Guest guest Posted February 7, 2002 Report Share Posted February 7, 2002 Hi Amy, I avoid Soy altogether for the reasons you bring up. I suppose I do consume trace amounts but I don't buy any soy products intentionally. Just as you, I don't take any chances <br>Bev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2002 Report Share Posted February 10, 2002 Oh my! I just keep findin out more and more and ive only been here 30 minutes! I am a vegetarian so I use a lot of soy products. I thought i may have inherited Hypo from my grandma because after i was diagnosed she told me she has it as well as one of my aunts....and now...i don't know....maybe it was the soy? I have no desire to eat meat again, and i dont know if i can give up the soy products i have become accustomed too!Yikes...guess i have a lot to think about. Does anyone have any alternative advice??? Also...i was curious to know if there is any way of pinpointing around when i " got " this Hypothyroidism? Silly question i know <br><br>Jax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2002 Report Share Posted February 11, 2002 I found out I was hypo a year ago and we have no clue when it started or why.<br>I have had soy twice in my entire life that I know of so I'm sure that it wasn't that.<br>Nobody else in my family has hypo that we know of.<br><br>Dr. said it was impossible to know when and why.<br><br>Is Jax really your name?<br><br>Janine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2002 Report Share Posted February 11, 2002 Being a vegetarian and hypothyroid could cause some problems, especially since protein is usually an essential for us hypo people...Is there any particular reason you are vegetarian? religious reasons? Environmental purposes? Dietary problems?<br><br>As for hypothyroidism being inherited, yes, it does run in families. My Uncle Bill is hypo, my granddad was, I was born hypothyroid, and my mom was just diagnosed about a year or so ago. <br><br>Those with hypothyroidism DO tend to be depressed more often, and I've experienced this quite a bit in the past few years...so if you need to talk, all you need to do is IM me...<br><br>Blessed Be,<br> :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Actually, they used to use fluoride to treat hyperthyroidism in years past. As for soy, it probably has a lot to do with money... you can't patent soy because it's a natural product, so the drug companies aren't going to make any profit off of it. They'd have to come up with some unique molecule that they could patent... so then you'd be dealing with enfood-genetically modified stuff they could patent. Besides, soy has such a HUGE market from purportedly being a health food, it would undoubtedly cost the industry a tremendous amount of sales from folks with normal thyroid function, if they ever realize it could be bad for them. But you might be onto something for folks with hyperthyroidism -- maybe they SHOULD eat a lot of soy! soy? > If soy does what everybody is claiming it to do with our thyroids then > why don't doctors give soy for a prescription for hyperthroidism? > Bev > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 Bev wrote: > If soy does what everybody is claiming it to do with our thyroids then > why don't doctors give soy for a prescription for hyperthroidism? Because they have things with a more controlled response. At one time they DID use fluoride for hyperT, at about the same dose that is allowed in drinking water. Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 I ask my dentist last year if fluoride had any impact on the thyroid and he said not that he had ever heard of,now I have read differently , so I'm just wondering if he really didn't know or what.. I just don't know about doctors sometime at all. Bev Chuck B <cblatchl@...> wrote: Bev wrote: > If soy does what everybody is claiming it to do with our thyroids then > why don't doctors give soy for a prescription for hyperthroidism? Because they have things with a more controlled response. At one time they DID use fluoride for hyperT, at about the same dose that is allowed in drinking water. Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 Do you have to ask? --- Bev <bdowns45681@...> wrote: > If soy does what everybody is claiming it to do with > our thyroids then > why don't doctors give soy for a prescription for > hyperthroidism? > Bev > > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 If he admits it, he's probably known for a while and a liability is created. He's probably playing dumb or he may be ignorant in the topic. Either way, I wouldn't go to him. --- bev <bdowns45681@...> wrote: > I ask my dentist last year if fluoride had any > impact on the thyroid and he said not that he had > ever heard of,now I have read differently , so I'm > just wondering if he really didn't know or what.. I > just don't know about doctors sometime at all. > Bev > > Chuck B <cblatchl@...> wrote: > Bev wrote: > > > If soy does what everybody is claiming it to do > with our thyroids then > > why don't doctors give soy for a prescription for > hyperthroidism? > > Because they have things with a more controlled > response. At one time > they DID use fluoride for hyperT, at about the same > dose that is allowed > in drinking water. > > Chuck > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 We just got going on the NIDs diet after our first appt with dr. G this week My 4yo son seems happier and has had a good week after being off all the supplements he had been on and having a less restricted diet ( we were gfcfsf plus low oxalate and feingold). Dr G's office told us soy and goat milk were ok so we have been using a bit of goat cheese and soy milk as a sub for rice milk and let him have edamame. For those of you who are not doing soy, is that because dr g told you to limit it after testing or because of other concerns about soy protein? My son seems to tolerate it although yesterday he had the runs, which has not been a problem in the past, (but so did his babysitter), so not sure if soy is a problem. One other thing. We gave him a banana as his one of two fruits, and he got super hyper, giggly, and wanted to spin. I assume this means I should just go back to avoiding them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Though I don't have an answer for you, I just wanted to say that reading your post made me happy! My son hasn't seen dr g yet, but I can't wait to get him off the 43 supplements a day plus chelation!! Good luck to you and your children Sent from my iPhone On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Rebeca Robboy <rmrobboy@...> wrote: > We just got going on the NIDs diet after our first appt with dr. G > this week My 4yo son seems happier and has had a good week after being > off all the supplements he had been on and having a less restricted > diet ( we were gfcfsf plus low oxalate and feingold). Dr G's office > told us soy and goat milk were ok so we have been using a bit of goat > cheese and soy milk as a sub for rice milk and let him have edamame. > For those of you who are not doing soy, is that because dr g told you > to limit it after testing or because of other concerns about soy > protein? My son seems to tolerate it although yesterday he had the > runs, which has not been a problem in the past, (but so did his > babysitter), so not sure if soy is a problem. > > One other thing. We gave him a banana as his one of two fruits, and he > got super hyper, giggly, and wanted to spin. I assume this means I > should just go back to avoiding them? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 If your kid doesn't react to soy, that's wonderful - you're blessed with a lot more options for substitution. But the word soy makes me shudder. Soy lecithen is my son's worst problem, but it takes weeks to build up and cause problems, and then that's gradual too, so by the time I realize that there's a big problem, I've long forgotten that he started a new food that went bad. The only time I would recommend stopping soy for are for symptoms of aggression, rage, suicidal depression, and oppositional behavior (like constant, extreme, not just the occasional bad day/week).  If you go for months without experiencing constant irritability and opposition (and always aggression), then you probably don't have a problem with it. But you just don't usually see an immediate reaction to it. I wouldn't not use it just because you worry it could happen. I have one kid who becomes a self-loathing monster on it (and he can even have it once in a whie, just not every day or several times a week), and another kid who has no problems with it at all (that I can tell). (Allergy meds like Zyrtec and Allegra do that too, though, in our family, but again, not immediately but rather 2-3 months down the road when you no longer have reason to suspect it, so it takes a few more months to figure out what the heck is wrong.) HTH ________________________________ From: Rebeca Robboy <rmrobboy@...> " " < > Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 9:19:47 AM Subject: Soy?  We just got going on the NIDs diet after our first appt with dr. G this week My 4yo son seems happier and has had a good week after being off all the supplements he had been on and having a less restricted diet ( we were gfcfsf plus low oxalate and feingold). Dr G's office told us soy and goat milk were ok so we have been using a bit of goat cheese and soy milk as a sub for rice milk and let him have edamame. For those of you who are not doing soy, is that because dr g told you to limit it after testing or because of other concerns about soy protein? My son seems to tolerate it although yesterday he had the runs, which has not been a problem in the past, (but so did his babysitter), so not sure if soy is a problem. One other thing. We gave him a banana as his one of two fruits, and he got super hyper, giggly, and wanted to spin. I assume this means I should just go back to avoiding them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 If your not sure about something... I usually take it out for a couple weeks or more, and then add it back in and watch for a reaction. we were letting our son have dark (dairy free) chocolate... but he was still having dark circles under eyes and was testing high in allergens)... we took chocolate out for a while, along with a few other things... when we let him have some for valentines day... he had the same kind of poops he used to have (and had an accident which he hadn't been having since we removed a few things) Tells me he probably has a problem with chocolate. (we've removed it for the time being, maybe will test it again some day) I think soy might be a bigger problem at our house than some other things (his allergy panel came back showing moderate reaction to soy, and I've been sort of suspecting it) (I wonder if others have been running into this)... unfortunately it is in so many things... It looks like goats milk/cheese might be our only option, hopefully that turns out ok. We don't actually do any milk or cheese right now, but it would be nice down the road to have some options. If banana seems to be a trigger, try removing it for a few weeks (just don't have any in the house) then put them back in and watch, if it keeps happening, I would remove them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2011 Report Share Posted March 4, 2011 And don't forget cheeses made from sheep's milk. That can make some decent replacements for mozarella & parmesan thank goodness. ( has a very special hatred for soy!) ________________________________ From: Pedersen <mpedestrian@...> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 1:22:03 AM Subject: Re: Soy?  If your not sure about something... I usually take it out for a couple weeks or more, and then add it back in and watch for a reaction. we were letting our son have dark (dairy free) chocolate... but he was still having dark circles under eyes and was testing high in allergens)... we took chocolate out for a while, along with a few other things... when we let him have some for valentines day... he had the same kind of poops he used to have (and had an accident which he hadn't been having since we removed a few things) Tells me he probably has a problem with chocolate. (we've removed it for the time being, maybe will test it again some day) I think soy might be a bigger problem at our house than some other things (his allergy panel came back showing moderate reaction to soy, and I've been sort of suspecting it) (I wonder if others have been running into this)... unfortunately it is in so many things... It looks like goats milk/cheese might be our only option, hopefully that turns out ok. We don't actually do any milk or cheese right now, but it would be nice down the road to have some options. If banana seems to be a trigger, try removing it for a few weeks (just don't have any in the house) then put them back in and watch, if it keeps happening, I would remove them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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