There’s no question that changing the food that you eat every day can have a huge impact on your thyroid.
For this reason, thyroid patients are always looking for the best diet.
This search for the best diet leads a lot of them to the carnivore diet which promotes itself as one of the best diets available.
But is it true and should you try it if you have thyroid problems?
I’m going to argue no, for 4 main reasons:
1. Carbohydrates are needed for optimal thyroid function.
Low-carb diets have been associated with low T3 levels and high reverse T3 levels, the same pattern seen in chronic illness.
2. Decreased carbohydrate intake increases sex hormone binding globulin and decreases the activity of sex hormones.
Low-carb diets like carnivore can increase SHBG which can reduce free testosterone and free estradiol levels. This can then impact your thyroid.
3. There are better ways to lose weight.
There’s nothing magical about the carnivore diet that you can’t get with other whole-food diets.
4. Low-carb diets cause sleep disturbances.
Thyroid patients already have trouble with sleep and going low carb can make this problem even worse.
If you want to see diets that I think are better than carnivore, check out this video: https://youtu.be/5seJiR5aCAM?si=-K7RVnP_Y58-L3pU
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