The best way to get off is to taper slowly. Take it in the morning when cortisol rises naturally. Take zinc (with copper) at night before bed. Zinc naturally lowers cortisol and you want it to go down at night. Zinc is also required for the hypothalamus to make all the chemical messages it sends to the pituitary, and that all affects the adrenals. Take b-vitamins and vitamin C for your adrenals. It is really hard to find research on the adrenals online or details of how adrenals make all of the adrenal chemical outputs. But with a lot of digging, I found that the b-vitam ...
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I has a similar experience. I started with iodine last year after a few years of feeling miserable (undiagnosed hypothyroid), and then a few months of scary symptoms (dangerously hypothyroid), and then one day last summer, I went out for sushi and felt incredible, like a super hero. And decided iodine was the answer to all of my problems. lol Well it was a lot more complicated than that! You can probably find my original story from last year on this site if you want to read it. Are you taking a multivitamin? Any b-vitamins? Vitamin A, C, E? If you are, how much? What form ...
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Iodine works best when it’s combined together with all the other nutrients, the vitamins and minerals we need to live. Notably, B6 has a special relationship with iodine. B6 is also associated with lowering the risks for many types of cancers, including kidney cancer: http://www.cancernetwork.com/renal-cell-carcinoma/higher-b6-levels-linked-lower-kidney-cancer-risk I had several breast cysts appear over the last four years. I did the iodine protocol, which did help, but only when I was also taking B6. i didn’t make the connection until I started taking a B-100 (extended relea ...
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Sorry to hear you’ve had a rough time. The reason for your anger is probably related to neurotransmitters in the brain. A drop in serotonin and dopamine, as well as less oxygen to the brain (headaches). Also toxins will build up in the body and brain if you run out of the nutrients needed to clear them. This will lead to headaches and nausea. All of your symptoms are likely related to not enough vitamins. The previous fasting you did, depending on how recent, may have left you low in some vitamins. Then this fast has quickly put you in the danger zone of under-nutrition. S ...
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Have you had your thyroid checked? Not just TSH, but T4 and T3? If you already have autoimmunity issues, maybe you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, which is an autoimmune disease where the body attacks the thyroid. Thyroid problems cause tachycardia, diarrhea, gas and bloating, anxiety, depression, swelling, painful joints, exercise intolerance, insomnia, weight gain, weight loss, along with a hundred other things. They should check your thyroid antibodies for this. Another possibility is Crohn’s disease, which is also an autoimmune disorder where the body attacks the walls of the ...
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I agree with shroom. You’re having problems digesting your food. And if this has been going on for 5 months, you are at serious risk for many nutritional deficiencies, which will cause a million different symptoms for you. Check out this page: http://www.diagnose-me.com/symptoms-of/vitamin-B1-requirement.php This is just one vitamin, but if you’re low in it, you’ll have everything from trouble breathing, trouble digesting, and trouble thinking. You’ll even eventually have nerve pain in the feet. Take a digestive enzyme with every meal. And then take apple cider vinegar abou ...
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Look into thiamine deficiency. It’s becoming more and more common, and is usually not considered by doctors. Similar to iodine deficiency, we’ve forgotten about thiamine deficiency. Thiamine deficiency causes cold hands and feet. Thiamine deficiency can even lead to nerve damage in the feet and hands, if it is not corrected. This link has a list of all the symptoms: http://www.diagnose-me.com/symptoms-of/vitamin-B1-requirement.php It’s extremely common among thyroid patients, especially after a hyper metabolic experience. Other things that can contribute are eating sugar, ...
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I Silon, I’ve read your other posts on CZ, and taking everything in to account, I wouldn’t assume, even with the lyme diagnosis, that your symptoms are lyme. Lyme is very difficult to accurately diagnosis. It ends up being diagnosis of exclusion (when they have ruled out everything else, they assume it’s Lyme). Lyme disease has very vague symptoms, and tests are ambiguous. A positive test does not prove lyme disease. The treatment is long and rarely effective anyway. It’s a money maker for practitioners and gives patients a label that they can use to explain to their family and frie ...
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I think you have low stomach acid, and as a result, SIBO, which is ”Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth”. Here’s a great page about it, so you can decide if this describes you: http://www.jillcarnahan.com/2014/05/16/6-signs-sibo-might-root-cause-ibs/ Basically, the churning and bloat, the gas, and the diarrhea are all because of low stomach acid. The stomach needs acid to break down food. If there isn’t enough acid, it will churn, like a front loading washing machine trying to make the most use out of very little water. Your stomach works hard to break down food with too little ...
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Shortness of breath is one of the symptoms of thiamine deficiency: http://www.stewartnutrition.co.uk/nutritional_emergencies/acute_thiamine_deficiency.html Thiamine deficiency is associated with disorders in amino acid metabolism. Perhaps you are low in thiamine, and taking tyrosine is making that worse. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7160911 Here’s the abstract: ”Report on a serious disturbance of amino-acid metabolism in a 56 year old male patient suffering from thiamine-(vitamin B-1) deficiency, as proven by clinical history and examination and by laboratory data. In ...
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You probably have hyperthyroidism. It’s possible you have had it off and on for a long time. Sometimes it can be mistaken for a panic disorder. It can make you feel extremely anxious, depressed, confused, and give you a racing heart, cause insomnia and digestive pain. I posted to your other question in a different spot on CZ, but I wanted to post here too, for anyone else following this thread. It’s really important to recognize the signs of hyperthyroidism, which can begin as psychological disturbances, and some people may tell you it’s ”all in your head”. It’s definitely NOT ...
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You mean Armour the thyroid hormone replacement, right? Are you taking any other supplements besides iodine? The best way to wean off thyroid hormone is very very slowly. Take a lot of vitamins, a very complete multivitamin and a b-complex. Sounds simple and obvious, but the vitamin thing is supremely important. Take iron, you need it to make thyroid hormone. Not all multivitamins have iron. You may want to do some vitamin ”loading” first before you even go off the hormones. Get plenty of protein, and take a tyrosine supplement. Don’t drink ANY alcohol at al ...
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Sounds like a nerve is getting tweaked. It could be as simple as posture when you feel stressed. If you sit with your shoulders pulled up to your ears, which many people do when stressed out, then the muscles get tight between the shoulder blades, and can put pressure on nerves in your upper spine. Then when you sigh, you take in a big breath, and expanding the ribcage, lifting the shoulders and a nerve is getting tweaked when you do that. That’s my guess. Other things that involve nerves: Herpes neuralgia, almost always the left leg only. Vitamin deficiency: copper, B12, B1, B6
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Anyone experiencing hypoglycemia should read about thiamine before considering any other cause. Symptoms of thiamine deficiency are fatigue, irritability, memory problems, sleep issues, digestive problems, nerve pain, muscle pain, chest pain... the list goes on. Thiamine is required to metabolize sugar. Alcohol, sugar, raw fish, tea, coffee (even decaf), and stress can all deplete thiamine. There is also an intestinal bacteria which can compete for thiamine from the diet. Thiamine is required to make stomach acid. Low thiamine will cause digestive problems, and other nutrient d ...
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From your description, you have hyperthyroidism. Losing weight, feeling panicked, hyper stimulated... all of that is from the effects of hyperthyroidism. This is a hyper metabolic state that also depletes you of many nutrients. You should definitely get a thyroid panel: TSH, free T4 and T3. The most dangerous aspect of hyperthyroidism is that it leads to thiamine deficiency, and many of your symptoms also sound like this. The clue is your intolerance of sugar. Thiamine is required to metabolize sugar and turn it into energy. Once you get seriously low in thiamine, HUGE doses ...
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Alpha Lipoic Acid can cause thiamine deficiency if taken in high doses, or if you are already low in thiamine for some other reason. Symptoms usually start with fatigue, irritability, poor short term memory, and sleep disturbances. Later, heart palpitations and peripheral neuropathy follow. Google ”beri beri”. This page explains some of the effects of ALA: http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/alphalipoic-acid   [End]
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Look into vitamin A for autoimmune disease. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090301181421.htm Dr. Cole suggests all the fat soluble vitamins: A, D, E and K2. A problem metabolizing fat from food can cause these deficiencies. https://drwillcole.com/5-foods-i-recommend-for-people-struggling-with-autoimmune-diseases/ Also iron, and B-vitamins should also be considered anytime fatigue and autoimmune diseases are an issue. You can get tested, but if you don’t want to wait, you can try some of these one at a time and see how you feel. Try some B6, tryptopha ...
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Yep, I’ve had many of those symptoms, and I did figure a lot of things out. The main thing is ignoring all the stuff online that says we can’t have nutrient deficiencies if we live in the developed world. It’s just not the case. Especially if we have thyroid issues, and h.pylori puts you at greater risk for nutrient deficiencies too. Raw foods are especially hard to digest. Many have ”anti-nutrients” which can even take away vitamins from you during the digestion process. It’s better to eat cooked or fermented foods, at least until you get past these current symptoms. There a ...
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Your symptoms scream B6 deficiency. B6 is needed for both skin and moderating estrogen in the body. B6 does a couple hundred other things too. It controls inflammation, most notably. So if you have hormone related problems (endometriosis), skin problems as well as joint or muscle pain, nerve pain (carpal tunnel, aching feet, back pain)... it’s probably a B6 issue. You also mentioned a miscarriage (I’m so sorry). Definitely get some B6, it lowers prolactin levels which are associated with miscarriage. B6 is the hormone regulator vitamin. B6 is also the vitamin we need to ma ...
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I forgot to mention some food choices that can interfere with vitamins. Most people around here know about raw veggies and unsprouted raw seeds and nuts and phytates and oxalates. But there are other things it seems no one talks as much about, and I’ll share a couple of those. Tea, camilla sinensis (green, black or white), even organic, contains a lot of fluoride. It will affect your thyroid and pineal glands. Don’t listen to those out there who say the fluoride in tea is special and somehow magically safe. It’s not special or safe. And tea is one of the causes of my own thyro ...
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Wow, four babies! You go girl! Don’t fret, needing vitamins doesn’t mean you aren’t eating well. Even if you eat a perfect diet, there are other reasons you can be depleted of vitamins, either because you use up your stores, or because you don’t absorb nutrients from food well enough. Things like illness, injury, surgery, sleep deprivation and certain conditions (like thyroid disorders) will put you at risk for deficiencies. And of course, pregnancy and breastfeeding takes a lot out of you. Plenty of medications can deplete you of vitamins too. Antacids are the absolute wors ...
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I know exactly how you feel. I’ve been working on my health with supplements for the past year, and there have been many ups and downs and lessons learned. It can be super frustrating when you have bad days, especially after having finally felt good, maybe after years of not feeling good. I want to feel good all the time! A couple things I’ve learned: B6 is key for getting iodine into the various glands that need it. Low B6 is associated with low liver enzymes (AST). http://www.medfriendly.com/aspartate-aminotransferase.html B6 is also required to make serotonin and lo ...
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I didn’t realize betaine was a methyl donor, which explains a few things for me. I have some gas issues after methyl group supplements like methyl folate and methyl cobalamin I was just reading about vinegar, and I did try vinegar after two of my meals where I also took vitamins. I noticed I felt almost hyper after them. So possibly the vinegar helped me break down the food and vitamins better. But yuck, vinegar straight is not good. So I’m going to order some tablets instead. lol   [End]
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Look into thiamine and hyperthyroidism. Here’s a link to a case study where a man had iodine contrast and had ”subclinical hyperthyroidism” which eventually lead to hospitalization due to thiamine deficiency. Of course, it took them a while to figure it out. Here’s an excerpt: ” It is known that thyroid hormone stimulates oxidative metabolism and ATP utilization which induces the upregulation of the Krebs cycle.12 Thiamine is an important coenzyme for pyruvate dehydrogenase, the enzyme converting pyruvate to acetyl CoA in the mitochondria for use in the Krebs cycle, and it is ...
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Thyroid medication is rarely the entire solution for anyone because of how badly thyroid conditions affect absorption and metabolism of nutrients. Stomach acid is low in hypothyroidism. Some people get no relief from taking thyroid medication simply because they are not even able to absorb the medication. You need stomach acid to do this. Usually they tell you to take meds on an empty stomach and not to eat anything for a few hours. But if you do that, you don’t trigger the release of any stomach acid. It’s best to take thyroid meds with something acidic, like vinegar (yuck ...
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Last year my TSH was 9.5 and is now 2.3 and I haven’t taken thyroid medication, just took supplements and vitamins. It wasn’t easy. I’ve learned a lot along the way. Things I wish I knew last year: 1) Thiamine might be more important during thyroid recovery than any other vitamin. If you research BeriBeri symptoms, you may recognize many thyroid symptoms. As you recover, some things you try may make you HYPER and you’ll quickly use up your thiamine stores. Also, a recent study found high dose thiamine to help thyroid patients, and hypothesized we have trouble absorbing thiamine ...
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Last year, I constantly felt like I had this drip down the back of my throat, and I was always clearing my throat. I searched everywhere for the answer, but didn’t find anything that helped. It took me nine months and many incorrect diagnosis to finally figure out. It wasn’t silent reflux. It wasn’t allergies. It wasn’t a virus, or a bacteria. It wasn’t just a habit. In the end, it was something very simple and easy to solve. I had mild but chronic riboflavin deficiency. Riboflavin, B2, is a water soluble vitamin that is needed every day, because you do not store more than a ...
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I disagree. I think most people on this board are deficient in riboflavin. And riboflavin has no upper limit, is extremely safe to take on it’s own. Thyroid dysfunction and the MTHFR polymorphism are two things that lead to riboflavin deficiency, and require supplementation. Alcohol consumption quickly robs the body of B vitamins. Riboflavin is destroyed by light. Milk in clear containers loses it’s riboflavin content. Folks who avoid dairy and egg products can quickly become deficient in riboflavin. Riboflavin is not stored in the body and must be gotten from the ...
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Have you been tested for a Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphism? It’s also called MTHFR for short. If you have this, you may not be able to use folate from your diet. A folate deficiency can lead to a riboflavin deficiency - which exactly characterizes your symptoms. Riboflavin is required to make the enzyme ”methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase” which is needed to convert folate to it’s usable form. But some people don’t make this enzyme properly and end up with a folate deficiency. Their bodies keep trying and trying, using up all the riboflavin to make an enzyme t ...
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Sounds like mainly a B-vitamin deficiency ophthalmoplegia: thiamine thiamine thiamine !!! and magnesium Severe brain fog worse in the morning, often comes with allergy like symptoms: B12 and thiamine Chronic eye irritation and light sensitivity: riboflavin Anxiety and depression: B12, thiamine, B3, vit D Poor appetite: lots of things cause this: B12, B3, B6, vit A It’s generally thought that unless you live in a third world country you can’t be deficient in any nutrients. But special diets, being a vegetarian, avoiding dairy and eggs, alcohol consumption, or engaging in a ...
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Hi there, I feel your pain. I’ve spent the past 9 months recovering from my thyroid dysfunction. Luckily I haven’t had a job so I could spend all my time researching and figuring out how to save myself. Doctors’ haven’t been much help, other than to let me have blood work done. Fortunately, I had success with my self-experimentation, and I’m basically ”cured” and feeling better than I have in 10 years. I’m guessing you’ve already read a lot yourself, and tried plenty. So I will try to keep this to the stuff that I figured out and that I haven’t heard much talk about: 1) ...
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Did you know GRAPEFRUIT can interfere with your allergy meds? I went on a grapefruit eating binge a while ago, and became super itchy, which I now know was due to the inhibition of Zyrtec by the grapefruit. It turns out grapefruit is known to impact a lot of different medications. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/UCM292839.pdf Some medications are dangerous if you take them while consuming grapefruit or grapefruit juice. Zyrtec is safe, but in my experience, it won’t work as well if you eat grapefruit. http://www.gooddaypharmacy.com/health-informa ...
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It’s been a while since you posted, just curious to know how you’re doing? I have a few ideas for you about your thyroid levels. One thing that could cause you to be hypothyroid with all the low thyroid symptoms while still having a low TSH is fluoride. Fluoride takes the place of iodine in the building of thyroid hormone, giving you all the symptoms without an elevated TSH. This is what happened to me. It turns out, unfortunately, that green tea and black tea are very high in fluoride. You can read my story somewhere on cure zone if you’re interested, so I won’t rewrite the whol ...
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Iron Saturation is a ratio calculated from serum iron and transferrin. Serum iron is how much iron is floating around free, unbound, in your blood. Transferrin is made in the liver, and is a tool the body uses to encapsulate unbound iron for later use. Transferrin is useful for keeping iron-loving bacteria from using up all the iron you eat. Generally, you have to look at all three measurements together to get a correct picture of your iron status. One measurement taken alone doesn’t tell you anything. This chart explains it pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tot ...
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Armour thyroid has both T3 and T4. Your blood tests show too much T3 and too low T4 while on Armour. Based on that, I would expect your doctor to switch you to a T4 only thyroid med. It makes sense that after switching to the new combo of T4 and T3 you had a thyroid storm experience - your T3 was already high and then you got even more of it in your system. Maybe it was supposed to be less T3 than the Armour? Even so, your TSH was so low that your thyroid was essentially shut off, yet your T3 was too high. I’d be curious to know what your blood results were without any T3. In th ...
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I understand a little bit of what you’re going through. I am recovering from a thyroid issue, and anemia and when I first started taking iron, I also had the racing heart and heart palpitations that you describe. This issue is so complicated, so bear with me here.... Iron interferes in some way with thyroid medication. It’s either the absorption, or the metabolism of the thyroid meds, I’m not sure. The important point is you must NOT take these two at at the same time. A few hours in between taking iron and taking thyroid meds is critical. You must get your anemia sorted out ...
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Just wanted to post another update! I’ve had two rounds of blood work done since my last post above. To recap: My TSH was 2.9 in early June, three weeks after stopping tea. My TSH was 9.5 on August 15. Then it went to 6.2 on September 25th. The latest TSH was 3.7 on November 22nd. All three times my FT3 and FT4 have been normal. BUT, my LDL cholesterol went back up to the June values! As did my liver enzymes! I’m still doing all of the things I was before, but I have also started taking a B12 methylcobalmin sublingual. The first time I tried it (1000mg) it kept me up all n ...
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Hi Markrule, I saw some of your other posts on cure zone and want to help. It looks like your main concerns are acne, grey hair and hair loss. Some of your other symptoms do sound like low thyroid, but your Thyroid numbers look fine. I can commiserate with the grey hair thing. I got my first grey hair when I was 17. By the time I was 30, my mother was telling me it was time to dye my hair. Ten years later and I have started getting a few white eyebrows and eyelashes. I think part of this is genetic. My grandmother’s hair went white by the age of 30. A copper deficiency is th ...
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Thyroid issues can cause absorption problems, and to me it sounds like you are experiencing multiple nutritional deficiency symptoms: brain fog, anger issues, forgetfulness, muscle aches. All of those are actually low thyroid symptoms as well. Are you having heart palpitations? Low thyroid causes a slow down in digestion and a reduction in stomach acid which leads to nutritional deficits, and that in turn leads to more problems, and it’s a domino effect. (One example: inability to create enzymes needed for things like converting beta carotene to vitamin A.) So low thyroid people ...
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Hi there! I noticed you are taking 125mg of zinc, and that’s way too much! Excess zinc (more than 50mg a day) is known to CAUSE copper deficiency. Your body produces metallothionein when it’s exposed to too much zinc in order to limit absorption of excess zinc. BUT, metallothionein has a higher affinity for copper. So too much zinc will cause copper to not be absorbed. http://ajcp.ascpjournals.org/content/123/1/125.full.pdf Copper excess does not have the same effect on zinc, however. I would stop taking the zinc supplement completely for a while if I were you, and suppleme ...
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I posted my very long story a while ago about my hypothyroidism caused by the aluminum fluoride in tea. Well, it’s been six weeks and I’m happy to say I feel great! At first, when I realized I needed iodine and finally started getting it (as well as the supporting cofactors), I felt like a super hero. But soon, I realized I was on a bit of a roller coaster, with highs of feeling hyperthyroid sometimes and lows of feeling hypothyroid again. Over the past six weeks though, the highs have slowly gotten less high, and the lows have gotten less low. Especially after I added iron, and di ...
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I found this link from a user here (Violien) incredibly useful for understanding what was going on with me: https://sites.google.com/site/violienshealth/thyroid I had to reread it several times because there is so much information. Over time I have gone back to it again and again as my situation has progressed. I don’t know much more than you about drinking water. I recently started drinking reverse osmosis water, and then I add gypsum salts, but there are probably better salts you can use. I see people talk about celtic salt a lot. I just haven’t pursued that yet. :)   [End]
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Also, consider upping your Vitamin E and Vitamin A Vitamin E has been shown to reduce inflammation and protect the thyroid against excess iodine. http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/content/209/3/299.full.pdf Vitamin E is generally not high enough in multivitamins. 400-800 IU recommended when recovering from a thyroid issue. Vitamin A doesn’t get enough publicity either. ”Thyroid hormone plays a role in the conversion of beta-carotene to vitamin A. ” If you’ve had low thyroid for a period of time, you might be deficient in Vit A despite supplementing with beta carotene ...
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Hi Rainbowz, I understand completely. I still miss tea and it’s been over four months since I stopped. At first I switched to coffee again, but then my thyroid started making it’s presence known in my neck, and for a time, I thought my throat problems were silent reflux, and the recommendation for that is to avoid coffee and avoid caffeine. I quit coffee, and then I was totally lost in the mornings. I found this product called ”teeccino” which is a caffeine free coffee alternative, and it also is made using tea bags, which I like. It’s easy. I ordered the sample pack with fou ...
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Hi Rainbowz, I’ve been doing iodine now for a month I think. I just added iron and it has made a big difference. When I first started iodine, I felt amazing. But I think my body started using more iron in the process of utilizing all the new iodine, and I slowly became iron deficient. ”Iron-deficiency anemia blunts and iron supplementation improves the efficacy of iodine supplementation.” http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/105072502761016494 Last weekend I felt really tired, even though I was on 15mg of iodine and taking selenium, etc. I added 30mg of iron and ...
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Hi there, One thing I recently learned on my personal road back to health is that low thyroid affects your digestion and absorbing of vitamins, and it’s tough to come back from that. More than ever, you need to absorb those vitamins and minerals, but because you’re deficient, you can’t do it as well. It’s often an issue of low stomach acid. (There is a bit of a health trend in some places for a low acid diet, which is not good for you if your thyroid is wonky.) You have to get your stomach acid up in order to absorb vitamins from food and supplements. Maybe that’s part of your iss ...
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Hi Rainbowz, Yes, that’s how it went. I changed jobs and actually started working from home. When I worked in an office there was a coffee machine where you just press a button. So I had coffee in the morning. Sometimes I had some tea later in the day. So I wasn’t completely free of drinking tea before changing jobs. But my tea drinking was sometimes green tea and sometimes peppermint tea. I wouldn’t say I had perfect health before starting tea three years ago, because I have always had allergies. But I was healthy enough that the only time I visited a doctor was to get my ...
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I understand what you’re going through. Like you, I had such debilitating allergies and nothing seemed to help relieve the congestion. I was so desperate I tried some crazy things, like sinus rinses with baby shampoo. I was on Zyrtec, Flonase, Sudafed and Mucinex and was still miserable. Have you tried Singulair? It turns out it really helps specifically with sinus inflammation caused by allergies. I added that to my regimen and within a day, I felt better. The key is to keep taking it even when you feel well. It prevents the inflammatory process from breaking down the epitheli ...
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Before today, from the reading I’ve done, what I’ve mainly read about in tea is Aluminum and Fluoride. Which are a bad combination. But after reading your post, I looked more in to the different types of fluoride people are talking about. It seems like people are talking about calcium fluoride versus sodium fluoride (toothpaste), and saying that calcium fluoride is what is in tea. I haven’t seen any of that in serious literature though. No studies with methods explained have stated which type of fluoride is in tea. There is aluminum and calcium in tea, and it’s likely fluoride is ...
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Update: I forgot to mention that my cholesterol has dropped 60 points since June after I stopped drinking tea! It went from 213 to 153. Also my bilirubin (liver enzymes) was high in June, and now it’s dropped 50%! It was 1.8 and now it’s 0.8! Pretty incredible considering the only thing I changed was to stop tea and start iodine.   [End]
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I know! It’s completely shocking to me about fluoride in tea. I’m not certain I would have even believed it if I hadn’t experienced such dramatic affects from it. The fluoride content in tea is well documented though. To avoid fluoride and still drink tea, look for tea grown in Japan, where the soil contains less fluoride than in India and China. Also, the more expensive the tea, the lower the fluoride - generally. This correlation was found by several studies. It’s probably because the older the plant, the more fluoride and also the more bitter the tea. Expensive tea is made from ...
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Hi Violien, Thank you so much for your reply! I went to the link you gave me: http://www.violiendamast.nl/thyroid Wow, so much great information! Thank you so much for putting that together. It is, by far, the best page I’ve read about how the thyroid uses iodine and selenium. I am still studying it, because it is so complicated, and there are so many variations on what can happen, even to the same person at different stages. Since the writing of my story, I had a few days of feeling hyper. It peaked four days ago, on Aug. 15th, with a resting heart rate of 85bpm. I skipped ...
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Hi everyone, in the hopes that my story will help someone else, here it is. It’s a long one. A quick description: I’m a woman in my late thirties who unknowingly experienced high chronic fluoride exposure, causing a myriad of health issues: worsening allergies, fibrocystic breast disease, and thyroid issues, silent reflux and swallowing problems. I’ve thankfully discovered iodine, and slowly I’m getting back on track. Here’s my story: Three months ago, I decided to stop drinking tea. At the time I’d been researching everything I could find about allergies. I’ve had year-r ...
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Hi everyone, in the hopes that my story will help someone else, here it is. It’s a long one. A quick description: I’m a woman in my late thirties who unknowingly experienced high chronic fluoride exposure, causing a myriad of health issues: worsening allergies, fibrocystic breast disease, and thyroid issues, swallowing problems, and silent reflux. I’ve thankfully discovered iodine, and slowly I’m getting back on track. Here’s my story: Three months ago, I decided to stop drinking tea. At the time I’d been researching everything I could find about allergies. I’ve had year- ...
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