Thiocyanate and theobromine?

[Guest guest]

Do you all find it's necessary to stay away from foods containing

thiocyanate and theobromine?

Thiocyanate is found in high amounts in the brassica family of

vegetables and theobromine is found in chocolate.

I can tell when I eat vegetables from the brassica family that my

body temperature drops drastically. Chocolate makes my voice sound

froggy, so I guess it's the bromine part of the theobromine

displacing iodine or blocking iodine uptake.

It's very unfortunate because the brassica family of vegetables has

many other health enhancing constituents. And chocolate, besides

being delicious, has many other good qualities, too.

I am trying once again to get grains out of my diet, and looking

for other things to eat. It gets difficult, because there are a lot

of other things I can't eat yet either.

When I started taking the iodine, my appetite really increased.

Today I feel as though I'm able to drop the grains and find other

things to replace it calorie wise. At first I thought that it would

be more important to get the calories than to stay grain free, but I

got so much spinal pain and headache pain, that I'm ready to give

them up again.

Have a nice day, everybody, and looking forward to a happy and

HEALTHY new year!

Betsy