Recommendations for a really good book

[Bearthebishon]

Morning all 😊

I am newly diagnosed, feeling rubbish and aware I need to give my diet a good shake up.

Can anyone recommend a really good book on diet for hypothyroidism?

I know there's tons online but I do like a book 📖

Many thanks and have a great weekend x

[CV-19]

I can’t help, but I too am newly diagnosed - well five weeks ago - and not at all happy, either about, or with it!

I hope you find something to help.

😊

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

There isn't really a diet for hypothyroidism. Just avoid any soy products and eat a healthy diet, preferably using fresh products not ready meals. Don't do a low calorie diet and don't use low fat foods, include good fats in your diet.

If you have autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto's) then you could try gluten free, this seems to help some people as Hashi's can cause gut problems. Some also benefit from being dairy free.

[pennyannie]

Hello Bearthebishon !! and welcome to the forum :

Your Thyroid and How To keep It Healthy written by a doctor who has hypothyroidism.

Barry Durrant- Peatfield wrote the book to enable people like you and me achieve better thyroid health and covers basically how everything in the human body interplays with the thyroid, liken the thyroid to being the body's engine.

I believe it's available on the Thyroid UK website who are the charity who support this forum where there is a " library " of recommended books.

[DippyDame in reply to pennyannie]

Agree pennyannie ....you beat me to it!!

Bearthebishon ...link to Dr P's book follows. I found it helpful and an easy read

thyroiduk.org/product/your-...

There are a number of books available about thyroid diets...I wouldn't waste my money on any of them!

You can't eat your way out of hypothyroidism but you will always need to eat a healthy well balanced diet.

Follow SuesideSusie's advice above

[SlowDragon Administrator]

As you have Hashimoto’s

Isabella Wentz

Root cause

amazon.co.uk/Hashimotos-Thy...

Susan Blum

Immune system recovery

amazon.co.uk/Immune-System-...

[Bearthebishon in reply to SlowDragon]

Thanks so much for your suggestions. Out of curiosity, what makes you say I have Hashimotos?

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Bearthebishon]

Suggest you reread your previous post

Serum free T4 11.2 pmol/L (11.0-23.0)

Thyroid peroxidase AB 130iu/mL ( under 60)

Serum TSH level 15.89ml/u/L (0.2-4.2)

High thyroid antibodies confirms autoimmune thyroid disease also called Hashimoto’s

About 90% of primary hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroid disease

[Bearthebishon in reply to SlowDragon]

Ok thank you. 😊

[tattybogle in reply to Bearthebishon]

How we know you have "hashimoto's "

1) you became hypothyroid.

2) when they did a blood test to find out why, they found your TPOab were over range at 150 ish. (TPOab =Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies)

This shows them that your own immune system has been attacking and damaging your thyroid .

These antibodies show up because some thyroid peroxidase from your damaged thyroid ends up in your blood ,the TPOab then come along as markers and stick to the thyroid peroxidase to tell something else to clean it up and dispose of it ...

(approximate and not very scientific explanation but good enough )

Strictly speaking, we only know you have "Autoimmune Hypothyoidism"..

this category includes Hashimoto's disease , Ord's disease / Atrophic Autoimmune Thyroiditis.

Dr Hashimoto discovered a form which has goitre ... (swollen thyroid)

Mr Ord discovered a form which doesn't have a goitre.

I've never been 100% sure if Atrophic Autoimmune Thyroiditis is in fact the same as what Ord discovered or not ... and neither is anyone else it seems.

Nobody does any proper research on the differences ..and so most GPs will just refer to all of them as "Autoimmune Hypothyroidism"... but many patients have got in the habit of calling it "Hashimoto's "whether they have a goitre or not .

[Bearthebishon in reply to tattybogle]

Thank you so much....this place is great. X

[tattybogle in reply to Bearthebishon]

You're welcome ps... because (as yet) they have no idea what to do about the 'autoimmune cause' , many GP's often don't even mention that part of it to you...

mine did say " Ah i see , your immune system is eating your thyroid , we don't know why ......your dose will probably have to be increased over time as more of it is destroyed .. "

But many GP's never tell patients that part .... because in practice it makes no difference .. the treatment is the same whatever the cause of the hypothyroidism... 'replace the thyroid hormone'

It's just that if they find raised TPOab they know not to expect it to get better .

The vast majority of hypothyroidism is autoimmune, but there are a few other causes which might get better on their own, so those people might not need to take Levo for life.