THYROID and your HEALTH
Everyone can help optimise their thyroid, to enjoy optimal energy, metabolism and health. The first thing to do is to stop hurting the thyroid with flouride, which fights against iodine.
Iodine is super important for thyroid function; used to make thyroid hormones which drive your metabolism like the gas pedal on a car.
Most people in North America have low-ish thyroid function, and as a result, suffer from lower energy, slower metabolism and higher body fat.
Most of Canada the US fluoridate their water, while Mexico which has naturally high levels of iodine in much of it's water inexplicably adds fluoride to it's table salt (much like the US and Canada add iodine to their table salt, which is actually a good idea). Estimates of toxic levels of fluoride in Mexicans run inexcusably high.
As mentioned above, fluorine antagonises iodine; it pushes it out of our cells, and our bodies by competing with, and displacing it.
Luckily, in high enough doses, iodine and to a lesser extent other essential minerals, especially boron fight back against fluorine and can discplace it out of our bodies (yay!).
IODINE SOURCES
Seaweed; my favourites are kelp flakes, dulse flakes and "sea lettuce"
Sea fish, wild only, are a significant source, but not nearly as high in iodine as seaweeds.
Iodine is also available in drops and tablets; I particularly like the drops by Trophic, as they contain two different forms of iodine. My favourite is definitely seaweed, since we have thousands of years of human history of healthy consumption of seaweed and seaweed furnishes us with all essential minerals and also specialised fibre type (like alginic acid) which helps detox heavy metals and radioactive minerals.
Everyone can help optimise their thyroid, to enjoy optimal energy, metabolism and health. The first thing to do is to stop hurting the thyroid with flouride, which fights against iodine.
Iodine is super important for thyroid function; used to make thyroid hormones which drive your metabolism like the gas pedal on a car.
Most people in North America have low-ish thyroid function, and as a result, suffer from lower energy, slower metabolism and higher body fat.
Most of Canada the US fluoridate their water, while Mexico which has naturally high levels of iodine in much of it's water inexplicably adds fluoride to it's table salt (much like the US and Canada add iodine to their table salt, which is actually a good idea). Estimates of toxic levels of fluoride in Mexicans run inexcusably high.
As mentioned above, fluorine antagonises iodine; it pushes it out of our cells, and our bodies by competing with, and displacing it.
Luckily, in high enough doses, iodine and to a lesser extent other essential minerals, especially boron fight back against fluorine and can discplace it out of our bodies (yay!).
IODINE SOURCES
Seaweed; my favourites are kelp flakes, dulse flakes and "sea lettuce"
Sea fish, wild only, are a significant source, but not nearly as high in iodine as seaweeds.
Iodine is also available in drops and tablets; I particularly like the drops by Trophic, as they contain two different forms of iodine. My favourite is definitely seaweed, since we have thousands of years of human history of healthy consumption of seaweed and seaweed furnishes us with all essential minerals and also specialised fibre type (like alginic acid) which helps detox heavy metals and radioactive minerals.
fresh Kelp
Where to buy seaweed
A health store; Noah's in Toronto on Bloor St. has Dulse flakes in bulk, as well as whole dulse and flakes prepackaged.
Foods for Life also on Bloor carries flakes from Newfoundland of nori, dulse and kelp.
A more expensive option is a shaker of seaweed flakes, by Maine Coast, sold in many health stores across Canada and the USA.
How much to consume
The Japanese typical diet traditionally includes a LOT of seaweed, at about 10% of the entire diet, by weight.
A typical adult human eats 3- 4 pounds of food a day, so 10% of that is a whopping 5- 7 ounces of seaweed (130- 200 grams roughly). That amount of seaweed would supply well over a HUNDRED times the DRI for iodine. And what has it done for the Japanese?
We see a slim country, with one of the lowest rates of breast cancer in the world and much less lung cancer in men than seen in their American counterparts, even though they smoke as much. Tobacco smoke is a high source of heavy metals and radioactive metals, as confirmed to me personally by Health Canada staff and a heavy metal testing health practitioner, who worked with many smokers. Seaweeed helps eliminate both heavy metals and radioactive metal isotopes.
Bottom line; I like to add about a tablespoon a day of dried seaweed to my diet, as a delicious topping.
Mark Konlee's thyroid protocol
Mark Konlee was a wonderfully successful therapist helping many people with AIDS reverse all of their symptoms. He also helped many regain their health who had sluggish thyroids. His protocol was;
3-5 tablets of kelp
1- 2 capsules of cayenne pepper
-all taken three times a day.
So in total, 9- 15 kelp, 3-6 cayenne.
Extra thyroid support tips
Keep your thyroid warm help it produce more thyroid hormones; think a scarf or neck warmer.Perhaps a kerchief in the summer. A warmer thyroid gland will actually produce more thyroid hormones. In fact a treatment for severe overactive thyroid is icing and cooling the thyroid area.
Boron is also useful for the thyoid, as is selenium and tyrosine. Tyrosine tends to raise L-dopa levels in the brain, so take it in the morning, not at night, in case it interferes with sleep. My priorities are selenium and boron, since they are essential minerals with many other health benefits. Personally I take 200 mcg of selenium daily (Sisu) and 6 mg of boron (Trophic).
How to diagnose your own thyroid levels
The Basal temperature test means taking your temperature in bed, as soon as you wake up, and seeing if it consistently at least 36.5 degrees Celsius (97.7 degrees Fahrenheit). If it is consistently lower than those numbers on average, then the thyroid needs to be cranked up. Go with the seaweed mentioned above and perhaps a couple of drops of Trophic iodine too. Add in Mark Konlee's cayenne protocol if your thyroid needs more kick.
What about an overactive thyroid?
The classic symptoms of an overactive thyroid are bulging eyes, jitters, weight loss, anxiety/ trouble sleeping. An overactive thyroid will cause the basal temperature test (BTT) to run high; above 37 Celsius or 98.5 Fahrenheit.
With an overactive thyroid, bugleweed is the treatment of choice, along with an increase in iodine sequestering foods; cabbage, kale, millet, broccoli, cauliflower. Also the avoidance of any and all seafood; no seaweed, no sea fish at all, ever (including no shellfish). Also absolutely no salt (unless it's Kosher non iodized salt). Salt in the USA and Canada is iodised by law, except for unrefined salt, like Himalayan or Celtic, which do not need to be iodised since they are naturally high in iodine and many other minerals. Kosher salt is refined and not iodised, so it ends up being pure sodium chloride and nothing else in any significant amount.
Extreme cases benefit from periodic icing of the thyroid area to cool it down and slow down the thyroid.
A health store; Noah's in Toronto on Bloor St. has Dulse flakes in bulk, as well as whole dulse and flakes prepackaged.
Foods for Life also on Bloor carries flakes from Newfoundland of nori, dulse and kelp.
A more expensive option is a shaker of seaweed flakes, by Maine Coast, sold in many health stores across Canada and the USA.
How much to consume
The Japanese typical diet traditionally includes a LOT of seaweed, at about 10% of the entire diet, by weight.
A typical adult human eats 3- 4 pounds of food a day, so 10% of that is a whopping 5- 7 ounces of seaweed (130- 200 grams roughly). That amount of seaweed would supply well over a HUNDRED times the DRI for iodine. And what has it done for the Japanese?
We see a slim country, with one of the lowest rates of breast cancer in the world and much less lung cancer in men than seen in their American counterparts, even though they smoke as much. Tobacco smoke is a high source of heavy metals and radioactive metals, as confirmed to me personally by Health Canada staff and a heavy metal testing health practitioner, who worked with many smokers. Seaweeed helps eliminate both heavy metals and radioactive metal isotopes.
Bottom line; I like to add about a tablespoon a day of dried seaweed to my diet, as a delicious topping.
Mark Konlee's thyroid protocol
Mark Konlee was a wonderfully successful therapist helping many people with AIDS reverse all of their symptoms. He also helped many regain their health who had sluggish thyroids. His protocol was;
3-5 tablets of kelp
1- 2 capsules of cayenne pepper
-all taken three times a day.
So in total, 9- 15 kelp, 3-6 cayenne.
Extra thyroid support tips
Keep your thyroid warm help it produce more thyroid hormones; think a scarf or neck warmer.Perhaps a kerchief in the summer. A warmer thyroid gland will actually produce more thyroid hormones. In fact a treatment for severe overactive thyroid is icing and cooling the thyroid area.
Boron is also useful for the thyoid, as is selenium and tyrosine. Tyrosine tends to raise L-dopa levels in the brain, so take it in the morning, not at night, in case it interferes with sleep. My priorities are selenium and boron, since they are essential minerals with many other health benefits. Personally I take 200 mcg of selenium daily (Sisu) and 6 mg of boron (Trophic).
How to diagnose your own thyroid levels
The Basal temperature test means taking your temperature in bed, as soon as you wake up, and seeing if it consistently at least 36.5 degrees Celsius (97.7 degrees Fahrenheit). If it is consistently lower than those numbers on average, then the thyroid needs to be cranked up. Go with the seaweed mentioned above and perhaps a couple of drops of Trophic iodine too. Add in Mark Konlee's cayenne protocol if your thyroid needs more kick.
What about an overactive thyroid?
The classic symptoms of an overactive thyroid are bulging eyes, jitters, weight loss, anxiety/ trouble sleeping. An overactive thyroid will cause the basal temperature test (BTT) to run high; above 37 Celsius or 98.5 Fahrenheit.
With an overactive thyroid, bugleweed is the treatment of choice, along with an increase in iodine sequestering foods; cabbage, kale, millet, broccoli, cauliflower. Also the avoidance of any and all seafood; no seaweed, no sea fish at all, ever (including no shellfish). Also absolutely no salt (unless it's Kosher non iodized salt). Salt in the USA and Canada is iodised by law, except for unrefined salt, like Himalayan or Celtic, which do not need to be iodised since they are naturally high in iodine and many other minerals. Kosher salt is refined and not iodised, so it ends up being pure sodium chloride and nothing else in any significant amount.
Extreme cases benefit from periodic icing of the thyroid area to cool it down and slow down the thyroid.
