My Iodine Levels Are Low

[mostlylurking]

Ok, the niacinamide I have is 500mg capsules, so it sounds like I have to get smaller doses. Will do.

I like to use the pure powder supplements available from purebulk.com and bulksupplements.com because I can fine tune my doses and there are no excipients.

Yes, I eat almost entirely saturated fat. I estimate maybe a couple of grams of PUFA a day.

What are you eating that isn't entirely saturated?

However, the reason I'm even in this mess to begin with is years and years of high PUFA consumption, seed oils and fish oils. It just wasn't on my radar. I believe it's what wrecked my thyroid and is connected to why I got neuroendocrine cancer of the lung. Estrogen Dominance (short luteal phases my whole life) and taking birth control for a few years certainly didn't help matters. Now in my 40s, I'm a trainwreck and I find it so disheartening. So much damage to recover from.

Well, that was then and this is now. I think you've been through the worst of it. That fat is gone, along with a lot of pounds. PUFA is certainly on your radar now.

Here is an interesting study about PUFA and thiamine:

Changes in thiamine concentrations, fatty acid composition, and some other lipid-related biochemical indices in Baltic Sea Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) during the spawning run and pre-spawning fasting - Helgoland Marine Research

Salmonines in the Baltic Sea and North American lakes suffer from thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency, which is connected to an abundant lipid-rich diet containing substantial amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). In the Baltic region, this is known as the M74 syndrome. It affects both...

hmr.biomedcentral.com

Basically, it shows that PUFA lowers thiamine (thiamine gets used up counteracting the oxidative stress caused by the PUFA) and that the salmon are in trouble because they are thiamine deficient. Putting thiamine in the water helps the salmon survive.

You may be interested in thiamine. Researching thiamine and cancer may be of interest. Lots of cancer specialists aren't keen on thiamine because supplementing with it interferes with chemotherapy. I remember that it is believed that low dose thiamine supplementation is thought to encourage tumor growth but high dose thiamine supplementation is anti-carcinogenic. I think that this ties in with thiamine's role in oxidative metabolism and the idea that cancer is a metabolic disease.

High Dose Vitamin B1 Reduces Proliferation in Cancer Cell Lines Analogous to Dichloroacetate

The dichotomous effect of thiamine supplementation on cancer cell growth is characterized by growth stimulation at low doses and growth suppression at high doses. Unfortunately, how thiamine reduces cancer cell proliferation is currently unknown. Recent ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I was estrogen dominant for many years; I got a tubal ligation when I was 28 which shut down my progesterone production. But I'm doing well now. Are you taking progesterone? Progesterone is anti-carcinogenic, according to Peat. Here's some links to a series of Peat talks about progesterone:

• Politics & Science: Progesterone Part 1
• Politics & Science: Progesterone Part 2
• Politics & Science: Progesterone Part 3