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Hey Dr. Burg here. In this short video, we're going to give you a few hypothyroid diet tips.
Number one, the single worst thing you can do if you have a hypothyroid problem is go on a low-calorie diet. Why? Because as you lower your calories, you also lower your nutrition. That starves the metabolism, and you end up just slowing down your thyroid even more. The thyroid does control the metabolism, but it adapts to its environment. So, if the input is less than what it needs, it's going to have to compensate by slowing and being more conservative. So, low-calorie diets, especially some of the ones that are like the, um, 500, 800 calorie, all you're going to do is you're going to end up with a much, much slower metabolism.
Number two, pre-packaged foods. And you know what I'm talking about. The mainstream big diets out there that are all the different packaged foods that you have to buy. Those have something called soy protein isolates. Now, what are soy protein isolates? They are a very low-quality protein, um, very cheap protein, but they interfere with the thyroid in the liver. They're not good to put in your body. And when you take those things, it tends to increase the estrogen amount. And anytime you increase estrogen, you shut the thyroid down. All right? Because I, I'll see people all the time come in, and they have a thyroid problem. It's when did it start? After they went on a diet and they did the pre-packaged food. So, avoid soy at all costs.
Uh, number three, stimulants. And that would be like, again, uh, these diet pills and, uh, fen-phen and things that suppress the metabolism or stimulate the metabolism. We don't want to do that because the thyroid is exhausted. So, anything that stimulates it ends up burning it out down the road. So, those are three very, very, very, very important things to do.
Now, in the next video, I want to cover what I'm going to cover several things. Number one, what's behind a thyroid problem? And it's usually secondary to something else. And number two, why traditional supplements for the thyroid never, never work. I'll see you in the next video.