Diane,

This is info re Thyroid meds not paleo:

I have a relative who is diagnosed with Hashimotos - they find the
standard meds do not help but using bioidentical thyroid hormone from
a Hotze Health & Wellness Center helpful.

Cheers

Neil

On 25/05/2013, Diane Heath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've enjoyed and benefited from the conversations here for over a year, and
> personally have found that morphing into a Paleo nutrition plan, from
> vegetarian, has improved my health substantially.  Many thanks for all the
> insights I glean via this email blog!!  I enjoy reading the research,
> offered by the best of the Paleo peeps here...
> Per a posting here, I've supplemented my nutrition with drops of Potassium
> Iodide, and have gradually worked up to 8 drops daily, in a (vain) attempt
> to remedy my thyroid condition.  I've been 'diagnosed' with Graves, and
> Hashimotos, and been told that I will be on thyroid meds for the rest of my
> life, and will probably need to have the dosage increased as I age.
> Currently that amounts to 150 mcg. Levothyroxin, and I've been 'stable' for
> about a year.  My big hope was that the potassium iodide would have
> alleviated my condition, but it's had no apparent effect, so far..
> Concurrent, but just tangential to that concern...a nutrition question...  I
> love eating NW farmed Mussels once a week, and that's a weekly luxury.  I am
> concerned, however, re. radiation and the Fukushima fallout traveled to the
> Pacific Coast, where these mussels are farmed.  I'm told they are raised in
> concrete pens and that therefore there is no concern....but since I find
> barnacles on some of the shells....it makes me wonder..
> Appreciatively,Diane Heath 		 	   		


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Neil C Timms