Hi, I soak my Brazil nuts and almonds together, even though they require different times. We are not trying to be rocket scientists. Do not do too much all at once. Like I said, only 4 Brazil nuts a day is all that is needed, so a weeks supply is only around 30 or 40 nuts, so only do a little as practice, you'll see why in a moment.
Start with a bowl 3 times the size of the 40 or so nuts you start with because the nuts will expand when they absorb water.
The water should preferably be filtered, heat the water a drop, just so it is a little warmer than room temperature. Add a half teaspoon of salt because this is only a small amount.
OK, now you have a bowl with salt, 2/3 warm water, and 1/3 nuts. Just let it soak overnight, if you have pets you may want to put a cover over it. In the morning you'll see giant Brazil nuts, rinse out the water. Now they need to be dried for several hours in a dehydrator which no one ever has. So heat up your oven, you do not want more than 125 degrees. So when the oven is only a little warm you place the nuts on a baking dish and put in oven. Do not bake nor roast them. So shut the oven. We only want a little heat so it could be dry.
Now this would take hours because if the nuts are not completely dry then molds can form on them. So what I do is after only an hour or two or three I keep them refrigerated. This is why I say do only a weeks supply at a time, and don't eat more than about 6 a day. These Brazil nuts are very powerful, they even named the country after the nut, not the other way around. Now that's what I read, but I can't believe everything without other references. I mean the country of Brazil, as for the soaking I got that right, here are some links.
http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/2008/07/soaking-nuts.html


http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/recipe-index

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soaking-seeds-and-nuts/#axzz2ThXjjc00

Thanks for the information, carn. I wasn't aware of it at all!!!

Careful with the almonds- they are a goitrogen. I absolutely love them but I have had to severely reduce, pretty much eliminate them.

Brazil nuts definitely is great for getting the FT3 to come up. Not all vits are created equal and can be good for the person, too much 'stuff' is put in them to cause problems.

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mmztcass- do you take any supplements??? I just can't trust supplements so I try to get my nutrients in food. I know that may not be a popular belief. I eat brazil nuts (2-3 daily) for selenium and carrots(2 carrots) for beta-carotene. Do you have any other suggestions? If so, I'm all ears!

I'm getting that way now. Can't tolerate so many vits/supps because of the GMO corn put in many of these. Yes even when these said there are no corn put in them. I am working more towards to whole and organic foods to get my vits/minerals from. Foods such as from the fruits and veggies that have no chemicals on and in them.

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I think its great that you get the required supplements to heal naturally..its a great way to maintain good health...but...for me...I needed greater control and accurate amounts and I could not be guaranteed that through natural means. I went the supplement route to heal my immune system...especially for the Omega 3's...you would have to eat a lot of food to get the 2400mg needed to help your immune system heal. Same with Selenium. These 2 supplements are really important for people with Graves and especially TED...Big Hugs...Kathy

All of this is new to me, I'm learning every day. I did not know almonds are a goitrogen, that's good because I am hyper. I eat them because they are healthy. Still you are right with be careful with the almonds and eliminating them. This soaking is new to me and I did not dry the almonds thoroughly so they started to get moldy. To play safe I ground them up and mixed it with coconut flour, coconut milk, a banana and an egg to make pancakes. I really need a dehydrator, the oven doesn't do it. So I bought pre soaked trail mix bag. And if almonds are irradiated you won't get the benefit neither. It seems everything is bad.
I am only trying to help, these past few months I've learned a lot, and have links to documentation of what I say. It's all new
to me. I hope I don't bother anyone, but I also learned that to get vitamin A from carrots you need fat. Yes, sounds crazy, but people who consume carrots turn orange because they are not assimulating the vit A (beta-carotene). So when consumming carrots, or lettuce, one needs to take in fat, it could be in the form of olive oil, butter, nuts, anything that has fat is neccessary for the conversion of vit A from beta-carotene.

As for "brazil nuts definitely is great for getting the FT3 to come up." I still don't really understand T3 let alone this new FT3.
I eat the brazil nuts for selenium when I take natural vit E.
Vit E should not be taken alone, it needs selenium and a few other things with it.

From the Sally Fallon video Nourishing Traditional Diets she says about Conversion Problems.
Needed to convert carotene to Vitamin A
fats in the diet, enzymes, thyroid hormone, and vit E
So to get vit A from carrots you need fat and vit E. For vit E you need the brazil nuts.
I take cod liver oil for vitamin A. Even my doctor said I need it from an animal source, plants just don't cut it.

There's also a synergy between the Zinc and Vitamin A. Use of one or the other can be substituted from the other.

http://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/VITAMIN%20A.htm

This one here mentions that if one has Zinc deficiency, Beta Carotene will not convert to vitamin A.

http://goodhealthnaturally.nourished.com.au/beta-carotene-vs-vitamin-a/

Many people with Graves' Disease (I am the exception) find they have too much Zinc and not enough Copper. Do they have enough Vitamin A or Beta Carotene?

As for me, I am Zinc deficient with having had too much Copper at one time. After I was hospitalized for three days with a suspected thyroid storm, I saw a holistic MD/NMD and asked for blood tests to know what my Zinc and Copper were doing. I had very high amounts of Copper to not enough Zinc.

To this day, I still have to make sure I supplement with Zinc and don't go wild with Copper foods. Of course, somewhere along the lines vitamin A became deficient, even to this day.

So now I am making sure to supplement Zinc and vitamin A and with an oil capsule of vitamin E. Let's see how that goes.

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Yes, true, I've read elsewhere that zinc works synergistically with Vitamins A and E. Also on Dr O's site, he mentions about copper toxicity and hair analysis. That's what I was hoping my doctor would do. I need to know my vitamin balance in my body, so I really don't know if I should take copper with the zinc. The vitamin test is what I need not he food allergy.

I got back from visiting with Endo #3 (or #3 and 4) in Denver about a week ago. I was seen by one endo who got and summarized my history for the endo I had traveled a long way to see.

I will post a longer review of my experience in Denver as a separate post, but the one thing of note here is that she told me my eye problem was just strabismus not TED. They actually seemed to think it was humorous that I was diagnosed with Graves' by my eye doctor. Technically, it was a neuro-ophthalmologist.

Anyway, whatever I said previously about having TED may not be correct. I never had the bulging, etc.