Amazing Thyroid Protocol!

Even though this post isn’t related to cancer, I decided to write about something that happened recently with my thyroid because I know many of you might be dealing with either an underactive or overactive thyroid condition, as I did, and this just might provide an answer! I just experienced doing this, and it really was a remarkable experience!

Back in 1996, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my thyroid was found to be slightly underactive. Dr. Taylor (see previous post about My Cancer Diagnosis and who Dr. Taylor is) tried getting my thyroid back up to speed with nutritional intervention, to no avail. He recommended I start taking a prescription thyroid hormone, which I did for about the last twenty years. The amount of thyroid hormone needed never changed in all that time and I resigned myself to having to take one prescription medication probably the rest of my life. (My husband has never needed a regular prescription medication so I, being slightly competitive (!), was bugged!)

During the early part of last year (2018), I dropped around ten pounds without trying, started feeling quite fatigued, and noticed my heart beating harder at times. Life was busy so I didn’t put all the pieces together. I had a routine annual physical with a local family physician and found out my thyroid had swung the other way to being very overactive! All my symptoms fit but it was still quite a surprise! The doctor suggested scheduling an ultrasound as a first step, then going from there. I quickly realized that there were no “cures” for an overactive thyroid other than surgery to remove a nodule if there was one, or radiation of part or all of the thyroid, or even removing the entire gland. I asked the doctor if she would be willing to give me a month or so to see if it would regulate on its own and she agreed.

As soon as I left the doctor’s office, I emailed Dr. Owve Toriz (see previous blog post about My Cancer Diagnosis) to ask his opinion. He called me shortly after getting the email and asked if I would be willing to try an old Russian remedy. He has been to Russia many times and knows this to work for many people. I’m a good guinea pig, so agreed! Anything to avoid tests, surgeries and medications! He also recommended that I eat more on the vegetarian side and be sure to eat as clean a diet as possible. He adjusted some of the supplements I was taking, especially the minerals and asked that I take an Epsom salt bath three times a week to help absorb enough magnesium.

Here is what he told me to do to make the Russian tincture:

Buy 60 walnuts in the shell (regular walnuts, nothing fancy) and a liter of Vodka (again, nothing fancy, just any kind would do, although a Russian Vodka might make it seem more authentic!)

Break open the walnut shells and remove the thin, brittle membrane that runs down the center of the walnut dividing the halves.

Here is what the membranes look like.

Place all of these from the 60 walnut shells into the vodka, put in the refrigerator and let sit for three weeks. I used glass Mason jars. After three weeks, take two teaspoons of the walnut membrane tincture before each meal on an empty stomach, three times per day. Do this for one month, then take two weeks off and get the thyroid tested again. Do one more month of the tincture after the two weeks off.

Note: I needed 60 walnuts for the first month’s worth, and 60 for the next. I made the second batch with enough time to sit in the refrigerator for the full three weeks prior to when I’d take it, so make the second batch while you are taking the first batch.

After about one week of taking this tincture, my heart went back to normal and my energy started returning. My blood test was redone after the first month and came back completely within the normal range! It wasn’t even underactive as before! I think I was about as stunned as anyone! I took the two-week break and then repeated the protocol for one more month. I have continued to feel completely back to normal!

I tried to do some research on this remedy online but couldn’t find much at all. There is one YouTube video done by a man explaining how he had a major thyroid problem and this did the trick for him also, but nothing about why it worked. When I asked Dr. Toriz, his reply was that it had to do with many cofactors and it would regulate both an overactive and underactive thyroid. Well . . . that explains everything!!! It’s times like these, I wish I was more of a scientist so I could understand why cofactors were so important!

I great thing about doing this is that it’s relatively inexpensive and has no side effects – except your family giving you a hard time when you show up for every meal with your little shot of Vodka!!