What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Hypothyroidism: A Simple Plan for Extraordinary Results (Paperback)

by Ken Blanchard (Author), Marietta Abrams Brill (Author) "Maybe you can remember it-a time when your energy and capacity were in sync with your life..." (more)
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In the latest title in the hugely successful What Your Doctor May Not Tell You series, Dr. Ken Blanchard introduces an unprecedented regimen for successfully diagnosing and treating the millions with hypothyroidism. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Description
A groundbreaking, proven approach for successfully dia--gnosing and treating the mil-lions with hypothyroidism. Depression, weight gain, fatigue, headaches, memory lapses, hair loss-these are just some of the vague, often debilitating symptoms that plaguethe more than 13 million patients with hypothyroidism. The typical blood test for diagnosis is often inaccurate, leaving many to suffer through ineffective treatment. But now, there is a solution: Dr. Blanchard's groundbreaking program draws on emerging research, medical facts, and three decades of clinical experiences as an endocrinologist. This individualized program uses questionnaires and charts to help diagnose sufferers through symptoms, not only lab results. It then treats patients of all ages with the safe but little used T3 hormone in combination with the more common T4 hormone. Also including specific nutritional advice and alternative treatments, this is the one program for sufferers of hypothyrodism that really works!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446690619
• ISBN-13: 978-0446690614
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,434 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If your thyriod meditcation doesn't seem to be working, read this book, October 3, 2005

By	lovetodance (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

I think this book shows the many complications with thyroid problems; one medicine does not fit all. I took the book to my last medical visit because my doctor is very open minded when it comes to discussing the complications of the condition and subsequent treatment, some of the scenarios in the book described my experience. I am now trying a different approach. This book may help a lot of people understand why even though they are taking medication for thyroid complications, they are still not feeling as good as they should. It made a difference for me.

103 of 112 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If You're Hypothyroid--Or Think You May Be--Buy This Book!, June 21, 2004

By A Customer

This book will change your life--for the better. Dr. Blanchard is hypothyroidism's Number One Top Doc, and if you can't get in to see him in person, the next best thing is this book. Even if you have the good fortune to see him in person, this book is a godsend.

Kenneth Blanchard, M.D. knows just how to treat hypothyroidism, and in this book presents his methods for managing medication, weight, and energy.

I've bought four copies already--one for me, and the rest for my many hypothyroid friends. I plan to buy more, and I invite you to check it out yourselves. Every hypothyroid person (and their families) can benefit from his excellent, innovative approach to a widespread problem.

Kudos, Dr. Blanchard!

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Missing Some Important Information, September 9, 2007

By	MyOwnTake - See all my reviews

Dr. Blanchard has some good ideas about how to balance T4 and T3, but the book was
lacking information I had hoped it would contain. The human thyroid actually produces
10% T3, and 90% T4 -- so I'm not quite sure why Dr. Blanchard arrived at the 2%
solution -- perhaps most of his patients still have functioning thyroids, but functioning
at a lower than normal level.

There is almost no discussion of patients who have NON-functioning
thyroid glands, thyroidectomies, or myxedema. As a patient with a non-functioning
thyroid, and also having experienced myxedema due to lack of adequate medication, I found
this book was not very useful. There was no discussion of a full physiological replacement
dosage. I am unfortunately familiar with the symptoms of myxedema, and aware than incompetent
physicians are capable of inducing myxedema in a severely hypothyroid patient by relying on the
TSH test and underdosing the patient.
Also, I would like to have seen more discussion on the MANY types of thyroid
antibodies, and how these can affect the type of medication and dosage a
patient needs to feel well. I would also like to have read a discussion on why
some people need a higher than normal dosage to feel well -- due to poor stomach
absorption, thyroid resistance, anemia, etc. For reasons not well understood, other individuals
do not adequately convert T4 to T3 in their bodies; thus they require high amounts
of T3. There was no discussion on this point, either.

Something I had expected in the book (from other reviews) was a discussion of the physical
symptoms of inadequate or excessive T4, and T3 levels. Instead, the reader was
referred to the blood test again.

So for those patients with severe hypothyroidism, or non-functioning glands, you're still
on your own to figure out the best treatment regimen. The 2% T3 plan is
just too simple, and this book offers no explanation of what a full physiological
replacement dosage should be.