The dark side of soy: hypothyroidism

"For soy to actually cause hypothyroidism, you'd have to be bordering on hypothyroidism to begin with," says naturopath Martin Milner, N.D., president of the Center for Natural Medicine in Portland, Ore., and developer of a new treatment for hypothyroidism.

How could you know? Many people eat soy for the health benefits. They may have no idea that they are allergic to the stuff until after they eat it.

read: I'm not going to deny that it's an actual cause

(and while i certainly take these issues seriously, i still can't get over how paranoid that anti-soy page is. )

August 27, 2003, Wednesday

DINING IN, DINING OUT/STYLE DESK
FOOD STUFF; A Different Soy Sauce Every Day of the Week
By Florence Fabricant

Lightly seasoned soy sauces packed in cute mini milk cartons are a nice addition to the condiment shelf. Kamada Foods International in Ottawa has imported them from Japan for years and is now selling them in the United States.

There are seven flavors, including Ponzu Soy, which makes a nice dipping sauce. Salad Soy has no oil but can be used as a salad dressing. Dashi Soy, seasoned with dashi, the Japanese stock base, is convenient to add to soups and noodle dishes. There is also a Salmon Dashi sauce, flavored with smoked salmon.

Boxes of seven seven-ounce containers, all one flavor or one of each, are $15.05 to $17.50, plus shipping, from (877) 722-5769 or www.kamada.ca.

To heck with Kikkoman!

If they really call themselves that, they can do whatever they want to. They slipped the bonds of earth long ago.

Still though, I don't think the soy/hypothyroidism link is all just propaganda from fruitamentalists or what have you. There is no such thing as a perfect food or drug, and I was beginning to wonder what lurked in soy's closet of skeletons. However, I'm sure the association of the Soy Lobby with Evil like that site i linked above is highly absurd and exaggerated.

(ANYBODY who likes to type out information such that every alternative word or phrase is underlined and hypertexted on their site raises crazy fondue-mentalist stylee suspicion)

That's my favorite phrase for today.

"carrionian", heheh.

the problem has to do with iodine actually; i'm allergic to it.

huh

well i certainly hope it doesn't kill me! oops, ate too much soy!

hypothryroidism really really can fuck you up, esp cuz it usually goes undiagnosed...took my wife probably a year to be normal after she got on the correct meds :(

omg really

wait so does salt do that to you too

Huh. Did not know that, and it's especially interesting in light of the fact that a) my doctor suspects something may be up with my thyroid (constant tiredness, fainting, mood swings) and b) oh holy shit I eat SO MUCH SOY :(

(constant tiredness, fainting, mood swings)

any weight flucuations?

anyway you should get it checked

don't know abt salt, i didn't know soy caused it until this thread was bumped....

that's weird i've been feeling a little more tired than usual too and i eat a lot of soy. not excited about this idea.

sorry didn't mean to make u paranoid or anything...there is a test for it so if you feel like it you could get tested...but obv you could be more tired than usual for a million different reasons.

fwiw my wife did not eat like tons of soy or anything...but i think it's more common in women

my mom suggested that i get a baseline thyroid test so they know what normal reads for me -- thyroid probs run in my family (grandpa has hyper, mom has hypo) and so i wanted to be safe. so far no symptoms, but i was getting worried for a while there.

anyway, getting a read on your normal thyroid levels can help detect problems should they arise in the future (or so says my mom)

i read somewhere that soy is healthiest in a fermented state (miso, tempeh, furu, soy sauce, etc.) and you don't need to worry about this so much. not sure if that's still considered to be valid research-wise or not.