I am curing myself of Hashimoto's thyroiditis

I am a professional journalist who suffers from Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, an auto-immune disorder in which the body's antibodies, attack the thyroid gland. I was prescribed Thryoxine and told to take it for life. I am now challenging this directive through a course of action which I am determined will reverse my disease and restore my thyroid function. I will write regularly about what I am doing to fight this disease. Perhaps together we can prove that Hashimoto’s can be reversed.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

April 20 2006: thyroid news digest

Hashimoto say: a cat’s nine lives are worth nought if not one is lived.

Today’s hypothyroidsmselfcure thyroid news:

Iodised salt could have saved Chernobyl thyroid victims
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for the supplement of iodised salt to be widely used throughout the region affected by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986.
UNICEF said the salt could have significantly lowered the numbers of exposed children who developed thyroid cancer. Many would have been spared from the disease, it said.
The issue is still being debated despite many efforts to get legislation passed on universal salt iodisation in Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
Thyroid cancer is the only cancer to have increased significantly among people living close to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, according to the Human Cancer Studies Group, at Swansea Medical School, in south Wales.

Sunscreens disrupt T4 production, research shows
Use of sunscreens could lead to hypothyroidism, according to new work presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Glasgow, Scotland.
German researchers discover UV-absorbing chemicals used in sunscreens may disturb production of thyroid hormone.
They looked at rats exposed to the UV-absorbing chemicals 4MBC, which is also used in some anti-aging creams, and benzophenone 2 and found that after treating the rats with 4MBC for five days, the levels of thyroid stimulating hormone were significantly raised and T4 was slightly decreased.

NY doc urges TRH test use
A New York City doctor is calling for wider use of TRH Stimulation Test to be used in detecting hypothyroidism.
Dr Raphael Kellman, an integrative medicine practitioner, believes while the TSH test is viewed by conventional practitioners as the gold standard for detecting hypothyroidism, the TRH Stimulation test overcomes what he regards as its serious limitations.
He explained that the TSH test was a picture in time of circulating levels of thyroid hormone. But the TRH Stimulation Test challenged the thyroid and evaluated its actual ability to function in real life.
He believes the TRH test is essential when traditional TSH tests are borderline, and when a patient has obvious thyroid symptoms but normal TSH results.

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