Do you want a stronger immune system? - Thyroid UK

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Do you want a stronger immune system?

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Just thinking to myself, I saw a post recently about someone wanting to eat Chaga mushrooms to see if it will help with autoimmune and I just so happen to have a massive bag of chaga mushrooms in my cub board. But when it comes to your immune system attacking you do you even want your immune system to be stronger? Is it not causing enough damage as it is?

(Obviously I’m fully aware we need our immune system and without it we’d be more *****)

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There are no clinical trials supporting the many claims made for Chaga. Also what studies there are have been made on cell extracts. Human beings are not cell extracts and what effects there are with extracts don't extrapolate to the intact human. In other words, it's all unproven hearsay.

The claims allegedly made for Chaga (a substance I have never heard of before) cannot be dismissed as nonsense simply because no trials have been held. That same reason is given for the dismissal of NDT, the product that returned my health after 8 years of illness on Levothyroxine.

In order to fend off illnesses such as cancer it is important to have a strong immune system. My defences were weakened during this period and I developed kidney cancer which could easily have killed me.

Some research done into other forms of cancer have come to the conclusion that the cancer has made the patients hypothyroid. Doesn't it make more sense that the truth is the exact opposite of this?

There are so many unknowns which could be solved by medical research but that research is mainly financed by the pharmaceutical companies whose sales and share price would reduce drastically if too many were solved.

Perhaps the several £Billions now allegedly being put into the NHS were spent on this research under the direct control of the NHS, then perhaps some progress could be made.

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