“Teddy,” a portly, long-time patient, called on a Saturday, in a panic during an ice storm needing to be seen for a “urinary infection.” “I’m running every hour the past two weeks,” he said. “Haven’t slept a lick.”
I thought about calling something in until he let the...
Diabetes is a chronic, progressive disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose. As a medical student back in the Dark Ages – circa 1975-78 – diabetes was a troubling, rare phenomenon. From 1980 through 2014, the number of Americans with diagnosed...
The Finale, Part 2 Last month we revisited the root causes of thyroid disease (1: “Leaky Gut ” Syndrome, 2: exposure to heavy metals and toxins, 3: latent infectious diseases, 4: adrenal insufficiency, 5: iodine deficiency and 6: nutrient deficiencies) and discussed...
Part IX: The Thyroid-Nutrient Connection Over the past several months I, along with our Healthy Beginnings readers have explored, in-depth, all things thyroid. We reviewed its anatomy, physiology, symptoms of altered thyroid output, how to gauge that output, remedies...
Part 6: Infections and Thyroid Disease Back in the dark ages, (for me) circa 1976, medical students were dutifully taught the ABCs of thyroid disease as a “Goldilocks” issue. “Normal” is a wide range (0.45 to 4.5 mIU/L); if it too runs too fast, slows it; if it runs...
Part 5: Heavy Metals, Toxins, and Thyroid Disease In Part I, “Patient Mysteries, Are You Thyroid Deficient?” we reviewed two cases illustrating common clinical presentations of thyroid disease, the anatomy, and physiology of the thyroid gland, symptoms of low thyroid...
