Foods which bother hypers

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Hi Everyone,

Our group is now up to 46 members and continues to grow fast--what an

incredible think tank we are building! Each person contributes with their

distinct experiences and knowledge and the more people we have, the faster we

are going to reach our goal of getting these thyroids diseases into the past

tense.

I'd like to welcome each new member and ask you to contribute. Sometimes we

have valuable pieces of evidence they we don't recognize as gold nuggets until

they are out in the sun before the whole group.

Helga (VNCC74656) just showed me some nuggets and I've been pondering over

them. She wrote me telling me about foods that disagree with her and it made

me realize that the foods that disagree with us can tell us alot about our

bodies. For example, if excessive amounts of zinc depress our copper levels,

and copper is the mineral that keeps our thyroids from going bezerk, then we

would expect that eating a food very high in zinc, but very low in copper

could aggravate the symptoms of our hyperthyroidism.

With this in mind I started analyzing the foods which Helga said would set

her hyperthyroidism off: breakfast cereal with milk, pizza, salmon, shrimp,

and pickled herring. I saw the three seafoods at the end and thought, " Aha,

they must be very high in zinc and low in copper! " I looked them up in the

Nutrition Almanac and to my surprise, all three have zinc/copper ratios

between 8:1 and 10:1, which are perfectly optimum ratios. Stumped.....

Later I was reading about iodine and came across this incredible statement,

" Bakeries may add iodine to dough as a stabilizing agent which will render 150

mcg or iodine per slice " (of bread). I used to have bad reactions after

eating all types of wheat products and am now wondering if this is the reason.

Later after I started taking copper every day, I no longer had any problem

with bread, pasta and other wheat products. (There is more detail about

having hyper symptoms from taking iodine without copper in my kelp letter).

Now things started making sense. The seafoods which bothered Helga contain

iodine and the pizza probably does too. So more than likely there are alot of

foods which contain unlikely amounts of iodine which can set off hyper

symptoms in a person who is very deficient in copper.

The test would come when Helga gets her copper stores up after a few weeks of

supplementation. I experienced very similar bad reactions to a wide variety

of foods, but now that my copper levels are back up to normal I can eat most

anything without the slightest problem. I still have a problem with high

manganese foods (our ranch has high manganese in the soil), but I suspect that

chromium is the antagonist for manganese and will experiment with that this

next week.

Helga's problem with dairy is something I've discussed previously. Milk is

high in calcium and low in magnesium and consuming dairy products will cause a

magnesium deficicency. Magnesium controls the heart and prevents rapid heart

beat.

If anyone else has a list of foods which can set off hyper symptoms, let's

look at it. Everyone has a different profile of mineral deficiencies so we

would expect that we each have a unique set of foods which bother us. By

analyzing these foods, we may be able to get a better idea of which minerals

we're deficient in.

The important thing to realize is that it's not normal for foods to disagree

with you or cause disease symptoms. These problems are strong indicators that

you are deficient in minerals and/or vitamins. Once you correct all your

deficiencies, you will be able to eat any normal food without problems.

I've been working on staying out of eating ruts, eating the same food every

day. Now I go for variety and try to not only eat a large variety of foods

every day, but to try to eat foods that I haven't eaten in weeks, months, or

years. Wild gorillas and chimps eat hundreds of different foods. I think

people should also.

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