How to Heal Your Thyroid By Healing Your Liver

[jgelliss]

As Suggested per member Heloise . Thank You .

forefronthealth.com/how-to-...

[diogenes Remembering]

Oh Lord, another quack site! Someone with little or no knowledge pretending that everyone else is wrong.

[jgelliss in reply to diogenes]

Diogenes thank you so much for your response . I don't want to sound disrespectful . Can you please share with us your knowledge with what you find to be incorrect . Your input is very appreciated . Knowledge is Power .

[diogenes Remembering in reply to jgelliss]

Simply because it is true that good diet and lack of stress is good for us, but this doesn't directly affect the thyroid, but places the whole body in a better metabolic state. If your thyroid is failing, then no diet or anything else like that will stop it. If you have both bad diet and a failing gland, then a better diet may make you feel temporarily better, but the gland failure will still go on and make itself felt more and more.

[jgelliss in reply to diogenes]

Diogenes , Thank You so Much for your clear and concise explanation . Your insights with our thyroid journey is *Always Appreciated* . It's wonderful caring and knowledgeable people as yourself that make the difference . Thank You …

Diogenes if you don't mind please that I change the topic for a moment . What are your thoughts with those of us that had *thyroidectomies* . Is adding even a low dose T3 to the T4 dose be beneficial ? Since not everyone that doses with T4 feels the need for T3 . And some that do add even a low dose T3 don't feel well even with a lowered T4 . Might it be that the reason that they don't do well with added T3 is that they convert T4 to T3 well ? Or that the thyroid patient is sensitive to any T3 ? Your insights would be very appreciated .

[diogenes Remembering in reply to jgelliss]

My rule of thumb is: if someone pushes nutritional ideas for cures at you and demands a considerable amount of money from you for the info, turn your head and close your purse.

[humanbean]

I have been dubious about Tom Brimeyer for years, ever since a member of this forum told us that she had paid for some course he was running and it included advice to eat lots of sugar. It may be complete coincidence but the member had a heart attack within weeks of starting this diet.

The other problem I have is that a high carb diet, no matter how "healthy" the source of the carbs is alleged to be, leads to higher blood sugar levels. Eventually having high blood glucose for long enough will lead to insulin resistance, metabolic disease, pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes in many people.

Even if Brimeyer's advice was wonderful for people with thyroid problems (which I don't believe), it doesn't change the fact that diabetes of any kind is very bad for the eyesight, the heart, the liver, the brain etc. I don't want to get dementia or to go blind or to have limbs amputated, and I'm sure nobody here does, so I'll eat low carb, high fat, moderate protein, and keep my fingers crossed.

I suspect that one of the issues with people who do badly on low carb diets is that they simply don't eat enough healthy fats and/or protein. Lots of people are fat-phobic and protein-phobic after 70 years of poor dietary advice. So, I bet that many people who eat "low carb" are in fact starving themselves. And starvation is likely to have a major impact on someone with a thyroid problem long before it impacts on someone who is healthy.

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Take note in the above experiment of how "starvation" was defined.

During the 6-month semi-starvation period, each subject's dietary intake was cut to approximately 1,560 kilocalories per day. Their meals were composed of foods that were expected to typify the diets of people in Europe during the latter stages of the war: potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, bread and macaroni.

[humanbean in reply to humanbean]

If you search for "low carb and the liver" you'll come across many, many links telling you that restricting carbs is the only treatment currently available that reliably removes fat from a fatty liver :

sciencedaily.com/releases/2...

liverdoctor.com/a-low-carb-...

and doing this can dramatically reduce the risk of developing cirrhosis and liver cancer.

[Hidden in reply to humanbean]

I fasted (nourishing drinks only) for several days last autumn. I felt fine, though quite weak. But my hypo symptoms got worse afterwards. Then someone posted on here that "Nutritional deprivation" (or words to that effect) was not good for hyothyroidism!

[Hidden in reply to humanbean]

My mother said that during rationing after the War they had nothing but cabbage to eat for a whole week!!!!

[G2G2]

Agree with the assessment of Tom Brimeyer. Not much of a leap for charlatans to jump into "cures" for thyroid disease when it's so sadly prevalent. That particular article must be making the rounds because a friend sent it to me. Curious what bs Tom would advise for someone with T1 diabetes & Hashimoto's, I asked. High carb foods, like fresh OJ, are fine. The email included misinformation including before exogenous insulin was discovered, people were treated for diabetes with sugar! Well, that's what to do if you want to send a diabetic into a coma before dying.