Not exact matches
Taking more estrogen just adds more fuel to the fire, while
further suppressing
thyroid function and increasing your risk of
diseases like Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Taking iodine or foods and supplements that contain iodine to help your
thyroid can be problematic because many cases of autoimmune
thyroid disease — by
far the most common cause of
thyroid conditions in the U.S. — are not due to iodine deficiency.
If treated earlier, the patients having
thyroid disease can survive easily without any
further thyroid problems.
The best evidence so
far for an effect of stress on autoimmune
thyroid disease is the well known relationship between the onset of Graves»
disease (hyperthyroidism) and a major stress in a person's life.
Well, it wouldn't be smart to push your cat outdoors to avoid PBDEs — the dangers outside are
far worse, and most of them will kill your cat long before the age where she's at risk for
thyroid disease.
Going a step
further, there are also prescription diets (retailed through vets) to help control kidney
disease,
thyroid problems, and the like.
To add to that fact, Dr. Hodgkins says that overactive
thyroid is «by
far the most diagnosed
disease of cats in their middle and senior years» and recommends a
thyroid panel yearly for cats over 10 years of age.