It seems like everyone’s got thyroid problems these days. Luckily, there’s a prescription for that and you don’t need to worry your pretty little head over something as minor as a major organ going kaput in your twenties. While I am, of course, being facetious, the attitude exists in medicine today that we can easily […]
Thyroid conditions are far too common. Mainstream medicine’s approach is to medicate with thyroid hormones. From my perspective, I’m always looking for why an incredibly important organ in the human body would just up and get lazy. If this was your heart that stopped working at 28, your doctors would be up in arms trying […]
Perchlorate in Water in AZ and Abnormal Neonatal Thyroid Function Yet another reason to be sure you drink properly filtered water. Ammonium perchlorite affects the thyroid’s ability to take up much needed iodide, thereby lowering the efficiency of the thyroid gland. This study suggests that even newborn infants are affected. Technology is surely killing us, […]
The “what you don’t know can hurt you” phrase may run opposite in healthcare. In other words, knowing more is not always better. Let’s face it, we ALL have something wrong with us. I have always told patients that if they look hard enough, doctors can find something wrong with you. We are seeing mounting evidence […]
Successful Withdrawal of Thyroid Hormone in Nursing Home Patients The authors of this article went to four nursing homes and identified patients on thyroid hormone therapy; many were believed to be put on the therapy inappropriately or had only needed it temporarily. Many had been on the hormones since they were younger. Half of the […]
