Why don’t I just give you a low iodine diet to follow?

It’s simple. If you’re going to keep your thyroid you need to be mindful of the iodine content of your diet for life and you’re more likely to stick with integrating low iodine into the things you prefer and normally to eat. Plus, your iodine intake needs fluctuate as your thyroid levels fluctuate so you need to learn to adjust it as well. Iodine is thyroid fuel, our goal is the correct amount of thyroid hormone not zero hormone or too much hormone. We have a chronic condition that messes with our thyroid production. Therefore, we must tailor our diet to fit.

Restrictive fad diets are usually just that, a fad. They have one or two purposes and those purposes are never to promote the correct amount of thyroid hormone. Plus, nobody ever sticks to them long term. I’m old enough to remember the fad of eating a grapefruit for breakfast every morning to be the perfect weight. I hate grapefruit! Ugh, and it didn’t even work either.

How do you determine how much iodine you need in your diet at any given time? That’s a skill that takes time to learn so I can only teach you one-on-one. Factors like med dosage, disease activity and current conversion rate of T4 to T3 all must be considered. Schedule a consult with me and get started on The Thyroid Keeper’s Protocol!

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