Maybe you've been told you have an autoimmune disease/s or an underactive thyroid (over 90% of hypothyroidism cases are caused by an autoimmune disease called 'Hashimoto's) and there is nothing you can do, it will only get worse, and that nutrition and lifestyle have nothing to do with it?! Basically, you've been told to just sit and wait for it to get worse?

I myself was told this when I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's (the most common cause of hypothyroidism) and vitiligo. Whilst autoimmune disease can never be 'cured' it doesn't necessarily have to be a case of just giving up and handing over control to an immune system that's gone rogue! In the meantime, we begin to feel more and more powerless, exhausted, and upset by the uncertainty of what symptoms will show up next.  

Nutritional therapy can be a great support for symptom management and may reduce the severity and frequency of flare-ups.