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Suggest Diet To Control Thyroid And Vitamin D Problem

my question has to do with a thyroid condition i been diagnosed with for a year now . and i have a vitamin D problem and the doctors here dont tell me how to bring it under control . i lost my job because of this condition . what diet can i do to help maintain this problem ?
Mon, 7 Sep 2015
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Welcome to HCM. Your physician can start vitamin D repletion with injections, then move on to keeping you on a 5,000IU dose daily and monitor for repletion. If able to be repleted move down to 1,000 IU every day with ongoing monitoring. Vitamin D is found in few foods but are in fortified cereals, fortified milk, fatty fishes. Infants are generally supplemented at birth in US.
The thyroid is trickier. Please clarify. What is wrong with your thyroid?First of all, the thyroid gland needs iodine to make the T4 which then needs to be converted to T3 throughout the body and in the thyroid. You need a small amount of selenium (obtained from a few Brazil nuts) to make this T3. Without functioning T3 the symptoms of hypothyroidism gets trickier. We won't talk about reverse T3 as this can get complicated.

To help your thyroid, consume adequate iodine (in India it is in fortified salt), a balanced diet with plenty of fresh foods, must obtain sufficient selenium 55 mcg per day. Hopefully, this all will help your thyroid function better.Please feel free to come back if you have further questions. Kathy Shattler,MS,RDN
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Suggest Diet To Control Thyroid And Vitamin D Problem

Welcome to HCM. Your physician can start vitamin D repletion with injections, then move on to keeping you on a 5,000IU dose daily and monitor for repletion. If able to be repleted move down to 1,000 IU every day with ongoing monitoring. Vitamin D is found in few foods but are in fortified cereals, fortified milk, fatty fishes. Infants are generally supplemented at birth in US. The thyroid is trickier. Please clarify. What is wrong with your thyroid?First of all, the thyroid gland needs iodine to make the T4 which then needs to be converted to T3 throughout the body and in the thyroid. You need a small amount of selenium (obtained from a few Brazil nuts) to make this T3. Without functioning T3 the symptoms of hypothyroidism gets trickier. We won t talk about reverse T3 as this can get complicated. To help your thyroid, consume adequate iodine (in India it is in fortified salt), a balanced diet with plenty of fresh foods, must obtain sufficient selenium 55 mcg per day. Hopefully, this all will help your thyroid function better.Please feel free to come back if you have further questions. Kathy Shattler,MS,RDN