â I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
Certain foods, supplements and medications can have the same effect. Avoid taking your thyroid hormone at the same time as: 1  Walnuts. 2  Soybean flour. 3  Cottonseed meal. 4  Iron supplements or multivitamins containing iron. 5  Calcium supplements. 6  Antacids that contain aluminum or magnesium. 7  Some ulcer medications, such as sucralfate (Carafate).
In fact, most foods that are commonly called goitrogenic â such as the cruciferous vegetables (including kale, broccoli, and cauliflower) and soyfoods â do not interfere with thyroid function in healthy persons even when they are consumed on a daily basis.