Hashimotos and remission

[LukeFitz]

Hi everyone, I'm Luke, brand new to this lovely group. I'm 39. Diagnosed with hashimotos in 2019. Taking levo since then.

I have read the Hashimotos protocol by Wentz. It claims that it's possible to manage hashimotos into remission with lifestyle changes in some cases. There are other "functional medicine practices" that also claim to hashimotos remission to the possible. Is this true?? Has anyone here achieved that? Does remission mean that levo is no longer required?

Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated! 🙏🏼

[greygoose]

As far as I know, a short-lived remission is possible. It happens on the way down from a 'hyper' swing, before you quite hit hypo again. And, thyroid hormone replacement is not needed during that time because you have ample in your system from the 'hyper' swing.

But, it is only temporary, and I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with life-style, diet or anything else that you can do. It just happens. And, when all that excess hormone has been used up, excreted, you will go hypo again, and need thyroid hormone replacment to be well.

The thyroid cannot regenerate. Once it has been damaged by the immune system, it will never again be able to produce enough thyroid hormone to make you well. Even if you manage to stop the immune system attacks on it, it will still be under-producing. And you will always need to take exogenous hormone to live.

[TiggerMe]

Hi Luke,

Possibly if you were aware of an autoimmune condition early enough then you could slow its attack with lifestyle changes but the trouble is for most of us by the time we are aware of the problem our thyroids are already 90% dysfunctional and we would have needed to take action 20-30-40 years ago 😕 lifestyle changes now might stop other autoimmune diseases being added to our current health conditions?

I'm thinking you are unlikely to come across people that have recovered on this site as they are off having a lovely life and have put it behind them as a blip 🤷‍♀️

Must admit I've not read Izabella's book though have done some of the autoimmune diet changes to deal with leaky gut and food intolerances

Welcome aboard, you'll find lots of information and debate on here 🤗