Has anyone had any experience with Creatine Monohydrate, a powder used by body builders for high endurance short term activities…I have been reading everything I can get my hands on. It stops the pain in my large thigh muscles when I am working on my feet for several hours. It seems to work as well as isoflavones in some soy based drinks. Cannot find any reference to side effects. Anyone know this stuff? I don’t want to find out later that it screws up your kidneys or sugar metabolism or something else I’m unwilling to part with. Glad the BB is back again. To GLYNIS: I am looking for the original article that I read that links Leaky Gut Syndrome and autoimmune diseases but cannot yet find that article. I find many short references to it here and there, but not the larger article that I wanted to source for you. Check out LEF.com for some current protocols on autoimmune diseases (not Graves Disease specific) and see if any of that confirms what you have found out in the past couple of years. Karen B