Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut,” and Georgia Lennard’s “hellish” experience with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is no exception.
How I beat my nightmare thyroid
Always more easily fatigued than other children her age as a child, Georgia can’t remember a time when she didn’t have to push herself to keep up with the others. She didn’t think anything of it until she was almost out of her college years, finishing her studies to become a nutritional therapist in London after moving there from Cape Town, South Africa.
“When I got to London I pushed myself a lot,” she says. “Everything was new, I didn’t know anyone, and I was only 22 years old. I didn’t know how to manage stress, and I think that made me even more tired and anxious. I already suffered from anxiety and low energy and things like that. And I became really stressed out.”
Hashimoto’s ran in her family, but at the time she never considered that. After graduation with a degree in nutritional therapy, she went on to earn other health credentials, eventually becoming an advanced physical rehabilitation trainer.
With her husband, she opened Beyond Balance, a physical rehabilitation and
