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This is a very important question that everyone with Hashimoto's should be asking. I can only tell you from my experiences even though there are some articles in a few medical journals from around the world which show a higher incidence of Hashimoto's with people who've been diagnosed with Gluten Intolerance.

I know that when my patients avoid gluten they will recover much more quickly than those who don't. I also know that for some reason the avoidance of gluten will low people's thyroid antibodies.

One woman whom I was sure had Hashimoto's showed normal thyroid antibodies on a lab test. This was a test she had done the year before. I asked her is she had been avoiding gluten at the time of this test, and she had been.

I asked her to eat gluten for three days and to repeat the lab test, which we did. Her antibodies were high. Now, they may have been high before she reintroduced gluten but she remarked feeling much worse after it.

I've been considering the connection between the thyroid and the small intestines... embryonically they come from the same germ layer, what's called the endoderm. Maybe there is some connection with inflammation of the gut and inflammation of the thyroid.

You can have thyroid inflammation and not have Hashimoto's. But you cannot have Hashimoto's without having thyroid inflammation. Thyroid inflammation that goes on for a long time has a very high risk of developing into Hashimoto's.

I hope this offers a bit of clarity....

Dr. Alexander Haskell

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