Rodent study says: Low protein diet exaserbates the damage a high iodine diet will do to your thyroid gland. After six months on diets containing normal, 10x, 50x or 100x more iodine than necessary, serum total thyroxine (TT4), free thyroxine (FT4), total triiodothyronine (TT3), and free triiodothyronine (FT3) levels in the 100HI, L10HI, L50HI, and L100HI groups were significantly lower than the control group. Moreover, the serum TT4, FT4, TT3, and FT3 levels in the low-protein excess iodine groups were significantly lower than the groups with an equal amount of excess iodine alone. "Light and electron microscopy showed that excess iodine caused damage to the ultrastructure of thyroid and apoptosis of follicular epithelial cells. In the 100HI, L50HI, and L100HI groups, thyroid follicular epithelial cells became flattened, and folliclles became distended with colloid. The damage was more serious in low-protein groups. Ah, yeah I did mention that your great only 20mg of iodine would already qualify als 100x more than normal iodine intake? suppversity CC: Carl Lanore, Alisa Profumo, Super Human Radio Network Reference: Gao J, Lin X, Liu X, Yang Q, Zhang Z, Jiang Q, Bian J. Effect of Combined Excess Iodine and Low-Protein Diet on Thyroid Hormones and Ultrastructure in Wistar Rats. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2013 Sep 15. [Epub ahead of print]
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:00:51 +0000
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