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Making peace with the autoimmune diet

Autoimmunity, Diet, Food Sensitivities, Gluten, Hashimoto's, Thyroid DisordersBy Administrator August 6, 2014 17 Comments

The following was written by Stacey Robbins, a reader with Hashimoto’s who made the lifestyle changes necessary to manage her health. She originally made this post about the autoimmune diet for the Facebook Hashimoto’s 411 group and turned it into a chapter for her book You’re Not Crazy and You’re Not Alone: Losing the Victim,…

Eating gluten increases the need for thyroid hormones

Gluten, Diet, Food Sensitivities, Hashimoto's, Thyroid DisordersBy Administrator January 19, 2012 16 Comments

A new study shows Hashimoto’s patients with symptomless celiac disease (i.e., no digestive complaints) require 49 percent more T4 to achieve the same TSH levels as non-celiac Hashimoto’s patients. After the patients followed a gluten-free diet for 11 months their TSH levels came down with the same T4 requirement as the non-celiac Hashimoto’s patients. Gluten…