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herbprof · 03-16-2009, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kalyn

Alright, I know I have had blood work to have my thyroid checked. They have never really said much about it though...even when I asked.

My mom recently found out she has Hypothyroidism, a couple years ago my cousin found out she has it, my uncle has it, and my grandmother had it. This is all on my mom's side. On my dad's side my grandpa has it.

I feel this is something I should be more concerned about. I would say it has been about a year since I had any blood work done. How often should I be checked for this considering it runs so heavily in my family? I do have some symptoms...or what I think COULD be symptoms, but then again it could just be me....and this was all before I found out about my mom (which was a couple weeks ago) because I voiced my concerns to her about it before.

Any advice and opinions would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanks!

Hi Kalyn,
Some information for you that you may not be aware of about thyroid disease. Did you know that thyroid disease is really a very rare disease and yet there is an epidemic (1 in 4 people) of it in America. The truth is that an autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's or Graves disease probably (90%+) gave your family members this thyroid disease. Autoimmune diseases are very interesting, there are aprox 80 to 100 at this time with another 40 waiting for a name. Medical science cannot explain why and has not found a cure for even one. You can trigger one of them just by having an auto accident, taking aspirin or medicine, by starting a new exercise routine, or even stressing out says latest research. Naturopathic medicine says, "Look for the root cause. The cause is in the basics; beginning with what is on your fork, what toxins are in your body, what exercise do you do, what stress is in your life, what is your spiritual base". Science has led us down the wrong path, we better stop and take a close look at what is happening. Autoimmune disease is the worst kind of contradiction; for thyroid disease your immune system is attacking you at your own thyroid, a world upside down. God bless you in your search.