15 Jun 2022
4 Steps To Building A Lifelong Thyroid Doctor-Patient Partnership
Building an effective support network is important in life especially when you have a chronic condition such as thyroid hormone imbalance or autoimmune thyroid disease. Dr. Brittany Henderson of the Charleston...
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15 Jun 2022
The Best Tests for Your Thyroid Condition
When diagnosing and treating individuals with symptoms of thyroid hormone imbalance, many medical professionals will refer exclusively to the TSH laboratory test. Patients who have symptoms despite a “normal”...
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15 Jun 2022
Are Your Adrenals Affecting Your Thyroid Health?
Healthy adrenal function is essential to thyroid hormone balance. Holistic health coach, Andrea Beaman details the common symptoms as well as the common causes of adrenal dysfunction with some suggestions regarding...
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15 Jun 2022
How is Advocacy Transforming Thyroid Health Care?
Many patients are finding their path to health with expanded laboratory testing and expanded treatment options thanks to the advocacy within the thyroid community. However, many patients are still suffering due to...
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15 Jun 2022
Is Your ‘Normal’ Thyroid Test Hiding the Source of Your Depression?
Depression is a known symptom of thyroid disease. The exclusive use of the TSH laboratory test does not identify all patients with thyroid hormone imbalance since it is a measure of pituitary function not of...
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15 Jun 2022
What Vitamins are Commonly Low in Patients with Hypothyroidism?
It can be challenging for patients to know where to begin when approaching their individual nutritional needs. Beginning with the vitamin levels that often need to be raised in patients with hypothyroidism,...
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15 Jun 2022
Does Hashimoto’s Go Away with Treatment? (Answer by Ridha Arem, MD)
Patient Question: "Does Hashimoto's go away with treatment? I have Hashimoto's and it seems to go away and then it comes back. It also seems to come in cycles: skin breakouts (hormonal acne, predominately on my...
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15 Jun 2022
Can Gluten Really Affect Your Autoimmune Thyroid Disease?
Okay everyone, there is a lot of misinformation going around the net about the role of gluten in thyroid disease. In the next two blogs I'll try to suss out everything we thyroid patients need to know about the...
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15 Jun 2022
How to Interpret Thyroid Labs? (Answer by Gary Pepper, MD)
Patient Question: "I have some test results that I wanted a clearer understanding of. I had a total thyroidectomy for Graves' disease and a multi-nodule goiter at the end of July. I had just come down from being...
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