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Fruit is very calorie dense and contains a lot of natural sugars. You would be well advised to concentrate on eating a diet of vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts and seeds and vegetable oils, seventy-five percent raw, and preferably organic. You should eat no more than 3 ounces of meat twice a week and no diary products. I understand that having a hypoactive thyroid can make weight loss more difficult, but masking the symptoms with drugs is not the way to go. You can stabilize your condition by eating a good, healthy diet with no processed foods. Drugs are poison. Now if your thyroid was not functioning AT ALL, that would be a different story.
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I like most of your post Branson, but I was seeing a famous herbalist for two years and could not really lose weight with my hypothyroidism unless i stayed on a low carb diet, which is the way to go i guess. it isn't easy to diet all the time.
also, i was constantly tired, but then i decided to finally do something i began taking a natural thyroid, not the synthetic which do not work and which can cause osteoporosis. i also take iodine with selinium. if you take iodine you can make your condition worse if you have hashimotos, but they have found that taking selinium along with it prevents that problem from occuring. most doctors say that you can never cure your thyroid problem, but i am still trying. also staying off soy products is a must.
P.S. synthetic thyroid only has T4 in it and you need T3 as well, which armour and other natural thyroid meds have.
I like most of your post Branson, but I was seeing a famous herbalist for two years and could not really lose weight with my hypothyroidism unless i stayed on a low carb diet, which is the way to go i guess. it isn't easy to diet all the time.
also, i was constantly tired, but then i decided to finally do something i began taking a natural thyroid, not the synthetic which do not work and which can cause osteoporosis. i also take iodine with selinium. if you take iodine you can make your condition worse if you have hashimotos, but they have found that taking selinium along with it prevents that problem from occuring. most doctors say that you can never cure your thyroid problem, but i am still trying. also staying off soy products is a must.
P.S. synthetic thyroid only has T4 in it and you need T3 as well, which armour and other natural thyroid meds have.
P.S. synthetic thyroid only has T4 in it and you need T3 as well, which armour and other natural thyroid meds have.
The theory goes that the body will convert the T4 into T3 when needed. However, one has to wonder if a body is sluggish due to having hypothyroidism, is the body is converting effectively?
P.S. synthetic thyroid only has T4 in it and you need T3 as well, which armour and other natural thyroid meds have.
Yes, your body converts T4 to T3, if you're lucky, that is....mine used to but then stopped after 6 weeks after surgery.
The body's balance between T4 and T3 is tricky. My endocrinologist and I work together constantly (every 6-8 weeks) since my levels have yet to be ideal 1 year post total thyroidectomy.
Since I did not have thyroid disease prior to being diagnosed toxic hyperthyroid, I have no baseline to go on, unlike my friend who had Hashimoto's for years prior to her total thyroidectomy.
Her levels were remedied pretty quickly due to her having a baseline....everyone is different.
Has the OP ever returned to clarify wether or not she has Hashimoto's?
Last edited by bellalunatic; 04-05-2010 at 11:00 AM..
Good Question...... By going to a endocrinologist and they will test for it. That is who found mine and I now take T3 in a very low dose. She first tried me on Armour my body did not like it at all people think this is the miracle pill of the thyroid pills it is not!
Good Question...... By going to a endocrinologist and they will test for it. That is who found mine and I now take T3 in a very low dose. She first tried me on Armour my body did not like it at all people think this is the miracle pill of the thyroid pills it is not!
I think some people run with that whole, "It's natural, therefore better for you than synthetic drugs" but frankly Armour is dessicated pig thyroid hormone, and who the heck knows what health state of the possibly hundreds of pigs (per dosage) we're talking about??
Personally, that's the part that freaks me out the most about it.
Good Question...... By going to a endocrinologist and they will test for it. That is who found mine and I now take T3 in a very low dose. She first tried me on Armour my body did not like it at all people think this is the miracle pill of the thyroid pills it is not!
I've been taking full replacement for 10 yrs, Had my thyroid tested in Jan.
it was 300...normal range is 5.
I think some people run with that whole, "It's natural, therefore better for you than synthetic drugs" but frankly Armour is dessicated pig thyroid hormone, and who the heck knows what health state of the possibly hundreds of pigs (per dosage) we're talking about??
Personally, that's the part that freaks me out the most about it.
Dosage is also part of the problem it is not consistent.
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