect your body composition? Why does your thyroid make you gain or lose weight? Well I tend to describe it like this to my students and clients that your thyroid is kind of like a gas pedal that controls how much of your fuel gets burned and how much it gets stored. So how much energy does your body use and how much energy gets stored as fast?
So if you can imagine that you have one of those old coal cars and it can go down two tracks. One takes the coal into the fire to be burned which creates heat and makes the engine move. The other takes the coal car nowhere. It just dumps the coal car into a big pile and that's what your thyroid does.
If it's under active your fuel gets sent down the wrong track and it gets dumped in a big pile and in real terms this means dumped are converted into fat especially your visceral fat or the fat around your midsection. And no matter how much you train or how little you eat you're not going to lose weight or you're going to gain weight if your thyroid is having issues or struggling. Now there are extreme scenarios that are less common where your thyroid is overactive and makes way too much hormone and this can also happen if someone is taking an excessively high dose of thyroid hormone too. In those cases there can be actual tissue damage and tissue wasting so damage to the body and it's not so much weight loss but loss of muscle and loss of bone.
It's this process that too much fuel is getting burned and none of it's actually getting used for repair by the body. So the thyroid can have a much bigger effect than your diet diet excuse me or exercise can have on weight. It can affect between 400 and 600 calories a day whether that fuel is being burned or stored is up to your thyroid so that control center. If you're struggling to maintain weight or are losing weight your thyroid would be the one or be one of the top suspects for that that we would look at.
So that's pretty much how the thyroid affects or controls how your body manages its composition. I hope you found this helpful it is short and sweet but be sure to check out our next week's podcast where we will discuss how to test if your thyroid is healthy. And of course if you would like to join me live and learn more about your thyroid and how you can protect or care for it we will be in archery on September 17th from 130 to 330 in structural chiro and massage that's just on Veterans Boulevard there and I believe there's still some tickets left on my website so if you go to schamadesmodelhealth.com and under the signup tabs there should still be some tickets available for purchase. We will have some treats we'll have some take home goodies we'll have um processes and protocols that you can put into place immediately to help care for and protect and maybe even reverse any thyroid issues you're having of course there will be Q&As and it's going to be awesome so we'd love to see you there be sure to get your ticket and that's not this Sunday coming the following Sunday the 17th from 130 to 330 so have a great week guys and we'll chat soon bye!