Comments on: Guess who I’m going to be talking with next week on Talkshoe??

By: Val

Val — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:38:39 +0000

What is going on why do these people call themselves Gps and endocronologists when they don’t know the first thing about this common condition. Why would a T4 and T3 test be invented if it was’nt to be used. Why is it like coming up against a brick wall when you even mention the word thyroid to a doctor why don’t they want to test even if they can’t understand. Why do they get paid £100.000 per an, if they know less about it than their patients. What planet did they get there degree from.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:47:06 +0000

So the critics are crying “no real scientific basis” because a doctor made a diagnosis not solely based on a blood test result. Gee whiz — isn’t that the whole point of a doctor — to interpret test results IN CONJUNCTION WITH a patient’s symptoms? Otherwise, why even go to a doctor? We could just go to the lab and straight to the pharmacy, eliminating the middleman doctor! Where is the real scientific basis that the TSH test is the be all and end all of diagnosing thyroid disorders? Are there any studies on this that are NOT funded by the companies who manufacture and/or profit from these tests?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:58:24 +0000

To Babs: I’ve had to deal with a lot of idiot doctors, but, good grief — the one you just mentioned takes the prize!!

By: Babs

Babs — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:51:38 +0000

Well, if “laying on hands” is what made her feel all better, I hope they lay hands on me at my appt. I have the SAME symptoms.

I actually had one of the “top docs” here whack me on the knee and say, “I think you’re hyper.” (I’ve always had really, really good reflexes. All my life.) But, he determined me hyper and took me off meds by looking at my TSH and whacking my knee.

Seriously.

By: Lisa Barnes Murray

Lisa Barnes Murray — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:08:03 +0000

This is so exciting! I am looking forward to this call!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:07:46 +0000

YAY! Guess I will be staying up to call in for this one too! I have a lot of questions for this man that has the GUTS to stand up to the Endo groups with science to back him up! His original website is responsible for my starting T3 only treatment for my self and helping other people with reverse T3 issues so I certainly want to shake his proverbial hand!

By: Lena

Lena — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:39:50 +0000

I think it is very disingenuous of the critics of people like Dr Holtorf, this website, etc, to accuse them of being quacks or con-artists alongside shady practitioners of “alternative medicine” or snake-oil. For one thing, nearly everyone I know who is an advocate of using dessicated thyroid would dearly love for all sorts of proper clinical trials to be run comparing it to placebo, and synthetic hormones. We have an enormous amount of anecdotal and historical evidence, more than enough to support running such trials. Run and funded by independent laboratories, of course!