Dr. Westin Childs 
It might be tempting to think that you can take a thyroid support complex and call it day. Surely this will help improve your thyroid and give your body everything it needs, right? Not exactly… While supplementing for your thyroid is incredibly helpful, it’s only helpful if it’s done correctly. And not all thyroid support …
If you have a thyroid problem then there’s also a good chance that you are taking other prescription medications. How do I know? Because a thyroid issue puts you at high risk for problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, and more. But did you know that these prescription medications used to treat these …
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a therapy that you could use that required very little effort on your part and had a profound effect on your thyroid gland? I’ve always told you to be critical of such claims because they are almost always not true. But laser therapy may be the closest thing …
Are you thinking about using thyroid medication even though your thyroid function is technically “normal”? If so, this article is for you. Thyroid medication refers to any medication that contains ACTIVE thyroid hormones. These hormones are incredibly powerful and play an important role in regulating many important systems in your body, including both your metabolism …
Let’s get this out of the way: Hyperthyroidism is a treatable condition. But there is a difference between treating a condition and calling it a day and thriving with whatever treatment you are taking. And it is the difference here that you really need to pay close attention to. If you use the standard therapies …
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the #1 cause of low thyroid in the United States. And despite the fact that overwhelming numbers of patients suffer from Hashimoto’s, doctors are still mostly clueless when it comes to this condition. Why are doctors so wrong when it comes to this condition and what can you do about it as …
Have you noticed that you are growing hair on your face where you shouldn’t? Have you noticed that this increase in hair is getting worse as you get older? Believe it or not, this is actually fairly common and it has a name: Hirsutism (1). Hirsutism is the official medical name given to facial hair which …
Let me guess: You just got back from a visit to your doctor after being told that your thyroid is completely “normal”. But now you are trying to square how you can feel so poorly and have all of the symptoms of low thyroid but still have a “normal” thyroid? Did I get close? If …
Let me start off by saying that both Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis are completely different disease states. Despite there being a big difference between these two disease states there is a surprising amount of overlap between them as well. This is why many patients probably get confused. Perhaps the most simple way to think …
Glucomannan may just be one of the best lesser-known weight loss supplements around (1). But just because it isn’t as popular as other weight loss supplements like berberine, doesn’t mean it can’t help you lose weight. And on top of its benefits for weight loss, it has also been shown to help with a host of other …
