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Hashimoto's and nutrition. Nutrition casts a wide net relative to... I'm not sure if the person's asking about supplements or basically diet or am I losing nutrients? So again, it's not a clear question. So I'm gonna give it a shot and kind of anticipate what that person might be asking. I'm gonna stick to diet. And when we first started treating Hashimoto's seemingly light years ago, a long time ago, we were very, very thrilled when we told the person to get off of gluten and they would do so much better. And we would just be kind of like, "Oh yeah, we're bad. "We know what's going on here." "Nobody else knows when the doctors don't know." We're like, "Cool." Of course, a lot of people got off of gluten and nothing happened . And then we weren't all that cocky about it. But there's a molecular mimicry between gluten and your thyroid. Meaning that, when you get a reaction to gluten there's a high percentage chance that you're gonna get a reaction to your thyroid especially if you have Hashimoto's. In fact only if you have Hashimoto's. So certainly gluten is out. Another one I've talked about at great length is iodine. And there's still a lot of practitioners out there who say you should eat, you should take iodine because it helps your thyroid. And I would say that iodine, is like one of the last things you should do. And in fact, the confusion is iodine, is good for hypothyroid, but it's not good for Hashimoto's and that's a whole talk into itself. And I think there's a couple of... We have several talks online on that. And so, Hashimoto's is a part of the dietary issue. As far as groups of foods, it differs from one patient to the next. If you wanna know about nutrition, you could do the autoimmune paleo diet and see what happens. Because that takes out all the foods that create an inflammatory response or an autoimmune response. It's kind of hard to live on that diet for a long time. At some point in time, you wanna find out what your food sensitivities are. Food sensitivities are huge. Dietary protein, cross reactivities are huge. So like the gluten where you actually have a cross-reactivity where the gluten gets attacked and your thyroid gets attacked but food sensitivities are big. They sort of fall into that category. And so, you wanna find out what your food sensitivities are. Some people say you should get off of milk, okay. And some people say it's okay. We now are in the realm of doing a lot of testing on that. And we're finding that 50% of the time the person can take milk out. I have colleagues who literally just take their patients off of gluten and casein and they claim they get good results. That's not my patient population . So I don't know who they're treating, but it's a good start, but it's a good start. Grains were where we started. First there was gluten and bursting out off of gluten and nothing happened, and then we took them off all the grains and a bigger percentage of people started getting better. At that time, people had already understood that milk products could be bad for a certain group of people, so there was that whole thing going. In general you're looking to avoid a pro-inflammatory diet and so you have to... So it's not a "one size fits all" answer to that.

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