The problem with only taking thyroid medication or thyroid replacement and not doing anything else is twofold. 1. If you've been diagnosed with Hashimoto's, which is an autoimmune version of an underactive thyroid, where the body's immune system is disregulated and mistakenly "attacking the thyroid gland" and that causes issues with thyroid hormone production and thyroid physiology itself. The problem with only being on thyroid replacement is that it doesn't do anything to significantly re-regulate the immune system or stop it from "attacking the thyroid physiology" or what's happening in the body. The problem with this is you're trying to pop a bandaid over what's going on, and very rarely does that work for very long. 2. Once you have one autoimmune condition like Hashimoto's, you're more likely to develop other autoimmune conditions because the nature of your immune system is already a bit sketchy... in terms of it's a bit confused between what's yours and what is foreign.

NATALIE K. DOUGLAS | THYROID HEALER Tweet This!