An invisible thyroid epidemic/ Washington Spect... - Thyroid UK
An invisible thyroid epidemic/ Washington Spectacular
Interesting. It doesn't also mention the thousands of undiagnosed hypo people. Just wonder if flouride has an input. I also look at young children's toothpaste which usually has flouride, never mindtheir their teeth fall out around 6 or 7 years of age.
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I am sure fluoride is contributing, I avoid it totally.
I think most of us fell for the 'flouride' save your teeth bit - I did. We'd never have thought it could damage anything in our bodies after all, it's now nearly impossible to find flouride-free toothpaste. I only know of one and that's a Boots fluoride-free, mind you they make it difficult as the flouride one has the same name so you have to doubly check if you want flouride-free.
Daughter introduced us to Euthymol, shaws, fluoride free toothpaste, it's an acquired taste, reminded me of my Grandmothers bathroom smells alongside her pear soap. 
I have just checked the ingredients on the back, many names I have not heard of, so no doubt a few other nastys in place of the fluoride (maybe.)
I've just searched Boots and they don't have any details of Smile - flouride free. I have bought it several times.
I've often wondered about a link between nuclear energy and thyroid problems. If sheep in North Wales could be affected by fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, then what may happen to human beings? Interestingly, it was in 1989 just three years after Chernobyl that my problems began, though my diagnosis was, and still is, ME not hypothyroidism. I was living in Manchester at the time (and not a million miles away from Sellafield, certainly within the 90 mile radius mentioned in the article).
Having said this, why would some people rather than others be more susceptible to nuclear fallout? The article doesn't seem to address this.
Maybe there is also a genetic link as to being more susceptible. I am sure we do not hear the full truth as to environmental causes of disease.
Hi AmandaK
I have just read that you have ME (which is another disabling condition) and not hypothyroidism and thought I would link to a doctor (deceased now) who was a virologist and was brought into thyroid issues unwittingly. He diagnosed and treated people through his experience/training when a student - Symptoms and look of patients (there were no blood tests then). Nowadays they only make diagnosis on blood tests alone.
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healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
Thank you. Yes I have read many references about Dr Skinner on the forum. He sounded such a compassionate man, as well as someone who listened to and treated his patients as human beings.
Yes - you're right and due to his compassion 'others' not his patients had him appear before the GMC seven times so that, many of us believe, contributed to him have a stroke. One of his members did a calculation on the 'odds' and it was something like 10million to 1. Excerpt:
I recently was advised by a patient from the USA that my statistical analysis (vide supra) was a bunch of baloney. This was at least a refreshing change from the incomprehensible reiteration from complainants that there was a shortfall in my monitoring system for patients - I suspect this is usually 'lifted' from my erstwhile Conditions of Registration - in spite of there being clear arrangements in place which have been examined by the appropriate regulatory authority.
To return to the bunch of baloney allegation.
The probability (p) of 8 events (x) in 3 months where the average number of events (z) is 0.25 in 3 months (in this example a complaint is considered an event and an unpleasant one at that) is given by the beautiful Poissonian formula namely
x z
p = Z / e X x!, where e is a fairly incomprehemsible concept but is the base
of natural logrithms and the day is saved by using its approximate value of 2.71 which we will bung into the equation and thus
8 0.25
p = 0.25 / 2.71 X 8!
p = < 0.0000000003 or a 1 in 10,000 0000 chance if these were random events.
Thus we must conclude that the congestion of complaints during the last three months are not random events. I leave you to draw any conclusions from this analysis.
I am in discussions with the MPS on this matter.
My money is on radiation for the thyroid disfunction epidemic. Not just the ionizing radiation that you got from Chernobyl and Hiroshima but the increase in the short wave electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers and more locally from cell phones. Of course it will be years before they admit to that, but papers and statistical evidence is beginning to surface that links brain tumors to cell phone usage, so if you can get a brain tumor, why not a thyroid tumor, it's very close by.
While we are on this subject, let me pass along a little known fact. You may live in an area that prides itself on low background radiation because the nearest single cell phone tower is 20 miles away, so you think you are OK. Well, the problem is that when you do use your cell phone it puts out far more electromagnetic energy searching for it's destination than if you lived in a high density population area. So….. live in a low radiative area and keep the cell phone on speaker and keep it away from your head.
Oh, and never, never let a young child or baby near a cell phone.
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