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Can Bone Broth Help Your Thyroid?

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Bone broth has several benefits we’ll be walking you through today.

We’ll be listing the most common benefits of introducing this interesting element into your daily diet.  But most importantly, we will be focusing on the multiple benefits of eating bone broth for your thyroid health.

Let us know your thoughts and how you plan to cook with bone broth! And if you are not sure how to do it, maybe you will be interested in the tasty recipe that we will share with you today!

What exactly is bone broth?

Through the simmering process of animal bones and connective tissue, broth is produced. Bone broth can be used to make delicious soups, sauces, and even our beloved gravy. Bone broth has also earned its popularity as a healthy drink.

But bone broth is not something new. It actually dates back to the prehistoric times, when animal bones, hooves, and knuckles have been first used to produce this healthy drink. The hunters-gatherers would use just about any animal that they could hunt down and use their meat, including chicken, beef, turkey, pork, fish, etc. They would also add any plants and herbs that they could find in order to improve the taste of their bone broth.

So it did not take long for them to discover the secret of bone broth and to understand that it is more than just something to warm your soul with.

Bone broth is incredibly nutritious [i]since the animal bones are rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, along with many additional minerals that help keep your own bones, apart from other parts of the body, healthy and strong. Iodine is also found in bone broth that has been prepared using fish bones.

Apart from the bones, the connective tissue that is also being used has multiple nutrients in itself as well. Vitamin A, Vitamin K, zinc, copper, boron, and manganese are just some of the many vitamins and minerals. Then we also have chondroitin and glucosamine, which are two very important natural compounds that are especially beneficial for those of you who might have been struggling with any type of arthritis. And here comes collagen as well being the main component of the connective tissue within your body.

Benefits of eating bone broth

In the following, we will list some of the greatest beneficial effects that bone broth has to offer us, apart from its great taste, that is. So for anyone that is interested in learning how they can benefit from their daily bowl of bone broth, do stick around to see what we have to share with you now.

 Helps You Look Younger

Bone broth is most known for its capabilities [ii]to make you look refreshed!  It has a heavy source of collagen that can help you rid your skin of cellulite, excess fat, and can also firm your skin as well, so you look much younger.

If you’re someone who has been noticing wrinkles and delicate skin around your eyes, by introducing bone broth into your diet, you’ll see those signs of aging diminish quite quickly due to its natural properties.

A Healthy Detox

You constantly hear about detoxing[iii], juice cleanses and supplements, but what if we told you you could simply do a whole body detox with bone broth!  Because of all the toxins you’re exposed to on a daily basis, it’s important to have bone broth in your diet so you can rid your body of these toxic effects that hold back your health.

Bone broth will help detox you by helping to cleanse your digestive system and your liver.  You’ll also receive quite a bit of antioxidants in each serving of bone broth.

Glowing Skin

By using bone broth in your diet, you’ll also help rid your skin of any acne blemishes and also maintain a smooth texture.  This is also a great method for balancing your skin in terms of its natural skin type.  Whether you create too much oil or have dry skin, bone broth will help find the balance between the two.

Will Help Calm Your Digestion

Because bone broth contains gelatin, it’s been proven that gelatin will help restore strength to your gut lining and will also help deal with pesky food sensitivities.  You’ll also have a balance of probiotics that will help aid in natural digestion throughout the day.  Bone broth is soothing and can really help those who constantly have stomach pains.

Will Help You To Lose Weight

Bone broth is a perfect way to increase your natural metabolism[iv]to help regulation and also aid in losing weight.  You’ll find that bone broth helps heal tissue and muscle, making it easier to push yourself harder in the gym.  It will give you natural energy and help aid in circulation as well.

Revitalize Your Sleep Schedule

Because bone broth contains glycine, it’s been known to help aid in balancing your sleep schedule, as well as giving you more natural energy, so you don’t always have to rely on caffeine.

How beneficial is bone broth for your thyroid gland?

There are multiple reasons why eating bone broth will reflect positively on your thyroid gland. For starters, we mentioned it is incredibly nutritious, being enriched with all the essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients in general that our body craves, especially at times like these when it is facing a health issue linked to your thyroid gland.

For those of you struggling with hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid gland, we highly recommend relying on bone broth prepared by using fish bones. When a thyroid issue presents itself in the form of an underactive thyroid, you need all the help that you can get in order to stimulate your thyroid to produce the much-needed thyroid hormones. And because of its high iodine [v]levels, a fishbone broth is a perfect choice. If you have paid attention to what your doctor has probably thought you are that iodine, natural iodine for that matter, play a big role in maintaining your thyroid gland healthy and happy, which is why it is so important at times like these.

Bone broth is highly recommended to anyone who is battling thyroiditis, a condition that characterizes itself with inflammation of the thyroid gland. It is the two amino acids, found in bone broth, called glycine [vi]and arginine that we have to be thankful for because of their strong anti-inflammatory properties.

And while we are talking about glycine, it is worth mentioning that glycine also has strong anti-oxidant properties [vii]as well. Oxidative stress can cause a lot of additional damage to the already compromised thyroid gland, causing the symptoms to worsen, which is why it is of vital importance to keep its levels at a bare minimum. Thankfully, we can rely on glycine for that! Other nutrients that have well-known anti-inflammatory properties are proline, chondroitin, and glucosamine, all of which we mentioned being included in every sip of that delicious bone broth.

Now off to the most important benefit of them all. Drinking bone broth can help you eliminate the symptoms of the well-known leaky gut that can compromise the health of your thyroid gland, causing the symptoms of the thyroid issue in the first place, and causing them to worsen in the future. The link [viii]between the gut and any organ is a strong one, and the thyroid gland is no exception to that rule.

A leaky gut, or increased permeability, means that the walls of your gut have been damaged enough so that harmful toxins and bacteria basically leak from the gut and into the bloodstream. From there, they can easily affect any organ whatsoever, including your thyroid gland, which is often the case. Often, leaky gut is linked to autoimmune issues such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Luckily, bone broth is here to help! It is because of the fact that the toxins and bacteria go on to cause systematic inflammation in the body, that it links leaky gut to so many health issues, especially those regarding your thyroid gland.

The secret lies in the gelatin that is introduced to the body through the consummation of bone broth. The gelatin prevents new toxins and bacteria from leaving the gut by helping new junctions in the intestines’ and gut’s walls to be created, thus preventing these walls from no longer be permeable. The gelatin, in addition to the glutamine found in bone broth, helps to maintain the helpful mucus inside the gut that prevents the gut’s walls from being damaged by the gut microbiome.

In a study [ix]published in April 2019, researchers have investigated how beneficial the so-called autoimmune protocol diet really is for autoimmune diseases, with a certain focus on Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The participants were instructed to introduce more seafood, bone broth, fermented foods, and organ meats, while it excluded foods such as dairy, eggs, coffee, alcohol, nuts, etc. At the end of the study, the results were promising for these patients, showing that diet does have an important impact on their lives.

But bone broth does not only promise to fix the root of the problem, but it also promises to help with the difficult symptoms at the same time. For example, hair loss, stress, insomnia, weight gain, memory problems, and brain fog are often the symptoms caused by thyroid problems. All of these issues can be easily eliminated with the help of all of the nutrients that are found in bone broth.

How to prepare a delicious bone broth at home?

Perhaps it is more convenient to warm up simply a store-bought can of bone broth, but is it the healthiest option of them all? Most professionals would not agree. What we would recommend is to take the time and prepare your delicious bowl of bone broth from the comfort of your home so that you can always be sure about what ingredients you have used while being sure of their quality.

We will share a quick and easy recipe that will be hard to say no to. It starts with actually gathering the bones that you want to use to prepare your bone broth. As mentioned earlier, you can use the bones of almost every animal, bones that you can get at the local butcher store, or the grocery store. You can also use the fish bones or the chicken carcass that you have as leftovers from yesterday’s lunch.

You will need around 3 to 4 pounds of bones, 1-gallon water, and 1-ounce vinegar. Boil all the ingredients and then let them simmer for 10 to 24 hours before letting it cool down. You can also add some seasonal veggies, salt, and spices to improve the taste. You can store it in small containers that you can freeze so that you can have your delicious bone broth whenever you crave it. Once you have a bowl of your homemade bone broth, you will never look back!

Conclusion

Bone broth protein benefits can help you look younger and have better health. Not many people knew that information, but putting the broth into your diet can simply change your life. And bone broth can bring especially good news for those of you who have been battling a certain thyroid issue in the past. Bone broth promises to help with any of the annoying symptoms that are often caused by the presence of the thyroid issue itself, while at the same time, it works to eliminate the root of the problem as well. What we are talking about is the true cure for many of your thyroid gland difficulties and a secret for maintaining for entire body healthy and strong. So pour yourself a big bowl of homemade bone broth and enjoy!

References

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[vi] Zhong, Z., Wheeler, M. D., Li, X., Froh, M., Schemmer, P., Yin, M., … Lemasters, J. J. (2003). L-Glycine: a novel antiinflammatory, immunomodulatory, and cytoprotective agent. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care6(2), 229–240. doi: 10.1097/00075197-200303000-00013
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[vii] Ruiz-Ramírez, A., Ortiz-Balderas, E., Cardozo-Saldaña, G., Diaz-Diaz, E., & El-Hafidi, M. (2013). Glycine restores glutathione and protects against oxidative stress in vascular tissue from sucrose-fed rats. Clinical Science126(1), 19–29. doi: 10.1042/cs20130164
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[viii] Ebert, E. C. (2010). The Thyroid and the Gut. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1. doi: 10.1097/mcg.0b013e3181d6bc3e
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[ix] Abbott, R. D., Sadowski, A., & Alt, A. G. (2019). Efficacy of the Autoimmune Protocol Diet as Part of a Multi-disciplinary, Supported Lifestyle Intervention for Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Cureus. doi: 10.7759/cureus.4556
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