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I was lazy tonight and didn’t feel like cooking. Seth is still in France — so I made a super easy supper just for me: oysters on the half shell with leftover asparagus and pancetta risotto. I went to Whole Foods today to pick up some things. My dentist told me he thinks I have [...]

It appears that I have an iodine deficiency and hence hypothyroid, which means I have a low-functioning thyroid gland. This morning I woke up and the patch on the inside of my arm had faded about 80-90%. It’s almost completely gone now! From all the reading I’ve been doing, this is very common after pregnancy. [...]

I think I have a problem with my thyroid gland. I’ve been reading about it and I have a lot of the symptoms of hypothyroidism. It started when I was pregnant. And I just took this quiz: http://www.thyroidbreakthrough.com/quiz.htm My score was 59%. Not terrible but not great either. You answered 24 items out of 41 [...]