To eat?

[sarajuarez2912]

What would someone with Hashimoto and graves disease eat?

[greygoose]

Food?

There's nothing that is specifically good - or even bad, come to that - for thyroid. Except for unfermented soy. You shouldn't eat that in any form.

You need a clean, balanced diet. Plenty of protein and good fat, fresh fruit and veg, some carbs, not too much fibre, and don't skimp on the salt - sea salt of pink Himalayan. Best to cook everything from scratch because processed food tends to contain unfermented soy, and other nasties.

Basically, just eat what you like, and what likes you.

[sarajuarez2912 in reply to greygoose]

Pink salt of Himalayan ? Wow I never heard of that..can you please tell me what the difference than ordinary salt? Thanks greygoose.

[Hidden in reply to sarajuarez2912]

Ordinary Table Dalt is 97% sodium. Unrefined Himalayan salt contains 84 essential minerals in a natural balance. So you get things like magnesium, manganese, vanadium, chromium etc

[helvella Administrator in reply to Hidden]

No it does not contain 97% sodium.

[Hidden in reply to helvella]

youtube.com/watch?v=HoE4ugZ...(Not working as expected?)

Dr Mercola discusses the difference between Table and Himalayan salt, specifically at 4 min and 6 mins.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Dr Mercola actually posted:

Your table salt is actually 97.5% sodium chloride and 2.5% chemicals, such as moisture absorbents, and iodine.

Which is NOT what you posted.

I do not have the time or bandwidth to watch the video to check whether his spoken text is different.

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

In any condition it's good to cut down on all the sugar in our (processed) diets these days.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Cut out the processed foods, and you cut out the sugar.

[Learner1]

An autoimmune Paleo Diet. Best to avoid gluten, corn, soya, and milk.

[Katepots]

Avoid gluten, soya, corn although I grow it and that's fine.

I pretty much eat normal meals just supplement anything with gluten in with a gluten free alternative.

Loads of fruit and veg. I avoid potato, tomato as part of nightshade family so make my bones ache and tomato gives me mouth ulcers randomly. Lettuce can upset some people's bowel but red lettuce seems to be better.

Grass fed meat.

Sara Himalayan pink salt you can get in most supermarkets. It's packed with minerals some you can't get anywhere else.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Katepots]

Pink Himalayan salt looks pretty in the salt grinder. That's about the only thing that makes it special as far as I can tell from reading around. Oh and of course it's hefty price, even in the 'cheaper' supermarkets. That makes it very special indeed! Wish I had shares in the companies that produce it!

[SlowDragon Administrator]

A gluten free diet really helps many of us.

chriskresser.com/the-gluten...

[rlcpd in reply to SlowDragon]

Of all the people who eat gluten-free:

Only 18% have true Celiac Disease and must be Gluten-free.

Another 18% have vague symptoms showing a Gluten sensitivity.

The rest- 64% THINK they feel, better, THINK it is healthier (not), or want to be part of the latest 'food craze'.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to rlcpd]

Well I tested negative twice on coeliac blood test. But after an endoscopy I am confirmed as definitely coeliac. I had absolutely no gut symptoms.

As my gastroenterologist said.....there are an awful lot of people who never get diagnosed as blood test is unreliable (only correct 50-60% of the time apparently) ........especially if they do not have any typical or obvious symptoms.

[SmallBlueThing]

On Himalayan salt:

The amount of minerals in it is too minuscule to make any difference, and we already get plenty of the same trace minerals from other foods. They claim that two double-blind studies were done, but no such studies are listed in PubMed. There is no evidence published in peer-reviewed journals that replacing white salt with pink salt makes a shred of difference or leads to any improvement in health.

If you read down the list of minerals, you will notice that it includes a number of radioactive substances like radium, uranium, and polonium. It also includes substances that act as poisons, like thallium. I wouldn’t be worried, since the amounts are so small; but if anyone believes the trace amounts of “good” minerals in Himalayan sea salt are good for you, why not believe the trace amounts of poisons and radioactive elements are bad for you?

The claim that pink Himalayan salt contains 84 trace minerals may be true, but the claim that it “promotes health and wellness” is false until proven otherwise by legitimate clinical studies. While waiting for evidence, I’d just as soon my salt didn’t contain uranium.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/pa...

[helvella Administrator in reply to SmallBlueThing]

It strikes me that the more identifiable consituents there are, then the less there can be of each. Am pretty sure that the low end constituents are present in quantities so small that we cound sensibly use atom/molecule counts rather than tiniest fractions of grams...

[Hidden]

Just coming in on this a bit late, Greygoose, can I ask why you advise

'not too much fibre'.?

I am interested, because long before my Hashis diagnosis, I worked out that my IBS ( irritable bowel syndrome) was set off by too much fibre. Well cooked food vegetables are easier for me to digest, and also how much I chew foods really influences how much, or little bloating and cramping I get!

Newish to the site..........should I message ggoose directly on this? If so, how do I do that?

Thanks

[rlcpd]

Anything they want.