McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Hashimoto's Remission: Mold, Wheat, and Autoimmune Breakthroughs #shorts

6 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short interview, McCall McPherson explains how having one autoimmune disease raises the risk of developing another by about 30%, and how tracking the reduction of thyroid antibodies can serve as a proxy for overall autoimmune risk reduction. He shares his personal story of achieving over a decade of remission from Hashimoto's thyroiditis after dealing with a large goiter, severe fatigue, and low energy that made daily life difficult. McPherson describes Modern Thyroid’s practical approach, which does not require patients to stay on the restrictive Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet indefinitely. Instead, he compares AIP to the more realistic Bulletproof diet, emphasizing that lifestyle changes should be built on a solid thyroid foundation. By eliminating inflammatory foods, moving out of a mold‑infested home, and restoring energy, he was able to exercise and maintain healthier habits, illustrating the leverage point needed for sustainable lifestyle improvement.

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The interesting thing about Hashimoto's that I know you're aware of is if you have one autoimmune disease, you're at a 30% increased risk of developing another. So if you can reduce those antibodies, you can use those numbers and watching them reduce over time as a way to infer your overall autoimmune disease risk reduction for more serious things like MS, et cetera. Because if that goes into remission, I'm completely in remission. I've been in remission for over a decade now. I used to have a giant goiter.
Oh, wow.
I know that certainly helped. When you're living with a thyroid problem, it's really hard to, like, pull up your bootstraps and— oh, yeah, your whole lifestyle, because you can barely get pants on every day.
You're too tired, right?
Too tired. Which is kind of our approach at Modern Thyroid too, is like, we don't ask people when they come in to go on AIP forever, right? Like, we want—
AIP is autoimmune protocol. Yeah, autoimmune protocol. Basically a diet that's less inflammatory. Kind of like the Bulletproof Diet. Yeah, yeah.
Almost too extreme though. You know, Bulletproof is like realistic. So we don't ask them to change their whole lifestyle. We give them the platform to do it by fixing their thyroid because it's so impactful. And so I struggled with that until I got the support that I needed biochemically. And then I took out inflammatory foods. I moved out of a moldy house. I was able to exercise and eat well because I had the energy and the capacity to do it. And that's ultimately what people deserve. They deserve a leverage point from which to build their lifestyle off of.