Re: selenium: friend or foe?

[Guest guest]

You said it better than I did - something doesn't make sense here. Low selenium

is widely recognized as unhealthful.

" selenoenzymes are involved in...thyroid hormone metabolism "

http://www.medicinalfoodnews.com/vol01/issue5/selenium

What is rare (or rarely recognized) is the conversion problem. I already know I

convert T4 into Reverse T3, and that selenium is an active participant in T4

conversion. That's where I'd have to monitor carefully - if selenium

supplementation was making a bad conversion problem worse.

This would not be a concern for anyone taking T3 only, but most people take

either T4 or a T3/T4 combination, so any contributors to conversion problems

would be worth watching out for.

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> > > Can't find th einfo now but I read in a study that selenium is not only

> > > needed for conversion of T4 to T3 but it is also needed in conversion of

> > > T4 to RT3. Thus when takign T3 onyl selenium is not what we want though

> > > once RT3 is cleared and you are trying ot go bakc on natural thyroid

> > > (those that choose to) sselenium migh tbe a good supplemnent then.

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> > > http://nthadrenalsweb.org/

> > >

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

> > > http://faqhelp.webs.com/

> > >

> > > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

> > > http://www.thyroid-rt3.com/

> > >

> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypoPets/

> > > http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

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[Guest guest]

Hi Kathleen: what a great idea. The worsening of one autoimmune attack has to

contribute to the worsening of others. This would also explain why some (few)

people do not show improvement on a gluten-free diet...the fundamental problem

for them is not autoimmune, but something else.

> > >

> > > Can't find th einfo now but I read in a study that selenium is not only

> > > needed for conversion of T4 to T3 but it is also needed in conversion of

> > > T4 to RT3. Thus when takign T3 onyl selenium is not what we want though

> > > once RT3 is cleared and you are trying ot go bakc on natural thyroid

> > > (those that choose to) sselenium migh tbe a good supplemnent then.

> > >

> > > --

> > >

> > > http://nthadrenalsweb.org/

> > >

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/

> > > http://faqhelp.webs.com/

> > >

> > > http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/

> > > http://www.thyroid-rt3.com/

> > >

> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypoPets/

> > > http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

> > >

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