Cutting back on carbs and cutting out sugary foods may help people with autoimmune thyroid disease feel better by stabilizing their metabolism and lowering body-wide inflammation.

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Effects of low-carbohydrate diet therapy in overweight subjects with autoimmune thyroiditis: possible synergism with ChREBP

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People with an autoimmune thyroid condition who cut out bread, pasta, and sugar saw their body’s harmful immune attacks on the thyroid drop significantly, and they also lost weight. This suggests that eating fewer carbs can help calm the immune system and improve metabolism.

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Eating lots of sugary, refined carbs over time may make inflammation worse and mess up the immune system in people who already have an autoimmune thyroid condition.

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For overweight people with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, cutting out carbs for three weeks might lower harmful antibodies in the blood, help them lose a little weight, and reduce their BMI — as if the diet is calming down their immune system and helping their body burn fat.

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