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Dr. Lowe How to Prepare Patient-to-Patient Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
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Biography Dr. Lowe holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in research-oriented general psychology from the University of West Florida. He also holds a B.S. degree in human biology and a doctorate in chiropractic from the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, now the Southern California University of Health Sciences. He formerly taught psychology at the Miami Dade Community College and was a faculty member in the Clinical Sciences Division of the Texas Chiropractic College. Dr. Lowe is board certified in pain management by the American Academy of Pain Management, the worlds largest organization for certifying health care professionals in pain management. He has authored more than 150 articles, scientific papers, and book chapters. His writings have appeared many journals, including Psychological Reports; Medical Science Monitor; the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; the American Journal of Pain Management; Anabolism—A Journal of Preventive Medicine; Medical Hypotheses; Lyon Méditerranée Médical: Médecine du Sud-Est; the British Medical Journal; the Journal of Myofascial Therapy; the Clinical Bulletin of Myofascial Therapy; the Massage Therapy Journal; the Journal of the American Chiropractic Association; and Thyroid Science. Trade papers such as Dynamic Chiropractic, the Chiropractic Journal, and others have published articles and monthly columns by Dr. Lowe. The
authors of at least
twenty-two books have cited or described Dr.
Lowe's work. Among his published books is the
bestseller Spasm,
Your
Guide to Metabolic Health, and The Metabolic
Treatment of Fibromyalgia. Study Sphere has given Dr. Lowe an excellence
award for sections of The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia. He is a member of the Board of Medical Advisors of Thyroid UK, and is a member of Index Copernicus Scientists, a global information networking system for scientists. He is Editor-in-Chief of the open-access electronic journal Thyroid Science. He formerly served on the Advisory Board of Inside Texas Running Magazine and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. He is former Editor of the Journal of Myofascial Therapy and the Clinical Bulletin of Myofascial Therapy. The 62nd edition of the premier biographical source Marquis Who's Who in American was published in 2008. Dr. Lowe was selected by the Marquis committee to be included. Marquis, which began publication in 1899, chronicles the lives and careers of America's most noteworthy men and women. (Dr. Lowe's comments on his inclusion in Marquis.) Underpinnings of Dr. Lowe's Work Underpinning Dr. Lowe's work are his two main intellectual interests: (1) theoretical-deductive science, the highest level scientific activity, which enables one to make the best possible sense of study findings in a research field; and (2) symbolic (mathematical) logic, the discipline one uses to determine the validity or invalidity of his own and others' arguments. Dr. Lowe is a devout critical rationalist. This means that he subscribes to the hypothesis (proposed by Sir Karl Popper and articulated by David Miller and others) that the ultimate job of logical, scientific thinkers is to falsify ideas, beliefs, hypotheses, and theories. The reason for falsifying these is to eliminate their errors. Free of at least some of their errors, the ideas, beliefs, hypotheses, and theories may become more accurate representations of truth. If eliminating errors makes it obvious that an idea, belief, hypothesis, or theory is entirely false, then we can—having learned from the falsification—replace it with one that is hopefully more accurate. He is also an active critical analyst. This means that he analyzes his own thinking and beliefs and those of others to learn whether or not these are accurate and rational. In recent years, drug and medical device corporations have largely co-opted medical research, the medical profession and its institutions, medical practice guidelines committees, and the US Congress. These corporations have essentially turned all of these, to varying degrees, into marketing tools for the products of the corporations. This has brought about a necessity for patients and health care practitioners to protect themselves from marketing disguised as scientific findings. Through critical analysis, Dr. Lowe is exposing such marketing disguised as science in the fields of fibromyalgia and thyroidology. He is doing this in two new books, Speeding Up to Normal and Tyranny of the TSH. Examples of Dr. Lowe's critical analyses are his critiques of the T4 vs T4/T3 studies and the false and potentially harmful beliefs of the self-proclaimed "real thyroid expert," Dr. Richard Guttler. History Dr. Lowe began using myofascial therapy in
1980 under the tutelage of the late chiropractic radiologist David Ramby, D.C. For years, Dr. Lowe's main clinical
focus was patients' chronically tense muscles, fascial adhesions, and myofascial trigger
points. To help these patients, he used a broad-spectrum therapeutic approach.
It included soft tissue
manipulative techniques, Travell and Simons's stretch and spray, clinical
nutrition, and various physical therapy modalities, especially ultrasound.
After studying perpetuating factors as described by Drs. Janet Travell and
David Simons (especially in the 1st edition of their famous Trigger Point
Manual published in 1983), he began tenaciously studying biochemical abnormalities that
render some patients resistant to otherwise effective myofascial therapy. Currently, Dr. Lowe and his
multidisciplinary research team are studying the metabolic rates of
fibromyalgia patients. In two studies published in 2006 Dr. Lowe has determined that some 90% of fibromyalgia patients have thyroid disease. The thyroid diseases include primary hypothyroidism, central hypothyroidism, and partial peripheral cellular resistance to thyroid hormone. Most hypothyroid patients fully recover when they undergo the metabolic rehabilitation that Dr. Lowe originated and developed. And most fibromyalgia patients with thyroid hormone resistance markedly improve or fully recover when they go through metabolic rehab. Dr. Lowe is firm that he has determined the underlying mechanisms of most patients' fibromyalgia. Peter Warmingham of Thyroid UK pointed this out in 2002 in his article titled "Fibromyalgia has been solved" (Fibro Focus Supporter, 3:1-3, 2002). Dr. Lowe repeated Mr. Warmingham's announcement on August 19, 2005 in Sugarland, Texas at the Functional Endocrinology Symposium (sponsored by the Professional Compounding Companies of America), and he reiterated it on May 25, 2007 at the endocrinology symposium of the Institute for Functional Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. Overwhelming scientific evidence supports Mr. Warmingham's and Dr. Lowe's announcements. I December 2005, Dr. Lowe became a
member of
Index Copernicus Scientists upon invitation from its CEO Mark R. Graczynski, MD, PhD. Index Copernicus Scientists is a global
information networking system for scientists, designed by and for
scientists.
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