Re: Would like some opinions on this

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In a message dated 12/19/2004 5:08:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Wvyorkies@... writes:

> Hypothyroidism is a lack of iodine

in some folks perhaps. however Hashi's is an autoimmune disease...and the

thyroid gland becomes fibrous from the disease. Make sure you know if you have

Hashi's before you give up the armour.

Cindi

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Your freind is lucky in that her thyroid condition seems to

apparently not be related to an auto-immune condition or that she

was able to help her situation by repairing her digestive tract or

her thyroid condition was related to low nutrition. Digestive

problems, like leaky gut, are often associated with the development

of hypothyroidism. You actually reabsorb huge amounts of thyroid

from the digestive tract, 1000 mcg a day (Werner and Ingbar's " The

Thyroid " ). If there is a problem there, you can have thyriod

problems. Leaky gut has long been known to trigger auto-immune

diseases and has a stong association with thyroid disease.

She may have also just been low in Iodine and maybe lives in an area

of the country, mostly the Midwest, considered the goiter belt. New

studies today have found that many people are low in iodine. Todays

salts sit on the shelves so long that much of the iodine evaporates.

With respect to this:

First I paint a two inch square of iodine on my body somewhere and

change its position every time I do that. You can be called low

thyroid if that doesn't last for 24 hours and this is always a good

testing tool to see how you are doing.

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This is actually based on an old wives tale. You might call it an

urban legend. This was studied a few years ago and it was found that

there is no truth to it. It is thought that if the iodine dissapears

withing 24 hours, that you are low in Iodine and should repaint as

many times as needed untill the Iodine lasts longer than 24 hours.

There are variations on this, but this is basically the scenario. It

was found that the skin has no selective capacity to accept or

reject Iodine and that it always will abosorb about 10% of what you

paint on it anywhere. The rest evaporates into the air. Whether it

evaporates in 24 hours depends on conditions of your skin and the

air and the type of iodine. Most of the time it evaporates in 24

hours. There is no scientifically proven correlation between how

fast it evaporates and thyroid function. If the body could

slectively absorb or reject things then we wouldn't have to worry

about getting pesitciedes on our skin and we wouldn't have to be

careful about how much hormone creams we apply to our skin.

If you are one of the unlucky ones that has an auto-immune thyroid

condition that is related to auto-immune attack of Iodine based

proteins in the thyroid or elsewhere in the body, taking too much

iodine can be very bad for you and cause damage to the thyroid.

Hashimotos is often characterized by iodine sensitivity or attack of

iodine containing protiens and cells in the thyroid. A certain

percentage of all populations are actually allergic or sensitive to

iodine and excessive amounts can even trigger auto-immune thyroid

disease. Old studies done with iodine supplementation found that it

had great benifits for most people and dissasterous benifits for

about 10%. Iodination of salt was found to reduce goiter and

increase the rates of Hashimotos. The benifit was and still is

thought to outweight the dangers.

I, for one am very sensitve to Iodine and will feel awful and loose

energy if I get too much. My thyroid will also swell up and become

sore. So, I get damage from it. Shammon, owner of the

thyroid.about.com is another well known iodine intolerant.

So, personally, I would be very cautious about doing this program.

There are many causes of low thyroid function and her results may

not be wise for the vast majority of thryoid condition sufferers.

Tish