Dr. Westin Childs Blog Posts & Articles | Page 65
can you get everything you need from a thyroid multvitamin_

Can You Get Everything You Need from a Thyroid Multivitamin?

Taking a multivitamin is an easy way to get the exact nutrients that your thyroid needs to function optimally.  You may be surprised to find out that many thyroid patients are walking around with suboptimal nutrients without even knowing it.  Suboptimal levels of each nutrient aren’t really a big deal but when you start to …

Read the Full Article

Vitamin B12 deficiency in hypothyroid patients

Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Hypothyroid Patients: Symptoms + Treatment

Whenever I think about things that thyroid patients can do to potentially improve their health, supplementing with vitamin B12 immediately comes to mind.  Why? Because there are not very many easy “wins” for thyroid patients.  Many of the therapies required to improve your overall thyroid status may require a prescription from your doctor.  And, as …

Read the Full Article

How to use Total T3 to test your thyroid

How to use The Total T3 Lab Test to Help Evaluate your Thyroid

Total T3 is one of many thyroid lab tests but few are more important.  Unfortunately, most thyroid patients aren’t even aware that it exists and even fewer have had it tested!  This creates a big problem when trying to understand how well your body is utilizing T3 and how well you are converting T4 into …

Read the Full Article

Why the TSH isn't the Best Test for Evaluating Your Thyroid

Reasons Why TSH Testing Fails as a Thyroid Lab Test

If you’ve been on my website before, or if you’ve read my blog, then you know that one of my major goals is to try and change how doctors think about treating thyroid-related issues.  My personal belief is that patients do not benefit from the archaic treatment paradigm which focuses solely on TSH.  Today I …

Read the Full Article

is hypothyroidism a chronic disease?

Why Treating Hypothyroidism as a Chronic Disease Is Incorrect

There’s no question that hypothyroidism is a complex disease but does it deserve the designation of chronic disease? A chronic disease implies that you may never be able to 100% treat or manage your condition.  And I’m here to tell you that hypothyroidism should NOT be evaluated in this way.  Why is this important? Because …

Read the Full Article

natural thyroid remedies

17 Natural Thyroid Remedies That Actually Work

Are you interested in treating your thyroid in a completely natural way? Maybe you feel like you can’t get the right medication that you need or maybe you are experiencing symptoms despite being on thyroid medication.  Either way, this is the article for you.  In this article, I will explain 17 natural therapies that you …

Read the Full Article

0