Since you are hypo, it's best to avoid goitrogens or, at least cook them. Cooking doesn't completely eliminate their goitrogenic properties but, does reduce them.

Cruciferous vegetables are the most powerful goitrogens so those are best avoided.

These recommendations apply only because you are hypo.

If a Graves' patient was trying to help lower his/her thyroid hormone levels naturally, the advice would be different.

I agree with you about the conflicting reports on almonds. You could try paying attention to how you feel after eating them.

I'm one of the 20% of Graves' patients who go hypo after remission and I take thyroid hormone replacement.

I LOVE almonds yet, after eating a small handful each day for 2-3 days, I didn't feel as good as I normally do. I don't eat as many any more.

I haven't read the book you've mentioned but, will tell you this. Strengthening the immune system is good. "Boosting" it is not.

I'd be inclined to run things by Elaine Moore before trying them.

Avoidance of thyroid disease triggers will go a long way towards healing from any type of thyroid disease:

http://elaine-moore.com/Articles/GravesDisease/ThyroidDiseaseTriggers/tabid/183/Default.aspx

i agree with Cd on everything...almonds could be a problem, they are considered a goitrogen too I think. Elaine says that our immune systems are already over stimulated so you don't want to OVER stimulate it but modulate it. There are supplements for this,Moducare is one of them.

Brans, Have you tried the Moducare? That seems interesting to me. I wasn't aware of almonds but did know about the veggies.... Love all the information on this sight.

No., I haven't tried it yet but the holistic docs I listen to on the radio say it helps the immune system. Vitamin D is good too for immune disorders. I take 2,000 everyday in the winter.

For whatever it's worth, after reading Elaine Moore mentioning rhodiola on her Q&A forum, I bought the book "The Rhodiola Revolution - Super Herb of the 21st Century".

It was written by two doctors who use it in clinical practice and take it themselves.

Rhodiola is an adaptogen which is the type of thing we need to modulate our immune system.

I started taking rhodiola at least two years ago and found that I feel better overall. Doubling my dose during times of stress has minimized my physical stress reaction.

This site covers much of what is mentioned in the book:

http://rhodiolarosea.org/?doing_wp_cron=1362170866.1442809104919433593750

Should I give up almonds? I have been eating them raw throughout the day since I have limited my bread, meat & sodium. Currently, I am still hyper. If so bummer as I have a very large bag.

Your hyper.. eat ALL the almonds. :)

I not only ate many almonds, I ended up obsessively hording cans of those Blue Diamond Almonds. LOL
Always one open and a spare in the van, one open by the computer, and many stashed in the cupboard.

They're so good !
I still eat them with no issues, but since I don't want trouble sliding hypo, I no longer eat them by the bushel.

Enjoy your almonds Imor.
They may well be part of why your levels are dropping so nicely is such a short time.

JM

I posted on your other thread.

I'm not convinced you're hyper.

If your doctor is saying you are hyper based upon your TSH, I'm sorry to say that he/she is wrong.

Thyroid status is confirmed with the actual thyroid hormone levels (FreeT4 and FreeT3) not pituitary hormone TSH.

I honestly suspect that you are now hypo because you weren't medicated properly.

I'd hold off on almonds until after you share the reference ranges for your results because that's the only way to know for sure just what's going on.

Different labs use different ranges so your results can only be properly interpreted within the context of your lab's ranges.

Sorry to hijack your thread, Courage2010......I obviously thought this was important.

Hope to "see" JM on her thread....