Hi guys,
My wife has just had a full panel of Medichecks tests. I'm encouraging to post here but she knows she has Hashis (last 2 tests very high antibodies).
I read earlier this week (I think in a comment) about a diet that gets rid of Hashis - can someone help me find it please? My wife is dead keen as she may now have antibodies attacking her liver as well.
hanks!!
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healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
shows she’s extremely under medicated and been left on just 50mcg levothyroxine
Has she now had dose increase in levothyroxine to 75mcg
Bloods should be retested 6-8 weeks after each dose change or brand change in levothyroxine
She’s likely to need further increase in levothyroxine after next test
Have you organised testing vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 levels
Likely to need to supplement to improve levels
First step is to get levothyroxine dose increased until TSH is around or under 1
All four vitamins need testing and maintain at OPTIMAL levels
Meanwhile get coeliac blood test done via GP BEFORE considering cutting gluten out
Thyroid antibodies don’t attack anything…..they are the hoovers cleaning up after each autoimmune attack
Maintain low TSH to reduce attacks
Many people find strictly gluten free diet helps reduce symptoms
Thank you SlowDragon!
Hi
Apologies for being brief as on my way out but, She can reduce her antibodies by going totally gluten free, taking selenium and I can highly recommend books by Izabella Wentz Hashimoto's protocol, and Root cause also by Izabella Wentz .
Best wishes
Peanut31
By following the advice here on nutrition vitamins and diet and reading all three of Izabella Wentz books, I’ve got post it notes all through them, persuading GP to prescribe more Levo (currently titrating up to 75mcg retest in 8 weeks) being assertive and informed, noting down what helps and what doesn’t, pacing myself and reducing stress, making slow changes not all at once, I’m feeling much improved. I’ve read two schools of thought though, one that Hashimoto’s is for life , the other that you can diet and nutrition your way to remission. From first had experience I’m leaning toward the former, but I can certainly make myself more comfortable leaving out gluten, dairy, soy, sugar and alcohol (in that order). Time for lots of reading for your wife and agency over her health choices 😊 wishing you both well 🌱🦋🌱
Diet changes have definitely made me feel much better.
The 'autoimmune protocol' diet is very good as it immediately eliminates foods which may be driving issues.
Some people have used the carnivore diet to put their autoimmune diseases into remission(it's basically an extreme elimination diet for gut healing and problematic food elimination).
As described in above posts, Wentz books are also very good, I think.
This video talks about how diet can improve autoimmune hypothyroid...facebook.com/watch/?v=14385...
I do recall seeing the video previously and it frustrates me now as much as then. It doesn't give dietary advice but advertises a course for doctors to train them to give dietary/lifestyle advice in a standard 10 minutes.
Chatterjee openly admits:
1. That there's a need for this and
2. That doctors are currently untrained.
So why not just refer to a qualified Naturopathic Nutritionist that has trained for 3yrs or more plus PDP, not just attended a very brief course ?? And I thought doctors have always been overloaded with their pharma-prescriptive work anyhow. It beggars belief!
The loser in this is (again) the patient.
I totally agree. The only thing this video might do is perhaps encourage somebody who thought there was no hope that things can be improved with lifestyle intervention. All be it they will have to go digging and sort it out for themselves unless they've got Rangan as their doctor of course.🙂
Maybe but that implies starting with drugs then considering diet/lifestyle if that fails. I believe that is the wrong way around but understand most are conditioned to think like that (aided by big pharma, of course!).
Do you know if Rangan had any training in nutrition? The video indicates not but I'll try to ask him otherwise. Athough I did that with another medic seeking to branch out a year or 2 ago...still awaiting a reply! ☹️
Some of these links that may be of interest (thyroid health, hormones, diet)
Hashimoto's lifestyle and diet
Plant based diet and Hashimotos
Aip diet for Hashimotos study
Hashimotos and diet 
Diet for Hashimotos
