A Reader's Post from Mary Shannon's Site...

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:45 am

Back to Basics...WAY Back - Paleo Diet

I've been on a 'natural' regimen for the last year or so after 15 years of being a 'typical' thyroid patient and 15 years of being a vegetarian. I recently found that I'm highly gluten intolerant. I'm on a bioidentical hormone replacement (thyroid, progesterone, and testosterone) and a totally natural diet. By natural diet, I am referring to a diet that matches what humans have been eating for a millennia - a hunter-gatherer diet - aka Paleo Diet. I started eating like our long ago ancestors and totally avoid eating like our recent ancestors and absolutely refuse to eat the Standard American Diet. I eat naturally raised meats and fresh vegetables and get plenty of low cardio exercise. I lost weight AND totally changed body composition. I read Mark's Daily Apple Blog online for a great advice on exercise and diet - he recommends breaking the rules of conventional wisdom. I think most long term thyroid patients would agree that conventional wisdom doesn't serve us well!

http://thyroid.about.com/u/ua/loseweigh ... s.htm?nl=1

Post by **tex** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:05 am

I think most long term thyroid patients would agree that conventional wisdom doesn't serve us well!

That's for sure. The doctors run a few tests, prescribe a pill, run a lab test or two to check the results, and if the results come out anywhere within a wide, so-called "normal" range, they assume the thyroid problem is "under control", and all the symptoms are resolved, and it usually doesn't do the patient much good to complain about lingering symptoms.

Tex

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:45 am

You are so right. I've experienced it myself and most of the posts on Shannon's site expressed the same treatment.

Love, Shirley