While white flour and sugar are responsible for the theft of vitamin B6 from the T-lymphocytes they also cause a deficiency in the thyroid hormone. Thyroxine, the hormone produced by the thyroid gland, regulates the speed at which the cells burn glucose for energy. A thyroxine deficiency means that the cells burn glucose less efficiently and therefore lack energy. Because most of the body cells rely on thyroxine, a lack of thyroxine causes a slowing of the metabolic rate and a slow metabolic rate means that less of the food we eat is burned for energy and more of it is stored as fat.
The T-lymphocytes also rely on thyroxine to burn glucose for energy, therefore a thyroxine deficiency causes the T-lymphocytes to lack vitality and diminishes their capacity to kill cancer cells and resist allergies. To produce thyroxine the thyroid gland needs adequate supplies of vitamin A, B6, C, B12 and E as well as the minerals iodine, zinc, manganese and copper. The complex interaction between all of these nutrients enables the thyroid gland to manufacture thyroxine and if one of these nutrients is absent no thyroxine is produced. A vitamin B6 deficiency, caused by eating too much white bread and products containing white sugar, can in time, single-handedly cause an under-active thyroid gland.
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