The Thyroid Reset Diet: Reverse Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's Symptoms with a Proven Iodine-Balancing Plan

I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in February this year with a High TSH, low T4 and ultra high thyroid antibodies. Since following this diet my TSH and T4 have normalised and my antibodies, although still high, have nearly halved. The diet is easy to follow and I cannot recommend Dr Christianson’s book highly enough!

The author is a genius! Before reading his book, I tried EVERYTHING! No soy, no gluten, no sugar, doctors, naturopaths, lots of exercise, little exercise, all kinds of spiritual approaches and soul searching and I spent hundreds of dollars on supplements - you name it! Pretty much the moment I stopped eating processed foods and watched the sodium overall, got one of his recommended salts and followed his direction, the inflammation left my body and for the first time in YEARS my muscles were not sore (a different pain than from after a workout). My labs are also excellent. Now, when I relapse, I can feel the inflammation right away. I highly recommend this book. There are no myths and he doesn’t try to sell anything. And he also doesn’t recommend one diet or another - in fact, he supports them all with tips.

It’s easy to understand and it’s written in a very clear language how to deal with thyroid problem. But I m upset about one thing that only foreign authors wrote books on thyroid autoimmune disorder. So it’s can’t be followed religiously as most of the foreign receipted can’t be tried in India. So I feel some Indian author should also write such books. Here I am disappointed.

I like how Dr. C goes into explaining a lot about thyroid functions. This book shines a light on iodine and has an interesting approach healing the thyroid. I am in the middle of trying his diet formula so cannot say yet if it had worked, but I would recommend reading it as this is an approach I have never heard before. I also recommend following him on Facebook or Instagram. I like how he seems so genuine and also very knowledgeable in a lot of areas.

The author has a one-solution "fix" for all thyroid problems, and as someone who is on thyroid medication and has researched multiple causes for hypothyroidism, I can tell you that one size does NOT fit all.It's definitely true that too much iodine can cause hypothyroidism; but it is not the only cause of hypothyroidism, or "apparent" hypothyroidism.Another cause is a problem with the adrenal glands. You can have great thyroid function but if your adrenals are shot b/c of, say, too little sleep or too much stress, nothing you do for the thyroid will work because the adrenals are the Generals of the hormone army, so to speak. The author says nothing about the adrenal glands or what to do if his less-iodine solution doesn't work. He doesn't talk about how to interpret thyroid tests or what to ask for if you go for testing. He also fails to address the issues with modern wheat, modern diets, and so forth. He doesn't distinguish differences in nutritional values between, say, conventional beef and grass-fed beef, or conventional eggs and free-range eggs. The nutritional differences b/w the two are elemental and astonishing and yet he says nothing about it. And very little about heavily processed food. He even recommends soy (tofu) as a "green-light" food, when many menopausal women suffering from hypothyroidism caused by insulin resistance should NEVER take soy in any form b/c they are already estrogen dominant. He merely says "if you have a soy allergy, you should avoid soy," not recognizing that soy, with its estrogen components, can be harmful for post-menopausal women. Similarly, he says "avoid wheat if you have a gluten allergy," once again ignoring the evidence that many people have a sensitivity to gluten, but not an outright allergy - but it's enough to matter. I am one of those people. I suffered from acne for all of my teenage and adult life, but it went away when, at age 55, I stopped eating wheat. Which also lowered my inflammation and eliminated all of my body aches and pains. The author also broadly denigrates protein powders and whey, when, for starters, there are many widely available plant-based protein powders, AND grass-fed whey differs significantly from conventional whey in terms of its nutrition and effects. So to me, the author's nutritional background is quite shallow, and his recommendations more or less rote and superficial, without context.Furthermore, about 3/4 of the book is nothing but recipes - a guaranteed way to pad the book when you don't have much to say.So the recommendations in this book might work for some, but they are superficial, and I was very disappointed that I bought the book, hoping for some explanation of the relationship b/w the thyroid and the adrenals and how to fix dysfunction in that relationship, but there was nothing on that topic at all.