January 28, 2011 in Food & Nutrition, Perfect Health |
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Imagine a world where:
diabetes, heart diseases, autoimmunity and other modern diseases are rare or don't exist at all
we are naturally lean and fit
we are fertile throughout our childbearing years
we sleep peacefully and deeply
we age gracefully without degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and osteoporosis
While this might sound like pure fantasy today, anthropological evidence suggests that this is exactly how human beings lived for the vast majority of our evolutionary history.
Today, most people accept diseases like obesity, diabetes, infertility ...
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July 18, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Thyroid Disorders |
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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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