Recommended Websites

Since edu­ca­tion is your key to good treat­ment, thy­roid patients have found the follo­wing web­si­tes and/or artic­les to be of value. They are lis­ted in no par­ti­cu­lar order, and some­ti­mes I’m not quick to get other good web­si­tes up, but will even­tually…)

***By the way, let me know if a link stops wor­king by using the Con­tact Me form at the bot­tom of this page. Thanks.

• Com­pi­la­tion of infor­ma­tion on sup­pres­sed TSH (which you will have on an opti­mal dose of desic­ca­ted thy­roid) plus more exce­llent infor­ma­tion on the web­site as a whole http://altsupportthyroid.org/tsh/tshmedrefs5.php

• Stephanie’s web­site revol­ving around her suc­cess­ful battle with thy­roid can­cer, plus infor­ma­tion on chil­dren and thy­roid. www.naturalthyroidchoices.com

• This web­site shows a strong con­nec­tion bet­ween the use of iodine (which also bene­fits your thy­roid) and breast health. www.breastcancerchoices.org/

• A web­site by Dr. Gina Honey­man, who heads the Cen­ter for Meta­bo­lic Health and focu­ses on regai­ning your meta­bo­lic reha­bi­li­ta­tion. www.drginahoneyman.com

• An inter­view with Dr. David Derry con­cer­ning the fallacy of the TSH test, plus other good info.  Rethin­king the TSH Test: an inter­view by Dr. David Derry

• This tho­rough site by Edna of the UK pro­vi­des a wealth of infor­ma­tion on artic­les and research rela­ted to thy­roid
  www.thyroidresearch.com

• Down­loa­da­ble graph and ins­truc­tions for temperature-taking – a must!  www.drrind.com

• Here’s where you can find the refe­rence that the thy­roid pro­du­ces an equi­va­lence of 3 – 5 grains, or 94 – 110 µg T4 and 10 – 22 µg T3 daily, plus a good web­site ove­rall www.thyroidmanager.org/

• Matt Stone’s new and inno­va­tive health web­site pre­sents good enligh­te­ning health infor­ma­tion which can go against dogma. He even unders­tands the wis­dom of Broda Bar­nes about desic­ca­ted thy­roid.  Worth a look! www.180degreehealth.com

• Jef­frey Dach MD not only sup­ports natu­ral desic­ca­ted thy­roid and Stop the Thy­roid Mad­ness, he has a health web­site chock full of exce­llent infor­ma­tion to improve your health. http://jeffreydach.com/

• John Lowe’s Thy­roid Science jour­nal web­site:  http://www.thyroidscience.com/

• Here is Marianne’s UK Well-Women web­site chock full of good infor­ma­tion for women and good thy­roid treat­ment: www.well-women.com

• If you like poetry, this is a web­site of touching and soul-reaching poetry expres­sing the author’s frus­tra­tions with hypothy­roid, as well as the diag­no­sis of fibrom­yal­gia and ME (myal­gic encepha­lom­ye­li­tis) www.reflectionspoetry.co.uk

• Exce­llent article on iodine defi­ciency, it’s rela­tionship to breast and pros­tate can­cer, and it’s con­nec­tion with thy­roid. http://drshevin.com/patient_education/nutrition_hygiene/iodine_deficiency.php

• A non-profit and sweet web­site crea­ted by Mag­gie to pro­mote awa­re­ness, sup­port, and research of Ado­les­cent Thy­roid Disea­ses. www.adolescentthyroid.com

• Why using Armour is GOOD for your heart, not bad, plus more good info on this site  http://www.drlowe.com/QandA/askdrlowe/heart.htm

• The his­tory of levothy­ro­xine (T4-only meds) is out­li­ned in this infor­ma­tive article. mediwire.skyscape.com/main/Default.aspx?P=Content&ArticleID=177010

• Exce­llent article from Alter­na­tive Medi­cine Review on Armour Thy­roid by Alan R. Gaby www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FDN/is_2_9/ai_n6112780

• Exce­llent over­view of adre­nals tuberose.com/Adrenal_Glands.html

• Sup­port web­site by Chris for Hypo­pi­tui­tary issues (this web­site by Chris seems gone, so go here.)

• Susanne of France has wor­ked hard over the years, and con­ti­nues to do so, with this thyroid/adrenal site in dif­fe­rent lan­gua­ges  www.geocities.com/thyroide/

• Uni­ted Kingdom’s thy­roid site by Lyn Mynott www.thyroiduk.org

• Thy­roid Patient Advocacy-UK – thy­roid advo­cacy site wor­king to inc­rease awa­re­ness for pro­per diag­no­sis and appro­priate treat­ment for this disease. www.tpa-uk.org.uk

• UK’s SheilaTurner’s web­site for down­loa­da­ble & prin­ta­ble info to give to your doc. www.armourinfo.freeuk.com

• A sweet and very infor­ma­tive web­site con­cer­ning thy­roid and adre­nals. www.bestweb.net/~om/thyroid

• A place to get an alter­na­tive to Iodo­ral (iodine) that may be as good, and if you buy 3 or more bott­les, a savings. Page also con­tains infor­ma­tion about use of iodine. http://store.nexternal.com

• If you need to con­vert Fah­renheit to Cel­sius (or know the con­ver­sion of ANY kind of mea­su­re­ment), I highly recom­mend this site: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/length (thanks Lynda of the UK)

(Links will be con­ti­nually added to this list)