Can we have a discussion about thyroid?/Does ordinary UK table salt have iodine??

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You're kidding. So the little salt I used probably had NO iodine whatsoever.

I just checked my table salt...Indeed, NO (!) Iodine.

When I have a chance or if somebody else has the time, we need to find

out WHEN it was phased out.

To other Canadians and Americans here. What's the situation wth iodized

salt over there. When I left Canada early 80s, as far as I remember

there was ONLY iodized salt.

Very interesting Pateince!

Thanks so much for pointing this out... Apparently in some countries

iodine was replaced by bromide in baking products around 40 years ago.

Bromine screws up the thyroid.....This takes us back to the late 60s.

Patience Elliott schrieb:

>

> Hi ,

>

> Just thinking about salt....... as far as I'm aware nearly all the

> table salt available

> in the UK now is not iodized

> like it used to be. Does anyone

>

> know when the iodized salt was phased out?

> Might

> it have had any impact on people's thyroid problems and the incidence

> of autism do you think?

>

> The only iodized salt I've found recently was in Lidl.

>

> Patience

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> Subject: Can we have a discussion about

> thyroid?

> To: Autism-Biomedical-Europe

> Date: Tuesday, 30 December, 2008, 2:36 PM

>

> Hi guys,

>

> I have been researching thyroid the last while as it's tied up with the

> adrenal function.

>

> There are two features of autism recongized by mainstream medicine, one

> is a smaller than average amygdala and dysfunctional serotonin metabolism.

> Well apparently the thyroid governs the serotonin metabolism and just

> this morning I found an abstract on rats suggesting that a small

> amygdala is related to low T3. Also I have spent the last weeks on a

> thyroid list and interestingly enough they report low ferritin in cases

> of hypothyroid. I think I have seen a lot of posts on our lists

> discussing low ferritin. Again on the same thyroid list they recommend

> increasing adrenal strength before fixing the thyroid. And another

> thing, Dr. Woody McGinnis long ago noticed that the moms of children

> with ASD were often estrogen rich. I think this could tie up with a

> faulty thyroid also. I definately had hypothyroidism after my

> pregnancy. Have no idea if I had it before hand.....

>

> Soo, I was wondering if hypothyroidism is common in children with autism

> and the moms

>

> Do any of you have lab tests showing free T4 and free T3 levels. There

> is a lot of controversy regarding the best levels of these two

> parameters in terms of a healthy thyroid. What interests me is whether

> T4 is being converted to T3. For this conversion selenium and iodine is

> neccessary. I doubt whether any of us got enough iodine during our

> pregnancies as we were told NOT to eat salt, the main source for iodine.

>

> If you have any thyroid lab results at all, maybe you could share these

> with us.

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