Editing Diet for thyroid disease

My weight started going up in late 2012. Everything seemed to make me fat no matter what diet I followed. I felt helpless. I came up with a plan to change my diet. It wasn't the best at first, but I had taken the initial step in the direction I wanted to go. I realized I needed a body detox and cleanse before doing anything else The purpose behind this was that our bodies depend on our gut flora to be healthy and I 'd been having gut problems. It didn't matter what foods I ate, none of them seemed to agree with me. Drinking green smoothies was the way I got started. I would make the same breakfast smoothie everyday by mixing spinach, pineapple, celery and sometimes cucumber or green apples. When I learned the difference between smoothies and juicing, I started juicing. After a few days of juicing, I felt so good that I decided to just keep doing that until I felt I was healthy again. I didn't realize that I was effectively engaging in a juice fast, but that was one of the things I can say gave me a jump start on my transformation and journey. As I began to detoxify my body, I also started to eat more live foods (probiotics). I do take probiotic supplements as well, but prefer to make things like sauerkraut, fruit kefirs, etc. Everything I did revolved about my gut flora and probiotics. From there the plan was to ensure that my body was generating the right bodily hormones and getting my hypothyroidism under control. Our endocrine system is too complicated to try to describe, but what I realized was that many people with hypothyroidism seem to be lacking three things: vitamin D, selenium, healthy fatty acids. The foods I started to incorporate that I felt helped me feel better give your body at least one of those three things. When it comes to vitamins, it's crucial to understand that most foods don't have the vitamins you need, but instead have the precursors. For example, carrots don't have vitamin A, they have beta-carotene, which is the precursor to vitamin A. When you eat a carrot, the bacteria in your gut digest it through a fermentation process and that's where they convert beta carotene into vitamin A. Vitamin D works just like that. Healthy fats are used to make vitamin D. You can eat fish oil, and hope your gut flora changes it into vitamin D, or you can buy fermented cod liver oil and you'll be eating vitamin D. When I realized that eating more live foods would give my body more probiotics that make the vitamins it needs, everything else started to make sense. Cleaning up your body is important because it helps get rid of bad bacteria that prevent your gut flora from making the nutrients and vitamins your body needs. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib6Jen-CKOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib6Jen-CKOc]

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