Healing Hashimoto’s: How Stress and Gut Health Impact Thyroid Health

What if the symptoms you’ve been dismissing for years are actually your body’s SOS signal?

In this episode, I sit down with Anna Pinnock, a registered nutritional therapist who helps people heal autoimmune diseases, thyroid conditions, and chronic health issues by getting to the root cause. Anna’s own healing journey began with a Hashimoto’s diagnosis in her early twenties—followed by years of fatigue, bloating, hair loss, and doctors telling her “everything looks normal.”

Her story is one of deep self-discovery, functional nutrition, trauma healing, and the realization that food, stress, and the nervous system play a far bigger role in autoimmune conditions than most of us realize.

We explore how stress suppresses thyroid function, how gut inflammation drives autoimmune flares, why complex carbohydrates triggered years of unresolved symptoms, and how changing her diet transformed her life—and eventually guided her into the world of nutritional therapy.

Listen to the full episode to learn how to support your thyroid, heal your gut, and take back control of your energy and health.

Topics Covered:

• Anna’s 15-year journey with Hashimoto’s disease

• Why so many thyroid symptoms get dismissed as “normal”

• How stress and trauma suppress thyroid function

• The link between cortisol, metabolism, and chronic fatigue

• The Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD): how it works and who it helps

• Gut inflammation, malabsorption, and persistent bloating

• Why dietary healing must be paired with stress regulation

• How to reintroduce foods after an elimination protocol

• Why one-size-fits-all diets don’t work

• Functional testing and the power of individualized nutrition

• Becoming open-minded in healing and alternative modalities

• The 4 pillars everyone with autoimmunity must address

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