a couple of links
#37074 hope you're still with me on this
here's an assortment of references to start the case for you, although I didn't find the one I originally filed away in my head over it. The article I read had just listed general fact we have another item to avoid (in asserted ways) if life is hypothyroid but here speculation is on cyanide and how the poisonous salt could build up with status of raw flax seed with stats of hypothyroid.
http://www.google.com/search?q=raw+flax+seed+hypothyroid
So, that awful load may be aided out by that water solubility must with the seeds, as mentioned on a cancer remedy... rendered only by pre-absorbing it in amino acids it seems for instance yogurt by them. Again, likelihood of using that caution for good comes due to many cancers are connected to hypothyroidism so the assistance was probably tied.
here's a less broad read of some of that
http://www.healthrecipes.com/flax.htm
I can't find the convincing site that a whole host of goitrogens were deactivated by fermenting, but in tonight's search I learned iron is made more available and that's one of the recommendations for underactive thyroid. which works with vitamin c values within -- or should be in home-made, I don't check but by correlations told. Yet now it seems there's another underlying principle with this food quality.
I'm sorry my paragraphs are getting strung out on this,
Carolyn