July 2010

The thyroid-gut connection

July 29, 2010 in Thyroid Disorders | 13 comments

Hippocrates said: "All disease begins in the gut." 2,500 years later we're just beginning to understand how right he was. And, as I'll explain in this article, hypothyroidism is no exception. Poor gut health can suppress thyroid function and trigger Hashimoto's disease, and low thyroid function can lead to an inflamed and leaky gut - as illustrated in the following diagram: The gut-thyroid-immune connection Have you ever considered the fact that the contents of the ...
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Thyroid, blood sugar & metabolic syndrome

July 23, 2010 in Diabesity, Thyroid Disorders | 52 comments

According to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, 27 million Americans suffer from thyroid dysfunction - half of whom go undiagnosed. Subclinical hypothyroidism, a condition in which TSH is elevated but free T4 is normal, may affect an additional 24 million Americans. Taken together, more than 50 million Americans are affected by some form of thyroid disorder. Metabolic syndrome (MetS), also affects 50 million Americans, and insulin resistance, one of the components of metabolic syndrome, ...
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The gluten-thyroid connection

July 18, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Thyroid Disorders | 120 comments

In the first article in this series, I showed that hypothyroidism is an autoimmune disease in 90% of cases. In this article we're going to discuss the connection between autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) and gluten intolerance. Several studies show a strong link between AITD (both Hashimoto's and Graves') and gluten intolerance. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] The link is so well-established that researchers suggest all people with AITD be screened for gluten intolerance, and vice ...
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Welcome Mark’s Daily Apple readers!

July 15, 2010 in Uncategorized | 4 comments

I just wanted to take a moment to welcome readers from Mark's Daily Apple. Let's get logistics out of the way first: if you like what you see here, you can sign up for email updates, subscribe to my RSS feed, or follow me on Facebook and Twitter. I regularly post stuff on Facebook and Twitter that doesn't make it to the blog, so that's a good option if you're a health information junkie. If ...
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