In autoimmune thyroiditis, our own immune system attacks and eats away at the thyroid gland. From this, the thyroid gland produces less hormones, and hypothyroidism is obtained. We need thyroid hormones to maintain metabolism. We cannot survive without them. It is clear that people would like to use available means to lay siege to oversized immunity.
Autoimmune protocol
We are with you yesterday it was discussed. Some people would like the diet to slow down aggressive immunity, but it doesn't work that way. One can only hope that if you eat enough protein, vegetables and fruits and healthy fats, your thyroid will work a little better than it did before. Eat right and hope for the best.
Gluten
Some people believe that a gluten-free diet is beneficial for autoimmune thyroiditis. The type of gluten that some people get has stomach pains, cross-reacts with the thyroid gland and can irritate the immune system even more. It seems so far these fantasies have not been confirmed.
In fact, everything is not so there. Rather, if a person already has autoimmune thyroiditis, which gradually led to hypothyroidism, and the poor fellow has to swallow thyroxine every morning, it would be better if his intestines were working at this time fine. Otherwise, thyroxine will not be absorbed.
As we agreed yesterday, some (by no means all) people cope with their sore gut by following a gluten-free elimination diet. If a person has a gluten intolerance, then this approach will work. But that rarely happens.
In short, the story about the link between gluten enteropathy and autoimmune thyroiditis lives on only because both of these diseases are autoimmune. Most likely there is no connection between them.
In a person with hypothyroidism, thyroxine preparations will be less absorbed not only with celiac enteropathy, but also with milk intolerance and any other intestinal problems. So don't get hung up on gluten.
Iodine
It has long been noticed that in those regions where a lot of iodine is traditionally eaten, autoimmune thyroiditis is more common. All sorts of Japanese and Koreans live on the ocean and eat algae. They contain a lot of iodine.
For approximately the same reason, people who live in the interior of the continent do not receive this very iodine.
What do you think, which of the smart seaweed lovers began to find out the causes of thyroiditis? That's right, the Japanese. Even the autoimmune thyroiditis itself was named after the Japanese surgeon Hashimoto.
So the Japanese found out that an excess of iodine in food can damage the thyroid gland in such a cunning way that our own immunity ceases to recognize it and attacks.
The fact is that iodine refers to halogens like chlorine and fluorine, which oxidize everything that gets in their way. Including the fine architecture of the cells inside the thyroid gland.
So brothers, iodine will not help you stop autoimmune thyroiditis. He calls it himself.
It turns out that both from the lack and from the excess of iodine there will be problems with the thyroid gland.
How not to overeat iodine
Let's leave aside all sorts of vital medical things like cordarone or X-ray contrast with iodine. You can't do without it. But I do not advise you to smear yourself with iodine nets or rinse your throat with iodine. From this there will be an obvious overkill of iodine.
Even expensive multivitamins with iodine can harm you. Because not all manufacturers of multivitamin complexes will accurately measure the required amount of microelements. Some will simply scoop up cheap potassium iodide from a barrel and pour it into a vitamin.
It turns out that the best option is a normal diet with fish a couple of times a week, seaweed salad and other seafood not every day and iodized salt from a regular store, which by definition does not contain a lot of iodine it happens. Because it stinks.
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