If you continue to feel the symptoms of your hypothyroid
such as - severe
exhaustion and fatigue, your hair being dry and brittle, weight gain you can't
explain, your skin being very dry – even after higher and higher doses of
hormone replacement, the culprit could be gluten.
Gluten is a common protein
found in grains such as wheat, rye, and barley, and it is commonly found within our day-to-day food items. It is a potential goitrogen
best known from Celiac disease. Gluten
sensitivity can cause inflammation in your body, and has been found to have a
connection to other autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1
diabetes, and autoimmune thyroid disease.
Autoimmune disease is when a person produces antibodies that attack the body's own tissue, including the thyroid tissue.
Autoimmune disease is when a person produces antibodies that attack the body's own tissue, including the thyroid tissue.
If you have autoimmune hypothyroidism you may seriously want to
consider cutting back on your gluten intake, or eliminating it all
together. After a few weeks of lowering
your gluten intake you may notice you start to feel better.
If you don’t notice a change, you may have to eliminate it
completely, and then see how you feel.
Most processed foods and the obvious grains - wheat, rye, barley
contain gluten. I know some of you are
thinking “I can’t give up my bread”, there are plenty of grain alternatives out
there. Quinoa, rice noodles, corn, and
gluten free breads are all great alternatives. Lundberg rice chips are a great gluten
free snack food also, and they come in different flavors. For the best gluten free handbook Go Here
If you start to make simple swaps like using lettuce leaves to
wrap a sandwich, it starts to get easy, and pretty soon you won’t even miss it.
If
after a couple of weeks you think you feel better, but your not sure if it made
a difference, you can start to add back a little gluten at a time, and see if
you start feeling worse again. The odds
are you are going to feel better when you limit the amount of gluten, or take
it out of your diet completely.
Nice article. Hypothyroidism condition can be treated with natural thyroid treatments or thyroid replacement therapy. My grand mother is also suffering from hypothyroidism condition and she is on Armour thyroid now.
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