Electrosmog: Is Technology to Blame for Your Autoimmune Disease?
Have you heard of electrosmog? You can’t see it, or smell it. You can’t even feel electrosmog. Electrosmog is apt: it’s everywhere, and it can have a serious impact on [...]
6 Ways Your Thyroid Affects Sleep and the Top 6 Supplements to Help
How your thyroid affects sleep You toss. You turn. The glowing 2:00 a.m. on your alarm clock glares and taunts. Still, you just can’t sleep. Sound familiar? If so, welcome [...]
Excess thyroid hormones linked to fractures in elderly
A study of Canadian subjects published earlier this year found a link between fractures in people over 70 and the use of levothyroxine, a thyroid hormone medication. The study also [...]
Scar-less thyroid removal; is it even necessary?
Using robotics technology researchers have developed a machine that can remove the thyroid gland by going in from the hairline on the scalp. The procedure can be done on an [...]
Oprah missed the boat with hypothyroidism
Thyroid patient advocate Mary Shomon poignantly bemoans the end of Oprah’s daytime talk show and the loss of an opportunity to shed light on hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s for millions of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]