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I learnt a couple of new things yesterday, one of them being the role that various foods can play in hypothyroidism. Having got long overdue tests done and the results back yesterday I am still trying to get my head around the significance and implications of some of these, and will be posting more on this diet aspect again. However, I thought bring peoples attention to this in the meantime.

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/goitrogens/

wow, luckily the only thing I eat on there is spinach.Thanks

This seems to be a key sentence: "Coo­king does appear to help mini­mize or inac­ti­vate the goi­tro­ge­nic com­pounds found in these foods, since they are heat sensitive." But then lots of people here eat raw things, so good to have the warming.

My TSH was slightly elevated. It went back into the normal range after being on the low oxalate diet for 3 months. That also means I was eating less starch. Interesting!

don't forget that fluoride damages the thyroid too!

Yeah... I realise that particularly recently when preparing vege that I have been tending more towards colour change but still fairly crunchy than cooked. Might need do an experiment with steaming times vs iodine change. I tend to do a lot of stirfried stuff, but it would help me gauge potential changes in starch levels.

Thanks for sharing, but I have to say that this totally freaks me out. Since I'm on the candida diet too, I rely heavily on cruciferous veggies. I have been knoshing on dulse/seaweed which is high in iodine, but I don't know if it'll help. Ugh.... I wonder if this explains the massive hair shedding I've been experiencing... Just another fire I have to deal with I guess...

Freddie

Hey teda,
Had a look through 'google scholar' and found research about how fluoride isn't so great for thyroid function .. well certainly not good in mice and cattle which is of course a good warning to us humans to be very careful with its use.

Keep in mind that these animals are probably receiving roughly 200 to 500 times more fluoride than is normally in our water supplies (the rodents in the article below received 0.5g/L, which is 500ppm fluoride, and I think we normally get about 1ppm fluoride, according to wikipedia). so to put that in perspective, how healthy would I be if my mother drank 500 times more alcohol than is normal whilst pregnant, or consumed 500 times more caffeine than the normal population..

* Some worrying research on fluoride. Pregnant rodents are fed a large amount of fluoride
http://www.fluoride-journal.com/01-34-3/343-165.pdf

* Unit conversions
http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_ppm.htm

Flouride is not good for our bones either... I had heard of a china study of people working in a flouride factory having a lot of skeletal problems that looked like AS ... and I found this article today: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1647839&pageindex=1

"symptoms of fluorosis: vague pains, restricted joint movements, backaches, stiffness and rigidity of spine, ... kyphosis,..... "

these were found in kids.

Here's another place of articles and research: http://slweb.org/