Re: question about thyroid antibodies

[Guest guest]

- here's some of the info on research showing significant

reductions in thyroid antibodies when patients with autoimmune

thyroiditis (Hashimoto's thyroiditis) supplement with selenium:

Selenium Supplementation in Patients with Autoimmune Thyroiditis

Decreases Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies Concentrations

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/reprint/87/4/1687.pdf

Effects of a Six Month Treatment with Selenomethionine in Patients

with Autoimmune Thyroiditis

http://www.eje-online.org/cgi/reprint/148/4/389.pdf

Selenium Treatment in Autoimmune Thyroiditis: 9-month Follow-up with

Variable Doses.

http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/cgi/content/abstract/190/1/151

Association of Selenium with Thyroid Volume and Echostructure in 35-

to 60-year-old French Adults

http://www.eje-online.org/cgi/reprint/148/3/309.pdf

Selenium in the Treatment of Autoimmune Thyroiditis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

itool=abstractplus & db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=abstractplus & list_uids

=14757967

The Role of Selenium in Thyroid Autoimmunity and Cancer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=16756467 & dopt=Citation

Selenium and Endocrine Systems

http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/cgi/reprint/184/3/455.pdf

HTH,

NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS , " juliesisemore "

wrote:

> Is it true that supressing your TSH should over time shut down the

autoimmune response and lower the thyroid antibody levels? My TSH

has been supressed for nearly 2 years, and yet just months ago my

antibody level was 2500, which the Dr. said was extremely high.

>

> Is it also true that antibody levels, especially high ones, cause a

great risk for miscarrying a pregnancy? Is there anything that is

effective in bringing or keeping the levels down?