(Only 51 dollars to read the whole paper. For 24 hours.)
Certainly it strongly suggests that the huge increase in numbers is almost certainly environmental in cause - and that is all I can read.
Rod
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spooky, maybe, just maybe, certain folks are actually considering researching what they pretend to know? (preach) can't see anything either, just the hint of something changing?
Rod, I would like to see the complete sentence right after that relating to iodine but I'm not paying $51.00 for it. Increase in iodine, where? In the US during the second half of the 1900's I think we actually had a decrease in iodine intake. I think we will make the Roman's lead plates look like childs play. I sometimes wonder if the size and/or efficiency of ones liver, as it relates to the ability to filter out toxins, will become a major factor in evolution over the next few hundred years. Then again they have done several studies in Europe and the US which show a dramatic decrease in male sperm count over the last 50 years so maybe that will also be a major factor in evolution. One would think that they might want to find the cause of that problem. PR
I think they have a fair idea of the cause of the decline in male fertility. Nothing whatsoever to do with evolution, everything to do with the environment being saturated with oestrogen-mimicking chemicals leaching out from plastics and discharged from manufacturing plants - and it has also been mooted that the hormones passed in urine by women on the birth control pill or HRT do not get completely removed by water purification. There is so much oestrogen in some rivers that male fish have become female.
I would hazard a guess that a large percentage of the increase in many diseases in modern times could be traced either to environmental pollution or to chemical and artificial foodstuffs.
That is NOT to suggest this does not affect a large number of people - it does!
Rod
the last sentence reads..a recent study showing increases in subclinical hypothyroidism and autoimmune....
I cant get to rest of it but do remember Dr Anthony's article stating that if the TSH test was normal one had a somataform disorder ie., hypochondria or type of psychiatric disorder.
Wish I could read the rest and where this study was done, on how many and was it based on just TSH. Wondering how Dr Weetman interprets this study?
I suspect that even if he were willing to send one copy to one person, he would not be willing to provide a copy for posting on the Thyroid UK web site - which would be the obvious thing to do. (I doubt the journal publishers would be very happy either.)
Just a thought... If the medical profession is taking a year to 'catch up' does this mean that in 2014 we can all expect to be treated for 'optimal' and not 'normal'? Here's hoping
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