The Underactive Thyroid: Do it yourself because your doctor won't

by Sarah Myhill, Craig Robinson

Overview

Hypothyroidism is one of the commonest yet worst treated conditions in Western medicine.

Why? Because today’s doctors only treat blood tests, not patients—even though they may have all the classic signs and symptoms.

Dr Myhill, supported by Craig Robinson, shows us what those signs and symptoms are, all stemming from the metabolism running slow, and what the problems with diagnostic blood tests are, which is that they cannot be relied on in isolation. Advocating lifestyle measures, iodine and natural desiccated thyroid, where found to be necessary, the authors also show us the consequences of untreated hypothyroidism at every stage of life and why it is so important to take remedying the problem safely into your own hands if your doctor won’t give you the treatment you need.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781612354
Publisher:	Hammersmith Books Limited
Publication date:	01/19/2023
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr Sarah Myhill qualified in medicine (with Honours) from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1981 and has since focused tirelessly on identifying and treating the underlying causes of health problems, especially the ‘diseases of civilisation’ with which we are beset in the West. She has worked in NHS and private practice, latterly as a naturopathic doctor, and for 17 years was the Hon Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, which focuses on the causes of disease and treating through diet, supplements and avoiding toxic stress. She helps to run and lectures at the Society’s training courses and also lectures regularly on organophosphate poisoning, the problems of silicone, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Visit her website at www.drmyhill.co.uk

Craig Robinson took a first in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1985. He then joined Price Waterhouse and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, after which he worked as a lecturer in the private sector, and also in The City of London, primarily in Financial Sector Regulation roles. Craig first met Sarah in 2001, as a patient for the treatment of his CFS, and since then they have developed a professional working relationship, where he helps with the maintenance of www.drmyhill.co.uk, the moderating of Dr Myhill's Facebook groups and other ad hoc projects, as well as with the editing and writing of her books.

Table of Contents

About the Authors v

Dedication vi

Preface vii

Introduction Do it yourself because your doctor won't xi

Part I The practical 1

Chapter 1 Are you hypothyroid? 3

Chapter 2 Blood tests for the underactive thyroid' 13

Chapter 3 Before you start a trial of thyroid glandular (TG) 23

Chapter 4 The adrenal gearbox 33

Chapter 5 How to trial thyroid glandular (TG) 45

Part II The theory 53

Chapter 6 How and why we become hypothyroid 55

Chapter 7 What happens if the diagnosis of hypothyroidism is missed 63

Chapter 8 Thyroid myths 67

Chapter 9 How we starve, destroy and poison the thyroid gland 73

Chapter 10 The hypothyroid child 83

Chapter 11 The hypothyroid female 87

Chapter 12 Thyrotoxicosis 95

Chapter 13 Iodine 101

Appendices 113

Appendix A How to access thyroid blood tests 115

Appendix B The different thyroid glandular preparations and how to obtain them 117

Appendix C The PK diet 121

Appendix D The Groundhogs 145

Appendix E Vitamin C 159

Appendix F Detoxing 165

Appendix G Diet, detox and die-off (DDD) reactions 171

Glossary 179

References 203

Resources 219

Index 223