NOW Foods Supplements, Thyroid Energy™, Iodine and Tyrosine plus Selenium, Zinc and Copper, 90 Veg Capsules

***Update 3+months in *** I am so happy I just went for it. This supplement has brought me to who I want to be. Great energy- great mood ( unless someone aggravates me haha) I am now 6 days a week in the gym. Do more than I ever dreamed of which is I actually RUN !!!! Not for my life but for being alive. Feeling great and the lbs disappear in a healthy non deprived way. All I can say to all of you : TRY IT !! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOOSE? ( size large now - 14 ) Here an honest not paid for, review. Have a seat and read it and you might just found a solution to your problem. I am a nearing 50 female always Jo-Jo'ed in weight since teenage years. My biggest size I have worn was 3x / plus size 24. My smallest I was a 12 and cutting out pretty much all the food but always tired no energy. Swollen feet -knees -acing bones all over. Last December I hit an all time low. Having no control over when full is full. In addition I started to be extremely depressed and the only fix was my bench eating of chocolates to make me happy for 10 minutes before passing out sleeping. My three terrible P's ( Pizza - Pasta - Potatoes) gave me a belly that was its own person. Nope I was not pregnant with an elephant! I decided I was doing some research about menopause and bla bla. All the stuff that is about to come my way with getting older. I visited my GP ( General Practichioner ) asked for a check up blood test etc. A week after, he said everything is fine. I just need to loose weight. Duh !!! So how to let your brain know you are full and you are actually a happy person ?! Well I found out after all my readings of compared notes from Europe and USA. Underfunction of the thyroid!!! So I thought ok it can't hurt if its a supplement ( boost ) . I did not write a review right away because I wanted to see if it has just a placebo effect or if it really works. So I am taking it for almost a month. 3rd day in of taken one in the morning and one in the evening, my energy level increased noticeably. When I woke up in the morning I was ready for the day. My pains seemed to disappear and I started to increase my activity however my hunger level was more frequent but wayyyy less than before. Overall my belly is shrinking very visibly and I signed up with the gym 8 weeks ago but went there only 3 times with aftermath pain before I took this supplement . Now I am going every other day. Yay I am back !!!! Btw my choices are healthy for 5 days and I do cheat 2 days, however even on my cheat days I am catching myself not wanting / craving any of the three terrible P's. I will update again in about 3-4 weeks.

I started taking these because I have borderline Hypothyroidism. At the time I started taking these I had ran out of my Levothyroxin prescription and recently switched doctors and my new doctor didn't agree I had Hypothyroidism. So, I sought a more natural approach to increase energy, lose weight, and manage my intolerance to cold. So, I've been taking it for over half a year now, and even though I was re-prescribed Levothyroxin a couple months ago I've continued to keep taking it. I decided to take one pill a day instead of two, because I wanted to play it safe, especially now that I'm back on Levothyroxin. It actually works very similar to Levothyroxin for energy. In that it gives a tiny boost of energy, barely enough to notice, but just enough to feel like, yeah, I feel a little better. I didn't notice any major differences with weight loss, but I didn't notice that with Levothyroxin either. My cold tolerance is a little better, and, I have been checking my temperature every so often and now instead averaging 96 or 97 something, I'm now more likely to be 97 or 98 something. Now, here's the weird part, my bra size before starting these vitamins was 50C, which I always felt was a somewhat small cup size for my body type, and small compared to my sister's breast size, but as of today? It is a whopping 48DDD! How am I sure it was the Thyroid Energy vitamins? Well first of all I started taking them at 23 and a half years old, too old for a growth spurt. The growth didn't start until after I began taking them. I didn't gain any weight in the time span. I saw my doctor and had my hormones checked(which were all in the normal range), and had pregnancy ruled out. I became suspicious of the Thyroid Energy vitamins because they were the only new thing I was taking at the time, so when I ran out at one point with a cup size of 48DD and didn't get a new bottle for another month, it was the perfect opportunity to see what would happen, and my breasts stopped growing, shortly after starting up on the Thyroid Energy vitamins, they started growing again! Now at 48DDD my bra is starting to feel snug but I think the growing has finally stopped. I'm not totally sure why they stimulated breast growth in me, when obviously most women didn't have that side-effect. Apparently L-Tyrosine and Folate can both increase bust size. Although from what I gather they don't cause very much growth, maybe I'm special, but I believe the reason these vitamins increased my breasts so much was because my hormones were off due to my Hypothyroidism and PCOS, and these vitamins regulated and normalized my hormones so I could have the breast size I was meant to have. It was annoying to keep having to buy new bras, but I am a very large woman and now my breasts finally look like they fit in with the rest of my body. I will continue taking these vitamins, because I feel like they're doing something good to my hormones.

Using as a thyroid supplement in lieu of levothyroxine. Have used other thyroid supplement brands as well and they all work as my thyroid level came down in the normal range. So, most supplements work taken over about 6 months. I chose the Now brand b/c it is a USA company, the amount of pills was high, and the price was right.

As a previous reviewer stated, the level of iodine in the full dose of this supplement can actually have a negative effect on thyroid levels - especially if you're only borderline low-normal/slightly underactive. Also, like the other reviewer I am vegan. I was recently diagnosed with underactive thyroid. My doctor practices integrative medicine and wanted to put me on a low dose of Armour, which is natural and more bio-identical but animal-derived. I wanted to look into other options, and my dr. wasn't against that (because she's awesome!), so after researching a bit, I decided to try out NOW. I went straight to the suggested 4 Vcaps/day dose on an empty stomach. I did experience some nausea and slight headaches, but they passed within 30 minutes, so I just pushed through because I wanted to take the supplement as directed. I was feeling ok, and my temps started to increase. I am also in the process of balancing my adrenals, and I think the ashwagandha in this formula was providing extra support there too. I've been taking the product for 4 months, and my doctor just ran another thyroid panel, to check in and see how things are going. I was surprised to see my results were slightly worse than before, and my body had increased production of thyroid antibodies! My doctor suggested too much iodine from the supplement was overwhelming my thyroid. 4 stars because the other ingredients included in the formula are wonderful; unfortunately, they come with a whopping dose of iodine. For people with full hypo-thyroidism or insufficient iodine, this may not be a problem, but for those with Hashimoto's or borderline/sub-clinical/slightly underactive thyroid, this can do more harm than good. Several studies show that iodine worsens Hashimoto's (and other autoimmune thyroid diseases). Interestingly, iodine enrichment has also been shown to increase not only the severity but the incidence of Hashimoto's I think it can be easy for people to be lulled into a sense of "safety/security" when taking natural supplements, but as with anything, more is NOT better.

This stuff is legit. About 30 or so mins after taking it, I get mentally clarity and a subtle energy boost. I’ve tried at least 4 other thyroid supplements and they all had unpleasant side effects. Also, I checked for bugs like the other person stated & I didn’t have any. A lot of things could’ve factored into that so don’t let it deter you from getting this product. It actually helps.

I loved this product at first because it did what it claimed to do and I had so much more energy. However, it gave me such terrible heartburn I thought I was having a heart attack. I did not figure out that it was this product until one day after the eligible return date so I cannot return it. At first it did not bother me but over time it caused me extreme discomfort.

I fancy myself kind of an herbologist, I am really interested in natural cures for just about everything. Everybody is unique and has their own bodily issues that they need to attend to. My story is that I had really bad issues with my reproductive system and in January of this year, I finally got a hysterectomy. Most of my life I have been estrogen dominant and ignorant health care workers just try to throw a Band-Aid on it by prescribing you birth control, which has more hormones and really messes with your body. Also being estrogen dominant makes it almost impossible to lose weight. I have struggled with my weight my whole life, literally from childhood. And I've never been obese by any means, but I've definitely always been curvy and had some meat on my bones, sometimes more than other times. I had to just about starve myself and exercise 5 days a week to see the scale go down. I remember many nights going to bed starving, felt like my stomach was eating itself. It's kind of torturous honestly, and as I've gotten older I've learned to just embrace my 5-ft tall body at 140 lbs. But every woman knows that having a hysterectomy can come with weight gain, that was a huge concern of mine obviously. After my surgery, I had blood work done to check my levels of all my hormones, including thyroid. Of course they only tested TSH, you really need a more thorough panel done to get a bigger picture. My TSH was in the normal range, but I have every single symptom of hypothyroidism so after trying different herbs over the years to balance my hormones, none really giving me the results that I wanted, I decided to try this. Years ago at an appointment when I told my doctor how tired I was all the time, he felt my thyroid and said that it felt enlarged. But I had an ultrasound of it which looked normal. That stuck with me though, I'm not convinced that I don't actually have thyroid issues. So anyway, I figured it couldn't hurt to give this a try. I had put a couple pounds on after my hysterectomy and I've only been taking this supplement for a month, but it has helped me shed those pounds and get back to my starting weight. I have more energy than I did before, and that means I'm getting more done at work and around the house when I get home. And it doesn't feel like I drink 10 cups of coffee or I'm on speed lol, just feels like what I think my body is supposed to feel like, which at this point after being tired and sluggish for so many years, I am just super thankful to have any energy at all! So so far, the supplement is kind of a miracle for me personally. I'm going to keep taking it and I will revise my review in the future if needed. The one thing I will say is that I started with just one pill, and most of the time I do just the one. Sometimes if I have a long day ahead of me and I can space them out pretty far, I will take the two. But I think taking one is a good way to start so you don't overdo it. Believe the other reviewers when they tell you to take this with food! First of all, it tastes super nasty, I'm not sure why because none of the ingredients really forecast that, but trust me it does. But once it gets in your stomach it makes you feel super nauseous, it probably can cause vomiting for some people unless you take it with food. Even a couple spoonfuls of yogurt does it for me, it just can't be on an empty stomach. And if you are going to take the dose of two, space it out as far as you can. I don't like to take it at night because I'm not sure if it will affect my sleep so I take one at 7:00 a.m., and then another at 3:00 p.m.

I've been taking this supplement for a week and a half now and all I can say is wow! For quite a while I've had the following issues: 1. Lethargic - all the time no matter how much sleep I get. 2. Unexplained weight gain - It didn't matter how much I exercise or how well I ate - I just kept packing on the pounds or at best couldn't lose any weight. 3. My extremities were cold constantly - I blamed that on the weather up here in the Northeast. 4. Lack of libido - this one sucks - my girlfriend is hot! 5. Lack of motivation 6. Terrible memory 7. Depression - I blamed that one on my should have been over a year and a half ago divorce. I was talking to a friend of mine who has a medical background and after the usual disclaimer (Consult your medical professional - blah blah blah) they suggested the I get my thyroid levels looked at. So I totally ignored that and Googled my symptoms. They all pointed to a hypothyroid problem. I figured screw it and ordered this supplement based on reviews and all I can say is what a difference! All of my symptoms have just about disappeared! I don't know if it's the placebo effect or not but this does the job for me. I take it in the morning and mid afternoon daily. I started seeing a difference after about 3 days. I usually go home - attempt to work out - eat and end up passing out in my chair (I work 2 jobs). I noticed that on day 3, I wasn't as tired at work, had a lot better focus, and was able to stay conscious while watching the idiot box. I feel 10 years younger libido wise, my extremities aren't as cold, and no more joint pain! As far as the weight gain - I've dropped 4 pounds, feel full longer, & I've got my motivation back! My overall productivity in all aspects of my life doubled! I haven't had any depression issues (possibly related to the rest going better?) and my anxiety is lessened. I may have an iodine deficiency. I don't use salt or most seasonings and I don't eat enough seafood (it's a price thing). This supplement has iodine and selenium. That seems to be the magic combination especially if you have Hashimoto's flavor of thyroid problems. But, I'm still going to be seeing the doctor (as soon as I can get up the extra cash for the tests) to get myself checked out.