Of course its not the same!

[Guest guest]

An interesting article in my (UK) paper says recently published research shows

that pregnant women taking (slimming pills or) thyroxine are up to eight times

more likely to have gay (female) children.

Read the article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/05/ngay05.xml

It raises some interesting questions, don't you think?

Ruth

Re: *Re: Losing weight grain/mgs/mcgs?

>>so what would .25 mcg. Synthroid be equal to<<

Less than a quarter grain of Armour.. actually comes to 18.5% of a grain of

Armour

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/

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[Guest guest]

Maybe it's just another argument for taking natural hormones.

-Anne

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> " Surely they don't mean that women who take levothyroxine

because

> they have to have that same chance of having a gay daughter.

It's

> just a hormone replacement. They would have to be referring to

> women who don't need it but take it to lose weight. Otherwise,

> pregnant women who have under/untreated hyperthyroidism would

have

> the same risk.

>

> -Anne "

>

> Not necessarily, Anne. The point is that they are taking an

artificial substance - its not absolutely the same as we make

ourselves. So it may have some other effects, in addition to

replacing the natural hormone. If it were truly identical we

wouldn't be here struggling with our hormone replacement regimes.

>

> I did think the article was a little unhelpful lumping the

people who take slimming pills in with the ones who have to replace

essential hormones - but if you read in detail they do seem to have

analysed the groups separately. We'd need to go to the source to

find out exactly what the study found.

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> Ruth

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[Guest guest]

Maybe it's just another argument for taking natural hormones.

-Anne

>

>

>

>

> " Surely they don't mean that women who take levothyroxine

because

> they have to have that same chance of having a gay daughter.

It's

> just a hormone replacement. They would have to be referring to

> women who don't need it but take it to lose weight. Otherwise,

> pregnant women who have under/untreated hyperthyroidism would

have

> the same risk.

>

> -Anne "

>

> Not necessarily, Anne. The point is that they are taking an

artificial substance - its not absolutely the same as we make

ourselves. So it may have some other effects, in addition to

replacing the natural hormone. If it were truly identical we

wouldn't be here struggling with our hormone replacement regimes.

>

> I did think the article was a little unhelpful lumping the

people who take slimming pills in with the ones who have to replace

essential hormones - but if you read in detail they do seem to have

analysed the groups separately. We'd need to go to the source to

find out exactly what the study found.

>

> Ruth

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>