Best Foods for Healthy Thyroid | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Explore how your diet can help heal your thyroid on this episode of The Exam Room LIVE with Dr. Neal Barnard and "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll.
Dr. Barnard answers these questions:
- Can a vegan diet help thyroid problems?
- Can fast food can cause a sluggish thyroid?
- What are the best fruits and vegetables for thyroid health?
- Is sugar bad for the thyroid?
- Can coffee and caffeine cause thyroid issues?
- Can changing your diet help you get off thyroid medication?
- And many more!
Plus, Chuck reports on a new study showing that replacing protein from meat with plant-based protein can significantly reduce your risk of dying prematurely and developing heart disease!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | What they found, we can't exactly explain, |
| 0:02.8 | when it comes to low thyroid, |
| 0:04.8 | people who do the worst are actually |
| 0:07.9 | the dairy consuming vegetarians, |
| 0:11.1 | the people who aren't even meat, |
| 0:13.0 | but they're making up for it with extra cheese and milk, |
| 0:17.0 | and who's got the lowest prevalence of low thyroid. |
| 0:20.1 | Vegan, and then when it comes to hyperthyroidism, |
| 0:23.8 | the people who do the worst there |
| 0:25.4 | are the folks eating dairy and meat. |
| 0:27.1 | What we think is going on is that these foods, |
| 0:29.7 | trigger and immune reaction in your body. |
| 0:33.2 | It's like the food is foreign in beta. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to the Exammer and Podcast, |
| 0:42.5 | brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:47.9 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.3 | This is episode 67 of season four, number 262 overall. |
| 0:59.8 | How much help can food provide your thyroid? |
| 1:03.4 | Well, if you've been struggling with hyperthyroidism |
| 1:06.2 | or hypothyroidism, is it time now to start looking |
| 1:10.4 | at what's for dinner? |
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