In conventional medicine autoimmune disease is a chronic life-long health condition that is considered to be incurable. This is what we are led to believe. However, a new discovery in the field of autoimmunity gives not only hope but opens new treatment opportunities. During last decades different models such as molecular mimicry, “bystander effect” and viral persistence were proposed as possible mechanisms that initiate the overreaction of the immune system and lead to an autoimmune … [Read more...]
Hypothyroidism Treatment That Works
October 18, 2012 By
Interview with Tom Brimeyer, a Functional Medicine Practitioner and Author of Hypothyroidism Revolution and Hypothyroidism Exercise Revolution programs 1. Many Outsmart Disease readers who submitted their questions to you tried different brands of thyroid medication, many supplements and different diets (juicing, no gluten, candida diet, eliminating some foods) but still experience many hypothyroid symptoms. Most common are weight gain, depression, low energy, sleep issues and hair loss. They … [Read more...]
How To Heal Thyroid Nutritionally On A Budget
October 7, 2012 By
An Interview with Dr. Jill Tieman who is a Certified Nutritionist and Chiropractor, a Chapter Leader for the Great South Bay chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation and Author of Go Grain-Free cooking class 1. How what we eat affects our genetics and is there any connection to autoimmune disease Most definitely what we eat affects our genetics. In fact, there is a whole new body of research called epigenetics that deals with this subject. Epigenetics refers to changes in gene … [Read more...]
How To Get Off Thyroid Medication By Healing With Foods
October 1, 2012 By
Exclusive Interview with Magdalena Wszelaki, a Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Thyroid Diet Coach, where she talks about how to get off thyroid medication by healing with foods and answers YOUR questions. Part 1. You submitted so many questions to Magdalena Wszelaki that we decided to make it a two-part interview. Today it is all about thyroid medication, supplements, thyroid diet, gluten and detoxification and how to recover (yes, you read it right!) from Hashimoto's … [Read more...]
A Hidden Trigger Of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease You Cannot Ignore
September 17, 2012 By
Thyroid autoimmune disease occurs as a result of a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. While Hashimoto’s disease runs in the family, having family members who have thyroid disease does not necessarily mean that you will get the disease. At the same time, not having genetic predisposition doesn't guarantee that you'll have a thyroid problem. So what puts you and your children at risk for the autoimmune thyroid disease such as Hashimoto’s? There is a growing … [Read more...]
Does Autoimmune Disease Put Your Fertility And Pregnancy At Risk?
July 23, 2012 By
There are more than 100 autoimmune diseases that can affect almost every organ and tissue in the human body. The nerves, muscles, endocrine glands, gastrointestinal tract and connective tissue can be damaged or destroyed as a result of the autoimmune attack. About 75% of autoimmune conditions affect women most frequently during the childbearing years and can interfere with their fertility and ability to have children. Research studies show that fertility is reduced even before clinical … [Read more...]
Six Surprising Facts About High Thyroid Antibodies
July 5, 2012 By
Conventional medicine commonly ignores thyroid antibodies and most doctors don’t check for them routinely even if a thyroid disease is suspected. However, high thyroid antibodies are a valuable indicator for autoimmune thyroid conditions and help to make a proper diagnosis of both Hashimoto’s and Grave’s disease. The main reason why the test for thyroid antibodies is not ordered as often as it should be lies in the treatment approach to hypothyroidism. According to conventional … [Read more...]
Why Your Immune System Doesn’t Need A Boost
April 11, 2012 By
Nowadays immune system boosters and supplements for thyroid have become widely available in the health and vitamin stores. Most of these formulas contain natural compounds and claim to help boost and strengthen the immune system. But is it true? Can they help if you have thyroid or Hashimoto's disease? People with autoimmune conditions including Hashimoto's thyroiditis have imbalanced immune system when one of the Th1 or Th2 sides of the immune system becomes dominant over the other and … [Read more...]
Why Thyroid Patients Should Care About Candida Overgrowth?
February 29, 2012 By
Candida is a natural organism that can be found in everyone's gastrointestinal tract. It becomes a problem when it overgrows and progresses to a systemic yeast infection that is also known as candidiasis and affects many organs at the same time. When candida cells excessively multiply it can cause a chronic or recurrent yeast infection. Candida Albicans is responsible for the majority of Candida infections. Symptoms of candida infection in women can be silent or evident and vary from … [Read more...]
When Thyroid Drugs Don’t Work
December 1, 2011 By
Currently, synthetic T4 thyroid drugs are standard method of hormone replacement therapy for people with hypothyroidism. The goal of the treatment is to bring the patient into a stable condition where the TSH is in the normal range. Although the use of T4 thyroid medication has been accepted for many years in conventional medicine, many patients continue to experience symptoms of underactive thyroid even if their lab test results show normal. Beyond thyroid replacement therapy there are … [Read more...]
Hashimoto’s disease and Thyroid Inflammation Treatment
November 7, 2011 By
Both iodine deficiency and high iodine levels can trigger thyroid inflammation and lead to Hashimoto's disease. If you are subscribed to the Nutritional guide for Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism you may already know that excess of iodine is the best established environmental factor which can cause autoimmune thyroiditis which is an inflammation of the thyroid gland. In the following guest article Dr. A. Haskell describes how low iodine levels can lead to Hashimoto's and what 6 … [Read more...]
How To Stop Autoimmune Attack On Your Thyroid
November 1, 2011 By
Conventional medicine continues to treat Hashimoto’s disease without taking into consideration that it is an autoimmune condition. Shifting of the immune system is the underlying cause of the autoimmune disease when the body’s immune system becomes imbalanced. It is impossible to stop the autoimmune attack on the thyroid gland without understanding the fundamentals and re-balancing the immune system. Two levels of immune response The immune system is composed of white blood cells which … [Read more...]
Chronic inflammation and autoimmune disease
October 18, 2011 By
The incidence of autoimmune diseases is rising making it more common than it was several decades ago. All autoimmune diseases combined is the number two cause of chronic illness in America and the third leading cause of Social Security disability claims following heart disease and cancer. According to the National Institutes of Health, autoimmune disease affects far more patients than the 9 million Americans who have cancer and 16 million with coronary artery disease. Interestingly, … [Read more...]
Nutritional healing with the GAPS diet
August 30, 2011 By
GAPS diet was designed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride to heal the digestive system and restore intestinal lining barrier in people with digestive and immune system disorders. This diet is largely based on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) created by Dr. Sidney Valentine Haas and is also a great place to start if you would like to overcome your food allergies or need to determine if you have any. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride also uses GAPS diet to help children and adults with … [Read more...]
Are you at risk for thyroid eye disease?
August 22, 2011 By
Thyroid eye disease is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder and is also known as thyroid associated ophthalmopathy, Grave’s ophtalmopathy or orbitopathy. It is the most common condition that affects the soft tissue and muscles around the eye orbits and generally occurs together with hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid gland). Risk factors Thyroid disease. Between 25 and 50% of patients with Grave’s disease in addition to hyperthyroidism also have thyroid eye disease. However, 10% of … [Read more...]
My name is Marina Gutner, PhD. I am a researcher, medical writer, Author of forthcoming series on thyroid, hypothyroidism and autoimmune disease. I was diagnosed with autoimmune Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism in 2004 and soon got so sick that I was unable to function. It took me years of research to find how to recover from severe adrenal fatigue and fibromyalgia, stop Hashimoto's and reduce my high dose of thyroid medication in half. On my blog I will tell you exactly how I did it so you can do it too! Read more in 
