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Digestive Alert – Thyroid, Celiac, & Candida

A new study shows that digestive distress can trigger a chain of events leading directly to thyroid damage. It has been observed that individuals with Celiac disease (gluten intolerance) also have thyroid problems. In the new research scientists tracked down the link by establishing that auto-immune antibodies against transglutaminase (a Celiac problem) latch on to thyroid tissue and rev up thyroid autoantibodies (TPO - antithyroperoxidase antibodies), leading to thyroid tissue damage.

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Oprah’s Thyroid Problem Explained

Oprah is creating a lot of buzz after gaining forty pounds and simultaneously claiming she solved her thyroid problem. Her statements sent internet bloggers into a frenzy. How did she get off her thyroid medication? Did she really solve her thyroid problem? Isn’t this just a temporary break from a sinister and permanent thyroid illness? If her thyroid is in such great shape why did she pile on forty pounds?

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Scientists Play Catch Up Trying to Understand Thyroid Problems

Usually we think of science as being on the cutting edge. In the case of understanding a person with thyroid symptoms and what they mean, scientists and the medical profession have been living in some sort of tunnel-vision Stone Age. A new study finally documents that people with a myriad of thyroid symptoms may have normal thyroid gland scores, yet their thyroid glands are under considerable inflammatory stress. This study is wedging a crowbar under the lid of ignorance that governs the daily faulty decision making of endocrinologists and general medical practitioners when it comes to understanding thyroid.

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