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Interview on Dr. Steven Hotze's Houston Radio Show
On September 12, 2006, I had the
privilege of being the guest on Dr. Steven Hotze’s popular Houston radio
show, “Health & Wellness Solutions.” Some of you may know Dr. Hotze as the
author of the popular book
Hormones, Health,
and Happiness.
I have been a guest on his show before. Each time I’ve been delighted to
talk with him on the air. My reason is that he is a determined and highly
effective soldier in a war both he, many of you, and I are fighting. That
war is against the unspeakable horrors that the conventional endocrinology
specialty—as proxies for its corporate sponsors—continues to inflict on
millions of hypothyroid and thyroid hormone resistant patients around the
world.
To understand Dr. Hotze’s value to our forces in this war, consider his
appearance on CBS’s Early Show on September 19, 2005 and its aftermath. He
was on the show to promote his book, and through it and his appearance, to
correct misinformation perpetrated and perpetuated by the conventional
endocrinology specialty. Accordingly, he told the show’s viewers of the
failures of T4-replacement. He also advocated Armour Thyroid as a safe and
effective alternative to products such as Synthroid.
In response to Dr. Hotze’s appearance, Dr. Bill Law, President of the
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), wrote a letter
to the senior producer of the show. In it, he protested Dr. Hotze’s
appearance.
It’s understandable that Dr. Law would object to Dr. Hotze being allowed
to give his opinion on national TV. Dr. Hotze had said to the show’s
viewers that synthetic thyroid hormone products, such as Synthroid, are
inferior to biologically-produced ones, such as Armour Thyroid. But the
maker of Armour, Forest Pharmaceuticals, doesn’t share its profits with
the AACE. On the other hand, Abbott Laboratories, the maker of Synthroid,
lavishes money and other perks on the AACE and the conventional
endocrinology specialty. Of course, if a spoilsport like Dr. Hotze is
allowed to go on TV and let the public know that Armour is superior to
Synthroid, Abbott’s sales of Synthroid may shrink. In turn, from the
AACE’s failure to silence Dr. Hotze and others like him, the thickness of
its wallet may also shrink.
Dr. Law argued in his letter to the producer that no one but one of his
AACE fraternity brothers should be allowed to go on TV and talk about
thyroid hormone therapy. This, too, is understandable of Dr. Law. If AACE
doctors don’t censor truth-telling physicians like Dr. Hotze, they may end
up having to debate them publicly. That would put the AACE doctors in a
potentially embarrassing circumstance.
In a public debate, they couldn’t get away with their usual
performance—parroting Synthroid advertising copy and making vague
references to “50 years of science” backing their beliefs about
T4-replacement. Instead, they would have to account for a fact now
confirmed by their own studies: that for many patients, T4-replacement is
an inferior and misery-causing approach to thyroid hormone therapy. So
it’s understandable that the AACE does whatever it can to stiff arm
doctors like Hotze to keep them away from the microphone.
In response to Dr. Bill Laws letter to the producer, on November 10, 2005,
Dr. Hotze sent a letter to the Early Show’s producer. “May I recommend for
your consideration,” he said, “that you host a debate between Bill Law and
me over the correct evaluation and treatment of hypothyroidism? Properly
advertised it would draw a huge audience of women in mid life who are
fascinated by the problem of hypothyroidism. It would compete for the same
audience as Desperate Housewives.”
Not surprisingly, no debate occurred. I doubt that Dr. Law would have
dared debate Dr. Hotze. Law would have had little ammunition for the
debate other than the few sound bites conventional endocrinologists
usually quote at websites funded by “unrestricted educational grants” from
Abbott Laboratories, the maker of Synthroid. But whatever the reason that
no debate occurred, it was prudent of Dr. Law not to engage Dr. Hotze. He
is one of those few doctors who has the chutzpah to jerk the microphone
from the censoring fist of the AACE, and he doesn’t hesitate to tell the
truth about the organization.
For example, in his letter to the producer of the Early Show, Dr. Hotze
wrote, “Surely you are well aware of the incestuous relationship that
exists between the pharmaceutical companies and the AACE. If not, then
just visit their website corporate sponsor page, found at
http://www.aace.com/org/cap/capdirectory.php. That
pretty much tells the whole story. [Note: Also use the search engine at
the AACE website and type in terms such as "unrestricted educational
grant" and "Abbott Laboratories."] The AACE, like most medical specialty
societies, has sold out to the pharmaceutical companies who pour billions
of dollars every year into marketing their latest drugs to physicians by
supporting medical societies, their publications and their conferences.
The old adage remains true, if something, which seems reasonable and makes
common sense, is not endorsed by the powers to be, then just follow the
money trail. Many AACE members are guilty of ruining the lives of millions
of women whose hypothyroid conditions they leave untreated.”
Cut from the same assertive cloth as Dr. Hotze, I admire him for locking
horns with the AACE. So I was pleased to spend time with him on his show.
During the show, he talked about the advantages of natural versus
synthetic thyroid hormone products. He gave me the opportunity to talk
about thyroid hormone resistance and some of its probable causes, such as
man-made chemical contaminants. He also gave me the chance to talk about
our two newly published studies. In the studies, we found that women
fibromyalgia patients had abnormally low metabolic rates and low body
temperatures. These two findings are the final piece of the puzzle of
fibromyalgia—a medical mystery now solved. (For those of you missed our
announcement of the study reports, I’m including links to the journals
below. Both journals provide downloads of the full text of the articles
free.)
Dr. Hotze’s radio show is available to anyone in the world through the
KSEV Radio website:
http://www.ksevradio.com. At the home page, click on “Listen Live
Now.” The show airs from 12:00 to 1:00 pm CST, Monday through Friday. I
encourage all the readers of drlowe.com and my newsletter to listen to Dr.
Hotze; I’m sure you’ll find the time well spent.
Our
Two Published Reports of Fibromyalgia Patients'
Low Metabolic Rates and Low Body Temperatures
o Medical
Science Monitor:
http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/modules.php?name=Current_Issue&d_
op=summary&id=8851
o Thyroid
Science: http://www.thyroidscience.com/experiments.htm
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