The Claim

In overweight individuals with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a 3-week carbohydrate-restricted diet is associated with a 57% reduction in anti-microsomal antibodies and a 44% reduction in anti-thyroperoxidase antibodies.

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

What the research says

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Correlation
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In plain English

For people who are overweight and have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, cutting back on carbs for three weeks might lower certain antibodies linked to thyroid inflammation — like a sign that the diet could be calming down the immune system’s attack on the thyroid.

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In overweight individuals with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a 3-week carbohydrate-restricted diet is associated with a 57% reduction in anti-microsomal antibodies and a 44% reduction in anti-thyroperoxidase antibodies, suggesting a potential link between dietary carbohydrate intake and autoimmune inflammation in the thyroid.

What the research says

1 study

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

    In people with an overactive immune system attacking the thyroid, cutting out carbs like bread and pasta for three weeks helped lower the harmful antibodies, suggesting diet might calm the autoimmune response.

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