Re: What are Goitrogens and How Do they Affect the Thyroid?

[Guest guest]

o shoot...I love cauliflower. Guess I'll have to stop buying that. I don't buy

the other stuff except cabbage sometimes. Stop that too I guess.

C

What are Goitrogens and How Do they Affect

the Thyroid?

I found this on about.com. This explains why cabbage is bad for us.

If you go to about.com they have more information.

Goitrogenic foods like brussels sprouts, rutabaga, turnips,

cauliflower, African cassava, millet, babassu (a palm-tree coconut

fruit popular in Brazil and Africa), cabbage, and kale can act like

the antithyroid drugs propylthiouracil and methimazole in disabling

the thyroid function, so they should not be eaten in large amounts by

someone on thyroid hormone replacement who still has a thyroid. It's

thought that the enzymes involved in the formation of goitrogenic

materials in plants can be destroyed by cooking, so thorough cooking

may minimize goitrogenic potential.

[Guest guest]

I hear that if you cook goitrogens well, they lose the antithyroid effect.

I wouldn't abstain totally, if I wanted to eat it. All things in moderation...

At 01:53 AM 11/12/2004, you wrote:

>o shoot...I love cauliflower. Guess I'll have to stop buying that. I don't

>buy the other stuff except cabbage sometimes. Stop that too I guess.

>C

[Guest guest]

I'm glad you said that , cuz I'm not giving up fried cabbage

for my thyroid! lol. :-) I don't fix it often, but I do love it, if

it's cooked the 'right way'. My first hubby introduced it to me, but

it is awesome.

SandyE~Houston

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:01:38 -0500

" Conner, Psy.D. " wrote:

> I hear that if you cook goitrogens well, they lose the

>antithyroid effect.

> I wouldn't abstain totally, if I wanted to eat it. All things in

>moderation...

>

>

> At 01:53 AM 11/12/2004, you wrote:

> >o shoot...I love cauliflower. Guess I'll have to stop buying that.

>I don't

> >buy the other stuff except cabbage sometimes. Stop that too I

>guess.

> >C

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Fried cabbage...sounds great for the hips :-o

At 12:35 PM 11/12/2004, you wrote:

>I'm glad you said that , cuz I'm not giving up fried cabbage

>for my thyroid! lol. :-) I don't fix it often, but I do love it, if

>it's cooked the 'right way'. My first hubby introduced it to me, but

>it is awesome.

>

>SandyE~Houston

[Guest guest]

Oh really? If cooked, then okay? Well I eat them cooked (mostly steamed or

nuked) so won't worry then.

TY,

C

Re: What are Goitrogens and How Do they

Affect the Thyroid?

I hear that if you cook goitrogens well, they lose the antithyroid effect.

I wouldn't abstain totally, if I wanted to eat it. All things in moderation...