[Anonymous March 17, 1997 at 6:20 pm Post count: 93172]

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Hi Jalee,

I have tried to pay attention to diet and herbs and natural
healing for years…and may actually have been exposed
(please notice the distinction between exposed and “know”)
to more “natural healing” than the average bear. Now as I try to find
the the optimal diet(s) to deal with various stages of GD ( currently
my hyperthyroid is controlled with antithyroid drugs…so I need the diet
that will help my immune system stop making anti-bodies
against the thyroid and the diet that won’t intefere with the meds
which are helping me and the diet that will….)
I find that it is more confusing and complicated than ever.

the list of veggies you shared…I think are considered goitregenic..
which means that the veggies can interfere with the bodies ability to
process what it needs to produce hormone. If you are real hyper active
you can get goiter because your thyroid eventually can’t keep up with
the stimulation of the antibodies and be “a healthy thyroid”.
( Maybe God made some veggie taste strong so we wouldn’t eat too many of them?)

If this disease could be dealt with with the delicious cauliflower soup
I make, believe me..this BB wouldn’t exist ( even Steve would eat it ).
These folks would all love to avoid the treatments (had, having and will have).
But can we???
And you mentioned RAW Food.
Okay, I totally understand about live versus dead foods…
and again until I started trying to understand GD diet
I would have said…yes..less carrot cake and more carrot sticks,
eat all the colors of the rainbow raw and crunchy and you are home free.
But then one very informative pack of info I got based on Chinese tradition
emphasized eating mostly cooked foods, yellow veggies…

There is also the phenomenon that a little may help and alot may harm!

So do you have a MD who would take you each step of the way? Documenting
objectively that 1. you are not in danger and that 2.
you are definably getting better? I guess I have the impression
that you are not getting treated, and I am worried. Am I wrong?
I have seen the book you seem to be quoting…a friend has it.
I think she faxed me that page. It isn’t enough, Jalee.

As to what “brings GD on”. There are multiple factors involved
(wouldn’t you know it wouldn’t be simple).
GD is “stress mediated”… that is to say that stress,IF all the
other conditions are in place and “on-line’ so to speak,
stress allows the process to unfold….the subtle effects of stress
changes in body chemistry…become a matrix for the problems
already existent. Stress doesn’t cause GD all by its lonesome
or else it wouldn’t be so rare. We have genetic predispositions to make
the immune system mistake…we have environmental toxin, etc.

It is like three circles( like the olympic symbol…)where they intersect
you have enough confluence to effect the onset of GD. So you are right..
deficiences matter, stress matters etc. and we have to relaxedly go about
remedying all these things but…prevention and cure are different for GD.
My immune system has made the mistake…the antibodies now exist
and if I correct things it won’t necessarily make them go away,
now or later…and certainly maybe not in time to safeguard the rest of
my body from the runaway effects of the overactive thyroid
So, please forgive me if this is all too simplistic and I have misread
your take on this disease? But time is of the essence and as good as it sounds
a swim in the ocean, a cup of hot tea and snacking on veggies will not be enough.
Please don’t kill the messanger. I hate this message too. I was so scared to take drugs,
but if it will help you to hear how and why I made peace with it, ask me and I will tell you.
Jeannette

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