thyroid dysfunction

Whenever a news articles contains the phrase "endocrine disruptor" most people automatically think of chemicals like BPA, BPS and other related plasticisers. BPA and its related chemicals are known thyroid antagonists, estrogen agonists and androgen antagonists. The material commonly known as...

It is funny how the knowledge about toxicity of a given chemical can be so widespread in certain areas of the world and completely censored in others. Not only that, but India seems to have banned fluoride for causing the same issues that Western medicine claims it prevents! Let's see if other...

In seeking to educate myself I came across this study which makes some confusing assertions as to the effect of thyroid hormone http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jtr/2011/152850/ Amongst some positive effects it is also claimed that thyroid can: - decrease glycogen storage - increase fatty acid...

The study makes an argument that cancer emergence and development is tied to disregulation of thyroid function. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22507269 "...The reduced expression of TRs because of hypermethylation, or deletion of TR genes found in human cancers suggests that TRs could...