Posted by tealady on October 26, 2004, at 6:35:56
In reply to Re: Supplements for brain fog? » tealady, posted by raybakes on October 22, 2004, at 17:29:39
>> > At a stretch I guess extra VitD could caus extra calcium (given sufficient amounts of other things..oestogen being one of probably lots)
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> One thing I like about vitamin D is it's autoimmune reducing effect!
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> > and calc could lower available thyroid hormones in those on T4 replacement..which may feedback to pit/hypo and raise TSH..if that pathway is working optimally!
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> Why would calcium lower thyroid hormones? I'm not sure of the way it would do that? Saw in interesting idea reagrding vitamin A an article said thyroid receptors can become over sensitive during hypothyroid, so when T3 or T4 is supplemented, a person can be a little 'hyper' - vitamin A can desensitise the T3 receptor to help with this - not sure it would be good in some cases though!
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hmm You'd think there would be a bit of spare carotene in the body anyway if you were hypothyroid, so that could provide any needed extra VitA as you became non-hypo? My orangy skin times disappeared with thyroid hormones.Re Calcium:
http://thyroid.about.com/library/weekly/aa100500b.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11716045Jan
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