McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Thyroid Diet without the Overwhelm!

5 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short instructional transcript by McCall McPherson giving practical, stepwise dietary guidance for people with thyroid autoantibodies: measure TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies, pick a single food group to eliminate (gluten or dairy) — not both — start with a three-month dairy-free trial, recheck antibodies, continue if they drop, and consider removing gluten after six months.

Questions this video answers

TPO (thyroid peroxidase) and thyroglobulin antibodies.

Three months.

No — pick only one food group (gluten or dairy), do not eliminate both.

Around six months (after initial trial and recheck).

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So my recommendation is if you would like to try to change your diet and see if it influences your antibodies. What do we do? First, we measure our antibodies. You check your tpo, you check your thyroglobulin. And then pick one food group, y'. All, just one. I recommend gluten or dairy to start. Either or don't do both. Don't set your up. Don't set yourself up for having to be overly restrictive for the next six months. So pick gluten or dairy. For example, dairy. Go dairy free for three months. Recheck your antibodies. If they've dropped, continue. Then six months in, say, okay, now I want to try to take out gluten.