| A person suffering from Hashimoto's is often | | | | It's kind of like the engine in your car. The spark plugs, |
| frustrated, confused and desperate. Their physician | | | | the burning of gasoline and all the friction create heat |
| doesn't seem to have the answers and the medication | | | | and this needs to be dissipated by circulating cool |
| they've been prescribed hasn't really made much | | | | water throughout the engine. |
| difference. | | | | This is where selenium comes in. Selenium needs to be |
| But here is some encouraging news. There is a lot of | | | | present for your thyroid cells to make selenoproteins |
| really good medical research out there that clearly | | | | which go on to make antioxidants such as glutathione |
| guides us physicians about how to effectively treat | | | | peroxidase and thioredoxin reductase. These defend |
| Hashimoto's. The problem is that it seldom finds its | | | | and protect your thyroid cells from the 'heating' or |
| way into a physician's clinical practice. | | | | inflammatory effects of hydrogen peroxide. |
| Hashimoto's is a complex condition that has taken | | | | One study published in Biological Trace Element |
| years and decades to develop. Believe me, if you've | | | | Research followed a woman with Hashimoto's who |
| been diagnosed with Hashimoto's you are one of the | | | | was taking only Synthroid. When selenium was |
| lucky few because there are millions and millions of | | | | included her blood selenium levels rose by 45%, her |
| women walking around suffering needlessly who don't | | | | glutathione improved by 21% and her thyroid antibodies |
| know they have it. If you don't know you have it you | | | | (TPO) declined by 76%. After withdrawing selenium all |
| cannot treat it. | | | | these markers returned to where they were before. |
| Hashimoto's is the primary cause of hypothyroidism | | | | There are many other studies which conclude the |
| yet few doctors check for it. At least you know and | | | | benefits of selenium for the treatment of Hashimoto's. |
| now you can do something about it. | | | | Including selenium in the form of methionine is truly the |
| There are several approaches necessary for | | | | first and most important step for improving thyroid |
| correcting Hashimoto's but the most important one is | | | | antibody levels in Hashimoto's. The dose is normally |
| to take selenium. Why? | | | | 400mcg daily taken any time. Selenium will not interfere |
| When your thyroid cells make thyroid hormones they | | | | with any other medication or approach you are taking. |
| must also make hydrogen peroxide. The production of | | | | I do not see Hashimoto's as a disease. I see it to be a |
| H2O2 is essential. At the same time your thyroid is | | | | condition resulting from specific nutrient deficiencies. |
| also producing substances to counteract or neutralize | | | | Once these are corrected a person can, to a great |
| some of the downstream effects of the hydrogen | | | | extent, recover their health. |
| peroxide. | | | | |