Hardcover: 278 pages
Publisher: Advantage Media Group; 1 edition (June 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599323966
ISBN-13: 978-1599323961
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 9.6 inches
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An amazing work. Dr. Hotze has hit the nail on the head. It is remarkable how recent the history of hypothyroidism is. Only 125 years ago, Dr. Ord described cretinism. Later Dr. George Redmayne Murray treated a woman with myxedema by injecting her with an extract of sheep thyroid. As we often see today, his colleagues ridiculed his approach despite the patient improving dramatically and living a long healthy life. Later, dried or desiccated thyroid was used effectively. Diagnosis and treatment were based on clinical observation: If patients showed signs of too much thyroid, the dose was reduced. Hypothyroidism was recognized as a common condition that had an effective treatment.Why so much hypothyroidism?1. Modern medicine allows those with hypothyroidism to survive childhood infectionsBroda Barnes recognized that the success of antibiotics produced even more hypothyroidism. As a result of low thyroid, people are more prone to infections. Many hypothyroid children never survive childhood due to serious infections. As a result of antibiotics, more hypothyroid children survived to adulthood. Further, low thyroid adults are more likely to genetically pass low thyroid on to their children.2. The Hypothyroidism - Yeast ConnectionAntibiotics kill the healthy bacteria in the intestinal tract along with bad bacteria. Further distress to the digestive system is caused by consumption of chlorine, fluoride, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen. When you combine these with a diet filled with sugar and other simple carbohydrates, it can cause an overgrowth of yeast in the intestines.Yeast releases neurotoxic chemicals into the bloodstream that may damage the hypothalamus and alter thyroid production.
Dr. Hotze's new book "Hypothyroidism, Health and Happiness" should be read by everyone, who feels "sick of being tired and tired of being sick", regardless if he/she is diagnosed with hypothyroidism or not yet. This is a "must read" book for anyone who has thyroid problems, unexplained medical symptoms or is suffering from an undiagnosed illness. I would also recommend Dr. Hotze's book to hyperthyroid patients who are facing RAI and thyroidectomy, because after any of these interventions they'll become hypothyroid for the rest of their lives. They need to know what the difference between Armour Thyroid and Synthroid is, and they have to insist from their doctors to prescribe them the desiccated thyroid hormone, not the synthetic. They need to know why they still have symptoms and side effects, when taking the synthetic drugs.I especially liked the holistic approach Dr. Hotze follows with his book: the treatment of any illness is not only about taking the prescribed medication; it's also about the life style, diet, about balancing hormones and everything else. Thyroid gland is not a separate body organ; it is connected with the pituitary, hypothalamus and adrenal glands and they have to be treated altogether.I cannot agree more with the author that drugs are greatly overused in America, that commercial interest of the "Big Pharma" rules the lives and health of ordinary people. I, similar to Dr. Hotze, believe that people are sick not because "they are deficient in pharmaceuticals, or have low levels of drugs in their bodies", but because they are overmedicated with all kinds of drugs.Thyroid tests, as the author says, should not be the only indicator of a thyroid disease, they are often incorrect and "patients don't lie, lab tests do".
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