Meet Mary

Mary is a forty-five-year-old patient of mine who was testosterone deficient.  Despite working out and “eating healthy,” she was not losing weight; in fact she was gaining weight around her mid-section.  She had her testosterone optimized but still could not lose weight.  We knew she had hypothyroidism, but this being managed by another physician who was using synthetic thyroid hormones.

I suggested that we optimize her thyroid using Naturethyroid and she agreed to try this therapy.  Over the next nine months she lost fifty pounds.  She continues to express her gratitude. and recently told me, “Optimizing my thyroid changed my life. My self-esteem is back and I feel better than I have in years!”

So many of the leading causes of death have their roots in untreated thyroid disease.  In addition, many other ailments that affect us on a day-to-day basis also are related to thyroid deficiency.  Menstrual disorders, fertility, autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, high cholesterol, migraine headaches, and fibromyalgia are a few that have been shown to be caused by and or worsened by hypothyroidism.

Menstrual disorders and thyroid have been linked.  Dr. Broda Barnes first published on the subject in 1949.  He was able to improve menstrual cramps and maintain regularity in a majority of his patients by treating them with thyroid hormones.

The supporting evidence linking autoimmune diseases and thyroid is intriguing.  Many of the autoimmune diseases are more common in women, just as is hypothyroidism.  The immune system is defective in these patients, as it is in hypothyroid patients.  The connective tissue throughout the body is infiltrated with mucin in patients with autoimmune disorders.  Mucin deposition is the hallmark signatory finding in hypothyroidism.

This brief post is part of the Best Seller “Age Healthier, Live Happier” Avoiding Over-Medication through Natural Hormone Balance written by Gary Donovitz, MD ” President and Founder of BioTE.