Welcome to the Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Cabral, Board certified naturohic doctor and

today we're going to answer your questions.

So the first question today is, if you could suggest one diet change to help your thyroid,

what would it be?

Okay, really good question.

This is actually really important because with

autoimmune diseases or let's call this more like low thyroid to Hashimoto's or something

like that, one of the top things that's typically recommended is eliminating goitogens or goitrogenic foods like raw kale

It's not a recommendation I typically make it is an issue for people who are prone to goiters or get into goiter

But not one that the majority of the population really has to worry about.

And I've seen this clinically in my practice for a number of years now.

What I would recommend though, the number one thing above the most common fruit sensitivities would be eliminating

gluten.

There's a lot of research behind this.

You can welcome to the research yourself, but it's out there and I've seen it very, very

predominant and prevalent in my practice and that is eliminating gluten and all

things gluten or wheat based. The reason is the molecule, the molecular structure of gluten is too similar to what so the

basically the thyroid uptakes it and actually thinks of it almost as thyroid

hormone now that can be an issue when the actual immune system may be looking to

eliminate or attack this gluten strand that may be floating around in your

bloodstream. So that could potentially lead to its own autoimmune-based reaction and if that structure or that

strain is actually attached to or near the thyroid itself could cause an actual immune

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