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Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Ruchel.

Let's talk about food allergy testing, and if food allergy testing can help those with Hashimoto's,

with thyroid autoimmunity.

And I'd like to thank Dr. Nick Hedbert for making me aware of the study.

I'll put the abstract of this study up here on the screen.

And this study was entitled, Evaluation of Correlations between food-specific Antibodies

and clinical aspects of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

So the question here really is, is if you have thyroid autoimmunity, which is the most

common cause of hypothyroidism, might you have higher levels of food allergies?

And could a food allergy test tell you those food allergies and then could avoiding those

foods help reduce your thyroid autoimm immunity and thus help with the function

of your thyroid and hopefully your symptoms.

And according to this study, no.

And let me quote a few pieces from this study.

There was no significant correlation between any of the 12 increased food-specific antibodies,

including gluten, along with gluten, and clinically important phenotypes such as thyroid

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