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Hi Everyone, Welcome to the hyperthyroidism group! It will probably take a

few more days to get seriously underway. As of right now, 13 people have

joined and there are over 40 outstanding invitations. I'm still getting about

3 new people a day responding to my letter in Natural Health magazine and my

postings on the hyperthyroidism bulletin board on aol.

I am feeling better and better every day. This last week I ran 3 miles on

the beach one day and 2 miles another. Both times I knew I could have run

alot further but I didn't want to hurt too bad the next day with sore muscles.

It was so wonderful to feel normal and not have any awareness of my heart or

internal organs! The interesting thing is that before I got sick I couldn't

run 3 miles! When I wrote the letter to Natural Health, I said that I was 95%

recovered. At that time I was still getting a minute or so of rapid heart

beat upon first awakening (4-6 am). This was not only my first symptom, but

the last to go. I haven't felt that since the middle of July.

Yesterday I played full-court basketball for 3-1/2 hours and was still

running with the teenagers at the end. No heart problems at all! But my

muscles hurt!

I am really amazed!! I literally feel ten years younger than I did before I

got sick. I must have been marginally mineral deficient for years and

correcting those deficiencies is making a huge difference not only in my

athletic capacities, but in my mental energy. My mind feels so clear now,

which is in stark contrast to my fuzzy thinking during my hyperthyroidism

days. I literally spent months in a mental coma.

I think the lack of full mental capacity is the biggest obstacle in

recovering from hyperthyroidism. I'm sure there are people who I've sent

information to who just don't have the mental energy to get the supplements

together to try them or who have so little energy to spare that trying one

more thing is just beyond their abilities.

This is one of the biggest reasons for starting this group, because I know

that when people hear that other people are taking copper and the other

minerals and are recovering they will feel alot more confidence and that

confindence will give them the energy to get to the health food store and get

the minerals they need.

Already some people are experiencing improvements. One woman whose heart

rate is usually about 106 has had a couple days when it was about 66. That's

a big improvement, and I'm confident that everyone will see improvements

within the first couple of weeks. Once I started taking the copper and trace

minerals, it took me only 90 days to complete recovery. I was taking 4 mg a

day of copper during that time and have since increased it to 12 mg a day

(with 50 mg of zinc). I've felt a very big improvement in the 2 weeks since

I've increased my copper.

I recently did an experiment on myself which I need to relate to you because

it has some important implications for everyone. I completely stopped taking

any zinc, trying to see if that would enable my body to load up more with

copper. I felt great except that in about 2 weeks I started feeling my

prostrate which is the first place a man would probably feel a zinc

deficiency. Taking the copper without zinc seemed to drive the zinc levels in

my body down very rapidly. I don't recommend that anyone do this. Zinc is

very important and you don't want to get deficient in it.

I recommend that you take zinc and copper in about a 4:1 ratio at first for

hyperthyroidism, gradually building up the copper to 8-12 mg a day depending

upon your weight (12 mg feels good to me at 175 lbs.) Multiply the mg of

copper by four and take that much zinc. When you get normal, move that ratio

to 8:1.

Probably for the first week or two, I may repeat information about my

progress, so please excuse that. As new people join I want them to get this

information also.

I would like everyone to start piecing their stories together so that when

more people are in the group you can share your stories with everyone else.

The best way to learn is through other people's trials and errors. Also,

every bit of information is another piece of the puzzle we want to assemble so

that we all have a complete understanding of the causes and cures for both

hyper and hypo thyroidism. When more people are in the group, it would be

great if you'd share your story.

The stories that really amaze me are the ones showing the incredible

ignorance, inability, and incompetence of the so-called health professionals,

including alternative practitioners. It seems that most endocrinologists look

at your thyroid problems as a steady income stream for life if they can

successfully intimidate you into destroying your thyroid and relying upon them

for a lifetime of monitoring and prescriptions. It really bothers me!

I heard a very remarkable story yesterday in a phone conversation with a

woman who had RAI 20 years ago that demonstrates that even this insult may not

subdue our incredible thyroid glands. She has finally found supplements to

nourish her thyroid and she hasn't had to take replacement hormone for the

last three weeks. I am very confident that more people will be able to heal

their medically damaged thryoids (even if only partially) by supplying the

minerals it needs.

I hope that this egroup is self-explanatory to everyone and you'll learn how

to do everything. All of the emails go through me so that I can exercise some

control. Without this control, every email would go to each of you which

could eventually inundate your mailbox. I will read each and pass along all

which I feel have general interest. The email address for the group is :

hyperthyroidismegroups

I will keep you up to date concerning how many people have joined the group

and when we get a reasonable number, I'll ask that you submit stories of how

you got sick (a number of things need to be looked at in addition to minerals,

such as stress), what treatments you've tried and which seemed to benefit you,

and how you are feeling after taking the copper and other minerals.

There is an archive or log which supposedly has a virtually unlimited memory

where every letter will be stored so that new people can catch up. If anyone

has something to write about, I'm sure we're all interested!

Hope to hear from you soon.

Your friend and now egroup monitor,

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