Nancy's Nourishing Spoon

Nancy's Nourishing Spoon I'm a Pharmacist and a Certified Holistic Nutritional Consultant. Thyroid & hormone health expert

My goal is to help you get to the ROOT of your hormonal & thyroid health issues via functional medicine.

08/26/2026

In 2014, I was training for a 125km ultramarathon through the Canadian Rockies: Three mountain summits, 17,000 feet of elevation change. I thought I was at my healthiest.

I was wrong.

Brain fog, constant fatigue, heart palpitations. I was a pharmacist and I knew about labs, protocols and medication. And I still missed what was happening in my own body, because I was doing everything “right” and nobody thinks hypothyroidism shows up when you’re thriving.

That experience is exactly why I built The Thyroid Clarity Session. It’s for the woman who’s been dismissed, told her labs are fine, and left more confused than when she walked in.

60 minutes - One clear plan - No more guessing

I have 4 spots open this month. Link in bio to grab one, or send me a DM if you have questions.

08/25/2026

If I had to throw out every supplement I own and keep exactly one, it’s this one.

Magnesium. Travel bag, sick days, working long hours. No exceptions.

Here’s why. Magnesium is a cofactor in over 300 reactions in your body, which is a very boring way of saying: energy production, blood sugar, sleep, muscle function, stress response, bowels. (Yes, bowels. We’re all adults here.)

For my thyroid, it matters more than most women realize. Low magnesium has been linked to higher TSH and higher thyroid antibodies, and your body needs it to help convert T4 into the T3 your cells actually use.

And as a runner? You lose it through sweat, and your muscles need magnesium to relax, not just contract. Cramping calves and a brain that won’t shut off at 11pm are often the same story.

Now the pharmacist part, because almost nobody tells you this: if you’re on levothyroxine, your magnesium needs to be at least 4 hours away from your dose. Take them together and you’re blocking absorption of the medication you’re relying on. I see it constantly behind the counter.

Boring. Not sexy. Steady.

Comment MAGNESIUM if you want to know which form is right for you, because they are NOT interchangeable.

Your TSH can be “normal” and you can still have hypothyroid symptoms. Here’s why.TSH doesn’t measure your thyroid direct...
08/17/2026

Your TSH can be “normal” and you can still have hypothyroid symptoms. Here’s why.

TSH doesn’t measure your thyroid directly. It measures how hard your pituitary is working to signal it. When your thyroid hormone runs low, TSH rises to compensate. When it’s high, TSH drops. It’s a signal, not a direct reading, and the “normal” range is wide enough that where you feel best inside it isn’t the same for everyone.

That’s why two things can both be true: your TSH looks fine on paper, and you’re still exhausted, foggy, and not yourself. A fuller picture usually includes Free T4, Free T3, and thyroid antibodies too, not just one number.

This is exactly what we go through in a Thyroid Clarity Session, your actual labs, what they mean, and what’s still worth asking for. A few spots are still open this month. Link in bio. 🤍

08/14/2026

If you’ve Googled “why am I so tired all the time” more than once this month, this one’s for you.

Eight hours of sleep and you still can’t think straight by 2pm. You’ve cut sugar, added protein, started walking more, and nothing’s moved. And you’re sitting across from a doctor hearing “everything looks normal” while your body is telling you something completely different.

That’s the exact place I work. Not just your numbers, what’s actually happening in your body. It’s the whole reason the Thyroid Clarity Session exists.

If this sounds like you, link in bio. 🤍

What actually happens in a Thyroid Clarity Session?Not another appointment where you leave with “let’s just keep an eye ...
08/12/2026

What actually happens in a Thyroid Clarity Session?

Not another appointment where you leave with “let’s just keep an eye on it.” Not a generic protocol you found online.

You get an actual plan, built around YOUR body.

In 60 minutes, we go through:

✅ Your actual labs, or figure out which ones you need. ✅Your symptoms and history, the full picture, not just one number on a page.
✅And you leave with one clear next step, no more guessing.

This is for you if you’ve been told your labs are normal and you know that’s not the whole story.

4 spots open this month. Link in bio to grab one, or DM me with questions. 🤍

“I’m already on medication, why would I need this?”I hear this on almost every discovery call. Fair question. Here’s the...
08/10/2026

“I’m already on medication, why would I need this?”

I hear this on almost every discovery call. Fair question. Here’s the honest answer.

Your prescription does one job: it replaces the hormone your thyroid isn’t making enough of. That’s it. It doesn’t touch your blood sugar. It doesn’t touch your cortisol. It doesn’t touch your gut or your sleep. And all four of those change how well your body actually uses and makes that hormone.

I see this over and over as a pharmacist. Dose looks perfect on paper, and TSH is in range, BUT patient is still exhausted, foggy, and stuck at a weight that won’t move.

Nothing is wrong with the prescription. Everything around it is being ignored.

That’s the gap. Not instead of your medication, alongside it.

I’m keeping my calendar lighter than usual this month, so if you’re on meds and still not feeling like yourself, comment RESET and I’ll send you the details. A few spots left in August. 👇

You don’t need to exercise harder for your thyroid. You need to exercise smarter.If you’re doing intense cardio five day...
07/30/2026

You don’t need to exercise harder for your thyroid. You need to exercise smarter.

If you’re doing intense cardio five days a week and still exhausted, still not losing weight, still feeling wired but tired, the workout might be part of the problem, not the solution. Overtraining is a stressor. Chronic stress raises cortisol. Cortisol interferes with how your body converts thyroid hormone into the form it can actually use.

I didn’t learn this in a textbook. I learned it training for the Canadian Death Race, 125km through the Rockies, three summits. I thought I’d never been fitter. My thyroid told a different story.

Here’s what I’d add now that I didn’t understand then: it’s not just the type of movement that matters. It’s whether you actually want to be doing it. Forcing yourself through workouts you dread is still a stress signal to your body, the same way forcing yourself to stay quiet when you need to say something is a stress signal. Your nervous system doesn’t always separate the two.

Choose movement you’d do even on a day nobody was watching. That’s the version your thyroid can actually work with.

Save this for the next time someone tells you to just push harder.

This is me this morning, running in the rain. Not because I pushed through it. Because I actually wanted to be there.If...
07/27/2026

This is me this morning, running in the rain. Not because I pushed through it. Because I actually wanted to be there.

If you’ve been told exercise is the fix for your thyroid symptoms, or the reason you can’t lose weight no matter how hard you train, you’ve probably felt like your body is working against you either way.

Here’s the reframe: movement can genuinely support thyroid function. But it has to be the right kind, at the right dose, for your nervous system.

Overtraining raises cortisol and chronically high cortisol suppresses thyroid conversion (the process that turns T4 into the active T3 your cells actually use). I learned this the hard way training for a 125km ultramarathon through the Rockies. I thought I was at my peak, but my thyroid disagreed.

There’s another layer that doesn’t get talked about enough. When we do movement we don’t actually enjoy, or push through workouts out of guilt instead of desire, that’s still a stressor. Same as staying quiet when you need to speak up, or shrinking yourself to keep the peace. Your body doesn’t always distinguish between “I’m forcing my body through a workout I hate” and “I’m forcing myself to stay silent.” Both read as chronic low-grade stress.

So the movement that actually supports your thyroid isn’t the most intense option. It’s the one you’d choose even on a day nobody was watching. Even a rainy Monday.

Save this for the next time someone tells you to just “push through it.”

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