What an interesting issue this was (WDDTY, vol 12 no 9), with many fascinating articles about thyroid problems. Once again, WDDTY has come up with the goods!
People who suffer from an underactive thyroid are making the condition worse by smoking, researchers have discovered. ...
For 20 years, I have had angina as a side-effect of thyroxine (a hormone therapy for an underactive thyroid). Do you know of any way to counteract or prevent this pain? - Shirley Kingsley, via e-mail
I would like to tell you that I admire the work of WDDTY enormously. With regard to the article by Doris Jones (‘The scandal of thyroid care’) and the suspension of Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield (WDDTY, vol 12 no 5), it may interest your readers to...
Your article ‘Essential fats’ (WDDTY vol 14 no 2) was rather confusing; the most important fact is the way coconut oil is produced. Many varieties are RBD (refined, bleached and deodorised)
Q:I would be very interested to know your views on the Barnes Basal Temperature Test for diagnosing slight hypothyroidism. I first heard of this when I consulted a nutritionist last year. Recent ...
Reader's Corner
One of the greatest and most far-reaching scandals of modern medicine has to do with the appalling ignorance of doctors about the workings of the thyroid gland.
Are you sensitive to cold, and do you feel depressed and lethargic? Do you also have headaches, and perhaps menstrual problems and recurrent infections? You could have an underfunctioning or underactive thyroid. Known as ‘hypothyroidism’, its...
A scandalous lack of knowledge by doctors and an epidemic of undiagnosed thyroid problems may be behind the other growing epidemic of our times: ME