While the experts try to tell us that thyroid conditions cause no more than a few pounds of weight gained or lost, patients have long known the truth. And now, it appears that researchers are starting to catch up to reality, as they recognize in a new study that even slight shifts in TSH -- within the normal range -- are linked to weight gain.Image: Mary Shomon/Imagechef/Clipart.com
Have you read Gary Taube’s book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease? While *not* a how-to diet book, nor a book specifically about thyroid conditions, it is an exhaustive review of the research into the low fat theory of weight control and disease, and reveals some surprising clues to how that those theories went wrong. There is a lot of information about the biochemistry of energy regulation at the cellular level. I think it could be very useful for thyroid patients to understand how their cells really manage energy flow.