Warnings
about goitrogenic foods are popping up on alternative and conventional healthcare sites alike.
Can you point me to a link that tells
me about goitrogenic fruits or vegetables so I understand the difference?
Not exact matches
I was just wondering if you know
about spinach and kale being
goitrogenic foods when consumed raw?
I was also wondering if you steam your cruciferae and whether you were concerned
about goitrogens in raw cruciferous vegetables (brassicaceae), which ones have the most
goitrogenic compounds, and how long you steam them for (assuming you do).
We can pull individual elements out of plant foods and prove they're toxic — refined starches, sugars,
goitrogenic compounds, tannins, selenium, etc... and yet point that out to a PB advocate and they'll scream
about how that isn't «whole food», that it's reductionist... and yet those same PB advocates rely on data from isolated compounds in animal foods.
Alot of misinformation
about soy exists including fertility in males see http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/soy-hormones-male-infertility/; the issue re: thyroid and soy... Dr. Greger addressed in a 8/24/11 response... «Soy does indeed have so - called «
goitrogenic» compounds (as does broccoli - family vegetables and flax seeds), which can interfere with thyroid function in people with marginal iodine intake.
Hello - I was wondering
about cassava as a highly
goitrogenic food.
If you are hyperthyroid, you may want to talk to a nutritional practitioner
about incorporating more
goitrogenic foods into your diet.
My partners at PaleoHacks have an article here
about 11
Goitrogenic foods that can impact your Thyroid health (most of them are certain types of veggies) and exactly what to look for, so I won't go into any more detail on that in this article.
also curious
about people like myself with low thyroid as I have read that most leafy greens raw are
goitrogenic and harmful to low thyroid?