The Relationship Between Gluten and the Thyroid

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Gluten people tend to think of gluten as only something to be avoided if they have celiac disease. But there's a very interesting connection between gluten and the thyroid. There are like enzymes in the thyroid that look suspiciously like those gluten peptides. And so once you have that immune response to gluten, it creates this autoimmune response in the thyroid.

Izabella Wentz, PharmD is an internationally acclaimed thyroid specialist and licensed pharmacist, who has dedicated her career to addressing the root cause of thyroid dysfunction after being diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis in 2009. Her new book, Adrenal Transformation Protocol: A 4-Week Plan to Release Stress Symptoms and Go from Surviving to Thriving, is out now.

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