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Brandy Searcy

Brandy Searcy’s a pharmaceutical research scientist whose personal journey with Hashimoto’s forced her to become self-taught in the wide-ranging impacts of thyroid on hormone balance and overall health. She's on a mission to help women frustrated with being dismissed by their doctors and tired of living with symptoms they know they shouldn't have, figure out what's really going on and reclaim wellness. Connect with Brandy at shesbalancedatgmail.com.

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Is This Why PCOS and Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Often Occur Together?

by Brandy Searcy
February 27, 2025
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I went hot, then cold, then started cursing my doctor. Not that it was his fault. Just another case of the blind

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Are You More at Risk of Melanoma When You Have a Thyroid Problem?

by Brandy Searcy
July 18, 2024
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Melanoma and HypothyroidismMy grandmother was diagnosed with a rare type of melanoma in 2016. By that time, I’d already been researching skin

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DIM and LUFS: Decoding the Hormonal Alphabet Soup

by Brandy Searcy
January 4, 2024
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My last cycle tracked with a luteinized unruptured follicle (LUF). LUF or LUF syndrome (LUFS) happens when follicles develop, but ovulation doesn’t

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How Hormones Rise and Fall Throughout the Menstrual Cycle

by Brandy Searcy
October 31, 2023
4586 views

Fertility Awareness Method For ContraceptionBack in 2012, I was really sick and while we were trying to figure out what was going

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Birth Control and UTIs: The Insulin Connection

by Brandy Searcy
September 26, 2023
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To step on a soapbox straight from the start, many people treat UTIs (urinary tract infections) as trivial, but when you’re dealing

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Hormones, Birth Control, and Insulin Resistance

by Brandy Searcy
September 18, 2023
5331 views

Little known fact. Your reproductive hormones influence how your body responds to insulin. The artificial hormones in hormonal birth control also play

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