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T or F: Kale interrupts normal thyroid function?

mkupartist
mkupartist Posts: 79 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I've been hearing reports that kale disrupts normal thyroid function. As someone who has had significant issues with the thyroid, I'm now concerned about my intake of this otherwise healthy food.
Thoughts?

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  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    Never heard this.
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    I have heard that, but only from fad sites and promoters of fad diets. I've not seen any science on this fact other than a dated textbook article from the 70's... but if anyone has any studies to share I'd be interested in reading them as thyroid issues come up for clients all of the time.
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    Kale interrupts my tolerance for kale.
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    mkupartist wrote: »
    I've been hearing reports that kale disrupts normal thyroid function. As someone who has had significant issues with the thyroid, I'm now concerned about my intake of this otherwise healthy food.
    Thoughts?

    It is not the only vegetable that theoretically can affect your thyroid. But you need to eat A LOT of these foods daily for your thyroid to be affected. So, if you plan to eat kale as main ingredient of breakfast, lunch and dinner, this is probably not a great idea. Although I suspect that armfuls of kale daily would have you worrying about constant diarrhea long before your thyroid suffered...
  • armylife
    armylife Posts: 196 Member
    edited September 2015
    aggelikik wrote: »
    mkupartist wrote: »
    I've been hearing reports that kale disrupts normal thyroid function. As someone who has had significant issues with the thyroid, I'm now concerned about my intake of this otherwise healthy food.
    Thoughts?

    It is not the only vegetable that theoretically can affect your thyroid. But you need to eat A LOT of these foods daily for your thyroid to be affected. So, if you plan to eat kale as main ingredient of breakfast, lunch and dinner, this is probably not a great idea. Although I suspect that armfuls of kale daily would have you worrying about constant diarrhea long before your thyroid suffered...

    This. Much the same as spinach can have an anabolic effect, if you eat 10 pounds a day. Your skin would go green before you could see the result. Maybe that is where the idea of the hulk came from.....
  • emhunter
    emhunter Posts: 1,212 Member
    True with the same caveat as reported above. In addition it is raw kale in large quantities not the cooked kale that can be troublesome.
  • MorganMoreaux
    MorganMoreaux Posts: 691 Member
    cityruss wrote: »
    Kale interrupts my tolerance for kale.

    Just choked on my coffee - Too funny! Thx for the laugh!
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