Can stress cause your baby’s allergies?
A calm, healthy pregnancy and postpartum period could reduce the risk of allergies in your baby, according to a new Swedish study. Researchers found infants with lower levels of cortisol, [...]
Why do I have brain fog all the time?
"I seem to live in a perpetual fog, like I can’t think clearly or I’m not all the way there. Why do I have brain fog?" Brain fog is a [...]
Gluten can cause leaky brain and gut
Eating gluten doesn’t upset my stomach. Why should I consider eliminating it from my diet? Eating gluten, the protein found in wheat and wheat-like grains, has been shown to make [...]
New TSH standards expected to double diagnoses
Good news for millions of undiagnosed sufferers of hypothyroidism: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) recommends a narrower TSH range of 0.3 to 3.0. Typical lab ranges today are [...]
LA Times: TSH ranges too narrow
Millions of undiagnosed hypothyroid and Hashimoto's sufferers moved closer to recognition when the Los Angeles Times published the story "As doctors debate what is 'low thyroid,' many with condition go [...]
Science admits normal TSH doesn’t resolve hypothyroidism in Hashimoto’s
A study published early this year in the February issue of Thyroid found that Hashimoto’s can cause thyroid symptoms and decrease quality of life even when TSH is normal. Patients [...]