Last November'15, I wrote a piece on the heart-attacks I had gone through. Seems, I started having more repercussions in the months that followed, which led me to understand my problem, without having visited a doctor yet ( I'm shit-scared of them ).
As I was travelling to my home-town in Dec, I noticed an unusual thinning of my eye-brows in the train's mirror. I wondered about it, because, I always had thick ones. At home, I started noticing it thin-out further. It was winter, and I'd feel unbelievingly cold as well, inspite of wearing multiple layers of clothing/woolens. The mystery of my vanishing eye-brows, made me try and recollect, if I had done or experienced something unusual in the past months. I remembered, I had a heart-attack type condition, and soon after had visited the poisonous grounds of Bhopal Gas Tragedy site. I wondered, if going to that place was somehow having a side-effect on me. To make sure, I tried searching net ~ the causes for thinning eyebrows.
It mentioned that it happens if over-plucked, metal poisoning or due to hypothyriodism. The middle one was what I feared, as the Gas Tragedy site was indeed toxic. But, me being not satisfied easily, wondered if it was due to the my heart predicament just before I went to MP ( as I did have a throbbing head-ache that time ). I googled for information again. But more I googled, more I came across the term hypothyriodism. I began researching about hypothyrioidism then. And it did mention, loss of eye-brows ( one third, on the outer side ) as a symptom; also, intolerance to cold and unexplained weight gain. I remembered, how abnormally cold I was feeling all the time, and how I was unable to lose weight, although, I didn't eat that much. Thus, the same was happening to me - hypothyriodism, perhaps. Meanwhile, my mother who had treated her own hair-loss issue ( due to the air-condition at my sister's place ) with onion, suggested me the same. Taking her advice, I started putting onion juice on my eye-brows. To my surprises, my eye-brows did grow back, although, it was still sparse. Onion juice has sulphur, that trigger's hair growth. So, go for it if you have hair-loss issue, in your head or anywhere.
I was still hesitant to accept though, that I was suffering from hypothyrioism. But one article forced me to finally believe and accept it. The causes of my heart attack was due to hypothyrioidim as well, as I found out; as stress/depression is the ultimate trigger in case of thyroid. I was, however, still reluctant to go to a doctor for a proper check-up. If you suffer the same, please do not hesitate to take the necessary thyroid tests. Me being me, I try to find cure myself. So, I researched what food should I take. A natural cure was what I was seeking. Soya was a strict no, I learnt, along with cabbage, cauliflower, brocolli type vegetables. Lots of iodine-based foods like fish, kelp, sea-weed, sorrel was suggested instead.
I'm following this routine as of now, although, I must say it is not really doctor recommended. It my own experiment, and it seems to work...i.e atleast, it does not make me feel lethargic, fatigued, anxious, fog-headed etc the whole time, which are typical signs of hypothyroid. BTW, deep long breaths ( meditation ) and plenty of sleep, 8hrs, is advised as well.
Hypothyroid is a condition, when the butterfly-shaped thyroid gland, situated in our throat, do not produce enough thyroid hormones needed by the body, to upkeep its metabolism. ( there's also hyperthyroidism, whose symptoms are exact opposite of hypo )
So, my routine consists of gulping down Apple cider vinegar mixed with little honey and water every morning, on an empty stomach. Wait 30-45 minutes. Then, a carrot and dark ( purple concord are preferred ) grapes follows next, along with a cucumber and tomato ( seeds removed ). I take some raisins, walnuts, almonds, pistachios, apricot, cranberries, fig etc. After which, goes a banana and boiled egg. So, that's my breakfast. And yeah, Vitamin D is a must, so I try to catch the morning 8am-12pm sun ( though, I'm not very successful in waking up that early ). I hear exercising is a must. I'm bit lazy on that, so, try to replace it with 1 hour fast-walking instead. ( This routine is good to prevent cancer as well ).
I have changed to brown bread and strain the rice-water, to remove the starch. One is advised to avoid wheat/grains altogether, but what do we eat then? DUH! Beans, green peas along with eggplants, capsicum, lady finger are must, juggling them with potato or legumes. I try to eat raw onion, and use ginger and garlic, as well. I do cheat with an occasional dosa or pizza, and some ras-malais too. Better eat and die, lol. Anyways, I think, once or twice cheating in the week is okay. But the morning routine is compulsorily followed. One day, I read up on Levothyroxine, so am taking a small 25mgs dose of it, every alternate day ( yeah, unprescribed , but then that's me ). No side effects so far.
Do suggest any other routines, if there's any for hypothyriodism. Would love to know.
UPDATE : I shifted to another house since April, and since then, I've felt tremendous changes in my health ~ for the better. The fresh air and open spaces are doing me lot good, compared to the claustrophobic 4th floor flat I was earlier in. So, I guess, I took the right decision.
