toxic diffuse goiter

So selenium helps you make glutathione that helps you deal with this hydrogen peroxide, which can create a toxicity in your thyroid.

Also, when you get Graves' disease, which is a hyperthyroid problem, a lot of times you get these bulging eyes well selenium helps reduce that symptom too now where do you get selenium well it's in meat it's in fish it's in eggs it's in dairy cruciferous vegetables like cabbage and broccoli it's in nuts it's in onions it's in garlic and it's definitely in organ meats selenium can also help decrease the risk of getting those thyroid nodules.

And it can even help prevent the enlargement of your thyroid.

And your thyroid has other mechanisms of accumulating selenium, helping recycling it, and making sure that you're not ending up in a low selenium situation.

And what we're seeing too is patients with Hashimoto thyroid is who we're just checking the And I'm not saying we have to do this for everyone.

Hashimoto thyroiditis swinging into Graves' disease with those thyroid antibodies.

And that really was unheard of up until maybe less than 10 years ago.

It was always Graves swung into Hashimoto's, but now we're seeing more and more cases of Hashimoto's swinging into Graves'.

Which is an overactive autoimmune thyroid.

Yeah.

And that's when you're making too much thyroid hormone.

That's called Graves' disease.

Because too much iodine can cause a direct oxidative stress damage to thyroid cells themselves.

And it causes them to enlarge into a giant quarter.

Thank you for joining me on a Save My Thyroid podcast, where I help people save their thyroid and regain their health.

My name is Dr. Eric Osansky, and if you have hyperthyroidism, including Graves' disease or toxic multinodular goiter, then you will especially benefit from these episodes.

If you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you also need to save your thyroid, and therefore you'll also find many of the episodes to be valuable, including this one, as in this episode I discuss how the autoimmune component of Graves' disease and Hashimoto's can have a negative effect on bone health, even if someone has an optimal thyroid panel.

In a past episode, I've discussed the impact of thyroid imbalances, especially hyperthyroidism on bone health, but the immune system can also play a role in the development of osteopenia and osteoporosis, which is yet another reason why you don't want to ignore elevated thyroid antibodies.

As usual, make sure you listen to the post-episode chat after the outro music as I'll expand on three reasons to pay attention to elevated thyroid antibodies, pros and cons of taking medication for osteoporosis, vitamin D and other bone-building nutrients, and when should you get a DEXA scan.

The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.

Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor or Now let's head to the show.

Most people tuning into this know that I personally dealt with Graves' disease and restored my health.