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Two New Studies Show
that Fibromyalgia Patients Now, two new studies confirm that the researchers were correct. A team from the Fibromyalgia Research Foundation found that female fibromyalgia patients had severely low resting metabolic rates and abnormally low basal body temperatures compared to matched healthy controls. The Medical Science Monitor, a major international journal for experimental medicine, published the first study in early July. The second study was published today in Thyroid Science, a new electronic journal. Each journal provides free access online to the full text of the reports. The research team from the Fibromyalgia Research Foundation included Dr. Lowe, Jackie Yellin. Richard Garrison, MD and Jane Jones, RN helped facilitate the study in various ways. Most importantly, those who gave tax-deductible donations to the Foundation made the study possible. According to Dr. Lowe, "It’s now time for fibromyalgia researchers, treating doctors, and patient advocates to face the irrefutable facts and focus on inadequate thyroid hormone regulation as the main cause of fibromyalgia symptoms. Of course, some doctors will say, ‘I just don’t believe in that.’ This is predictable, but it’s also distinctly unscientific and unbecoming a rational mind. When overwhelming scientific evidence dictates, there’s only one reasonable and humanitarian course of action for a doctor: to open-mindedly change his or her mistaken ideas and put to use the new, scientifically-confirmed beliefs for the welfare of patients." Dr. Lowe commented, "The results of the two studies, combined with an abundance of other evidence, show that hypothyroidism and/or thyroid hormone resistance are the main mechanisms of fibromyalgia. In my clinical work with these patients for the past ten years I've helped them fully recover or significantly improve with a treatment protocol based on this hypothesis." He added: "I’m confident that no one in the field of fibromyalgia can refute the conclusion that we’ve solved the problem. The evidence is now simply overwhelming that we were right all along." Jackie Yellin pointed out that the huge body of evidence supporting these hypotheses is comprehensively summarized in the introduction to the report published in Thyroid Science. She urges all who are interested in fibromyalgia to read the introduction and conclusion to this second report. "The journal is generous," she said, "in letting us present all the evidence that inadequate thyroid hormone regulation is the main cause of what we call ‘fibromyalgia.’" Patients who want their doctors to treat them with thyroid hormone should print both reports. The reports should enable doctors to understand the reasons that thyroid hormone therapy is essential for most patients to recover from their fibromyalgia symptoms. In addition, a massive amount of information on www.drlowe.com elaborates on the hypotheses and the evidence showing that the hypotheses are correct. Report at Medical
Science Monitor: Report at Thyroid Science: http://www.thyroidscience.com/experiments.htm Clinical Care Dr. John C. Lowe © 2006 John C. Lowe. All rights reserved. This Center for Metabolic Health, LLC Email Newsletter may be copied and distributed subject to three conditions: (1) All text within the full document or any section copied must be copied without modification with all pages included. (2) All copies must contain the following copyright notice: "© 2006 John C. Lowe." (3) Neither this full document nor any section of it may be distributed for profit. |
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