Finished "Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?" Today

I finished "Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?" this morning. One sentence in the book described how I've felt for the last eight years: "You began to feel less whole, not quite right, lost in a haze, a mere shadow of your former self."

I took a few notes from it that I want to look more into, such as:

• 500 mg Taurine with morning vitamin
• Digestive enzymes
• Ashwagandha
• Rosemary
• Padma Basic (Tibetan formula)
• Ten Mushroom formula
• Look into saliva tests for cortisol.
• Licorice for adrenal; IsoCort.

The book discussed a topic that I am seeing in a lot of different thyroid books: fluoride. The more I read, the more I begin to wonder why the hell it is in a lot of people's drinking water! Did you know that, according to this book, what they add to the water to artificially fluoridate public waters is "hydrofluosilicic acid, an industrial waste product of the fertilzer and aluminum industries." Huh...doesn't that make you want to go turn on your tap and drink a nice, cool drink of water now? The book also says that less than 5% of the world's population drinks artificially fluoridated water (in Europe, that number is 2%).

What countries have BANNED FLUORIDE? Japan, Denmark, Sweden, India and Holland.

To read more about fluoride, go to the Fluoride Action Network and Keepers of the Well.

The book had questionnaires for a self-evaluation. My total thyroid score was 55. My adrenal score was 48. My Women's Sex Gland evaluation score was 37. This was to determine what type of "endo type" I was. I had the most points for thyroid so that makes my primary type a "physical endo-type" or "feeling fat." Given that my adrenal score was so close to the other, it bears looking into as well. For adrenal, it is an "emotional endo-type" or "frazzled." Sex-hormone evaluation is said to be a "mental endo-type" aka "fuzzy thinking." I feel all of the above so I guess it's no surprise that each category had so many points for me.

Another web site to look into: Canary Club. It's a support web site about hormonal imbalance.

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Iodine, Celtic Sea Salt & Fluoride

I have taken the next step to helping myself. A thyroid needs iodine in order to function properly. I've also read that there may be a link between breast cancer and being iodine deficient as well as iodine being used in the treatment of breast cancer. It's very interesting reading and one I am going to look into more.

We don't get what we need from table salt as it is refined. I've also read by some that it is considered toxic.

Another problem that I've read concerning iodine is about fluoride and how our bodies can confuse fluoride with iodine, displacing it in our body. Fluoride is in a lot of water, toothpaste, dental treatments, and my children's school even gives fluoride treatments once a week to the students (they call it "swish"). If fluoride is doing this, it can lead to thyroid problems. According to PFPC, fluoride poisoning symptoms are very similar to those of hypothyroidism.

I am going to start supplementing with iodine, to see if it improves some of the symptoms of my hypothyroidism, goiter, and nodules. I ordered the Iodoral (iodine) and some celtic sea salt. I've replaced my toothpaste with a fluoride-free toothpaste (and studies are starting to show that fluoride isn't preventing cavities the way it is touted to so at this point, I'm ok with going fluoride-free to see if I start to feel better). Luckily, where we moved to, our water is already fluoride-free so I don't need to worry about the water supply.

I'll do this for a bit and see if I start to feel better. I'll start slow and at the lowest dose. Then, I'll go visit my friendly medical personnel in lab coats and see if any of my lab levels have improved.

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