Hypothyroidism in redheads

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Has anyone read anything about redheads being a risk for thyroid disease. I am a redhead, and read in a low carb cookbook (of all things) that if you are redheaded, you are missing a chromosome, and will be genetically predisposed to being hypothyroid. I had my doctor test it as a result of reading that and sure enough, I was. Of course, he laughed at me and told me that I certainly was not missing a chromosome. Not being a very scientific person :-), I don't even know how that figures in to the picture. However, although I've had low thyroid symptoms my entire life, the tests never confirmed it until a couple of years ago after starting the menopause cycle. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this.

Sally

-----Original Message-----From: Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:38 PMTo: texas_thyroid_groups Subject: Re: Another Hashi Dx in the family

German, or, European extraction. My family has strong German, and me and two of my 4 children (both girls) have Hashimoto's. Also, autoimmune thyroid disease is known to have other autoimmune diseases right along with it.

marin@....

Re: Another Hashi Dx in the family

Sharon,It is interesting.. It's actually something that I would like to checkinto further.. the three of us share one parent only... not both.... itactaully comes out to about 1/3 of the children born of that parent that(now as we look back) showed symptoms of hypo... That parent spentroughly 10 years in orphanages and concentration camp situations...Underfed, malnourished and generally abused.. and then the difficultiesin Europe after the war.. so very high stess ....Topper ()