Thyroid Balance: Traditional and Alternative Methods for Treating Thyroid Disorders

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Thyroid Balance: Traditional and Alternative Methods for Treating Thyroid Disorders Pub. Date: 12/28/2002 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

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If you are one of the more than 14 million Americans who suffers from a thyroid disorder, knowingly or unknowingly, Thyroid Balance is the key to restoring your health and well-being. Never before has there been a comprehensive guide that explains all the traditional and alternative methods available for treating thyroid disorders-and allows you to become an active participant in designing a balanced, practical treatment program.

Using the amassed knowledge of twenty-five years at the forefront of the complementary medicine movement, Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld answers every question the thyroid patient might have, including how to:
*Recognize a thyroid condition
*Determine if the adrenal gland is the real culprit
*Distinguish between hypo, hyper, autoimmune, and subclinical conditions
*Integrate conventional and alternative treatments
*Know what to do when treatment fails
*Get your metabolism and your body thermostat back under control
*Control weight gain and loss
*Manage a thyroid condition's interaction with other problems
*Minimize the thyroid's impact on a woman's cycle and fertility

Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld provides the tools patients need to take charge of their own treatments, including a reader quiz and a worksheet for creating a personal plan. From allopathic medicine to alternative medicine to integrative medicine, Thyroid Balance gives you all the tools you need to choose and adapt the traditional and alternative methods that best suit your needs and help you find balance.

Glenn S. Rothfeld, M.D., M.Ac., is currently the Clinical Assistant Professor of family medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he developed one of thenation's first courses on alternative medicine. Dr. Rothfeld is a licensed acupuncturist, a frequent lecturer, and the author of seven books on complementary medicine topics. He is currently medical director of WholeHealth New England, a complementary medicine center in Arlington, MA.

Deborah S. Romaine is coauthor of Beef Busters, Syndrome X: Managing Insulin Resistance, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healing Back Pain. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580627771
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Publication date: 12/28/2002
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 532,811
Product dimensions: 8.42 (w) x 4.82 (h) x 1.01 (d)

Part 1: The Thyroid Butterfly: Delicate and ElusiveChapter 1: Why You Feel The Way You DoChapter 2: The Metabolic Matrix of Your Endocrine SystemChapter 3: Just What Is A Thyroid Condition?Chapter 4: Metamorphosis: A Good Diagnosis Can Transform Your LifeChapter 5: Pros and Cons of Traditional and Alternative Thyroid Testing MethodsPart 2: Thyroid Conditions: Living Out of BalanceChapter 6: Hypothyroidism: Low and Out of BalanceChapter 7: Hyperthyroidism: High and Out of BalanceChapter 8: Sluggish Thyroid, Stressful Adrenal?Chapter 9: The Autoimmune ConnectionPart 3: Thyroid TherapiesChapter 10: Underactive Thyroid Treatment Approaches Chapter 11: Overactive Thyroid Treatment ApproachesChapter 12: Therapeutic Balance: Blending Traditional and Alternative TherapiesChapter 13: What Do You Do When Nothing Seems to Work?Chapter 14: What Do You Do If You Want to Stop Treatment?Part 4: Restoring Thyroid Health: Living in BalanceChapter 15: Nutrition: Foods that Help, Foods that Don't HelpChapter 16: Keeping Your Weight in BalanceChapter 17: Managing Your Thyroid with Other Serious Health ProblemsChapter 18: Fertility, Thyroid, and a Woman's CycleChapter 19: Energy in Balance: Getting Into a Healthy Synchronicity

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Anonymous

Posted October 17, 2007

First year thyroid patient

I was recently diagnosed with Hashimoto's Disease and am struggling between hypo and hyperactive symptoms concurrently. The Thyroid Balance is informative and gives a general overview of thyroid disorders and treatment options 'including alternative medicine options' for all thyroid conditions. It touches on the topic of when surgery is necessary and when patients may benefit from another course of action 'i.e. acupuncture or other holistic treatments, avoiding certain foods that may trigger the disorder' I think its a great book to get started with and I would defintely recommend it to a friend. However, it was published in 2003 so I would check with a doctor to see if any of the information needs to be updated or if additional research has been done.

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Anonymous

Posted September 12, 2003

Beware of this book!

I browsed thru this book briefly, but what I did read let me know this book is a lemon. I could mention several points of misinformation in the little that I read, but I will only mention the statement that made my Gravesian eyes pop out further from my head. The last sentence in the segment about the antithyroid medication PTU says, 'Do not take PTU if you are pregnant or nursing.' The authors clearly are not aware that the treatment of choice for pregnant and breastfeeding women is PTU! If they don't know this fact, I would doubt any other statement in the book. I wouldn't waste my money on it.

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