I am confused.
I have just started reading advise on good food to eat if you have hypothyroid and read low fat dairy, eggs and milk are good, but now having read one of your replies I see you advise to avoid dairy if using supplementary nutrients and Iodine.
Please can you help me to understand.
Many, thanks.
Replied by Bill (San Fernando, Philippines) on 07/22/2015
Hi Helene...I think that it would certainly be advisable to eliminate or at least reduce calcium in your diet while taking the iodine protocol with companion nutrients. That means that you have to either eliminate or cut down on dairy in your diet to improve the absorption of iodine into your body and into your thyroid. In other words, excess calcium in the body will inhibit the absorption of iodine into the body and into the thyroid.
I would also make absolutely sure that you take all the companion nutrients that are advised with the iodine protocol. Magnesium, just one companion nutrient, is necessary and needed to help store iodine in the thyroid and is also involved in about 300 essential metabolic process in the body. Everyone is usually deficient in magnesium in their body because of our lifestyles and because of the lack of magnesium in the soil. Magnesium also helps to regulate excessive calcium properly in the body. This is just one example of the importance of taking only one of the companion nutrients that are recommended for the iodine protocol.
