Diet is a big selling word worldwide..There is a diet fro pretty much everything.Most of us suffering with thyroid problems believe that eating the right food or avoiding the wrong one will cure us from hyperthyroidism or Graves’ Disease.
This is true and not really true. No matter what you eat the next 24 hours it will not cure your hyperthyroidism overnight. But maintaining a proper diet in a long-term plan will cut a lot of your symptoms, will help your immune system to fight the over active thyroid and basically will improve in natural way the performance of your thyroid.
Accordingly, any food that naturally inhibits the thyroid overproduction is good, especially if you are diagnosed with overactive thyroid/ hyperthyroidism. These foods are called goitrogens, they can act as antithyroid drugs (like PTU and methimazole).
This is a short list of foods that may help your hyperthyroidism, some of them are called cruciferous vegetables, some of them are just fruits that do a similar job.
Cruciferous vegetables and goitrogenic fruits:
- Broccoli
- Brussel sprouts
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Mustard greens
- Rutabaga
- Turnips
- Millet
- Radishes
- Spinach
- Mizuna
- Garden cress
- Water cress
- Daikon
- Wasabi
- Bok choy
- Komatsuna
- Rapini
- Soybean and soy products, including tofu
- Strawberries
- Peaches
The above listed vegetables and fruits are enough to cover any food diversity for a week, you can mix and match, add meat, or river fish (this is not dangerous as it does not contain iodine), or anything else that comes to your mind.
Why not give a boost to the thyroid medication? But yes, just eating the above foods will not be enough..
Please, feel free to share any recipe, or diet suggestion, or idea you may have regarding hyperthyroidism diet.
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