A natural treatment for Hashimoto's

this is an interesting one

a recent double blind randomised control trial of a natural treatment for hashimotos found

that daily use of nigella sativa seed ( Black seed ) was enough to help patients with Hashimoto's:
-Reduce their thyroid antibodies
-Shrink both the size and number of blood vessels in the thyroid gland
-Reduce TSH (this is good)
-Increase free T3 levels (this is also good)
-Reduce inflammation and oxidative stress in the thyroid gland
-And cause a reduction in body weight and body measurements without exercise

49 patients were given Nigella sativa or placebo daily for 8 weeks
Dose: 2 grams per day as powder

that's a big deal as there are almost no mainstream treatment for hashimotos
and very few natural treatments are studied with double blinded RCT's

other studies showed an increased effect if it was combined with vitamin D3 supplements

since such a high proportion of those of us with lyme and co end up with Hashimoto's
i thought i would post a link
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27852303/

yep - same herb - Black seed / nigella sativa/ black cumin seed/ etc

quite a few anti-cancer studies

comes from Arabic herbal medicine

is "the cure for all that ails you - except death"

the study i listed used powdered seeds - but thymoquinone in the oil in the seed is thought to be the main active compound ( though we are pretty poor at getting this guess right historically)

in arabic countries both the seeds and the oil are used interchangeably

i have been taking it for over 1 year now - around 1 level tablespoon - approx 8g a day - i found an organic cold pressed black seed oil here that is around £40 per litre - so have been using that - tastes much spicier / stronger than all of the big name brands i have tried
(actual thymoquinone concentration varies wildly in commercial products - but the peppery taste is a reasonable guide of freshness / potency)

it also has a bit of carvacrol in it (as found in oil of oregano) so high doses can cause herx

Thanks for posting.

Interesting - will pass this info onto my husband - who is on thyroid meds

The study also shows it lowered VEGF in the Hashimoto’s patients. I was not aware that VEGF was affected by Hashimoto’s. VEGF is low in CIRS / biotoxin patients and elevated in bartonella. The Shoemaker VEGF lab ranges for normal are 31-86. I believe the Labcorp ranges have been widely altered. My VEGF levels were low in the beginning (16) but were high the last time they were tested (121).

WBF and Garzie- That brand I linked to comes in both oil and gel tabs.

As far as I could tell that had the highest percent of the “T” (i’m not going to try spelling that) versus anything I could find easily available .

The cheaper ones did not state the percentage on their labels at all.