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[log in to unmask] wrote: "Most in this group learn that you should take
calcium, magnesium, iron, and other minerals at least 2 hours apart from
thyroid medicine or it blocks absorption."
I am one who had to eliminate iron all together, because even twelve hours
apart knocked out the effectiveness of the thyroid medicine. I can only
tolerate red meat once in a while, when I start feeling anemic. I'm taking
B-12 -- about twelve hours apart from the other B-complex.
Also, several years ago I had to tell an Endo that the instruction to take
TUMS was a bad idea. It was not a good way for me to get calcium. It
contains aluminum, another metal that reduced the effectiveness of the
Synthroid that the Endo was prescribing at the time (a reduced dosage that
caused irreversible damage anyway). Since calcium needs the stomach acids to
be useful, an anti-acid is a bad idea. I had to show the Endo the medical
literature that said these things in more complicated terms. The Endo did
not want to believe my experience. The company that makes TUMS must have
done a real sell job on these doctors, because a lot of them were telling
hypo patients to take it for calcium.
Peg
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