Before supplementing, get a Selenium RBC test.
If you have auto-immune thyroid problems, you need to look into Selenium. Particularly if you have Hashimoto’s thryroiditis, Graves, hypothyroidism, or swollen thyroid, nodules, goiter, etc.
What does Selenium do? It helps protect the thyroid from excess iodine, and helps convert thyroid hormone T4 into the active hormone T3, and helps keep the antibodies and Reverse T3 down. What is Reverse T3? To put it in layman’s terms, “defective copies” or “decoys”.
What are some symptoms of low free T3 and high reverse T3? Hair loss and dry hair, dry skin, gum problems, constipation, fatigue, brain fog, and weight gain to name a few pesky ones.
So where should our lab results be? And here is where it gets tricky. Unless you insist on these tests, your doctor may only test your TSH which doesn’t tell you much, if anything about what needs to happen with your thyroid treatment.
Here are some recommended labs and ranges:
Selenium also helps the special natural killer cells, which are the cells that can kill cancer and other pathogens.
Sources:
https://chriskresser.com/selenium-the-missing-link-for-treating-hypothyroidism/
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2017/1297658/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/HypothyroidismAdviceAndSupport/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/HealingSolutionsThyroid/
