I honestly don't know why we're arguing over this.
Eating prevents the release of PUFAs stored in the tissues by keeping the blood sugar high. It doesn't stop their accumulation in a stressed individual. A low metabolic state is reflective of a poor environment, and the adaptive response is to store the fats. If you take in the unsaturated kind, they will accumulate in your tissues.
For a child or very young person, I think Ray has said before that good food and a sunny place can be all it takes to restore an oxidative metabolism.
For an adult or older person with a severely impaired metabolism, eating whatever food without limiting the stressors probably won't be enough and will lead to obesity.
Cirion has been tracking his pulse and temperature and food intake. But personally, when I started Peat I ate over 4000 kcal a day for 6+ months and never saw significant increase in my basal pulse/temperature.
Eating sufficient carbs and sugars and easy to digest foods with plenty of calories is a necessary step for recovery, albeit not sufficient the older you get. Lots of food on its own is simply not ''sufficient" to restore thyroid function for many people.
Eating prevents the release of PUFAs stored in the tissues by keeping the blood sugar high. It doesn't stop their accumulation in a stressed individual. A low metabolic state is reflective of a poor environment, and the adaptive response is to store the fats. If you take in the unsaturated kind, they will accumulate in your tissues.
For a child or very young person, I think Ray has said before that good food and a sunny place can be all it takes to restore an oxidative metabolism.
For an adult or older person with a severely impaired metabolism, eating whatever food without limiting the stressors probably won't be enough and will lead to obesity.
Cirion has been tracking his pulse and temperature and food intake. But personally, when I started Peat I ate over 4000 kcal a day for 6+ months and never saw significant increase in my basal pulse/temperature.
Eating sufficient carbs and sugars and easy to digest foods with plenty of calories is a necessary step for recovery, albeit not sufficient the older you get. Lots of food on its own is simply not ''sufficient" to restore thyroid function for many people.