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How To Cure Hypothyroidism Naturally Print E-mail
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Written by Sarah Cain   
Sunday, 01 November 2009 17:50

It is estimated that around 10 million Americans suffer from hypothyroidism, with it most often striking women.  It is a condition whereby the thyroid gland does not produce enough hormones.  It is usually caused by Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is a condition in which the immune system targets the thyroid gland.  Thus, the establishment considers it to be yet another "autoimmune disease".  In actuality, the immune system only attacks things which are detected to be toxic.  Poisoned thyroid glands are very common, due to our modern diets.

The thyroid is furthermore suppressed by our constant intake of soy; an ingredient in the great majority of processed foods.  Additionally, fluoride is extremely damaging to the thyroid.  Until the 1970's, doctors prescribed fluoride to patients with hyperthyroidism (an over-active thyroid), in order to cripple it.  It was shown to be effective at a minuscule 2 mg. per day.  People in the present are estimated to be consuming 2-10 mg. per day from tap water, Teflon (non-stick) pans, toothpaste, pharmaceuticals, infant formula, processed cereals and sodas.  Hypothyroidism is also known to be caused by certain medications, such as lithium.

In order to treat hypothyroidism, the medical establishment prescribes hormone pills to patients, and the individual must continue taking them for the rest of his life.  The similarities between hypothyroidism and diabetes treatments are undeniable, as both create perpetual consumers who will forever be reliant on 'the system'.  In a similar manner, those who have been taking pharmaceutical hormones are much harder to cure than those who did nothing, or those who turned to alternative medicine immediately.  There is always a price to pay for dealing with the devil.

Symptoms of Hypothyroidism

  • Mood swings
  • Cold sensitivity
  • Weight gain
  • Depression
  • Dry skin
  • Constipation
  • Fatigue
  • Brittle hair, skin, or fingernails
  • Heavy or irregular menstrual periods

How To Cure Hyperthyroidism

Please note that curing hypothyroidism requires a long term religious commitment for a period of at least a year.  Creating this problem took years of self poisoning, so fixing it is neither quick, nor easy.

  • Eliminate Soy: Soy suppresses thyroid function, imbalances hormones and has been shown to cause goiters (an enlargement of the thyroid gland) in previously healthy individuals.
  • Adhere to an Alkaline Diet: This is extremely helpful when curing any chronic disease.  Use our pH food chart to guide you on alkaline/acidic foods.
  • Balance Estrogen Levels (Women): Excess estrogen slows down the thyroid gland.  This means eliminating birth control medications, increasing the fiber in the diet, and avoiding all non-organic meats.  Growth hormones in meats lead imbalance in the hormones.  Reduce dairy intake, because milk often contains lots of estrogen; primarily because cows are milked frequently during pregnancy.
  • Exercise: Without regular exercise, optimal health can never be reached.  Find a physical activity that you enjoy, and do it often.  We believe that exercise could half the cure time.
  • L-Tyrosine: Tyrosine is a natural amino acid which helps the body produce its own thyroid hormone.  This is also known to help with the depression, which usually accompanies hypothyroidism.  Most naturopaths recommend 500 mg. taken 2-3 times day.
  • L-Arginine: Arginine is known to stimulate the thyroid and its hormones. It also improves immune function, improves fertility, and alleviates erectile dysfunction.
  • Avoid ALL SOURCES of Fluoride:  As already mentioned, fluoride suppresses the thyroid, and is likely to be the leading cause of hypothyroidism.  Drink spring water, avoid soft drinks, use fluoride-free toothpaste, use a shower filter, and throw away your non-stick pans.
  • Eat a natural diet:  To help your body to heal itself, you need to remove strains on its immune system.  This means that all processed foods, artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, white flour, white sugar, "table" salt, hydrogenated oils, aluminum, high fructose corn syrup, and etc. should be eliminated from the diet.  Organic food is always the ideal.  Do not trust marketing that reads "All Natural", because this phrase is unregulated, and thus anyone can use it for practically anything.  Read the ingredients to verify.
  • Iodine: The thyroid needs iodine to function properly, and lots of people now suffer from iodine deficiencies.  To test yourself, place some Iodine (we use 2%) on your stomach.  Make a dot the size of a silver dollar (or twice the size of a British 50p).  If it disappears within 12 hours, then you are iodine deficient.  Keep adding iodine in this way, until it no longer disappears in a 12-hour period.  This works due to the fact that the body absorbs iodine at the rate at which it is needed. Do not use povidone-iodine and do not orally consume iodine.
  • Bladderwrack: Bladderwrack will increase your iodine intake safely.
  • Zinc and Selenium: Studies indicate that severe zinc or selenium deficiencies can cause decreased thyroid hormone levels.  Never take zinc on an empty stomach.
  • Coconut Oil: You should buy organic, cold pressed, coconut oil from a health food store.  Take around 1 teaspoon of it daily.  You can also use it to cook with, but be warned that it smokes at low cooking temperatures.  Unlike most modern oils, its smoke is not poisonous.  Coconut oil speeds the metabolism, encourages production of the thyroid hormone, and kills candida.
  • Avoid Canola Oil: Canola oil interferes with the production of thyroid hormones, amongst its many other dangers.  Treat canola oil like the God-forsaken, genetically engineered, poison that it is.

If depression due to hypothyroidism is a problem, try taking St. John’s Wort to help elevate your mood.  Do not take St. John's Wort while pregnant, and research before using it if you are currently taking any pharmaceuticals.  Some pharmaceuticals can react with St. John's Wort.  It can cause abortions.  Do not use it as birth control, because herbal birth control is more likely to cause horrific birth defects than terminate pregnancies.  Only 'conventional' medicine is reliably effective in killing.

Chronic constipation can be addressed by adding additional dietary fiber such as psyllium to your diet.  You will also want to take flax seed oil, and combine it with a high-sulfur food like cottage cheese.  Flax seed oil is very helpful for those suffering with chronic constipation.

Prologue

Like all modern epidemics, hypothyroidism is created from a poor diet and lifestyle, and it will only be corrected when that changes.  Hypothyroidism can be cured using the protocol above, but it will take time; just as it took time for this condition to occur.  The protocol will give you freedom from the medical establishment, which would otherwise make you into a perpetual victim.  Our recommendations are safer, cheaper, and dramatically more effective in the long term.

 

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  • |11/02/2009 07:12 Anonymous  - Hyperthyroidism
    Info from many holistic sites out there states:
    "Lithium Aspartate is commonly used in the natural treatment of hyperthyroidism and other thyroid diseases because it helps in the spreading of iodine evenly throughout the body. Lithium Aspartate may also effect the important brain chemical and increase their "concentration." This is different from Lithium Carbonate, which can be toxic and is used by conventional psychiatrists to 'treat' bipolar disorder.
  • |SAdministrator |11/02/2009 08:34 Sarah Cain
    The fact that we never recommend substances such as lithium aspartate is one of the things that separates us from the other sites out there; for we do enormous amounts of research to ensure that we 'first do no harm'.

    Lithium Aspartate is sometimes used for the treatment of hyperthyroidism (over-active thyroid), because like fluoride, it attacks the thyroid. The unverified contention that it helps to spread iodine throughout the body seems to be an attempt to explain how it works. This also assumes that having iodine spread uniformly throughout the body is actually a good thing, instead of it concentrating in the thyroid and ovaries, as it normally does. These fraudulent claims are made because it wouldn't sound as good if the supplement companies had to explain that their product was crippling a vital organ, and could therefore lead to long term consequences. There is certainly nothing holistic about any of this. It is much more like pharmaceutical-based medicine, in fact.

    While lithium occurs in trace amounts in soil, and also inside fruits and vegetables; this is not what you are getting whenever you purchase lithium aspartate. By the time it is inside a capsule, it is far from natural. Aspartate, like glutamate, is an amino acid which is also an excitotoxin. It attacks the brain cells as soon as there is more of it than taurine in the body, and it then goes on to cause (sometimes fatal) pulse irregularities in people with magnesium deficiencies. We would never recommend supplementing with it. It is essentially supplementing with M.S.G. or NutraSweet.
  • |Registered |11/25/2009 22:22 Lorie Blaine
    Are you aware that many supplements that contain kelp are also contaminated with arsenic????

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137100/

    Environ Health Perspect. 2007 December; 115(12): A575.
    doi: 10.1289/ehp.10472.
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    Organic versus Inorganic Arsenic in Herbal Kelp Supplements
    Ari S. Lewis
    Gradient Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, E-mail: alewis@gradientcorp.com
    The author is employed by Gradient Corporation, an environmental consulting firm that provides technical support to the regulated community, regulators, and other parties with scientific questions.
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    Amster et al. (2007) reported findings from a case study involving a possible link between arsenic toxicity and the ingestion of a kelp-based supplement. The authors concluded that the arsenic-contaminated supplement was the likely cause of the neurologic, dermatologic, and gastrointestinal symptoms in their patient. Although the report has several methodologic shortcomings, the most serious flaw is the authors’ failure to recognize that the arsenic most commonly found in seaweed and seafood products is relatively nontoxic. This is in contrast to inorganic arsenic, which has well-documented acute and chronic toxicity. Amster et al. (2007) did not discuss the possibility that the arsenic measured in the kelp supplement was in the organic form, nor did they address the great variability in toxicity among arsenic compounds. These two oversights lead to the unsupported conclusion that the arsenic found in kelp is responsible for the unique set of medical conditions observed in their patient.
    Amster et al. (2007) stated that “all chemical forms of arsenic eventually produce the same toxic syndrome.” In fact, the toxicologic properties of organic arsenic compounds are very different from those of inorganic arsenic. Inorganic arsenic is significantly more toxic than pentavalent arsenic compounds, arsenosugars, and arsenobetaine [Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) 2007b]. Arsenobetaine is a common constituent of seafood and is considered nontoxic. Interestingly, the major organic arsenic compounds in most seaweed are arsenosugars, which are still much less toxic than inorganic arsenic. For example, in an in vitro cytotoxicity assay, inorganic arsenic was 50 times more toxic than the trivalent arsenosugar and > 600 times more toxic than the pentavalent arsenosugar (Andrewes et al. 2004). In a recent article on speciated arsenic in seaweed, Rose et al. (2007) confirmed that inorganic arsenic levels in most varieties of seaweed are undetectable. Thus, the assumption that organic arsenic in the supplement could cause toxicity consistent with inorganic arsenic is scientifically unsupportable.
    Although Amster et al. (2007) did not quantify an arsenic intake dose, they did use urinary arsenic levels to estimate exposure. They noted that normal levels of arsenic in urine are 50 μg/g creatinine (roughly equivalent to 50 μg As/L) and that their patient had an elevated urinary arsenic level of 85.5 μg/g creatinine. According to the Agency for Toxic Substance Registry (ATSDR 2000), normal urinary arsenic levels are 50 μg/L, but only “in the absence of recent consumption of seafood.” After seafood consumption, arsenic urinary levels can reach 1,000 μg/L (Vahter 1994). Thus, it is clear that 85.5 μg/g creatinine is not indicative of arsenic toxicity, particularly after known organic arsenic exposures. Many researchers have investigated the relationship between seafood consumption and urinary arsenic and have concluded that in order to make meaningful risk determinations through arsenic urine analysis, individuals should refrain from eating seafood (including seaweed) at least 4 days before testing (Foa et al. 1984; Kales et al. 2006).
    Moreover, the symptoms most prominent in the patient described by Amster et al. (2007)—memory loss, alopecia, and fatigue—are not characteristic of arsenic toxicity (ATSDR 2007b; National Research Council 1999). The most sensitive non-cancer end point of arsenic exposure is the appearance of skin lesions (with very specific characteristics). Even these sensitive manifestations of chronic inorganic arsenic poisoning are not observed until lifetime exposures are hundreds of micrograms of arsenic per day (Abernathy et al. 2003).
    There are several other limitations of the study by Amster et al. (2007). For example, the patient had manifestations of the conditions even before supplement use. Also, the authors did not discuss the possibility of iodine toxicity associated with the supplement ingestion. Certain comparisons the authors drew between the arsenic in the supplement and the regulatory limits are misleading. In particular, the reference to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food standard for arsenic of 2 ppm, which applies only to animals treated with veterinary drugs, is not relevant (ATSDR 2007a). FDA guidance recommends levels for seafood that are much higher. For example, the level of concern for total arsenic in crustaceans is 86 ppm, a concentration 10 times higher than the amount found in the kelp supplement (FDA 1993).
    In conclusion, Amster et al. (2007) inappropriately relied on total arsenic data to link arsenic exposure to disease. They used their findings to comment on safety in the dietary supplement industry as a whole, implying that their results indicate that heavy metal contamination in supplements is a major health concern. Although contamination in food and dietary supplements is an issue that should be examined, their article did not inform this issue, and it obscures more significant food safety concerns that are of greater public health significance.
  • |Registered |03/08/2010 01:48 Ellen Wedding
    Sarah
    how do we get Bladderwack?
    Does anyone make a good supplement that has all the above supplements for hypo thyroidism ??? one without all the bad fillers etc???
    Thank you
  • |SAdministrator |03/08/2010 15:11 Sarah Cain
    You can purchase bladderwrack in supplement form at herbal stores. We do not know of any specific blends which include all of the above ingredients. You would have to visit a store and read the ingredients of the commercial thyroid blends. Let us know how it goes, so that we can recommend it to others in the future.
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