Thursday, January 14, 2016

Thyroid and Low-Carb: What Do Thyroid Hormones Do?

There's much too-ing and fro-ing over thyroid hormones and low-carb diets on the interwebs, in the paleo and now endurance communities, as low-carb or ketogenic diets have become popular.

Typical was this post by Anthony Colpo from a few years ago: "Is a Low Carb Diet Diet Bad For Your Thyroid?"
"Over the years, an abundance of research has gathered to indicate that, for those who wish to maintain optimal thyroid function, very low-carbohydrate diets aren’t a wise idea."
He then goes through a bunch of studies which all, pretty much, detail that thyroid hormones go down on a low-carb diet.

This post has moved to Substack.

2 comments:

  1. Background Despite the recognition of the Low-Carbohydrate Diet, high-protein, excessive-fats (Atkins) food regimen, no randomized, controlled trials have evaluated its efficacy.

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    1. I love how blatantly people lie to oppose LC diets.

      2007: "In this study, premenopausal overweight and obese women assigned
      to follow the Atkins diet, which had the lowest carbohydrate intake, lost more weight and experienced more favorable overall metabolic effects at 12 months than women assigned to follow the Zone, Ornish, or LEARN diets."

      "Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish,
      and LEARN Diets for Change in Weight
      and Related Risk Factors Among Overweight
      Premenopausal Women: The A TO Z Weight Loss Study: A Randomized Trial"

      https://www.umass.edu/kinpedlab/sites/default/files/publications/Gardner_A%20to%20Z%20Main%20Diet%20Study.pdf

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