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In this video 0:00 God's Promise and Thyroid Fundamentals14:12 Diagnosis Tests and Leaky Gut Secrets22:01 Supplements, Prayer, and Total Healing
God's Promise and Thyroid Fundamentals 0:15 Thank you so much for joining today with Marilyn and Sarah. I was praying about this little introduction with you, and God dropped a verse in my heart for you. And it's from Philippians 1 verse 6. And it says this, for0:26 I'm confident of this very thing that he who began a good work in you will perfect it, will finish it, will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. And, you know, if you're like me, sometimes I feel like I'm0:38 halfway through something and I'm like, god, what happened? You know? Are you gonna finish this process? Are we gonna come to a conclusion, a resolution? What and when is this all finished? And and sometimes I get0:48 discouraged with myself. Sometimes I feel like I'm too impatient and, you know, I don't finish things or lack of discipline. And I get discouraged with myself because I think, god, come on. Help me. I wanna1:00 do better. I wanna be complete and whole and finished. And I wanna encourage you today that the good work that God has started in you, God is completing and finishing. You're a masterpiece1:12 in the making, and God is working on you and working on you in ways that you don't even anticipate or recognize. So whatever the needs are in your life, be sure to pick up the phone, hop on our website.1:24 We would love to pray for you, and I know that God answers prayer. God absolutely has solutions, provisions, healing, restoration. Everything that we need is found in God's presence. So give us the honor of praying1:36 for you. And, mom, I'm so excited. We have 1 of our best gifts.1:40 I love, doctor Gina. To have
1:42 you all here with
1:43 my pals,
1:43 you guys.
1:44 It's so good to be back. You're so real, and you really it's where the rubber meets the road.
1:49 You got it. That's true. That's true. No other way to be.
1:53 You know?
1:53 Be real. True. I'm doing good. Experience.
1:56 I do. And you write Yes. And you help us through experience. It's not do. Well, I have all this knowledge, and that's good. Mhmm. But you have the experience that goes with the knowledge.
2:07 That's right. I never made you get the knowledge. I never need a cheat sheet when I come here because I've lived it. You know? Yeah. And God has brought me through. Right. Yet another thing.
2:16 Awesome.
2:17 And, you know, I give them all the glory. You know, I do. And so we're here to talk about the thyroid experience.
2:24 Yes.
2:24 And you have a new book. I have a new book. Doctor Janice's Guide to Thyroid Health. Yes. So thyroid, is that, like, I don't even some people don't even know what it is. You know? It's it's
2:35 right here. It straddles your windpipe. Now you can't you can't imagine how many people thought it was so many other places, which I won't even go into. It's right here.
2:45 Okay.
2:45 And it's shaped like a butterfly, straddles the windpipe, and it controls every single cell of your body. Everything.
2:53 I didn't know that.
2:55 It did. It does. Mine did. It was it's gone now because we'll go into that. But, you know, it controls your heart rate, your metabolic rate, your thought processes, your
3:06 concentration, your body temperature, your circulation, everything. I mean everything that it's your master controller of your body. And so when it malfunctions it
3:18 can cause things. If I say if the butterfly flutters too slow then you'll be dealing with a sluggish metabolism, sluggish thought process. You know even, believe it or not, your
3:30 handwriting changes. You know when everything's running like a smooth engine. You write your name it goes smoothly. This happened to me as I'll tell you as we get into it. I could hardly write my name the
3:42 way I used to. It changed. It happens to people when their thyroid starts to really become sluggish in hypothyroid, you know. Now on the other hand, if your thyroid your butterfly is fluttering
3:54 too fast, you've high have hyperthyroidism, You can have heart palpitations, you lose weight, you're hot all the time, whereas hypothyroidism you're cold all the time.
4:06 My body temperature was 96.8 instead of 98.6. So as a child when I got into this field because I was sickly as a child because my body temperature now I
4:17 know was too low to help fight off infection. So I had things like diphtheria, rheumatic fever, all these things as a child. I was sick all the time. Didn't know
4:29 that I had a genetic link to thyroid issues. And so it took 40 years for so to me for me to get a diagnosis. I was not
4:41 feeling well. Now when I sat here on your last show, I had thyroid cancer and I didn't know it.
4:48 Wow. Wow. How long ago was that, Janet?
4:52 I guess I was here probably I wanna say 2011 or 12, right along there. Wow. And I must say, you know, I was tired when I was here. I didn't feel
5:04 sick. But see when I came here previously years I've written like 10, 11, maybe I think there's 12 books that I've written. So I'd be writing 1 and promoting the previous 1. So it was a cycle
5:16 and then taking care of my home and family, doing radio shows. Believe as I ironed, as I mop the floors, I'd be doing radio shows. I was really passionate about what I did. God called me
5:28 to do this work. I'm sure of it. And, but I grew more and more tired and my daughter was not well from age 12 on and I spent every waking hour
5:40 trying to help her as well. And no doctor could find anything wrong. I took her everywhere. No. She's fine. She's fine. She's fine. No. She wasn't. A mother knows.
5:50 Oh, of course.
5:50 And they say a mother's only as happy as her as her happiest child. You know? So I mean, no only is what a mother's as sad as her what is it? Her mother is is Happy as a saddest child. Yep.
6:02 There we go. And so it that was so true during that during that time. And so I went home after the show and, last time I was here, and she started to get worse. And I began to take her
6:14 to more and more doctors. 40 doctors in all. Make a long story short, I spent thousands of dollars. Doctors that didn't take insurance, you know, specialists,
6:26 alternative therapy. I took her everywhere. No help. Okay. Out of the blue a nurse practitioner and we stayed in prayer with Lord show us what this is. And she goes let
6:38 me check you for thyroid antibodies. I go what is that? She goes let me test you. 2 days later calls me. Honey you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis. It's autoimmune disease of
6:50 your thyroid. And I go what do I do now? She goes well you can take a thyroid pill and you'll be fine. Well that couldn't have been further from the truth. Yeah. Okay. Because it's autoimmune. It's
7:01 all encompassing. You know we're not just a thyroid. It affects everything. But Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease that attacks just the thyroid, but there are many other
7:13 autoimmune issues going on at the same time. 1 sponsor Wait a minute.
7:17 There are people watching this program Yes. Who have children, probably young adults and so on
7:23 Yes.
7:23 That they're concerned about. And so I want you to call in with their names because you had a lot of prayer going here.
7:29 Yes.
7:30 You told me about your daughter, how she prayed. We wanna pray for you. Yes. We wanna hear from you. And, you know, we pray, we believe, we have stacks of testimonies Yes. Of people who've been
7:42 healed. Called in on this program. I met a lot of them personally in kinda casual situations. But I think too. You know, folks, knowledge helps you. And doctor Janice's guide to
7:53 thyroid health, when this affects our whole life, you know, you need to get it. So say, I wanna get a copy of that too. You know, sometimes folks, we can just be
8:05 stupid. Yeah. We have all these things, but we kinda pass them off and don't do anything about them or we just worry. Hey, don't worry. Get the answer.
8:14 Get the help. Yes. Yes. So there are so what I wanna get across to everybody listening and watching, you must get the right tests. Okay? And I'm gonna give you the
8:25 test. Now normally again a doctor will normally do just a TSH when they check your they do your blood work. TSH thyroid stimulating hormone
8:37 means okay how well your thyroid gland and your pituitary are working together. Well that's not really what you need to know and they're thinking about doing away with that test as a matter of fact.
8:49 But talking about the test as it is now, there's a range from 0 to 4. If you fall in that range, they consider you normal. But ideally what I've learned most women feel
9:00 better around 1 or 2. But with when you have a 4 you know they go oh you're still fine you're within range. But really a lot of women feel very very badly when
9:12 their TSH is 4. Okay. Now there is straight hypothyroidism. Okay. But 80 percent of the cases of hypothyroidism are autoimmune. Okay? So what they need to get
9:25 and request, they need to listen.
9:28 Yeah tell them to listen.
9:30 Listen. Listen. Okay. Because for 40 years I was undiagnosed. I had autoimmune thyroid disease. So what you need to ask
9:41 for, ask for TSH which is important, but more importantly is TPO antibodies. Thyroid peroxidase antibodies,
9:54 and also TG antibodies, thyroglobulin antibodies. If they're elevated, that means you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis. And that's
10:06 a whole different ballgame. It's not straight hypothyroidism. It is a full on autoimmune disease and there's a lot that you need to do to take care of yourself and help turn it around because it can lead
10:18 to so many other diseases when it comes to the autoimmune system. So that's what the book is about. It's my story. You've got to know. You've got to walk through it with me because you will see yourself in
10:29 there. If you have any hint of thyroid disease, you will see yourself in my story and that's why I put it in there. God brought me through it and he can bring you through it too. And I'm giving you the blueprint
10:41 on how to do it.
10:43 Totally good. And you say, you know, you need to know get to know your thyroid.
10:49 Get to know your thyroid.
10:50 We don't even know how to spell it sometimes.
10:52 And you know, I don't want people to get to diagnosis in days instead of decades. Don't waste decades of your life feeling horrible and also
11:04 setting the stage for other conditions like congestive heart failure. I mean, not to speak fear. I'm just telling you it's a fact that your thyroid is not working right and they miss it for
11:16 years. Congestive heart failure, dementia, you know. I mean, it's really it doesn't
11:22 Dementia is a big
11:23 Well, it's a huge 1. I mean, I saw my mother with, you know, pass from that. And, you know, in congestive heart, I mean, my goodness. And circulatory problems and, you know, digestive problems. And again, leaky
11:35 gut is a big is a big part of this. And I know I'm kind of moving fast, but leaky gut is at the basis of all autoimmunity. And so gluten now watch this.
11:47 Now let me take it a step further. What I learned after the diagnosis, okay, and after I had to have the thyroid removed due to the papillary thyroid cancer, which I
11:59 pushed a radiologist, I pushed them to do the biopsies, push push push and on my daughter too. She doesn't need it. She doesn't need it. I pushed them and pushed them. They found it. The surgeries
12:11 were done.
12:12 Now hold on. We're gonna be right back, and this is very important for you. You know, you're going to get wisdom that could absolutely change your life,
12:25 Also, the lives of others. So stay right there. Don't forget,
12:30 we're
12:30 coming right back. The best I'm telling you, the best is yet to come, and I want to be sure you get the best.
12:41 With over 200 varying symptoms, thyroid disease is often an undetected and under treated disease, leaving countless sufferers unhappy and unhealthy. The demand for answers is urgent as thyroid
12:53 disease has reached epidemic proportions. In her new book, doctor Janet's guide to thyroid health, doctor Janet Macaro shares her experience as a survivor of Hashimoto thyroiditis and thyroid cancer
13:05 to help people who are suffering with undiagnosed ailments related to the thyroid. For your gift of 35 dollars or more, we will send you doctor Makaro's book along with Marilyn's total healing 2 CD teaching
13:17 set. Through this teaching, you will answer how healing ties into your overall relationship with God and how to keep sickness from returning, live in divine health, and bring healing to others. We will also send
13:29 our healing scripture card filled with encouraging words of life. It's your body. It's your health. Take charge of it today. Call or click today for this valuable resource.
13:42 Are you tired? Are you broken? Do you feel far from God? God says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your
13:54 heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. I want you to call out to God today. God loves you. He is listening.
14:06 He is a God of love and a God of life.
Diagnosis Tests and Leaky Gut Secrets
14:12 We're so glad you're watching and so glad to have doctor Janet with us. Now, of course, I wanna tell you, you gotta grab this book because this time together is short, pithy. We try to get everything out of it for you.
14:23 However, the book, doctor Janet's Guide to Thyroid Health, has way more than what we could ever cover, in this time together. So make sure you grab a couple of copies. It'll be super helpful. It's a tremendous
14:35 resource, not only of her journey, similar to probably some of your journey, but also how to get out of this stuff. Now, doctor Jana, 1 of the things you said is you referred just in the past little segment there about
14:46 leaky gut. Yes. That sounds weird. What is that?
14:49 Okay. Well, there's a lot of information coming out about leaky gut right now because we know that 75 percent of our immune system is in our gut. And so through a lot of things that
15:01 happened, for example, too many antibiotics, poor dietary practice, too many sugars and things in our diet, and people who do drink can ruin their, you know,
15:13 microbiota, it's called, of their gut. K. Your micro fauna. Right? Yes. I call it restock your healthy pond with good flora. But Right. Okay. So a lot of things can wipe out that flora. But
15:25 that's 1 thing. That's your that's your balance. But leaky gut happens when now specifically for when we talk about thyroid. There's a distinct connection between wheat gluten,
15:37 okay, and Hashimoto's thyroid disease. It has an affinity to inflame the gut. Okay? So what I found out was when you eat gluten, alright, a lot of people are
15:48 gluten sensitive these days. As a matter of fact, last night when I was getting ready for the show, I saw a vitamin, a very popular vitamin for seniors. It says gluten
16:00 free. Now gluten free. A lot of things are gluten free. What is going on? With the finding that gluten inflames the gut. And when it goes to the gut and causes inflammation, it
16:12 signals a protein called zonulin. And zonulin causes the gut, the junctures in the intestinal tract to open. Okay? Like open the gates. What happens
16:24 is food particles, any bacteria or anything escape into the bloodstream and travel to different organs of the body and cause inflammation because the body goes, hey. This doesn't belong
16:35 here. Let's attack it as if it was a for a pathogen of some kind or a bacteria. And so you begin to ache all over. Some people have celiac disease and can't have gluten because it can be
16:47 very devastating results. Even cause cancer. But for people who have autoimmune disease, it's very imperative that you eliminate gluten. K? And start to heal
16:59 that gut. That's number 1 to help beat this thing. Any any kind of autoimmune disease, they know there's a leaky gut connection. So Awesome to me
17:10 because I I'm so simple minded. I didn't know about the inflammation. Yes. You know? And why? That's leaky gut stuff.
17:19 Leaky gut. Oh, yes. Wow. And if you've had now in my life, I'll go back just to give an example. I grew up in anti I had antibiotics given to me every single day as a little girl
17:31 because they wanted to prevent rheumatic fever. Wow. And so what did that do to me? It was 10 VK back in the day. Every day of public health health nurse would come every week
17:43 and check off to make sure I took it. Well that destroyed my ecosystem. You know, my my my pond was stripped of healthy flora. So I had all kinds of problems growing up as a
17:55 result. Now they're learning that, you know, 1 doctor told me that he considers a good probiotic better than a multivitamin in today's world. More important than
18:07 a multivitamin. Wow. Because you get more nutrition when your gut is healthy. Otherwise, you know, your mineral balance is off. Everything is off when you have a lucky leaky gut.
18:19 See, I know some of you are saying, wow. You're reading my mail. Mhmm. Or you're reading the mail of my maid or someone I know. And you need this information. You need to read the book.
18:30 Because, folks, I want to walk in health. This is so key, and I believe God wants you to walk in health. So please call us. And, of course, call us with prayer requests.
18:42 We love to pray, but we get answers. We don't just pray. We get answers. But the book, doctor Janice's Guide to Thyroid Health. When I look at the table of contents,
18:54 I look at her story, I look at the food she tells you you should eat. Mhmm. How do I identify some of these things? You say, well, you know, I feel like my brain is scrambled. I'm just up in the air. Well, this will take
19:06 you out of being up in the air
19:07 Yes.
19:08 To knowing how to walk in wisdom and to walk in good health. So please call in. Get 2 or 3 of these. Be a blessing to other people. You will love it. Don't you agree?
19:20 I agree. And, you know, leaky gut, as far as how it affects your thyroid, I mean, your your ingestion and digestion system, all that stuff starts to leak into your bloodstream.
19:30 That's right.
19:31 But then what does that do to your thyroid?
19:33 Well, clean, again, the your the lining of your intestinal tract is similar to the tissue in your thyroid. So it attacks both. It has an affinity for the gland thyroid gland and the intestinal
19:45 tract. So those 2 are connected. So somebody told me I had a health practitioner say to me, you know, you need to kind of start looking at gluten and the fact that they found Hashimoto's. And I
19:57 go, you know, I didn't really pay that much attention. Then I started looking as, oh my goodness. It makes perfect sense. And then I noticed that gluten plays a part. So many people can't eat gluten.
20:09 So many people because of what's being done to the wheat these days. We can't we can't have what we used to have. And so many people children are having
20:21 autoimmune diseases at very young ages. 20 and 30 years ago, doctors that was unheard of. And they didn't even look for autoimmunity that much 20 and 30 years ago. There really wasn't a concern.
20:33 But now autoimmunity, people are sitting in doctor's offices full of autoimmune diseases and they need a doctor for every system of their body with lupus and MS and
20:44 Hashimoto's and Graves' and all these different things. You've got to go to the root cause and you've got to manage your stress and that's where prayer comes in. Prayer is a big stress reliever.
20:57 That's a big deal. I like the way you wear the butterfly.
21:00 Yes. To show. Every day Yes. I have quite a collection, Marilyn.
21:04 Okay. I have
21:04 quite a collection. Every day, I wear a butterfly somewhere on my body and people ask me what's it doing over here. I put them in odd places.
21:12 Okay.
21:13 So they and they go, what's that all about? I go, that is to tell the world I am a I am a thyroid cancer survivor and I'm proud of it. And God brought me through it, you know. And if and if they wanna know about
21:25 thyroid, I have just the book for them. 1 in 5 women have thyroid issues. 1 in 5.
21:34 Are you listening to this? Duh. Are you 1 of those? And, of course, we want to pray, but, folks, we don't need to be stupid about things when knowledge is so
21:45 available to us. So be sure when you call in that you get the book. Now don't just get it and put it on a shelf. It's not gonna help you on a shelf. It's gonna help you if you read it. So
21:57 I'm I'm nagging you. I'm old enough to be a nag.
Supplements, Prayer, and Total Healing
22:01 And, you know, doctor Janet, just briefly here before we finish up. You have a couple of vitamins Yes. Here, and, help us with that.
22:08 1 is very, very, very important. Vitamin d. Now they find that in most, well, most all autoimmune diseases, vitamin d levels are low whether
22:20 it's because they're not getting enough sunlight or the disease itself causes the levels to drop. So everybody needs to be supplementing with vitamin d 3. Yep. They can have their levels
22:31 tested to see where they are. They'll know how much they need to take.
22:35 And zinc? I can I can say that 1?
22:37 Yes. Zinc along with selenium, which I didn't bring. I had it somewhere and I, you know, I have it another bag probably. But selenium, just remember selenium and zinc are very important
22:49 for thyroid health. Selenium especially helps your body convert t 4 thyroid hormone into active t 3 which makes you feel good.
22:59 And the last 1?
23:00 Ashwagandha is an Indian adaptogenic herb that helps support your adrenal glands. So when you're under a lot of stress and you happen to have a thyroid
23:12 issue, it helps give great support to that adrenal gland. Nice. Those adrenal glands. Awesome. So there's a lot to learn, but And all of it in the book. All in there.
23:22 So grab the
23:23 book, Get a couple of copies. You wanna give them to all your friends because, really, these symptoms are super common, super easy to to recognize, but, also, God can give you wisdom on how to overcome
23:35 those things
23:35 That's right.
23:36 Through the presence of the Holy Spirit, but also through some supernatural wisdom. And this book, you can download in your heart today.
23:44 Hey. I want you to come with us on Marilyn Hickey Ministries Footsteps of Paul tour this fall. We will be traveling to Italy, Greece, and Turkey, looking at many of the churches that Paul went to and where he wrote most
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24:56 12, this book will help you to not only recognize your individual motivational gifts, but best live a life that helps you to walk in the purpose that God has for you. Go ahead and go on our
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25:14 With over 200 varying symptoms, thyroid disease is often an undetected and under treated disease, leaving countless sufferers unhappy and unhealthy. The demand for answers is urgent as thyroid
25:26 disease has reached epidemic proportions. In her new book, doctor Janet's guide to thyroid health, doctor Janet Macaro shares her experience as a survivor of Hashimoto thyroiditis and thyroid cancer
25:38 to help people who are suffering with undiagnosed ailments related to the thyroid. For your gift of 35 dollars or more, we will send you doctor Makaro's book along with Maryland's total healing 2 CD teaching
25:49 set. Through this teaching, you will answer how healing ties into
25:52 your overall relationship with God and
25:53 how to keep sickness from returning. Live and sickness from returning, live in divine health, and bring healing to others. We will also send our healing scripture card filled with encouraging words of
26:04 life. It's your body. It's your health. Take charge of it today. Call or click today for this valuable resource.
26:15 I know you're thinking, I could really use some prayer. So I want doctor Janet to pray for you. This is opportunity. So just put your hand on your heart, and you pray for
26:27 them.
26:27 I'd be glad to. Father, I pray for everybody watching who has a need in their life. Maybe they're dealing with an illness that
26:39 there seems to be no answer to. Maybe their child has a disease that there's no seems to be no answer to. I've been there father. I know that you delivered my
26:50 children and me from a very serious issue. I know that you can do it for all the people listening. I pray father God that you send the Holy Spirit to give
27:02 them comfort, to heal their bodies, their minds. Give them peace, Lord, during this walk as you lead them, as you heal them. Give them your wisdom, your knowledge.
27:14 Set them free and from their diseases. And you know that you're their healer and I know it. So everybody watching know that he's a God that healeth
27:26 thee. He's done it for me. He's done it for thousands throughout all time. We ask this in Jesus' precious name. Amen.
27:35 Amen. That is so great. Doctor Janet, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's good. We love having you with
27:41 us. I love being here.
27:42 You're the best. Love it.
27:43 You're the best.
27:44 You know, I just encourage you if you haven't gotten your book yet, grab it. It's huge resource for you and absolutely wisdom of God to help you walk this out and not live in in all these symptoms and all these pains and
27:56 all this, you know, oh my goodness, discouraging news from doctors and everything. Grab your book. It'll be a tremendous blessing. Give it to your friends. And we're just grateful because we know that God is our healer,
28:07 and God heals us in so many ways. Let's cooperate with all those different ways that God heals us today.
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