Healing naturally

[Blakwidow]

Has anybody healed their thyroid naturally?

What life changes did you make?

Please share your story!

[Karenk13]

I've heard of alot of people limiting Cruciferous vegtables as research has shown that they may block the Thyroids ability to utilize iodine from digestion. Also people seem to notice large improvements when going gluten free.

[greygoose in reply to Karenk13]

You'd have to eat an awful lot of cruciferous veggies in the first place for it to make you hypo. The normal meat and two veg wouldn't do it. Going gluten-free might help you feel better if you're gluten-sensitive, but it wouldn't affect your thyroid.

Blakwidow do you know why you're hypo?

[Baobabs in reply to greygoose]

Nothing like a short, sweet but honest reply!

[greygoose in reply to Baobabs]

Well, honest, anyway.

[Saggyuk]

I'm pretty certain that gluten was the reason that my thyroid went in the first place as my stomach issues and nutritional issues definitely came before my thyroid - even if it was just due to nutritional deficiency. It has been proven in my case that gluten appears to directly affect my thyroid results. For example, on the last two gluten trials, after the six weeks of eating gluten, my tsh rose to 30-50 with no changes in my meds or t4 and t3 levels. It took three months to normalise after going back to GF. Since coming off gluten, I also have no resistance to thyroid hormones which I used to have.

I did have other autoimmune or immune related conditions including diabetes, suspected addisons, an auto-immune sleep disorder and pompholyx determined to be immune mediated under biopsy - these all reversed completely when I went gluten free but it was too late for my thyroid as it was already dead as had it twenty years already as was the first thing to go so who knows?

I imagine it might depend on whether you have antibodies or not already. Antibodies are mostly designed to not be forgotten so maybe little you can do once these occur perhaps? Having said that, you can have transient autoimmune hypothyroidism and autoimmune thyroiditis with antibodies in certain situations like pregnancy which go away after??? And I did reverse diabetes which was apparently late onset type 1 but I suppose I have to wait and see if permanent.

[Angel_of_the_North]

I don't think it has ever happened. Some people with Hashis feel better for a while as they go through a "normal" or very slightly hyper phase, and that can go on for a long time if you manage to limit anti-body attacks. However, if the thyroid has been mostly destroyed, or the pituitary or hypothalamus don't function correctly, no supplement or diet is going to restore it - maybe stem cells in the future for the rich.

[Blakwidow]

It sounds like no one has gotten rid of this condition naturally in this group. I am not sure if it possible but it seems very odd that this condition amongst women has sky rocketed over last couple of years. So my plan is to try and limit my symptoms as much as possible through food and diet.

The good news is that going gluten free well.. reduced gluten to about 2% has benefited me by reducing my weight and decreasing inflammation.

Let's see what else I can do😄.