Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Articles

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Articles:

Oprah’s Thyroid Problem Explained

Oprah is creating a lot of buzz after gaining forty pounds and simultaneously claiming she solved her thyroid problem. Her statements sent internet bloggers into a frenzy. How did she get off her thyroid medication? Did she really solve her thyroid problem? Isn’t this just a temporary break from a sinister and permanent thyroid illness? If her thyroid is in such great shape why did she pile on forty pounds?

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Scientists Play Catch Up Trying to Understand Thyroid Problems

Usually we think of science as being on the cutting edge. In the case of understanding a person with thyroid symptoms and what they mean, scientists and the medical profession have been living in some sort of tunnel-vision Stone Age. A new study finally documents that people with a myriad of thyroid symptoms may have normal thyroid gland scores, yet their thyroid glands are under considerable inflammatory stress. This study is wedging a crowbar under the lid of ignorance that governs the daily faulty decision making of endocrinologists and general medical practitioners when it comes to understanding thyroid.

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