|
News from Dr. John C. Lowe |
Thyro-GoldTM
and |
||||
|
|
We have an excellent source of thyroid powder in Argentina, but using that source would have required Franconia to delay for a month production of the first round of Thyro-GoldTM. Happily, though, customers can now order the product: http://www.thyroidscience.us/products/thyro.gold/intro.thyro.gold.htm. Franconia's source of thyroid powder in New Zealand is equal to the high quality of the
Argentine thyroid powder. New Zealand is among the countries that has banned Monsanto's genetically modified hormone POSILAC,
which the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly acquired in August 2008.[1] POSILAC is a genetically modified hormone
called "recombinant somatotropin," or "rBST." The hormone is used in the beef industry to stimulate calves
to grow and adult cows to produce more milk.
In June 2007, the World Organisation for Animal Health granted New Zealand the status of "negligible risk" of mad cow disease.[2] "Negligible risk" means that the risk is so small, trifling, and unimportant that we can safely disregard it. This is the World Organisation's most favorable status, a ranking shared by Argentina, Australia, Uruguay, and Singapore. In contrast, the U.S., Canada, Chile, Brazil, Switzerland, and Taipei China have "controlled risk status." This risk status places restrictions on the U.S. in trading beef products with other countries. The restrictions don't apply to New Zealand and Argentina.
New Zealand has never had a report or record of mad cow disease. And like Argentina, New Zealand is free from other similar diseases,
called "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies." The European Commission, for example, recognizes New Zealand as free from the spongiform encephalopathy named "scrapie."[3] Scarpie is an infectious brain disease of sheep that's usually fatal.
Thyro-GoldTM, then, is clean and disease-free, and Franconia Ltd ensures that this will always be the case. In addition, Thyro-GoldTM is free from what I believe are problems with Hypo Support Formula (HSF). With those assurances, my research team and I can continue our studies of
Thyro-GoldTM, which we've already begun. We'll publish the studies as soon as we have the results so that customers know what we learn about the safe use and benefits of the product.
If you use Thyro-GoldTm, we'll be grateful if you'll share your impressions with us. We'll carefully consider what you tell us, and we'll use your impressions and the results of our systematic studies to improve the product in any way we can.
References Printer-Friendly version of this article
Please Take Part in Protecting Our
Big Pharma and some legislators don't want us to have natural health options, such as dietary supplements. The legislators frequently try to slip legislation past that would deprive us of those options. A recent case in point is Senator Waxman sneakily inserting an anti-supplement bill deep within the recent financial reform bill. Only the diligent scanning of natural health advocates brought his bill to light.
You can learn of these attacks on our freedoms and conveniently let your legislators know you oppose them. You can do so by subscribing
to one or both of two newsletters by natural health activist groups: Alliance for Natural Health and
Citizens for Health. Thank you for taking part.
Our Educational If you want to discuss the educational consulting service we provide for patients and clinicians, please contact me. You can
reach me by email at
Tammy@drlowe.com or by phone at 603-391-6061. Our fax number is 303-496-6200. When you reach the page, look for “Episode 8" (1 hour 36 minutes) and “Episode 9" (2 hours 7 minutes). To download the recordings, click on the download buttons; to listen to them, click on the listen buttons.
© 2010 Dr. John C. Lowe, LLC. All rights reserved. This 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: "© 2010 John C. Lowe." (3) Neither this full document nor any section of it may be published or distributed for profit. |
||||
Forsaken People: My Main Motive for Thyro-GoldTM
Patients who had that look taught me what it says: that this person instinctively knows she's taking too little thyroid hormone, not too much. But she's confused and troubled. Her doctor, whom she generally trusts, reassures her that her current low dose of thyroid hormone is exactly right for her, as her in-range TSH levels prove? She knows the doctor is sincere when he's warns her that a higher dose is a serious risk. But the only time she's felt close to normal is when she mistakenly took twice the dose he prescribed. Should she trust him and his medical education? Or should she trust her own instincts? Through the years that I worked clinically with these patients, hundreds of them recovered their health, became more functional, and ceased to show a forlorn face. All my team did to accomplish this was to let the patients do what they instinctively felt they should do—ignore their TSH levels, switch from T4 alone to T3 or a T3/T4 combination product, and find a non-overstimulating dose that enabled them to feel normal again. Self-treating People. This past week, a frustrated and despondent woman consulted me long distance. She told me about her interaction the week before with her long-time primary doctor. She'd told him, "I was so desperately ill last month," Dr. Mason, "that I increased my Thyrolar [synthetic T4/T3 combination] dose. You've had me on half a grain for better than a year now, and I just felt horrible. I hope it doesn't upset you, but I increased my dose to a grain and a half. For two weeks now, I've felt closer to normal than I have in years." "But look here," he responded, pointing to her lab report. "You've suppressed your TSH. You must drop your dose back down right away." She pleaded with him. "If you'll let me stay on the one and a half grains, I'll sign a waiver and have it notarized. I'll say in the waiver that I take full responsibility for any problems the grain and a half cause." The doctor declined, commenting, "That would be bad medicine." Out of frustration, she retorted, "Is it not bad medicine keeping my dose so low that I'm sick and can hardly function?" With this, she'd passed the line. On the spot, he terminated their doctor/patient relationship. He asked her to find another primary doctor. After a week of tortured debating with herself, she decide to learn how to take charge of her own care. Having read articles I've written on self-care (see below), she consulted me to begin learning how. In my last ten years of clinical practice and in the subsequent two, I've met many people such as this frustrated and depressed woman. Many of them, by taking control of their own health care, have recovered good health. Many have done so by using dietary desiccated thyroid. With these products, which don't require a prescription, they've had the liberty to take as much as they've needed to finally feel well again. My communications with these people have taught me something important: that many thyroid patients can learn what they need to know to safely get themselves well. I must say, however, that having a cooperative and collaborative clinician can be a noteworthy help. But if the only clinicians available are of the T4-replacement state of mind, I believe patients can do best by rejecting that poor therapeutic option and taking charge of their own care. If you feel this way, I have a few recommendations:
Naturopathic physicians are a superb option. They prescribe in some states in the U.S. In states where they don't prescribe, they can guide patients in the proper use of dietary desiccated thyroid, such as Thyro-GoldTM. So can a small percentage of chiropractic physicians, those who focus in their clinical practices is on nutrition and general problems of health. Most people don't know, but some chiropractic physicians are board certified in internal disorders and diagnosis. I strongly recommending finding one of these who is knowledgeable and experienced in the treatment of thyroid disorders. You may know that if MDs and DOs gain much attention from getting thyroid patients well with alternatives to T4 replacement, a local endocrinologist may file a complaint against the physician with the medical regulatory board. This enforcement system understandably intimidates many MDs and DOs from treating patients effectively with thyroid hormone. A solution to this problem of intimidation is developing. If you know an MD or DO who wants a way past this shameful obstacle to effective thyroid treatment, recommend that he or she become involved in the anti-aging specialty. Some physicians have told me that their anti-aging organization has its own guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism. They've said that within the anti-aging specialty, these guidelines supersede those of the endocrinology specialty. Unlike the guidelines of the endocrinology specialty, those of the anti-aging specialty are scientifically rather than commercially based. As a result, anti-aging specialists are helping rescue many victims of T4 replacement, and you may be able to find one to work with. Summing Up. Regardless of the type of practitioner you prefer to work with to recover your health, you do have options nowadays. One of my main aims for the rest of my days is to help as many people I can to understand those options and how to safely use them to achieve optimal health. My most sincere hope is that by working to achieve this objective, I'll get word to enough people so that we'll all see far fewer people who silently suffer and show it through that forlorn expression on the faces. Printer-Friendly version of this article |
