Thyroid Foods

You are at  risk for hypothyroid disease if you :

* Have someone in your family history with thyroid problems
* Have an autoimmune disease such as type 1 diabetes
* Have had surgery on your thyroid gland
* Have Down’s or Turner’s syndrome
* Are 50 years of age

Also, thyroid problems occur 8 times more often in women then men. This is explained by different events in a woman’s life that involves hormones.  ex: the menstrual cycle and  pregnancy.

Hypothyroidism lose weight… with cinnamon ?

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Loosing weight with cinnamon ?

Many health benefits are associated to cinnamon from improving memory, curing ulcers and yeast infections and reducing cholesterol levels.

What is interesting to us here, to help lose weight with hypothyroidism, is the cinnamon’s ability to reduce blood sugar and help the body to stop storing calories.

Make a cinnamon tea with one-half teaspoon of  cinnamon powder and boil in one cup of water. Add honey as you wish.

How are the thyroid and vitamin b related ? With stress !

When the body is under stress, it requires more hormones, including adrenaline and noradrenalin. These steroid hormones – adrenaline and noradrenalin- need amino acid. Amino acid is needed to process iodine, and iodine supports the thyroid gland.

Complicated ? maybe.

Just keep in mind that everything in the body is inter related. Stress depletes many of the essential nutrients required for proper thyroid function. People who are stressed may need additional adrenal “help” to regulate thyroid function.

• vitamin C

• Zinc

• Selenium

• vitamin B

Get an early diagnosis : hypothyroidism diseases

Early detection of a hypothyroidism disease is the first step to avoid too much weight gain.

Unfortunately, your metabolism can slow down considerably even before your hormone level start indicating a hypothyroidism disease.

When your metabolism slows down, you start storing calories. When your energy level is down, you feel like slowing down your physical activities witch all lead to unwanted weight gain.

There the importance of finding a doctor that will listen to you and take you serioulsy. It is proven that sligh fluctuations in the thyroid hormones are commun – but can still affect body weight and the metabolism.

Can you control your hypothyroidism with a thyroid disease diet ? Yes you can !

You can treat your thyroid condition with the right food and with healthy lifestyle changes.   Natural herbal supplements will help you keep your thyroid gland healthy.

In a thyroid disease diet, like any healthy diet the following foods should be avoided:

• Alcohol
• Saturated fats – such as animal fat, fried foods
• Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
• Aspartame
• Refined salt
• Sugars
• Caffeine drinks (coffee and cola)

What are the causes for thyroid hair loss ? Your thyroid gland, located in your throat, produces two hormones :  thyronine and thyroxine. Their primary functions are to convert food into energy by modulating protein, vitamins, fat and carbs.

When your thyroid gland is unable to produce enough hormones ( a very common situation) it effects your body’s metabolism.

One of the these “side effects” in your metabolism is  hair loss.

The thyroid gland provides the hormones for the growth of the follicles of the hair. The hair follicle is then not suppling enough proteins and amino acids and losses the ability to absorb minerals and vitamins. When you are not producing enough hormones your body is then busy where it needs it’s energy the most – it is busy keeping your vital functions alive. It doesn’t have enough energy to keep your hair healthy. It is then not growing properly, drying out and sometimes, falling out.

Do many people have under active thyroid hypothyroidism ?

YES.

An alarming number of people do suffer from hypothyroidism. Take a look at these statistics:

* In 2005, The American Association of Clinical endocrinologist reported that almost 1 out of every 50 women in the United States is diagnosed with hypothyroidism during pregnancy.

* 1 out of every 5 women over the age of 75 has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the most common cause of hypothyroidism.

* The Thyroid Society reported that hypothyroidism is 10 times more common in women than men.

* In 2005 the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists reported six out every 100 miscarriages are associated with thyroid hormone deficiencies during pregnancy.

* In 1998 the Thyroid Federation International reported 1 in 4 000 babies are born with congenital hypothyroidism.

If your thyroid function is not optimal, you can use Thyromine.