Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are two common forms of a larger family of diseases called Autoimmune Thyroid Disease, or AITD.
How autoimmune thyroid disease develops remains a mystery. However, research has concluded that some individuals are genetically predisposed to develop Autoimmune Thyroid Disease whereas others are overcome by AITD via environmental toxicity. Still, many people with a family history of AITD as well as those with high levels of environmental toxins in their bodies do not develop AITD. This fact led researchers to look deeper.
What they discovered is that diet has the most profound effect of either promoting AITD or preventing it in spite of genetic predisposition and environmental toxicity.
