Foods to Promote Thyroid Health

In the spring of 2004, I was diagnosed with Grave's Disease - an autoimmune disease characterized by hyperthyroidism. I'd felt unwell for years before and it had finally come to a point.   I was diagnosed as if by accident after having given up on finding a cause for my exhaustion, sleeplessness, tremors and general sense   of poor well-being.   Indeed, routine blood work at a health fair yielded a result for TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) that was virtually nonexistent.   Of course, TSH is a poor marker of thyroid health so you can imagine just how sick I was.

A stint on anti-thyroid medications under the ever-looming threat of radioactive ablation of my thyroid gland, proved relatively effective, but what truly reversed the illness was better care placed on the foods that nourished my body.