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That's how Maria healed her thyroid gland with the help of the diet

January 2, 2026

Are you interested in how, like Maria, you can learn to take control of your own thyroid? Here Maria talks about how, with the help of superfoods and a green diet, she healed from a range of different health problems.

Interview with Maria:

How did you discover that something was wrong?

For me, I realized something was wrong when I started feeling swollen and gaining weight. To describe it, it felt like my metabolism had stopped working. My nails became very brittle, and no matter how much I tried to wash my hair, I couldn’t get it under control. My hair felt greasier, and my eyelashes became shorter and more brittle.

Another thing that happened was that my vision started to become increasingly blurry and almost a little cloudy. When your vision is affected, it’s common to visit your local optician, but in some cases blurry and cloudy vision is due to an imbalance in the body. Every time my body becomes unbalanced, I notice it because my vision can still feel a bit blurry and cloudy.

How did you understand that it was the thyroid causing the problem?

We were offered a health screening at work, and they discovered it during a routine check there. I got to speak with a doctor who talked to me about hypothyroidism. The doctor recommended that I start taking synthetic hormone, levaxin, for my problems. They also told me that I would need to take medication for the rest of my life, and that was over ten years ago now.

I remember a good friend of mine telling me that you could heal the thyroid through diet changes, but that was advice I wasn’t ready to take in at the time. Instead, I started taking the tablets the doctor had prescribed and used them for several years. It worked well at first, but eventually other problems arose.

When did the regular medication stop helping?

After about 7-8 years, I started experiencing a range of different symptoms. I had one problem after another, despite trying to live a healthy life where I avoided sweets, didn’t eat much meat, and always exercised. Despite my lifestyle, my symptoms kept increasing and became so severe that I considered taking sick leave. I got everything from vague cramps, Raynaud's syndrome (problems with blood flow to the fingers), and then urethritis. It was the problems from the urethritis that made it unsustainable. Then I knew I had to do something else.

For a period, I read everything I could get my hands on - books, articles, YouTube - and after a lot of research, I began to realize that there are natural ways to heal the body and that diet plays an incredibly important role. For me, that meant I needed to cut out all gluten, dairy, sugar, and acidic foods (for example, processed foods, coffee, and alcohol). I needed to cleanse and strengthen my body from within with nutritious, organic, and green foods. An important insight was that my body was too acidic, and I ate almost entirely alkaline foods, i.e. lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, smoothies, and freshly pressed juices. After just a few weeks, I began to notice a difference.

How did Superfood enter the picture?

I started with superfoods to help cleanse and strengthen certain functions I knew my body was lacking. I started making my own superfood blends, and the first one I made was Hormone Harmony to strengthen the thyroid and help counter stress. By giving my body a chance to rebuild itself and get rest, I was gradually able to reduce levaxin. Today I have lowered my levaxin dose by just over 80% with the help of the dietary changes I have made. I’ll get rid of the last of it once I’ve learned to stress less; that’s something I’m still working on.

Something else I’ve done, and still often do, is detox in periods. Think of a car. You take a car to a workshop to clean out the system, but few people do the same for their bodies. A detox cleanses and strengthens the body from within, and there are ingredients such as green algae like Chlorella and spirulina that help with that. That’s why we created the superfood mix Detox Deluxe, precisely to draw out stored toxins (for example alcohol, plastics from food, heavy metals from diet, etc.) that have built up over several years. The thing is that everything you eat and drink settles in the body. Not least the liver. And if the liver becomes overloaded, it can’t do its everyday job. That in turn then affects other systems and organs inside the body, and then they can’t do their jobs either.

Why do you want to help others with the same or similar problems?

What I’m passionate about is helping others understand the enormous impact diet has on how you feel. Unfortunately, the food we buy in stores is becoming increasingly industrialized, nutrient-poor, and often full of unnatural ingredients. Most people who have problems go to a doctor and get a prescription. But medication rarely removes the actual problem and is more like putting a bandage on a dirty wound. This leaves many people stuck in a negative spiral where they get more and more medications but never truly heal.

For short-term, acute problems, Western medicine is good. But when it comes to long-term, chronic problems, I think you should instead turn to Eastern teachings, which are ancient knowledge drawn from what nature has to offer. Where you give the body the power to heal naturally.

So to solve chronic health problems, you need to try to find a long-term solution, and a big part of that is focusing on eating clean and nutritious food.