Re: Iodine without Selenium

[Guest guest]

Iodine without selenium and selenium without iodine both make me feel bad. I don't know why but the symptoms are exactly the same. I have read on www.ithyroid.com that iodine and selenium are both needed for the thyroid to work properly and that supplementing one without the other will cause an imbalance. Most people who lack one lack the other because they both have similar sources.

If I were you I would stop the iodine if you have no selenium.

MacGilchrist

From: Cochrane <juliemc9@...>iodine Sent: Sun, 6 February, 2011 6:13:16Subject: Iodine without Selenium

I have run out of selenium and am not going to have more for about two weeks. Is it ok to keep taking my current dose of iodine - 100mg per day - for the two weeks, without the selenium? Or should I cut out the iodine until I have more selenium or just cut it down and, if so, to what dose, please?Just wanted to add that I had very high Reverse T3 and have been taking cynomel, HC for my adrenals and iodine for just over three months now and am doing much much better. I also had Hashimoto's - I don't know what my antibodies are like at the moment, but all my symptoms are improving.

[Guest guest]

This is the way I understand it; given sufficient iodine our thyroid gland will

produce t4 and t3. T3 is the active form and t4 is the way our bodies store

thyroid hormone until we need it activated. We normally produce about 20 times

more t4 than t3.

In order to convert t4 to t3 we need selenium. You get some selenium in your

diet. I would think, at worst, with a temporary shortage in selenium, you would

not likely suffer any thyroid problems by continued intake of iodine. And don't

forget, the iodine is also used by other cells in your body besides the thyroid,

plus it is involved in chelation of toxins.

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> I have run out of selenium and am not going to have more for about two

> weeks. Is it ok to keep taking my current dose of iodine - 100mg per day

> - for the two weeks, without the selenium? Or should I cut out the iodine

> until I have more selenium or just cut it down and, if so, to what dose,

> please?

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> Just wanted to add that I had very high Reverse T3 and have been taking

> cynomel, HC for my adrenals and iodine for just over three months now and am

> doing much much better. I also had Hashimoto's - I don't know what my

> antibodies are like at the moment, but all my symptoms are improving.

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