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# Vegan Diets Improve Thyroid Function
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/vegan_diets_improve_thyroid_function/
- Published: 2013-11-21T19:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T14:03:31.000Z
- Description: In the Adventist Health Study 2, 65,981 men and women reported their diets and any hypothyroidism diagnosis, and the vegan group reported fewer diagnoses than the omnivorous group. The findings appear in the journal Nutrients.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Diet, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Vegan diets protect against hypothyroidism, according to a new study published in the journal *Nutrients*. As part of the Adventist Health Study 2, 65,981 men and women completed diet questionnaires and reported whether they had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism. Compared with the omnivorous group, the vegan group had fewer diagnoses of hypothyroidism.

Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland fails to produce enough of the hormones that are essential for a wide variety of functions in the body, including proper cardiac, nerve, gastrointestinal, and psychologic function. Read more on [NutritionMD.org](http://support.pcrm.org/site/R?i=n62llbwaHRocRNP6ZRb5-g&ref=foodconsumer.org).

Tonstad S, Nathan E, Oda K, Fraser G. Vegan diets and hypothyroidism. *Nutrients*. 2013;5:4642-4652.