Re: remember when this forum started?

That is soooo right on!

I did see the correlation between all of the brassica veggies that are the most common for us to eat and are just variations of one goitrogenic plant.

My pineal gland must be decalcifying.

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Goitrogenic foods

Certain raw foods (cooking inactivates the goitrogens, except in the cases of soy and millet[1]) have been identified as lightly goitrogenic. These foods include:

• Cassava and Cabbage both due to the foods containing thiocyanate^[6]
• Soybeans (and soybean products such as tofu, soybean oil, soy flour, soy lecithin)
• Pine nuts
• Peanuts
• Millet
• Strawberries
• Pears
• Peaches
• Spinach
• Bamboo shoots
• Sweet Potatoes
• Vegetables in the genus Brassica ^[7]
  • Bok choy
  • Broccoli
  • Broccolini (Asparations)
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Cabbage
  • Canola
  • Cauliflower
  • Chinese cabbage
  • Choy sum
  • Collard greens
  • Horseradish
  • Kai-lan (Chinese broccoli)
  • Kale
  • Kohlrabi
  • Mizuna
  • Mustard greens
  • Radishes
  • Rapeseed (yu choy)
  • Rapini
  • Rutabagas
  • Tatsoi
  • Turnips

Thyroid hyperplasia has been demonstrated in mice:^[8]

Despite being generally a stimulant, caffeine (examples: coffee, tea, cola, chocolate) acts on thyroid function as a suppressant.^[9] Indeed some studies on rats suggest that excess caffeine in conjunction with a lack of iodine may promote the formation of thyroid cancers.^[10]

Foods stimulating thyroid tissue

Some foods and drinks have an opposite effect on the thyroid gland; that is, they stimulate thyroid function rather than suppressing it, examples being avocado and saturated fat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitrogen#Goitrogenic_foods

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Thanks,

Paraboy