Inflammation, food and your thyroid…
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So, many of you know I treat patients with hormone imbalances. As part of the lab work-up I always evaluate thyroid hormones. One of those tests includes a lab that checks for thyroid antibodies. If antibodies come back high that's an indication that the patient has something called Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Hashimoto's is basically an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system goes a little hay-wire and attacks the thyroid gland. No bueno! What causes this? Well, there is more and more evidence that points toward the ingestion of inflammatory foods as the culprit for the rise in autoimmune diseases like Hashimoto's.
Matt Baran-Mickle via RobbWolf.com says:
There are two main mechanisms that appear to play a large part in the development of inflammation and loss of tolerance that leads to AD: a breakdown in the intestinal barrier that allows the activation of potentially self-reactive lymphocytes, and metabolic disregulation in lymphocytes themselves that may also drive activation.
And what kind of foods breakdown our intestinal barriers? Grains, namely. Click here to read more of Matt's article and stay tuned for more info on what foods to avoid in order to avoid AD like Hashimoto's: http://robbwolf.com/2013/10/03/impact-nutrition-autoimmune-disease/
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