Dr. Carolyn Dean Live

Most general practitioners are intimidated by the complexity of endocrine disorders involving the thyroid, adrenals, and sex hormones and refer their patients to endocrinologists. These specialists depend on inaccurate blood testing to prescribe synthetic hormone replacement drugs, which is their main form of treatment. There is no effort to find the underlying cause of endocrine problems or explore natural solutions. Even when alternative books on the subject are written they end up taking a very similar path based on allpathetic solutions. Two popular books on the thyroid will give you all the details about thyroid disease and explore alternatives but they both still focus on thyroid replacement therapy using natural and/or synthetic drugs. They are, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis by Izabella Wentz, Pharm D (2013) and The Thyroid Connection by Amy Myers, MD (2016). Dr. Myers suffered hyperthyroidism, or Graves Disease and Dr. Wentz overcame Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism, so together they cover all aspects of t