I'm not exactly sure what you mean about "healing" your thyroid.

I've had autoimmune thyroid disease with multi-nodular goiter (that's actually how they found the Hashimoto's--food getting stuck in my throat) since I was 11 and I'm now 33. I just keep on taking my pill every day and keep up with the blood draws and biopsies on the nodules.

Everyone slips - just make up for it the following day, week, month, etc. Last week I was over my 2000cals, but made up for it over the weekend (that and still holding onto a monster burger in my gut - ugh). You're in this for the long term and your body doesn't recognize the close out of a day the way MFP logging does.

You cannot heal your thyroid with food or supplements - thyroid disorders are treated with surgery and/or medicine. Are you reducing your desiccated thyroid intake under a physician's care? I hope you are not attempting this on your own.

Information seems to indicate inflammation is at the bottom of many health problems including thyroid related ones, often the causes of symptoms are seemingly unrelated to the expression of the inflammation(s). Yeast induced inflammation would be wiped out by a keto diet particularly. As I have said previously most of my symptoms fall outside of the "usual" hashi suspect range. I consider I need to restore or repair what ever "internal pathways" are disrupted in order to calm my tinnitus and chemical sensitivities which "conventional" medicine with its one size fits all attitude is failing to address.

Our genetics may predispose us to issues though if we can remove our personal triggers we may be able to put our symptoms into remission. I do not expect to be "conventional medication free", it is much too late for that, my hope is I can force my providers to be more patient appropriate.

I think it took about 18 months to two years to get my dose regulated. But it's a forever thing. My hormone production is not coming back without the meds. However my dose has not changed in 13 years, so that means to me that it's not getting worse. I've read that iodine is essential to production of thyroid hormone and most Americans are deficient in iodine so I'm thinking of starting an iodine supplement. Iodine used to be used in commercial bread baking but they replaced it as a dough conditioner with something else that also depletes iodine in our bodies. So if you eat commercially baked goods you are making things worse.

If there was a way to heal my thyroid, I missed it. I would've hoped I could find a way, too, all the research I did. Just to give you an idea of what *I* am going thru, I tossed out the TDEE a looooong time ago. I now count my calories as "thyroid" calories. As my birthday rolls around every year, I find the calorie budget is less and less.

I think this is one of those statements that is partially true and partially not true. I agree that there is no "cure" in the sense of what a lot of junk science books claim, so taking your meds is important.

BUT, one large caveat, is for people with an autoimmune basis for their thyroid disorder -- such as Hashi's. Hashi's accounts for something like 70% of the the thyroid disorders, so most people that have a thyroid disorder have an autoimmune issue going on. Autoimmune diseases are not well understood generally, and that's the same for Hashi's. For some people, they have dietary triggers that make the AI response worse. So, some through an elimination diet have found that if they eliminate certain things from their diet, they feel much better. The most common ones I know of are (1) gluten and (2) casein and lactose from dairy. But this isn't the case for everyone -- it's really a case-by-case basis.

But I think this is what these books are tapping into -- the commonly seen triggers for people with autoimmune issues. If you can remove the triggers from your diet, your AI will be much better generally. I think that's what they often mean by "cure". Not truly accurate, but for some people, it probably does feel that way. I just wish there were better tests to show people what those triggers are -- but most just have to do an elimination diet for an extended period of time to learn it (and many don't want the hassle unless their condition is particularly bad -- which I totally understand).

What about treating any "underlying causes of hypo such as competing hormones" as @CSARdiver has mentioned in the past. Would that not be a cure?