7 signs of zinc deficiency... and foods to cure... - Thyroid UK
7 signs of zinc deficiency... and foods to cure it!
Champions the need to EAT your vitamins and not rely on supplements. We as a nation eat far too much garbage, processed foods which just toxifies the system. Annoyingly the processed, high carb c**p is the cheapest. Comes to something when 1 Apple costs more than a huge pack of glucose syrup laden biscuits x!
That may be true, but there are two problems with that idea.
a) food doesn't contain as many nutrients as it used to because soil is depleated.
b) we as hypos have difficulty absorbing nutrients because or our low stomach acid, so we have to ramp them up with suppléments.
But you're right, we shouldn't be eating all that processed muck. More education is needed in nutrition.
It's madness and altogether expensive trying to undo the damage that the food chain and no doubt various other environmental issues are causing in terms of autoimmune disease. Supplements, regimes, foodstuffs. I'm worn out trying to find a solution. Stumbled across a site where a lady with hashi and hypo is advocating the High Fat Low Carb regime so I'm giving that a go. I know you like your nutrition stuff
Yup! Obsessed with food! Just don't like eating it much.
It is Madness, but what choice do we have but to try and sort it out. Staying ill for the rest of our lives isn't much of a choice, is it.
But good job that we keep ourselves informed. I've only been learning about it for about a year and more seriously since I joined this forum in October but it's been a revelation and I'll keep learning I'm sure. I by the way do love my food but lucky enough I don't like junk food or more importantly the way it makes me feel. The trade off is never worth it. I feel yuk if I even eat take away. Why don't you like eating?
Psycological, I imagine, but not something I want to go into. I'm just a nutter! lol Oh, but I love bananas! Just eaten two whilst reading these responses.
I'm presuming the thyroid card youve been issued makes you scared to eat?
No, I don't think so. I was like this as a child. Which was why it was so amazing that I was so fat! Well, it amazed me, anyway. And, although I obviously had thyroid problems at the time, I wasn't diagnosed until I was 55.
I am very easily put off my food, upset, illness, any sort of catastrophy and I stop eating. And when I am eating, I'm very very fussy. Not much I like. I don't want to eat meat because I don't like the idea of eating an animal. And I always thought people only ate vegetables because they were being punished for something.
The food that was available just after the war was so awful that I don't know how anybody could eat it, yet my brother gobbled it up and was always looking for more (here, have mine!).
And school lunches didn't help! I used to sit there watching the others eat and wonder 'how could they'. I didn't want to put stuff like that in my mouth!!! I was always in trouble for not eating, until they finally wrote to my mother and told her I wasn't allowed in the canteen anymore and had to come home for lunch. Frankly, that wasn't an improvement! lol (Not my mother's fault, I hasten to add, but a problem of availability.)
Then I married a man who whorshiped good plain food, like mince and potatoes (excuse me while I vomit), and when I divorced, I vowed never to eat mince and potatoes again! lol However, I have since learnt to cook potatoes so that they are more appetising, and do eat them occassionally.
And then there are other things that I don't wish to even think about, let alone discuss. And no, it doesn't bother me - it only bothers other people - so I don't wish to see a psy to get myself sorted out. lol
I'm a bit weird when it comes to food as in o have a phobia of getting food poisoning. I can't eat chicken or any white meat anymore as I had salmonella once and frankly I'd rather give birth without pain relief again! Funny how little incidences can scar deeply. I can't even prepare chicken for other people
I can relate to that. I'm not at all surprised. I have little 'things' like that, too. I haven't had salmonella, but I can't imagine anything would induce me to go through birth without pain relief again! Done it three times, so I think that's enough. lol
I do believe having children kills your thyroid
I think being born was the beginning of the end for mine! Having children, menopause, puberty, an abusive Relationship, smoking, and a hysterectomy just made it worse - not to mention the iodine!
Yeah I hear ya. A bullying mother, first boyfriend a serial cheater the second knocked me about. I smoked from 10 to 40 and yes chucked sea kelp in to see if it would help
Gosh, are we sisters? lol Sound very much like me. Only my iodine was prescribed for me by an idiot doctor... Oh, don't get me started on him! He still practises round here, and every so often I have the desire to rush round there and confront him! But I know it wouldn't do any good...
Ha! I was groped by one once when I asked for help with my panic attacks (I used to get 10 a day when I was with Mr Bully). Another one told me to just take more laxative when I complained of my chronic constipation. None of them accepted it was thyroid related. I've thankfully now found a really sweet understanding Asian doctor who finally listened. Mad though to think I was left having anxiety for 25 years. It more or less changed a couple of days after taking Levo.
I know. It happens so often. Sigh. Still, at least you've found a good doctor now. I'm still looking! lol
If bullying can cause thyroid dysfunction, then that`s maybe what i can blame my problem on! I had a terrible time in my teens because of it, & that set me up for bad relationships as well because low self esteem from bullying will leave some one with a tendency to attract losers & users. Iv`e been left so bitter about all this that I find myself hoping that the scum that picked on me all those years ago are suffering from cancer or some other incurable disease!
It's quite well-known that those who are abused in childhood, or in an adult Relationship, often develope thyroid problems later in life. I've seen it many times. It's not exactly my problem, as mine started very early, but I don't think my abusive marriage helped, it made it worse. The stress of never knowing what was going to happen next, it sucks the life out of you, affects the adrenals and the thyroid. Yes, your bullying could well have caused your thyroid problem, or laid the foundations, anyway.
Bitterness is pointless like jealousy. It eats away at you and serves no purpose. I think bad relationships teach you what you DON'T want and help you see the alarm bells the next time. If the person I'm with doesn't make me feel good they are given the boot. Pronto. I now know it'll never get better only worse as you get deeper in to that relationship.
That's all very true, but it's not easy to control one's feelings. I think you have to get it out of your system, all the bitterness and anger, and the best way to do that is to talk about it. Problem is, it's not always easy to find someone to listen! I spent hours on the phone with my brother, going over and over it. Found out later he hadn't listened to a word! He'd just switched off and played cards on the computer or something. But it helped me getting it all off my chest. Now, I can stop being bitter and just get on with my life.
Another good reason to remain childless!
Ha ha ha! Theyve been the making of me in so many other ways so I'll not be putting them on eBay!
Very interesting, gg. I wonder what is behind those cravings or the opposite. Two grandchildren have odd appetites. One will eat five slices of toast, no butter, just dry. Her dessert is dry macaroni. Doesn't care for meat. If pasta is cooked, does not want sauce.
Her brother lives on fruit. Neither would eat fats of any kind. One is outgrowing but the girl is so thin, being teased because of it. Sometimes raw vegetables were eaten.
There must be a reason for this.
Your school is mean to kick you out of the cafeteria, lol.
Oh, I don't know. I needed the exercise! lol When the Crunch came, it was over a really stupid thing. I'd been refusing to eat my meat and potatoes for ages, but always eaten the dessert. But that day, it was a mincemeat slice, and there was an apple pip in mine - not just the pip, but the hard bit that surrounds the pip. And for some reason, that made me want to throw up. So, I left the whole thing. Stupid of them to take a stand over that, but they made me sit in the dining room all afternoon with the plate in front of me, until it was time to go home. Of course, I didn't eat it. lol Far too stubborn for that! And they gave me the letter to take to my parents saying I wasn't allowed to go back. But going home for lunch, if I didn't eat it, my mum couldn't keep me at the table all afternoon, because I had to go back to school, so that was a bonus! lol
Yes, I think the body knows what it wants and what it doesn't want. I can't imagine a reason for eating dry macaroni, but I'm sure there is one. I think it's a grave mistake to force children to eat things they don't want to, it only makes for problems later. So, as long as they're not filling up on sweets and cakes, I can't see the harm in just letting them get on with it.
Interesting article.
My husband had problems with his liver blood test results being too high even though he doesn't drink. The doctor couldn't understand it & the results kept being high.
He started on zinc supplements & after a few months had another blood test for liver problems & it was well into the normal range. So we concluded that zinc is also good for liver problems.
By the way the doctor was astonished!!
Not difficult to astonish a doctor, they just don't know about anything about nutrition. One day I really must ask a doctor why he thinks we have to eat. And if he says 'because we're hungry' I shall scream! lol
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