T4 to T3 conversion and Soy

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

Quick question to anyone who can answer...

I hear there is a lot of debate as to whether soy is bad for the thyroid.

1) I understand there is no human study showing soy is bad for the thyroid.

2) I understand that if soy is fermented... all of any thyroid pro-goitrogens

are nullified

Having said this... I have a company who claims that many people have gone off

their thyroid medication - including Hashimotos' patients like myself - with

their Energizing Soy Protein drink that has all of the pro-goitrogens REMOVED.

Is there anyone here who still would stay away from soy with the above known

information (and if you would... please let me know what info you have...)

Thank you!

[Guest guest]

Carol,

That is a sad story and one I will learn from. The last thing I need to do is

to risk my health as a mom. We want what is best for our children and we are

the most important thing in our children's lives.

I don't understand how it can be so bad for some... yet the asians seem to be

benefiting so well. Maybe it's just that their physical makeup works okay with

soy and we as Americans just aren't built the same way to digest it as well? My

husband and his family just love the " stinky tofu " which is fermented and

supposed to be goitrigen removed and easier to digest... but I would not touch

it with a 10 foot pole... much less go near someone who is eating it! ;-)

>

>

> Hi, not sure of the in's and out's of this one but can only tell of my own

experience:-

>

> I was diagnosed with a goitre some 19 years ago, was monitored annually via

blood tests on the hospital thyroid register - received no treatment at all,

then in 2002 my goitre had got so big it was time that it and me had to part

company - then my hell on LevoT started - but that is a long story - suffice to

say I am now on Erfa NDT and doing well thank you.

>

> BUT, in all the years of having my goitre, I WAS taking soy milk - every day

on my breakfast cereal and for drinks - no one ever told me to avoid it - now I

know differently.

>

> My daughter who is 34 was diagnosed with a goitre in January this year and is

not yet receiving any treatment, but, I am sending her all the info I have

gleaned from these fabulous informative web forums - THANK YOU - and told her to

keep all this for future reference - she will NEED it!! And to AVOID all soy

products - just to be on the safe side - she needs to keep herself and her

thyroid as healthy as possible. Carol K in Thailand

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Hi all,

>

> Quick question to anyone who can answer...

>

> I hear there is a lot of debate as to whether soy is bad for the thyroid.

>

> 1) I understand there is no human study showing soy is bad for the thyroid.

>

> 2) I understand that if soy is fermented... all of any thyroid pro-goitrogens

are nullified

>

> Having said this... I have a company who claims that many people have gone off

their thyroid medication - including Hashimotos' patients like myself - with

their Energizing Soy Protein drink that has all of the pro-goitrogens REMOVED.

>

> Is there anyone here who still would stay away from soy with the above known

information (and if you would... please let me know what info you have...)

>

> Thank you!

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Carol,

That is a sad story and one I will learn from. The last thing I need to do is

to risk my health as a mom. We want what is best for our children and we are

the most important thing in our children's lives.

I don't understand how it can be so bad for some... yet the asians seem to be

benefiting so well. Maybe it's just that their physical makeup works okay with

soy and we as Americans just aren't built the same way to digest it as well? My

husband and his family just love the " stinky tofu " which is fermented and

supposed to be goitrigen removed and easier to digest... but I would not touch

it with a 10 foot pole... much less go near someone who is eating it! ;-)

>

>

> Hi, not sure of the in's and out's of this one but can only tell of my own

experience:-

>

> I was diagnosed with a goitre some 19 years ago, was monitored annually via

blood tests on the hospital thyroid register - received no treatment at all,

then in 2002 my goitre had got so big it was time that it and me had to part

company - then my hell on LevoT started - but that is a long story - suffice to

say I am now on Erfa NDT and doing well thank you.

>

> BUT, in all the years of having my goitre, I WAS taking soy milk - every day

on my breakfast cereal and for drinks - no one ever told me to avoid it - now I

know differently.

>

> My daughter who is 34 was diagnosed with a goitre in January this year and is

not yet receiving any treatment, but, I am sending her all the info I have

gleaned from these fabulous informative web forums - THANK YOU - and told her to

keep all this for future reference - she will NEED it!! And to AVOID all soy

products - just to be on the safe side - she needs to keep herself and her

thyroid as healthy as possible. Carol K in Thailand

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Hi all,

>

> Quick question to anyone who can answer...

>

> I hear there is a lot of debate as to whether soy is bad for the thyroid.

>

> 1) I understand there is no human study showing soy is bad for the thyroid.

>

> 2) I understand that if soy is fermented... all of any thyroid pro-goitrogens

are nullified

>

> Having said this... I have a company who claims that many people have gone off

their thyroid medication - including Hashimotos' patients like myself - with

their Energizing Soy Protein drink that has all of the pro-goitrogens REMOVED.

>

> Is there anyone here who still would stay away from soy with the above known

information (and if you would... please let me know what info you have...)

>

> Thank you!

>

>

>