In 2004, Dr. Paul Ladenson, Director of the Division of Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins, conducted a study among a group of flight attendants and found reduction of thyroiditis/Hashimoto’s Disease related to inhalation of second hand cigarette smoke. That discovery started the ball rolling toward the development of a anti-inflammatory supplement called Anatabloc, the key ingredient of which is the anatabine compound, one of the 4,000 chemical components of tobacco. Anatabine is a naturally-occuring alkaloid also found in eggplants, peppers, green tomatoes, potatoes, and a variety of other plants in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, including Nicotiana, the Latin term for tobacco.
An ingredient in tobacco may help thyroids
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An ingredient in tobacco may help thyroids
http://nahypothyroidism.org/an-immune-s ... r-tobacco/
Deb,
During the summer, when the days are longer, and I spend much more time working outdoors, I smoke more cigars each day than I do the rest of the year, and I rarely miss a day when I don't smoke at least 3 or 4 (during the summer). And I'm not talking about little wannabe cigars — I'm talking about George-Burns-class cigars that last for at least an hour to an hour and a half of serious smoking, so that's a pretty good dose of nicotine, and whatever goes with it, absorbed in the mouth. I don't inhale the smoke, so on a lot of winter days, I don't smoke any cigars at all, sometimes for a period of a week or so, simply because I don't spend enough time outdoors to justify lighting one up.
I've always wondered why my thyroid test results in the spring typically show that my hypothyroidism is undertreated, and in the fall, the results show that I appear to be overtreated. That article appears to explain why this happens. In my case at least, the effect is very dramatic.
Thanks for the link.
Tex
During the summer, when the days are longer, and I spend much more time working outdoors, I smoke more cigars each day than I do the rest of the year, and I rarely miss a day when I don't smoke at least 3 or 4 (during the summer). And I'm not talking about little wannabe cigars — I'm talking about George-Burns-class cigars that last for at least an hour to an hour and a half of serious smoking, so that's a pretty good dose of nicotine, and whatever goes with it, absorbed in the mouth. I don't inhale the smoke, so on a lot of winter days, I don't smoke any cigars at all, sometimes for a period of a week or so, simply because I don't spend enough time outdoors to justify lighting one up.
I've always wondered why my thyroid test results in the spring typically show that my hypothyroidism is undertreated, and in the fall, the results show that I appear to be overtreated. That article appears to explain why this happens. In my case at least, the effect is very dramatic.
Thanks for the link.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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