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Any Treatment that Doesn’t Involve your Diet
The right supplements at the right times can be a game changer with your health, but
keep in mind that they are meant only to “supplement” an already healthy diet. This is
yet another area where I find a major problem with hypothyroidism.
Most people are looking for a supplement or drug that’s going to fix their thyroid. They
want to pop a pill, feel great, and be done with it without having to put forth any real
effort. That’s just not the way it works.
If you’re familiar with my Hypothyroidism Revolution Program, then you already
understand how big of a part your diet plays in every case of hypothyroidism.
Your diet has such a big impact on your hormones and thyroid that if you don’t change
your diet, then it’s pretty safe to say that you will never truly correct the underlying
problem.
Your body needs the right vitamins, minerals, and nutrients in order to produce and
properly regulate all of the necessary hormones in your body.
Your liver needs selenium and the right amount of sugar to convert T4 to T3, the active
form of thyroid hormone. Your body needs vitamin A and thyroid hormone in order to
produce the hormone pregnenolone, which is the precursor hormone to a cascade of
highly protective hormones that are essential to
your health.
And aside from getting the necessary nutrients,
you have to make sure that you’re not eating foods
that have a negative effect on your thyroid function.
For example, there are many foods, such as soy,
that promote excessive estrogen in your body. And
estrogen contributes directly to hypothyroidism and
thyroid disease.
Another very common example is eating the wrong
kinds of fats in your diet. Studies have shown that polyunsaturated fats in your diet will
block your thyroid hormone pathways on multiple levels. For starters, it directly blocks
thyroid hormone secretion at the gland. It then blocks the hormone from being properly
transported within your bloodstream to your cells. It even blocks the response of your
cells to the hormones, therefore making the hormone far less effective.
So, it’s pretty safe to say that you should get comfortable with your health problems until
you start feeding your body what it needs to correct the problem.
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