Nutritional correction of thyroid disease

[Guest guest]

I was wondering if any of you are familiar with the website www.ithyroid.com.

It calls itself the internet center for the nutritional correction of thyroid

disease. the webowner presents extensive material about nutritional

factors that may cause thyroid disease. For instance, he says iron-deficiency

anemia may be the beginning of some hypothyroidism. I believe a thorough

exploration of all the features on this web site is worthwhile. Instead of

focusing on what kind and how much thyroid or adrenal supplements to take, maybe

a correction of the underlying causative factors might yield a true cure for

some.

One of the ways to know your true mineral status is with a hair analysis.

Someone in this group recently slammed hair analysis as being notoriously

unreliable. There were some really badly designed studies, including one in

JAMA, that reached that conclusion, but newer studies have shown that hair

analysis can yield valid and consistent results and information not available

with blood tests. It gives a picture of what is happening at the tissue level,

so results aren't always consistent with blood test results. It is important to

not use a lab that washes the hair sample with acetone and detergent, however,

and the only two labs that don't do that, Analytical Research Labs (ARL), and

Trace Elements Inc. (TEI), scored well in validity testing. Ithyroid also has a

good presentation by Dr. Mercola rebutting the JAMA article. Dr. Lawrence

has written a book called Nutritional Balancing and Hair Mineral Analysis

which gives a thorough explaination of how to interpret the hair mineral

analysis. He also has many articles on his own web site, www.drlwilson.com.

Because of a congenital thyroid malformation, I know I will be on thyroid for

life. However, I am using Dr. Lawrence 's (this is NOT the 's

syndrome guy) program to help recover my adrenal and female hormone functions.

I don't think anyone should be taking mineral supplements unless they are using

something like hair mineral analysis to guide them. Dr. strives to help

your body heal itself, by restoring mineral balance, so you can eventually get

off hormone replacement. I think that's something to aim for.

Lynn