It may be unfashionable to say this on this board, and while I think all the advice about supplements is great, no quantity of supplements and healthy eating will replace HORMONES if that is what the body needs. Thyroid hormone is essential to life. Without it you die. I don't know that any of these supplements will replace the thyroid hormone that Bex, along with most other mercury toxic people, sounds like she needs. Thyroid hormone is not necessarily a pharmaceutical drug. Many people take Armour, which is natural dessicated pig thyroid, which is much more effective than pharmaceutical thyroid drugs, and which is highly rated by Andy Cutler. Building up the body with supplements in the hope that the thyroid can recover and start producing the quantity of hormone the body needs may be an option for someone who is only mildly hypo. But for someone who has been as longterm and severely ill as Bex I think it is irresponsible to suggest that this problem can be overcome with supplements alone. Thyroid problems can be fatal. Each to their own, but I know what I would be doing.

Nicola