January, 2011 marked the 16-year anniversary of
drlowe.com. I initially had a definite vision of what drlowe.com was
to be, and I still maintain that vision: that is, the website is
to be an abundant source of information solidly based on
science and logic and of practical value to patients and
clinicians who deal with hypothyroidism, thyroid hormone
resistance, and fibromyalgia.
I learned early during the last 16 years that
the endocrinology specialty's judgment is corrupted by
financial inducements from drug companies that profit from the
TSH test and T4 replacement. All those years ago, my intention was to help revise the
often harmful standard of
care imposed by the endocrinology specialty for commercial
rather than scientific reasons.
After careful consideration in the last several years,
however, I realized that the specialty has its heels dug in; it's
clear to me that the specialty won't volitionally rehabilitate itself into a rational, scientific,
ethical, and respectable medical specialty.
Rather than rehabilitate, to this
day, the specialty practices thuggery on a par with that of
traditional organized crime. It does so by intimidating and persecuting clinicians who fail
to cooperate in restricting their patients to T4 replacement—an
often ineffective and harmful approach to therapy that's hugely
profitable to Big Pharma and, by quid pro quo, to the
specialty itself.
The
well-intending persecuted clinicians are guilty of
recognizing that T4 replacement doesn't work for and harms many
patients. And they are guilty of having the courage to abide by
the Hippocratic oath in using thyroid hormone therapies that get
their patients well.
The thuggery of the specialty is in highly
active gear. We know this because regularly, clinicians contact
us and tell us of actions being taken against them by medical
regulatory boards. Invariably, the action involves
testimony against the clinicians by members of the endocrinology
specialty or affiliates of theirs.
And what is the ultimate consequence of these
actions against so many well-intended clinicians? Patients who
need safe and effective thyroid hormone therapy are restricted
to T4 replacement—an
approach that published studies clearly show to be ineffective
and harmful for many patients.
It seems that most every community has members
of the endocrinology specialty who function as thugs. They act as enforcers
of the command that clinicians use only TSH testing and T4 products. These thug
endocrinologists file complaints against noncompliant clinicians.
Then they testify against the clinicians before regulatory boards
and courts and walk away scot-free after giving scientifically-false testimony in courts of law
and other legal venues.
Experience tells me that the endocrinology specialty won't
relent—not until it's forced to do so, probably by class action law suits
and by forcible complaints for violations of medical ethics to
purveyors of medical regulatory boards. To me, the final
solution lies in the education of patients, clinicians, and
legislators; legislation to disempower the endocrinology
specialty from further harm to patients, clinicians, and the
public welfare; and litigation against the specialty and its
corporation supporters.
The force of unforgiving corruption by the
specialty and its affiliates has long loomed over me and my
medical colleagues. Because of this, at the beginning of 2010,
I decided to preemptively remove from my back the target known as
"licensed clinician." Having divested myself of that particular
easy target, I'm now free to communicate with people
(patients, their loved ones, and their clinicians) simply as a
clinical researcher, educator, and natural health advocate.
Now, rather than clinical work with patients,
we do educational and informational consulting with
clinicians and clients. And we're especially dedicated to help a special group of countless thousands: those who—knowing that the endocrinology specialty has forsaken them to
share power and profit with Big Pharma—have taken their health
and welfare into their own hands and now self treat.
We'll still provide information at drlowe.com to
help clinicians who are willing to work collaboratively with
patients. At the same time, though, we're converting drlowe.com
mainly to a self-help, self-care information source. We'll do
everything we can to help those working to control and enhance their own health
to succeed at that promising venture. Most patients don't need
licensed clinicians, as the lab tests, nutraceuticals, and medications they need
are available without prescriptions. And unfettered by licensing
restrictions, I'm free, as a peer, to share these sources with
our consulting clients.
Our main purpose, then, is to help you optimize
your health through providing you with rationally- and
scientifically-derived information. We support you in using this
information whether or not you choose to use the help of licensed
clinicians. Regardless of your choice, we'll be grateful if you'll
help by sending us feedback on how we can better serve this purpose.
All best wishes,
How to Find Information You
Want on drlowe.com Dr. John C. Lowe
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menus at the top of the page, we've listed many topics. When you click on one of the topics, you'll be carried to a webpage that contains the information you're looking for. When you click on others, you'll be
carried to a webpage that contains a menu of subtopics you can
choose from. When you click on one of the subtopic links, you'll reach a
webpage that deals with the topic of your interest in more detail.
"Find" Engine.
You may not find the topic you're interested in among the links contained in the drop down menus
at the top of each page. If so, then use the search engine. This is the
window under the page heading at the right top part of each page. The
find engine may save you time in locating the information you're looking
for.
Newsletters.
A large amount of free information is contained within the webpages of drlowe.com. We'll
continue to add to that free information.
I often come across information that I believe will be of value to many
of our thousands of readers. Sometimes the information is new, and
sometimes it's so old that it's been forgotten despite it's usefulness.
We sometimes put the information on a webpage and list it in the
Latest Updates. (We've included
Latest Update links in the drop down menus for "Home & Contacts" and
"Q&As & Newsletters.")
In recent years, whenever I have information I believe is important for
our readers, we send the information out in Dr. John C. Lowe's
Newsletter. However, we may send the information out through one of three other newsletters (see below). You can subscribe to any or all of these
newsletters free of charge. We also put the information on an appropriate
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particular website, click on the webpage address given below.
• Dr. John C. Lowe's Newsletter: This is our personal
newsletter from www.drlowe.com. We
email this newsletter to our subscribers at various times. Those times
are when we believe that sharing information may help some of our
readers to recover or maintain good health.
•
ThyroidScience.com: Thyroid Science is a formal,
international
scientific and clinical medical journal. It is fully "open access." This
means that anyone on planet Earth can read, download, and print the
journal's contents free of charge. The journal's website is
www.ThyroidScience.com.
Franconia Ltd began publishing Thyroid Science in 2005. At the time,
I envisioned the journal as a forum where natural medicine or alternative
clinicians and researchers would publish their papers. I wanted this
because, I'm convinced, the traditional endocrinology journals are
largely propaganda tools for the pharmaceutical companies that have
corrupted the endocrinology specialty. Those journals censor
submitted papers that might not be favorable to the financial interests
of the drug companies that advertise in them.
As the years have past, I learned that only a few natural medicine or alternative
clinicians, especially courageous ones, are willing to publish their views in Thyroid Science.
Many have been frank in telling me that they cannot risk coming to the
attention of thug endocrinologists in their cities. If they do,
the endocrinologists may file complaints against them with medical
regulatory boards. The complaints,
of course, would be for failing to comply
with the specialty's commercially-based dictate that hypothyroid patients be
restricted solely to T4 replacement in which patients' T4 doses are adjusted
according to their TSH levels.
At the same time, researchers from many medical specialties across the globe publish in Thyroid Science. These researchers and clinicians
include many endocrinologists. As a result, we've changed the major aim of the journal. We still publish
papers from natural medicine and alternative clinicians and researchers.
But our main aim now includes taking the opportunity to communicate with
endocrinologists and other specialists who practice according to the
specialty's dictates.
The special purpose of our communication with those specialists is to let them know that there are numerous
scientifically-based approaches to thyroid hormone therapy in addition to T4 replacement. We also let them
know of scientific evidence that T4 replacement is for many patients clinically inferior and harmful.
So far, those who've published in Thyroid Science have been open
to hearing this information, which they were unaware of before. In this sense, I see the
journal as a Trojan Horse exerting a positive influence within the walls of mainstream medicine, including the endocrinology
specialty.
• ThyroidScience.us Update:
In this newsletter, we provide information we consider useful for those interested in Franconia
Ltd's nutraceuticals, such as
Thyro-Gold. The website is
www.ThyroidScience.us. However, we often instead include this information in Dr. John C. Lowe's Newsletter.
• Fibromyalgia Research Foundation Newsletter.
The main underlying mechanism of what we call "fibromyalgia"
is now
long known. The main mechanism is too little thyroid hormone regulation of cell
function. Of course, old-guard rheumatology fibromyalgia researchers appear completely bereft of any awareness of this fact. Because of this, we only occasionally send newsletters from the foundation's website,
www.FibromyalgiaResearch.org. But when we do, the information is
important for those who've received the diagnosis of fibromyalgia.
Drawing from the cover of Dr. Lowe's book
