The Autoimmune Paleo Diet for Hashimoto's Thyroiditis

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The autoimmune paleo (or AIP) diet and community support together can benefit patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, according to a landmark study. AIP removes nightshades, eggs, nuts, seeds, ghee, and caffeine, in addition to standard paleo restrictions. The study’s community support (which included online health coaching) contributed to 90-100% adherence to this diet. Interestingly, multiple participants improved symptomatically and/or were able to reduce thyroid medication, while their antibody levels didn’t change. This suggests that caution is warranted when drawing conclusions about one’s health status from thyroid antibody levels. In this podcast, Dr. Robert Abbott—third-time guest on the show and researcher on the study—discusses other health lessons, and insights on beneficial clinical models. https://drruscio.com/?p=32044

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:40.5	Hi, everyone.
0:41.3	Welcome to Dr. Rich Radio.
0:42.5	This is Dr. Richel, today I am here again, third-time appearance with Dr. Robert Abbott.
0:48.0	And he has published what I found to be a fantastic study of using the autoimmune paleo diet in a group of patients with hypothyroidism
0:57.7	and with thyroid autoimmunity. And I'm exceedingly excited to have him expand upon the results.
1:04.5	So Rob, thrice times. Welcome back. Man, I don't know what I did to deserve to get on the show, but yeah, I mean, it's great
1:13.4	to be on here and I hope we can really get into the nuance of the study because, you know,
1:17.6	social media and even blog posts can be really difficult to get into the deep nuance of the
1:22.7	research to really help people because I don't want you just to accept that we did a study.
1:27.3	And if you're in the, in our, you know, echo chamber to accept it, we need to be positively critical.
1:31.6	So this will be a great opportunity to get into more of the details of the study.
1:35.0	Absolutely. Absolutely. And I do want to also explore some of the ways people are reacting to this study
1:41.6	because I could certainly see if people are staunch dietary
1:47.6	advocates. There are some points in the study that may not support we need to go all the way to
1:53.0	the extent of using the autoimmune paleo diet. And I could see someone who's a very staunch,
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