goitrogenic foods & stress?

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In a message dated 10/05/2001 5:28:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mensa123@... writes:

It sounds like you mean if you eat broccoli or soy

once it makes your neck ache?? I thought it was more

of a cumulative thing, that we could eat some but not

really often. This is interesting. Also life stress

aggravates it?

For me, I avoid raw broccoli altogether because it does bother me. A little bit of well cooked broccoli or cabbage I can get by with. But it does seem to have a cumulative effect so if I eat a goitrogen with lunch, then dinner, my neck will usually starts to hurt. I know I'm extra sensitive, which others may not be so I adjust my eating accordingly.

Same with life stress. When I have deadlines or extra pressure with family problems, my thyroid seems to take a beating and I get more achy in my neck and will sometimes slip into a hypo period. I've finally found a doc who will allow me to adjust my meds a little bit to compensate so I don't go into a complete tailspin. Then when things have eased up, I go back to my regular levels and I do much better. Again, this is what I've found working with my own body and maybe others don't have these experiences or need to worry about them.

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>Sometimes

> certain foods trigger the neck

> pain, . . . Goitrotrogenic foods make

> it ache (kale, broccoli,

> spinach, cauliflower, taro. . . . Also, soy is a

> BIG offender! It makes my neck ache easily and

> terribly. Seems to really

> upset the thyroid.

It sounds like you mean if you eat broccoli or soy

once it makes your neck ache?? I thought it was more

of a cumulative thing, that we could eat some but not

really often. This is interesting. Also life stress

aggravates it?

C-MI

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