Gillian McKeith's Food Bible (50 page)

If you are a compulsive eater, take a tyrosine supplement (500 mg, four times a day) along with a zinc supplement (50 mg daily).

Thyroid self-check

Cold hands and/or feet

Constant headaches

Constipation

Exhaustion, even after sleeping for hours

Feeling cold all the time

Inability to sweat

Infertility

Lethargy in the mornings, while feeling energetic at night

Loss of outer third of eyebrow hair

No desire for sex

Permanent heel cracks

PMS

Swollen eyelids, ankles, or hands