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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:51:07 +0000
From: Magda Kalinowska <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Kelp
What do you think about kelp for thyroid problems?
Magda Kalinowska
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Magda:
While some herbalists and vitamin proponents recommend iodine tablets or
kelp supplements (which are high in iodine) for people with thyroid
problems, you need to be extremely careful about any decision to take
iodine or kelp supplements if you are on thyroid hormone replacement
therapy.
The thinking behind taking iodine or kelp is that in many parts of the
world, goiters and thyroid disease are related to iodine deficiency. In
the U.S. and other developed countries, iodine deficiency is not very
common anymore, due to the addition of iodine to salt -- iodized salt --
and other food products. In fact, the most common forms of thyroid
disease found in the U.S. -- autoimmune thyroid diseases like Graves'
Disease or Hashimoto's Thyroiditis -- have nothing to do with iodine
deficiency at all. Actually, thyroids are extremely sensitive to iodine,
and you need to be careful about adding too much iodine to the diet as
it can irritate or aggravate the thyroid. Most doctors say not to worry
about some iodized salt, or the iodine present in a food
item such as an occasional sushi dinner. But even alternative
nutritional doctor Stephen Langer, author of Solved: The Riddle
of Illness, the follow-up book to Broda Barnes' Hypothyroidism: The
Unsuspected Illness, advises against taking iodine or
kelp supplements for people with autoimmune thyroid disease.
Personally, I don't worry about the kelp that's in my multivitamin, or
eating sushi, but I wouldn't take an extra kelp supplement.
--Mary
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