Every single day patients with Hashimoto’s reach out to me asking about natural therapies. These questions all have one thing in common: They want to know if there is some alternative to thyroid medication or if it’s possible to completely avoid using it. My answer is always something like this: I’ve personally seen many patients …
You should really think about Hashimoto’s as a disease of inflammation. Because once you start to think of it in these terms, a new way to treating your condition will emerge: One that focuses on your immune system instead of your thyroid. If you can identify thyroid gland inflammation early, and do your best to …
Are Thyroid Patients at Higher Risk of Infection? There’s no doubt that by now you’ve been inundated with information regarding the coronavirus or COVID-19. Today we aren’t going to focus on the things you’ve heard 1000x by now but instead, we are going to talk about the virus and its effects on thyroid patients specifically. …
If you were asked to rate your satisfaction with your thyroid treatment on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best and 1 being the worst, where would you fall? Depending on how you answer, you may or may not be surprised at where roughly 12,000 thyroid patients put themselves on that …
Are these things wasting your time? Did you know that many thyroid patients end up wasting their time on things that don’t matter and won’t help them feel better? The goal of every thyroid patient is to obviously try to get back to feeling 100%. And you know, if you have thyroid disease, that this …
NP Thyroid Recall by Acella Thyroid news report: On May 22nd, 2020 Acella Pharmaceuticals issued a voluntary nationwide recall of certain lots of NP thyroid due to super potency. Don’t worry, I’m going to explain in plain English what this all means and how it applies to you. If you aren’t already aware, NP thyroid …
Hashimoto’s is the #1 cause of hypothyroidism in the United States. This means that there is a huge chance that you have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis if you have low thyroid function to any degree. And, believe it or not, the fact that Hashimoto’s is so common does not mean that it is diagnosed very often. Most …
You probably already know that T3 is the single most important thyroid hormone in your body. If you’ve spent any time researching, then you probably ALSO know that you can take T3 as a medication and that most thyroid medications contain only T4. But what you may not be aware of is that there are …
What is a Thyroglobulin Antibody? (In plain English) Let’s make this super easy: Thyroglobulin is an important protein found directly in your thyroid gland. This protein plays an important role in helping your body CREATE thyroid hormone, STORE thyroid hormone, and RELEASE (1) thyroid hormone. Thyroglobulin antibodies are antibodies that your own immune system creates which …
As someone who has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, you should be very aware of a late-stage complication of that disease known as End Stage Hashimoto’s. End-stage Hashimoto’s refers to the later stages of this disease in which there are complete atrophy and damage to the thyroid gland. For all intents and purposes, you can consider end-stage Hashimoto’s …
