I’ve added a new link to the link family today, called Graves Eye Disease and Hyperthyroid. She is a young lady blogging on typepad, who as of May 2007, is 18 months post-Graves Disease diagnosis.
I discovered her blog on July 29, 2007, after she linked to an article I published here, “Is Aspartame Really Safe?”, her one year anniversary of halting consumption of all food and beverages containing artificial sweeteners.
Symptoms she has shared with her readers include heat intolerance, hand tremors, muscle fatigue, exhaustion, upper eyelid retraction, rapid and irregular heart beat and more. A simple blood test by her family physician and a Radioactive Iodine Uptake test led to her diagnosis.
Since being diagnosed, she has discovered there is a light at the end of the tunnel, as she has come a long way since being diagnosed. She shares her journey and much more on her blog.
From reading her blog her intention is to help others with this challenge as well. If you too are experiencing problems such as this, I encourage you to visit her blog.
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August 2, 2007 at 8:57 am
minx
Thank you for this link!
August 4, 2007 at 3:24 pm
cksquare
Wow !!
thats some scary stuff. i drink about 1-2 cans a day.
August 4, 2007 at 3:56 pm
TodayYesterdayAndTomorrow (TYT)
Hi cksquare -
You bet it is. Those that preach that this stuff is ’safe’ tend to leave a lot of truth out of their claims.
Often they like to compare Methanol, which is naturally occurring in fruits and vegetables and plants, and the like. They indicate that these are the same as those occurring in Aspartame.
That’s correct, they are.
What they leave out, is that in Aspartame, these are there on there own, and very, very dangerous neurotoxins.
In fruit, etc., however, ***it is accompanied by ethanol, *** thereby neutalizing the affects of methanol. Fruit is safe to consume.
Aspartame does not contain ethanol.
Aspartame is not safe to consume!
Like I indicated in the Aspartame article, anyone drinking three cans of a drink sweetened with Aspartame a day is consuming about 56mg of methanol. Then once within the body, the methanol is broken down into formaldehyde and formic acid.
Yuck.
August 4, 2007 at 4:15 pm
TodayYesterdayAndTomorrow (TYT)
CK!
August 4, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Galen
As a recovering alcoholic, I can add that ethanol tends to “moderate” the effect of methanol, and conversely methanol is used to “denature” the ethanol found in wine, beer, and happy people who have sort of lost their moral compasses, or they might just be folks with “fine taste” and that type of thing and are not “over the limit” in any way. I’m an expert at not wanting to go over the limit anymore. It hurts. Some “winos” would drink denatured alky anyhow, and get red-eye as a side benefit. Or, they’d eventually get “used to” good old “Sterno” and that’s because that’s what it has: ethanol and methanol, or just methanol. Makes me not get thristy anymore!
Yuck, uck, and even firetruck!
–g
August 4, 2007 at 5:05 pm
TodayYesterdayAndTomorrow (TYT)
Oh gosh Galen, your comments are as fun as your blog!
p.s. > thank you for self control over your “uck’s” !!
August 5, 2007 at 11:31 pm
cksquare
oh ya.. That was me !!
I guess i didnt sign-off as CK
August 6, 2007 at 1:34 am
Galen
I think I feel slightly better than my formely lousy self did.
♥
–g
August 9, 2007 at 12:27 pm
deni
Hi, I read an article about thyroid problems related to the over-consumption of soy. You can read it, if you have not seen it, you can find it here:
http://www.tothefuturewithlove.net/soya.htm
I think it’s really interesting one. Though the obvious moral is you have to be rich to be able to live a healthy life and still eat delicious food.
As for the aspartame, I read an article in New Scientist, how it caused uncommon tumors in rats and how for every survey that prove aspartame shouldn’t be used, there are as many saying it’s fine. Again, it’s hard fighting with such a big industry.