Has anyone been on keto diet or low carb diet for Hashimoto. I have heard differing opinions because the thyroid needs carbs but a lot of people seem to have been helped as well.
Always like to come to this site because the proof is in the pudding as they say and experience often speaks louder than heresay. Thanks😊
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
I did keto before I knew about thyroid but not after.See answers on link.
I found keto hard long term, it does shift retained water at start.
Lower carbs and shortened eating time window helped me.
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu... post is very interesting too.
I always find it interesting that “keto” became a thing. I suspect it was to distance the way of eating from associations with Robert Atkins.
If Atkins was still around to defend himself (he slipped on ice and banged his head so badly it ultimately killed him), he’d tell you that he never intended for his patients/clients to stay in hardcore ketosis for the rest of their days. Getting into ketosis seems to help many deal with hunger pangs and it comes with almost instant weight loss (courtesy of the body dumping the fluid stored with glycogen stores. So for those who’d struggled to lose weight on the (now traditional) low fat/low calorie diets, it could be a revelation. You didn’t feel hungry, so you didn’t eat as much—end result, weight loss. Once people had been in frank ketosis for a while, Atkins recommended slowly raising carbohydrate limit to the point where weight loss stopped happening—and then to drop just below that level. No one was supposed to stay in severe ketosis for years—not least because that seems to be unsustainable for most people.
A number of studies have shown over time that the weight loss associated with all diets seems to even out at the six month mark.
From a health perspective, going lower carb does seem to get rid of the layer of fat surrounding visceral organs, in particular the liver. But so does going lower calorie, eventually. Health benefits seem to be related to weight loss rather than the diet itself.
So I think I’d recommend, if you want to try it, shifting your thinking away from “keto” to a mindset of lowering your carbohydrate intake, rather than cutting them out altogether.
I know you’re probably looking at this from a health benefits perspective more than weight loss. It does appear that carbohydrate is needed for the conversion of T4 to T3–but how much is probably going to be individual to you.
In addition, I do wonder whether the health benefits many experience are to do with the consequential cutting out of gluten when you go “low carb”. I think many of us are more gluten sensitive than we sometimes want to admit to ourselves!
Interesting ... especially about not being long-term diet.
I did think keto "cleansed me" and I felt well on it [3months I think].
You are running on a different fuel system. Ÿ
I found later I am gluten intolerant, so perhaps that was the reason. Then later still found I was hashi.
My mum tried it for weight loss. She hashi and gluten intollerant too. She felt bad on it.
How long was your mum on keto? I know when you start the keto flu can be awful but according to my friends they felt much better later on but then they don’t have chronic illnesses and I have lupus as well.
Thank you. I agree that low carb is a better option and more sustainable. Lots of our friends over here in Australia are doing carnivore or keto. I am doing it for health reasons but hope some weight loss will contribute to less inflammation as well. It had crossed my mind that it is a gluten free diet. I was gluten free for many years but didn’t see any improvement. I still think it’s better not to overburden your body with wheat products as I don’t think their storage of wheat is optimal from what I have read or its inflammatory effect. I struggle with the fat content of keto. Happy for some good fats but can’t achieve the high quantities probably because I intermittent fast. I really appreciate your input.😊
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