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Sabinaa has Graves Disease; following Eat To Live her eyes and thyroid returned to normal
sabinaa
“In 2005 I was diagnosed with Grave's disease. Against the advice of three doctors, I did not have my thyroid removed or destroyed. After taking only one third of the prescribed thyroid meds for about three month, my hyper active thyroid stabilized and I stopped the medications. I began to think my immune system was the underlying problem causing my thyroid to go wild.
My lifestyle change included a healthy diet without meat and coffee, and I cut out stress as much as possible. I am 5ft.3in. and, at some point, I almost weighed 160 pounds. It wasn't until I read Eat To Live and followed the diet that I finally began to lose weight and felt really good again. Today I weigh 130 pounds and my thyroid has been normal for the past six years. Even my eyes have settled back to normal. I learned health begins with the food you eat. Thank you Dr. Fuhrman for improving my life.”
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Caller: I have a question for Dr. Fuhrman. I have been a vegan for 23 years, and I exercise regularly. A few years ago I was diagnosed with Graves disease. I was desperate and took a radioactive iodine pill. I have been on Synthroid, and I feel fine with that. My TSH level is normal. A couple of years after this, the Graves got into my eyes, and I have double vision that can only be treated, I have been told, with wearing prisms which is what I am doing. I am already doing the greens, the berries, everything you are talking about. Is there anything else you can suggest that I can do.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman: With Graves disease you have antibodies that attack the thyroid gland, and those antibodies have negative effects on the body including the eyes and other parts of the body. So even when the thyroid gland is removed or treated with radiation so that you don’t have it anymore, your body still has the disease. So autoimmune diseases are treatable with nutritional excellence. The answer is yes, we can monitor the benefits of this treatment style with nutrition by checking your antithyroid globulin antibodies and other markers of the disease process, even though you do not have a thyroid anymore. So the G-bomb is the essential core of treating autoimmune disease, and G-bomb stands for greens, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, and seeds. Also, there are some episodic days of the month where we are juicing or just on water where you are just doing some fasting to help lower those antibodies, making sure your body weight is low, taking more omega 3 fatty acids which has beneficial effects, and taking probiotics will have beneficial effects. So we are talking here about putting a proper diet style together which is higher in nutrient density, lower in calories, and making sure there are no nutritional deficiencies which exist simultaneously. Like, for example, vitamin D deficiency can be permissive to autoimmune disease. So I think the answer to the question is that we have to get back to the basics of making sure you are doing everything right for superior nutrition to see if your body can fix the autoimmune process. Most likely we can make tremendous progress with Graves disease, because I have seen many, many cases of Graves disease even reverse and not needing radioablation of the thyroid gland, getting completely better, and you can still do that at this point in your life.
