Jenn Todryk Shares Emotional Health Milestone After Decade-Long Battle With Hashimoto’s Disease

Published by Staff Writer on April 6, 2026 April 6, 2026

For over ten years, former HGTV star Jenn Todryk has been living with Hashimoto’s disease — and for most of that time, the news only got worse. On Saturday, April 4, the No Demo Reno host broke down on social media after receiving lab results she never thought she’d see.

Her Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) antibody levels — a key marker of the autoimmune inflammation that defines Hashimoto’s — had dropped to 257. For someone whose numbers once exceeded 1,000 at the time of diagnosis and were still hovering above 5,000 just two blood draws ago, the improvement was staggering. In her post, Todryk wrote that she had never seen her inflammation this low and was still processing the results.

The emotional weight of the moment was clear. Todryk shared that she initially didn’t believe the numbers and told her doctor she wanted a redraw. But when she saw that her hormones, iron, B12, and T3 had all improved as well, the reality set in. She admitted she was moved to tears and wasn’t quite ready to discuss it in detail because the emotions kept overwhelming her.

Todryk’s journey with thyroid disease stretches back to 2014, when she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism at age 26. Her earliest symptom was a persistent, unexplained sensitivity to cold — feeling freezing even in sweltering summer heat. It took several more years and a switch to a functional medicine doctor before Hashimoto’s was officially confirmed in 2017. The condition is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the thyroid gland, gradually destroying its ability to produce hormones and leaving the body in a chronic state of inflammation.

In a September 2025 episode of her podcast You, Me & Mike, co-hosted with husband Mike Todryk, she described what the disease feels like on a daily basis: an exhaustion comparable to pregnancy fatigue or the end of a grueling 16-hour shift, with episodes striking once or twice a month. She called Hashimoto’s a part of her identity — something she thinks about every single day.

Todryk has also been vocal about the broader implications of thyroid misdiagnosis, particularly for women. In a 2023 interview, she described hormonal misdiagnosis as a silent epidemic, noting that she regularly hears from women who were dismissed or treated for the wrong condition before finally getting answers about their thyroid. According to the American Thyroid Association, roughly 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease, and up to 60 percent of them may be unaware of their condition.

Her own health struggles have intersected with deeply personal experiences, including a miscarriage that was later linked to critically low progesterone — a hormone that an underactive thyroid can suppress. That discovery, made by a new OB-GYN, changed the course of her subsequent pregnancies.

Now, after more than a decade of watching her numbers climb, Todryk’s April update represents a genuine turning point. Her post closed with a line that captured years of frustration finally giving way to hope: over ten years of being told it had gotten worse, and now, for the first time, it hadn’t. For the millions of people quietly managing autoimmune conditions behind cheerful public faces, her raw, tearful celebration on a Saturday morning may be the most relatable thing she’s ever shared.