Did you know that one in eight women will develop a thyroid problem during her lifetime? While you may think this statistic is surprising, what I find more surprising in my practice is that nearly 60% of those women will be completely unaware of their condition. So, that got me thinking… do women know what… [ Read More ]
Are You Suffering From Adrenal Fatigue?
Here’s how to find out if you are dealing with adrenal fatigue, how to restore your adrenals, and get back to being you Does this sound like you? You wake up exhausted. You coax yourself through another foggy morning, fuelled by caffeine. You start to feel more human by mid-morning, but crash again around 3:00…. [ Read More ]
Hashimotos Hypothyroidism
As a follow up to my previous post on Brain Health and Hashimotos Hypothyroidism, which you can read about here, I wanted to share my key takeaways from another talk given by Dr Datis Kharrazian on Hashimotos Hypothyroidism at The Thyroid Summit. Most people who take thyroid medication for Hypothyroidism don’t know that they actually… [ Read More ]
Brain Health and Hashimoto’s Hypothyroid – Key Takeaways from Dr Datis Kharrazian
Dr Datis Kharrazian recently spoke at The Hashimoto’s Institute about the role of brain health in Hashimoto’s patients. Having been a follower of Dr Kharrazian’s work for many years now, I wanted to share the key takeaways I had from his talk. Hashimoto’s can devastate the brain Most patients take years to be diagnosed… [ Read More ]
Functional Lab Testing for Low Thyroid Function
I’ve already written about thyroid testing here in a previous post, but thyroid hormone testing is so controversial and improperly done it bears repeating. In conventional medicine, lab work is typically the only consideration in patients and most doctors rely solely on TSH and T4 to diagnosis hypothyroidism. This approach misses most of the patients… [ Read More ]
