Re: PLease help urgent!!!

The combo high selenium and low Iodine will have the following effect: because there is enough selenium, the thyroid will go looking for iodine. It does this by raising the TSH. To a doctor who's not familiar with how the thyroid really works, this looks like the patient is getting more hypo. When in fact he/she is just as hypo as before. The fact that the thyroid is desperately looking for Iodine might also become visible via a goiter. So this doc might also falsely conclude that the selenium is the cause of the goiter.

Low selenium and low Iodine will result in the following: on low selenium the thyroid will refrain from looking for iodine, because it poses too much of a risk (without selenium you get damage to the thyroid because of the hydrogen peroxide produced). The thyroid stops looking for iodine by lowering the TSH. So, to a doc who doesn't really know, this looks like the patient is getting less hypo. Not true.

She should take everything necessary to increase health, not just her T4. It just doesn't work that way. Stop looking at the thyroid as a separate entity.

If you give her l-tyrosine as a supplement, you might be missing out on all the other amino acids that she needs. Give her meat, or cottage cheese. Both are excellent protein sources. Always eat protein with fat!

The fact that she has a problem with her thyroid means that she is not very healthy. What is considered healthy eating "out there" is not considered healthy eating by a lot of people on this forum. Read Weston Price on this. Tweet