Poll about your thyroid - because I may have made a thyroid breakthrough
By dancia2007
@dancia2007 (551)
United States
June 11, 2007 9:18am CST
I may have hit a breakthrough on fixing my thyroid issues naturally.... it started by eating tuna when a friend was waving it in front of my face teasing me about it. I would like to see if there is a pattern by asking you all questions...
If you have hypothyroidism, please answer the following questions:
1) Do you eat meat or are you a vegan, vegetarian, or a pescatarian? (a pescatarian is a vegetarian who includes fish in their diet).
2) Do you eat seafood or fish? If so, what kinds and how often? If not, why don't you?
3) Do you eat seaweed (such as Kombu, Wakame, Hijiki, Blue green algae, Nori, etc.)
4) Do you salt your food or not? is your salt iodized?
5) What's your normal temperature with your condition? (morning and evening, if you have both... it varies during the day).
6) Do you like or hate vegetables?
7) At what age did you become colder than usual?
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@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
13 Jun 07
I would kind of be interested to find out the results of your findings here...
1) I eat meat, mostly beef, chicken, turkey and venison.
2) I don't care for seafood so I don't eat it at all.
3) I don't eat seaweed.
4) I rarely add salt to my food because I was told at an early age that I may have a kidney problem and should avoid salt.
5) Whenever I take my temperature it is always 97.6 unless I am sick.
6) Vegetables are ok, I eat them sometimes but not necessarily as much as I should.
7) I used to always be to warm. I was probably around 40 when I noticed that I was getting cold easier than usual.
I hope this helps you to figure things out.
@kelly60 (4547)
• United States
13 Jun 07
You have made some very interesting points here, and it really does make sense. Nearly every medical problem that you have mentioned is a concern for either me or for my mother who also has thyroid problems. I do not know if I can stomach the seaweed and fish, but I think I might try doing a bit of research on some of the other ways to get more iodine into our diets.
@dancia2007 (551)
• United States
13 Jun 07
Thanks for responding.
Another interesting thing: two people now mention age 40 as the time the temperature started dropping.
Remember how people always say your body starts falling apart at age 30 or 40? Hmmm... see a correlation?
Mine started falling apart in 1992 or 1993... that's the years that my thyroid went low, although I didn't know it yet (I only know it now because of the signs that it is becoming low are very consistent). I was not even twenty years old.
But the question is, if you have fish - which have iodine, and used iodinized salt, why should you not have a normal temperature. Yours is close, but still should be higher.
Barring other issues - like the weight loss surgery, a candida overgrowth (which can cause a person to be cold), a problem with the "triple warmer", it could be because of mineral deficiency in the minerals that are more basic than iodine... you said you like vegetables... but the thing is, vegetables are less nutritious when cooked and baked... than when raw. The question is, if you have sufficient raw vegetables to support the alkaline mineral reserve (because of its high atomic weight, iodine needs a good alkaline mineral reserve before it can properly absorb - according to a website I have read). If you do have a larger amount of raw vegetables and fruits not just cooked ones, then ... I don't know.
But the comparisons are interesting.
Thanks for responding.
@BlueStarMom1 (931)
• United States
27 Oct 07
I have had hypothyroidism for a lot of years. I didn't realize it until I was literally at deaths door and by the time I went to the doctor it was almost to late. It took me 8 months to get back on my feet and a long process of getting enough medication into me without killing me (to much to fast would have sent me into heart failure). I pray you all get your yearly check up and do not forget to take your daily medication.
To answer your questions --
1. I eat a lot of meat. I don't care much for fish but do occasionally eat tuna.
2. No
3.No
4. Yes I use salt and always iodized
5. Haven't noticed any temperature changes
6. I love vegetables
7. Never noticed it.
I will let all of you know that I follow a high protein low carbohydrate diet. I once read an article in a magazine and the title of the article was "How to jump start you metabolism. It was saying that to make your thyroid work better (and it is in control of your metabolism) to eat a high protein low carbohydrate diet. Worked for me. I go each year to get my thyroid test and the last 5 years it has been normal (with medication).
@olydove (1209)
• United States
15 May 09
1) Unfortunately in my family almost every dinner contains meat. I am trying to change that because I have noticed on nights I make something without meat I feel so much better the next day.
2) Very rarely do I eat seafood as I don't really like fish but when I do I have crab, shrimp, cod, and sometimes tuna. Because it is so expensive even for shrimp anymore I only eat this stuff maybe once every three months.
3) No I haven't eaten seaweed before but I hear it can be very beneficial to ones health.
4) I haven't been able to salt my food since my first pregnancy 14 years ago because when I do I swell up so bad that I can barely walk.
5) In the morning usually 97.8 give or take a few. In the evening I'm not sure but that's when I'm usually very very cold even on warmer days.
6) I like some vegetables, mostly we eat corn here sometimes green beans and peas and carrots.
7) I would say when I was 30. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism when I was 27 but I didn't really start to feel the coldness and other symptoms until I hit 30.
Since I was a child because we have always been a low income family our diets have consisted mainly of Pasta, Hamburger, Cereal, steak, bread, and canned veggies. Unfortunately that diet did nothing to teach me about good health and better nutrition and as in most families food is always a huge part of gatherings, celebrations etc.. I am now in the process of trying to learn healthier ways of eating and adding more vegetables, water, and less starchy foods to my diet.
I know you started this topic 2 years ago but I thought I would comment here in hopes you have found anymore information on your research.
