111. Autoimmunity, Perimenopause & Tools to Take Back your Health with Dr. Amy Myers

Dr. Amy Myers is a medical doctor, a two-time New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally acclaimed functional medicine physician who specializes in empowering those with autoimmune, thyroid, SIBO, Candida, and gut issues to reverse their conditions and take back their health. Dr. Myers spent more than two decades working as a physician, including founding her own clinic, before she launched Amy Myers MD®, an e-commerce wellness brand that reaches millions of people in more than 140 countries around the world with over 75 products she personally formulated and a variety of programs.In this conversation, we follow Dr. Amy Myers through the health crisis that changed how she thinks about autoimmune disease, thyroid care, and the work needed before symptoms become diagnoses. She brings us into the gap between being told something is “solved” and realizing the body may still be sending warnings. We hear why she looks beyond labels like Graves’ or Hashimoto’s and instead asks what pushed the immune system there in the first place. She explains why food, gut permeability, toxins, infections, stress, and trauma matter, and why removing gluten and dairy is not just a trend in her approach. We also get into the role of hormone shifts during perimenopause, the labs she considers, and tools that may support the gut, thyroid, and immune system.Topics discussed in this episode include:How Graves’ disease leads into a search for autoimmunity root causes.Why thyroid ablation becomes part of the guest’s health story.What the autoimmune spectrum means before diagnosis ever appears.The connection between antibodies, symptoms, and future autoimmune risk.How food, leaky gut, toxins, infections, stress, and trauma interact.Why gluten may trigger immune confusion around thyroid tissue.What molecular mimicry reveals about gluten, casein, oats, and corn.The reason grains, legumes, eggs, and nightshades leave protocol plans.How body feedback can outweigh food sensitivity testing results.The role hormone shifts play during childbirth, perimenopause, and menopause.How autoimmune symptoms can overlap with fatigue, brain fog, and hot flashes.What thyroid labs help separate Hashimoto’s patterns from Graves’ patterns.How children often notice symptom changes after abstinence of certain foods.What low dose naltrexone and thymosin alpha one add to the conversation.Why zonulin blockers raise questions about removing leaky gut triggers.  Get 15% off AMMD supplements and protocols using code THEBETTERYOO: https://www.amymyersmd.com/THEBETTERYOO  Dr. Myers on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dramymyers/  The Autoimmune Solution (book) on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Autoimmune-Solution-Spectrum-Inflammatory-Symptoms/dp/0062347489  Dr. Myers’ podcast, Take Back Your Health: https://www.amymyersmd.com/pages/podcast  Lexi on Dr. Isabella Wentz’ podcast “Reversing Hashimoto’s? The Unconventional Tools You Haven’t Tried Yet”: https://thyroidpharmacist.com/articles/podcast/ep-60/  Follow our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lexiyoonp or visit us at https://www.yoodirecthealth.com