The Best Diet For An Underactive Thyroid: Splitting Fact From Fiction? Watch the video instead. Closed captions are available. What is an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism)? The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland on the front of your throat. ![]() ![]() Iodine is an essential trace element that all living organisms need. Our thyroid gland requires iodine to produce thyroid hormones. For that reason, a deficiency in. ![]() TSH instructs it to produces two different thyroid hormones – thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). These are necessary to send instructions to every single cell in your body. Without these hormones, many metabolic processes break down. An underactive thyroid (hypothyroid in a medical context) refers to when the gland doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormone. Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (an autoimmune disease) is by far the most common form of hypothyroidism in the Western world. ![]() In almost all cases hypothyroidism is the result of inadequate T4 production, rather than inadequate T3. Conventional diagnosis relies on TSH and T4 blood tests, however there’s good reason to believe those tests alone are inadequate. Left untreated, an underactive thyroid will lead to a host of health problems including weight gain, hair loss, fatigue, poor memory and feeling unusually cold. ![]() ![]() This 3- minute TED- Ed animation is great if you want a bit more detail. Conventional treatment for an underactive thyroid is with the hormone levothyroxine (LT4 or Synthroid). It works by replacing the T4 that is not being naturally produced, and is the most effective treatment for this condition. Summary: The thyroid gland is fundamental to many metabolic processes. An underactive thyroid refers to when it doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormone. Diet alone cannot cure hypothyroidism. Food on its own cannot cure or independently treat a diagnosed case of hypothyroidism. Hormone replacement therapy with prescription medication, such as LT4, is necessary to restore thyroid function. That’s why LT4 is absolutely essential for any health care system. In saying that, if you have underlying nutrient deficiencies or food intolerance that remains untreated, LT4 becomes a bandaid that doesn’t treat the root problem. It’s important to note that if you use LT4, take it before or well outside of meal times. Absorption of the T4 hormone is greatly reduced if consumed alongside food, especially soy, high- fibre foods and coffee (2). Summary: There is no one food or diet that can correct an underactive thyroid on its own. Thyroid hormones must be replaced through medication. Iodine and thyroid function. Iodine is an essential trace element that all living organisms need. Our thyroid gland requires iodine to produce thyroid hormones. For that reason, a deficiency in iodine can lead to an underactive thyroid. ![]() However, a lack of iodine is rarely the cause of hypothyroidism in developed countries where it is abundant in the food supply (3). Nevertheless, including iodine- rich foods in your diet is a good idea to be safe. Navy beans, potatoes, eggs, cow’s milk and iodised salt are great food sources of iodine, although levels often depend on iodine content in the soil. Seafood is also iodine- rich as marine animals can concentrate iodine from seawater. ![]() ![]() Note that if you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (strong majority of all hypothyroidism cases) then speak with your doctor before increasing iodine intake. It can be helpful, but in particular circumstances an increase in iodine can actually irritate the thyroid. Iodine supplements are unnecessary in most cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) deems a population iodine deficient if urine concentration levels are less than 1. L. Americans had a median level of 1. L in 2. 00. 3- 2. Australians were at 1. Learn how to treat your dog's allergies & injuries with simple, natural remedies you can make at home. Plus tips to keep them happy and healthy every day. Joy Behar: Say Anything! Genre: Talk show: Presented by: Joy Behar: Country of origin: United States: Original language(s) English: No. This article is a transcript of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Hall Monitor" from season one, which aired on August 28, 1999. Puff's Boating School. L in 2. 01. 1- 2. Most developed nations are also well above the deficiency level, which is why iodine- related hypothyroidism is so uncommon. To ensure rates remain low, more than 1. Note this process isn’t mandatory in the US, but more than half of all salt sold there does contain added iodine (5, 6). Therefore, if you eat a healthy diet that contains some iodine- rich foods, it is highly likely you consume sufficient amounts of iodine. Supplemental iodine is not recommended for the general public, and has actually been shown to cause further thyroid dysfunction in some instances (7). The big exception to this rule is if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Iodine requirements increase by more than 6. Women who fall into this category should definitely be supplementing with iodine, as per the World Health Organisation’s recommendations. ![]()
You can find a good range of iodine supplements on Amazon (disclosure: this is an affiliate link), but please consult with your doctor before you start taking them. Summary: As iodine is required for thyroid hormone production, ensure your diet contains foods naturally rich in iodine (but if you have Hashimoto’s then check first with your doctor). Unless you are pregnant or breastfeeding, iodine supplements probably won’t be beneficial. Supplemental selenium is not warranted and can have side effects. There is a theory that low selenium levels contribute to hypothyroidism through different mechanisms related to iodine. But a 2. 01. 3 Cochrane review of the research concluded evidence is lacking to definitively support or refute the use of selenium supplements (8). So the benefits remain unclear, but the known side- effects of selenium supplementation include digestive issues, hair loss, fatigue, and irritability. It may even greatly increase the risk of prostate cancer in men (9). It’s fair to say the risks outweigh the benefits at this stage. Additionally, those with a low iodine status who supplement selenium may in fact aggravate hypothyroidism. For this reason it’s best to stick with selenium- rich foods like Brazil nuts, mushrooms, meat and fish, which are far less potent than supplements. Summary: Be sure to include selenium- rich foods in your diet, but selenium supplements are unproven to help and linked with several health issues. Cruciferous vegetables as part of an underactive thyroid diet. Goitrogens are naturally occurring substances that can potentially inhibit thyroid production (1. Vegetables from the cruciferae family are known goitrogens. They include brussels sprouts, broccoli, bok choy, cauliflower, cabbage, kale and more. In theory then, eating these vegetables would aggravate an underactive thyroid and should be largely avoided. But this is only the case if you are iodine deficient or you consume ridiculously large quantities. Raw cabbage was very problematic in rats when it made up a whopping 3. One lady also managed to put herself into a coma by eating 1- 1. Assuming you don’t eat phenomenal amounts of raw cruciferous vegetables, you are most likely safe. Frequent intake will only aggravate issues if your iodine intake is poor or you have a goiter. Additionally, cooking cruciferous vegetables and other foods containing goitrogens are thought to greatly reduce its potential impact. A small study in 1. As cruciferous vegetables are so nutrient dense, it’s certainly not recommended to cut them out of your diet completely. Rather, ensure you cook them well and that your iodine intake is adequate. Summary: If you don’t have a goiter or low iodine levels, cruciferous vegetables are safe when cooked well and eaten in regular amounts. The risk only outweighs the benefit if they are consumed in ridiculously large quantities and/or raw. Limit or eliminate gluten for a hypothyroid diet. Gluten is a protein found in grain and wheat that is not well- digested by around 6% of people. While it’s fair to say the “gluten- free movement” has gotten out of hand, those with genuine gluten issues are at an increased risk for many health conditions (such as fibromyalgia) if they continue to consume it. And numerous studies have shown a strong link between so- called gluten sensitivity (as well as celiac disease) and hypothyroidism. For those hypersensitive to gluten, it is thought their immune system can confuse components of gluten with thyroid tissue. The immune system then mistakenly attacks and damages the thyroid gland, characteristic of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. In fact, around 1. Going by this theory, an individual with Hashimoto’s will not improve unless gluten is removed from the diet. I explain it here in this video: Many studies have found that a gluten- free diet reduces the number of antithyroid antibodies, which is favourable for treatment and in preventing new issues (1. However, there are also good studies that found no improvement (1. It would be reaching to say that gluten definitively aggravates an underactive thyroid, but at the same time it could very well play a part. The honest truth is we don’t know. Therefore, if you have an underactive thyroid it’s important to get tested for celiac disease first thing. And if you have a family history of autoimmune disease, or you want to play it extra safe, then eliminate gluten from your diet. Gluten- containing foods do not offer any unique nutrients that you can’t get from other foods sources anyway. If you don’t have symptoms to gluten and don’t feel any different on a gluten- free diet, then it’s likely not a problem. Weigh up the social aspect vs the health aspect and go from there. I’d personally only have gluten- foods as a treat. Summary: There appears to be a link between gluten intolerance (or celiac disease) and hypothyroidism. However, the favourable effects of a gluten- free diet are inconsistent at best, so recommendations depend largely on an individual’s medical history and dietary preferences. Desiccated thyroid is not always better. Some alternative health advocates recommend desiccated thyroid (ground up pork thyroid) instead of the conventional LT4 drug because it’s “natural”. Aside from the huge flaws in assuming natural is always better than artificial, the problem is that desiccated thyroid contains a mix of T4 + T3 hormones. Trials using a mix of T4 + T3 have found it is, at best, equally as effective as LT4 treatment (2. Combination treatment is typically used as a backup for those who do not respond favourably or feel unwell with regular LT4 treatment. How to Remineralize Teeth Naturally. Do you and your kids brush and floss regularly and limit sugar and still get cavities? Have any of your kids needed to have braces? Has your child under 6 had signs of tooth decay? Ever wish you could reverse those things? If you are like me, you were raised with the notion (likely told by your dentist) that sugar and bad genes cause tooth decay and that if you were getting tooth decay as a child, you needed to cut back on sugar. You likely also believe that genetics determine tooth spacing and that your genetics might have doomed you to braces. Price (a dentist) found and detailed in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, there were cultures throughout the world who had perfect teeth despite no access to dentists or modern toothpaste, while similar cultures with different diets had very high rates of tooth decay. He found examples of cultures with similar genetic backgrounds with some living in primitive type societies and eating. He found that many primitive cultures were able to completely avoid tooth decay and the many oral health problems we struggle with today. The image on the left shows a stark example of this: the woman in the top right ate a primitive, whole- food, high- fat diet while the other women ate more modernized diet that contained grains and agricultural foods. Price hypothesized that several dietary factors contributed to this difference in oral health. Sir (Dr.) Edward Mellanby (he discovered Vitamin D) and his lovely wife Dr. May Mellanby were also influential in discovering the roles of nutrients in oral health. These two contributed much research in the areas of bone and tooth health and mineral absorption. In fact, it was Edward who discovered that Vitamin D deficiency caused rickets. They also discovered that tooth structure is determined during a child. They found that this is largely influenced by the presence of Phytic Acid in the diet and how much sugar is consumed. What is Phytic Acid? Phytic acid is a molecule of phosphorus tightly bound with other molecules to form a type of phosphorus that is not easily absorbed by humans. Price Foundation: Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially the bran portion of grains and other seeds. It contains the mineral phosphorus tightly bound in a snowflake- like molecule. In humans and animals with one stomach, the phosphorus is not readily bioavailable. In addition to blocking phosphorus availability, the . In this form, the compound is referred to as phytate. Phytic acid is found in grains, nuts, seeds and legumes and in much smaller amounts in some fruits and vegetables. The body naturally converts phytic acid into phytates, which are un- absorbable and take calcium from the body. Those who consume high amounts of phytic acid will lose calcium and absorb other minerals at lower rates. Modern growing practices, including the use of high phosphorus fertilizer, mean a higher phytic acid content in many foods. Seeds, nuts, bran, oatmeal, and soybeans are especially high in phytic acid, and these foods are present in abundance in modern diet. Check out this article about phytic acid for a comprehensive list of phytic acid content in foods. Phytic Acid’s Effect on Bone and Tooth Health. People who consume large amounts of phytic acid (most Americans) in the form of grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes have higher rates of tooth decay, mineral deficiencies and osteoporosis. Over the long term, when the diet lacks minerals or contains high levels of phytates or both, the metabolism goes down, and the body goes into mineral- starvation mode. The body then sets itself up to use as little of these minerals as possible. Adults may get by for decades on a high- phytate diet, but growing children run into severe problems. In a phytate- rich diet, their bodies will suffer from the lack of calcium and phosphorus with poor bone growth, short stature, rickets, narrow jaws and tooth decay; and for the lack of zinc and iron with anemia and mental retardation. Just as lack of Vitamin D and poor calcium absorption can cause malformation of the bones of the legs (as in the case of Rickets), it can cause the jawbone to form poorly, resulting in spacing problems for the teeth and braces for the child. Sadly, the most commonly eaten diet in America these days is high in grains, sugars, and vegetable oils, and low in animal fats and fat soluble vitamins- the exact opposite of what the Drs. Mellanby found to be helpful for optimal bone health and the prevention of tooth decay. The good news is that teeth (and bones) are able to heal themselves in a process called remineralization. Basically, specialized cells in the center of the tooth are able to regenerate dentin, the layer of tooth just under the enamel, and the enamel can then properly remineralize from the outside. This same process happens in bones when phytic acid is removed from the diet and minerals/fat soluble vitamins are added. To prove this theory, the Drs. Mellanby did a study on children with existing cavities and reported their findings in the British Medical Journal. The children were put into three groups: Group One: Regular diet plus oatmeal (which is high in phytic acid)Group Two: Regular diet plus vitamin DGroup Three: Diet low in phytic acid plus vitamin D. This is what they found: The group consuming phytic acid with no supplemental vitamin D continued to get cavities with little to no healing. The group that just supplemented Vitamin D showed some healing, but also got some new cavities. The group consuming no phytic acid and supplementing Vitamin D showed very few new cavities and actually had many existing cavities heal! This article at Whole Health Source explains more. When I brought this information up in health circles, it would usually spark a lot of debate and some strong comments from dentists or dental health professionals. Most would admit, after a time, that the enamel of teeth could regenerate but that once a cavity was through the dentin (the layer under the enamel), it was impossible for it to heal without dental intervention. In my own life and in further reading, I’ve found that this isn’t the case either. As this article elaborates: Fortunately, a decaying or broken tooth has the ability to heal itself. Pulp contains cells called odontoblasts, which form new dentin if the diet is good. Edward Mellanby had to say about his wife’s research on the subject. Mellanby proceeded to investigate this phenomenon under varying nutritional conditions and found that she could control the secondary dentine laid down in the teeth of animals as a reaction to attrition both in quality and quantity, independently of the original structure of the tooth. On the other hand, a diet rich in cereals and poor in vitamin D resulted in the production of secondary dentine either small in amount or poorly calcified, and this happened. It certainly isn’t common, but with very specific supplements and a very careful nutritional program, it is certainly possible! Halt. Price found to prevent and reverse tooth and bone problems are: The presence of enough minerals in the diet. The presence of enough fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) in the diet. How bio- available these nutrients are and how well the body is absorbing them. They found that this is largely influenced by the presence of Phytic Acid in the diet. What does this mean practically in the diet? It is not possible or necessary to eliminate Phytic acid from the diet. What should be considered is taking care to minimize the foods that contain the highest amounts. Some preparations like soaking and fermenting can reduce the phytic acid content and should be practiced if the foods are going to be consumed, but in many cases, it is better to avoid these foods completely. Nuts, for instance, have a high phytic acid content which can be greatly reduced by soaking the nuts in salt or lemon water overnight and then rinsing and dehydrating in the oven (the same can be done with beans). While this step is time consuming, it is feasible with things like nuts or beans, but much more intensive with wheat (which contains more phytic acid!)Grains especially are better soaked, sprouted and fermented. Avoiding the most common food sources of phytic acid can also help: You might notice that meats, eggs, vegetables, and healthy fats are not on this list of high phytic acid foods. As I’ve mentioned before, these foods contain higher levels of vitamins and minerals are are more nutrient dense anyway. If foods high in phytic acid are going to be eaten, check out this article from the Weston A. Price Foundation on how to sprout, ferment, and soak them to make them less harmful. There is also a great book called Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition. I also had one “official” cavity, though it wasn’t bad, and while they suggested getting it filled soon, it wasn’t a huge rush. They did warn me that I had the beginning stages of gingivitis in several places and had a lot of plaque.(It took them about 3. I thought was normal) They took x- rays, so I have picture evidence of my teeth at this time. I had every intention of getting the cavity filled and continuing with regular dentist appointments, but then life happened and I didn’t get around to scheduling an appointment for months. By the time I finally had time to schedule an appointment, I had seen some interesting info in books about the ability of teeth to heal, so I decided to hold off. I did more research, read the book Cure Tooth Decay and read accounts of other people reversing dental damage, so I decided to give it a try. I took advice from all the research I had done and figured out a specific diet and supplement regimen that I was going to use to try to heal my teeth. I followed the regimen for a few months, and noticed that my teeth were whiter and much less sensitive to cold. Gates of Vienna. Note: Takuan’s post (which was originally published last night) is to remain at the top for a while, so I made it “sticky”. However, much has happened since it went up, including the Blogger outage. Scroll down for a report on that. See also: Two forthrightly anti- Semitic Islamic leaders in Norway, Judicial coddling in Germany, and Part 3 of the Imran Firasat interview. More new posts will be added below this one. Oh, and don’t mess around with JIM. The essay below is the conclusion of the ninth part in a series by Takuan Seiyo. See the list at the bottom of this post for links to the previous installments. Left: Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1. Right: George Grosz, Metropolis, 1. The Bee and the Lamb. Part 9 (continued)By Takuan Seiyo. A Whole New Road to Serfdom. That Which is Not Seen (continued)For over 6. White mea- culpists have had a firm grip in all fields of cultural mind imprinting: education high and low; paper media, then electronic, then digital media; all forms of entertainment, the plastic arts and music high and low, and religious instruction and worship too. Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory (e. K- 1. 2) and discretionary (e. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 1. Muslim apostates to barbaric execution. It’s America’s destruction of the snail darter but not Mussulmanism’s destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas or its proposed destruction of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, let alone its obliteration of all the pre- Rome cradles of Christianity but for remaining ruins in the Middle East and dust of the desert in North Africa. It’s the evils of feudalism and industrial workers’ exploitation in Europe and America, but not the strict Confucian evils of Northeast Asia. There, a member of the ruling class in China had, essentially, a free hand with anyone of the lower classes, a Japanese samurai could test his sword by cutting down an insolent peasant, and farmers were so squeezed by their fief holders that they habitually sold their daughters to bordellos for the few coins it provided for next season’s seed. Feminism, Socialism and anti- Antisemitism should have arisen in Saudi Arabia or Yemen, Algeria or Peshawar, for good reasons. Instead, aggressive White androphobes of all genders which I can no longer count are decimating the philogynous and egalitarian West. Equality psychos are tearing down the most egalitarian society that ever existed (except for initial communist experiments, before they turned bloody). American Jews, at the apex of the greatest fortune and philosemitic tolerance their long diaspora has ever bestowed on their kind, are busy supporting all the ideologies and policies that demolish their safe harbor and build up their Muslim, Black and Third World enemies. They will come to rue their tacit assumption that better the antisemite you don’t know than the few hundred imputed and real ones catalogued at ADL. One would be hard put to find a nation not based on the invasion of another people’s territory and their mass slaughter. Yet poisoned American madmen proclaim “No Thanks for Thanksgiving” as though the Indians themselves did not fight endless genocidal wars from Peru to Canada, with torture, ritual murder or slavery for the captives and, at times, cannibalism too. Leftoid masochists and the Christian meek call for returning Hawaii to the Hawaiians and capitulating before a massive Mexican reconquista of one- third of America. The self- defined “Feminist- Tauist- Neo. Pagan- Post- Structuralist- Deconstructionist- Socialist” useful idiot Gillian Schutte begins her New Year 2. Dear White People by “wholeheartedly apologizing for what my ancestors did to the people of South Africa and inviting you to do the same.”Yet the Magyars don’t seem to feel much guilt over the Illyrians, Pannonians, Sarmatians and Celts whose land and lives they took in the 9th century, to form Hungary. The rightful Etruscan landowners are not bearing angry placards in front of the Vatican. The Japanese are not planning to relinquish Hokkaido to its original owners, the Ainu. The tall, white and fair- haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law. The Aztecs, whether in Jalisco or Los Angeles, don’t agonize over having taken what would become Mexico City from its original Culhuacan owners, with lots of grisly details. Yet for 3. 8 years Neil Young has been reminding adoring audiences about “Cortez the Killer”, discreetly omitting Tlacaelel the killer and the killer people whom Cortez killed. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (1. Daniel Goldhagen presenting the thesis that the German nation as such was composed of willing executioners of the Jews because of a unique “eliminationist antisemitism” in the German people, with long historical roots. However, even that great moral abyss of Western civilization — the Holocausts — stands out more in its industrialized and organizational features than it does either in the quality of its hatefulness or its relative or even absolute volumes. And Holocausts they were, for in addition to the nearly 6 million Jews, the Germans also murdered over 2. Slavs, and that’s counting Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Czechoslovakia alone. In absolute numbers, the total number of World War II non- German civilian victims of Nazi Germany is smaller than the 5. Bolsheviks in Russia, or Mao’s 7. China, or the Mughal- Muslim genocide of Hindus — the latter have their own Holocaust Day on August 1. In relative numbers, in just one year, 1. Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million. Tutsi population was erased. Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B? The Khmer Rouge murdered at least 2 million Cambodians between 1. Is it more humane to die by wallops from a Cambodian pickaxe handle than by a bullet from a German Mauser? Inscription on the back (in German): “Ukraine 1. Jewish Aktion, Ivangorod.”There is a special horror attached to the Third Reich, because those were 2. Europeans, Christians, and in many ways the smartest, most civilized people on Earth. But the Holocausts do not prove that Whites are worse than other people, just that they are no better. The history of the Third Reich also proves that with the right formula of economic blowup, misery and humiliation, sparked by charismatic evil, no people are immune to such horror, at no time. Why You Need To Stop Worrying About The Color Of Your Ketostix. Yeah, I know you like to use them, but there are so many misconceptions about what they are telling you, that I need to intervene and make sure you get it. But before I go there, let me urge you to just buy The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living, and read pages 1. If I could copy these pages verbatim and paste it here, I would. Their caloric content is thereby wasted. Of the three types of ketones. As mentioned before, beta- hydroxybutryrate is not technically a ketone. When plasma acetoacetate concentrations begin to decrease, more of it is produced from beta- hydroxybutyrate” (source). As a result of the continued conversion of acetoacetate to beta- hydroxybutyrate, the serum and urine volume of acetoacetate (the only ketone detected by ketostix) is significantly reduced. Your takeaway point is this: If you stay on your keto diet for long enough, the primary ketone circulating in your serum (and consequentially, present in your urine) is not detected by your ketostix. Reduction in kidney excretion of ketones. Besides the change in relative volumes of serum ketone types, as you become keto- adapted your kidneys naturally down- regulate the volume of ketones they excrete into your urine. Ultimately suggest that it is the result of kidney adaptation to sustained carbohydrate restriction (1. Even though we lack the sophisticated understanding of why kidneys downregulate ketone secretion into urine, we know that it happens and we know that the volume of acetoacetate in your serum drops as you become more fully ketoadapted. So quite literally, after a few weeks into your low carb ketogenic diet, you’ll likely start seeing a change in your ketone levels as measured by ketostix. If you go this route, you’ll also have to buy their very expensive and proprietary Precision Xtra Ketone Test Strips to use with it. And when I say expensive, I’m serious. You’re looking at ~$5. So you can spend the money and keep an eye on your ketone levels by measuring serum levels, or you could just not spend money on ketostix and expensive testing gizmos.
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