Just a reminder that most nuts are NOT your friends! Nuts (and many seeds) are very rich sources of oxalate - and oxalate can impact your metabolism in a host of ways. But one of the worst can be your thyroid.
Note that calcium oxalate can turn up in the thyroid as calcifications, and these microcalcifications can be related to a number of thyroid diseases. We may not be finding these microcalcifications because frankly - we aren't looking for them. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31648281/
From the study: "Calcifications were found in 95% of samples using polarised light microscopy, whereas only 12% were described in initial pathological reports." Note that these thyroid samples came from individuals with varying diseases - but the vast majority had calcifications.
Microcalcifications of the thyroid have been studied before - as early as 1993. At that time, researchers "suggest[ed] that examinations of crystals are likely to be useful in the differential diagnosis of thyroid diseases". pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8317610/
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