Re: Re: I found KELP in my multi

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In a message dated 6/6/2004 4:11:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,

d_timmsjosey@... writes:

> WOuld you consider chucking this multi if you were me? I

> just wonder if it has been wreaking havoc on me.

>

>

I think I might. i did check my vitamins - no kelp. I take Natrol " My

Favorite Multiple " ....can be ordered from www.drugstore.com. I like the Natrol

brand.

cindi

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In a message dated 6/6/2004 5:30:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,

d_timmsjosey@... writes:

> Is your brand expensive?

>

>

not overly....sorta mid range i suppose.

cindi

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we have the (Costco) kirkland daily multi vits. & minerals here - hubby takes

them. I tried, but they seem to bother my stomach.

looking at our bottle - (of 500)- figure we've had it about a year at this point

- it has 150 mcg of iodine in it. Not listed as kelp. I figured the Costco and

Sam's club brands would be similar. also has 18 mg of iron, folate - (folic

Acid) 400 mcg a bunch of other things. It has zinc - 22.5 mg - I bet that is

what upsets my stomach. I don't tolerate zinc very well. It even has silicon in

it - 2 mg!! Says, compare to Centrum on the label.

How much kelp- iodine is in your bottle?

Cris

Subject: Re: I found KELP in my multi

> I think I might. i did check my vitamins - no kelp. I take Natrol " My

> Favorite Multiple " ....can be ordered from www.drugstore.com. I like

the Natrol

> brand.

> cindi

Thanks Cindi! That's what I was thinking. I just get mine at Sam's

CLub (the Memeber mark brand). It's actually very good with lots of

extra herbal stuff, including the kelp, however. Is your brand expensive?

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I read somewhere - just since joining this group - that the US has a problem

with lack of iodine, even with the iodized salt - do you know where I might have

read that? It would have been from a reference somewhere that I got from a post

or the files section. It's interesting, for sure! I wonder if all of these

websites can be trusted -

makes you wonder!!!

I'm not a 'salt' eater, normally - but a lot of people are. I'd be curious to

know how I stood with iodine! LOL I'm curious to know how I stand with a lot of

things! and am not being very patient, waiting until my tests on june 30th! and

then to have to wait a week for the results!!

Cris

Re: I found KELP in my multi

From a Canadian thyroid website:

Iodine deficiency is the most common cause of goitre in the world but

NOT in this country. We have had iodized salt for two generations,

and there are many other sources of iodine now in our diets so that,

if anything, we are receiving more iodine than in most places in the

world. There is no point whatsoever in adding more iodine to the diet

and that includes kelp, a form of seaweed high in iodine often sold

in health food stores. The problem is that too much iodine is just as

dangerous as too little iodine. Excess iodine can also cause goitres

and can either cause a low thyroid state, (hypothyroidism) or excess

output of thyroid (hyperthyroidism). It also aggravates Hashimoto's

thyroiditis. In Canada it is a mistake to ingest kelp.

Janie

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These costco vits have too many things in them to list also - they have more

iodine than your kelp - but I wonder how kelp converts to iodine. mcg's aren't

that big - compared to mgs. I wonder if one of those pills per week would be

good. Is iodine stored in our bodies?

Maybe I'll try to look it up - but right now, my computer has everything frozen

but my e-mail program- and some of that mail is frozen too - whatever is in my

system tray is frozen - sheese!!

Cris

Re: I found KELP in my multi

> we have the (Costco) kirkland daily multi vits. & minerals here -

hubby takes them. I tried, but they seem to bother my stomach.

> looking at our bottle - (of 500)- figure we've had it about a year

at this point - it has 150 mcg of iodine in it. Not listed as kelp. I

figured the Costco and Sam's club brands would be similar. also has 18

mg of iron, folate - (folic Acid) 400 mcg a bunch of other things. It

has zinc - 22.5 mg - I bet that is what upsets my stomach. I don't

tolerate zinc very well. It even has silicon in it - 2 mg!! Says,

compare to Centrum on the label.

>

> How much kelp- iodine is in your bottle?

> Cris

Hi Cris,

Mine has 100mcg of kelp. It has all kinds of stuff in it. Much more

than a regular vitamin, so I thought it was great for the price. I

just never noticed the kelp until last night.

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This is why I've got 3 or 4 different vitamin supps, because I love the Natrol,

yet can't use the Women's formula because some of the other crap in it, although

it's got everything else in it that a lot of us probably need. You can think

something is the perfect supp, but when you start reading the label, and there's

one thing in there that would be destructive to you, then ya can't take it!

I've looked at ALL the Natrol supps, and I finally settled on the old Hair Skin

and Nails formula, then added my own folic acid supp to that separately, then

the liquid B12 with a few of the other Bs thrown into it. Eventually I'll order

something off of the internet, which is probably the only I'll find what I've

been looking for. Every time I find something that's got it ALL in there, I

find something in the fillers and other ingredients that's detrimental to our

health!

Re: Re: I found KELP in my multi

In a message dated 6/6/2004 4:11:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,

d_timmsjosey@... writes:

> WOuld you consider chucking this multi if you were me? I

> just wonder if it has been wreaking havoc on me.

>

>

I think I might. i did check my vitamins - no kelp. I take Natrol " My

Favorite Multiple " ....can be ordered from www.drugstore.com. I like the Natrol

brand.

cindi

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It's great----for those who don't have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.

Re: I found KELP in my multi

I have the Prescription for Nutrional Healing book and it has kelp as

a recommended supplement. How do you know what to believe????

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I think that the confusion probably comes in where what is actually happening

during an attack of Hashi's Thyroiditis. The gland doesn't just simply have

goiter (actually, nothing simple about that either, of course), but a different

problem. It infiltrates with the lymphocytes and stays constantly irritated and

inflamed, and the iodine doesn't help the situation. There has even been some

sources that say that, in this case, there may actually have evolved a

sensitivity to or an allergy to one's own iodine. I'm still looking at that,

but I'm not really that sure about it. From everything I've gathered, most

Hashi's patients have a lot of other allergies to different things from OUTside

the body, so it would go to reason that we might develop sensitivities to

substances inside our bodies. What's bothering me about this, though, is the

fact that all thyroid hormone is actually made of molecules of iodine-----1, 2,

3, and 4, and some say there are even more! But, if we didn't have our thyroid

hormone, we'd all be dead!!

Re: I found KELP in my multi

In Canada it is a mistake to ingest kelp.

>

Thanks Janie! Good-bye multi vitamins lol!

I wonder if Dr. Derry is way off on his iodine theories. I think

topical use is still beneficial, but taking it orally is proving to be

a bad thing for Hashi's patients, yet he talks about it all the time

(even for Hashi's patients) - HUM!