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I called Rhea on the phone today.

Ear­lier today, Rhea was in the one-operator beauty salon at the same time as my 90 year old mother-in-law: one get­ting her gray hair dried while the other got her gra­yer tres­ses rolled. And as con­ver­sa­tions go in beauty salons, it tur­ned to per­so­nal topics (which can range from one’s mari­tal hap­pi­ness to whether Mrytle’s boobs are real or expan­ded.) And one of those topics was about Rhea’s hypothy­roi­dism as well as her daughter’s.

And of course, my very doting mother-in-law men­tions the STTM book writ­ten by her daughter-in-law, Janie, and hands her a copy from the car. Long story short…Rhea wants me to call her.

The phone con­ver­sa­tion went into the fact that she used to be on Armour, but then lis­te­ned to a local doc­tor seve­ral years later who switched her to Synth­roid – “a far more sta­ble medi­ca­tion”. (not) Since she switched, she says she’s felt terri­ble for years, and has recently retur­ned to Armour, and with the vast infor­ma­tion in the book, unders­tood now how she nee­ded to raise.

And then came the shoc­ker: THE DOCTOR WHO PUT HER ON ARMOUR WAS BRODA BARNES.

My eyes got as big as fiesta din­ner pla­tes and I exc­lai­med “THE Broda Bar­nes??” “Yes,” she replied. “I saw him in Love­land, Colo­rado and he was a dar­ling man.” She pro­cee­ded to tell me that when doc­tors ente­red the room back then, you stood. And she remem­bers his wife being there, and being just as sweet as he. She reca­lled him saying that when he was in medi­cal school, he was disap­poin­ted when the pro­fes­sor assig­ned him to study the thy­roid gland. “Such a little puny gland”, he thought. “But today, 50 years later, I still have so much to learn about that little gland.”

For those who don’t know the name of Broda Bar­nes, he was the father of the desic­ca­ted thy­roid move­ment and an autho­rity on the thy­roid. Even back then, he knew of the supe­rio­rity of desic­ca­ted thy­roid treat­ment like Armour, and presc­ri­bed it. He also wrote the clas­sic Hypothy­roi­dism: The Unsus­pec­ted Ill­ness. His book and legacy kept the idea of Armour and desic­ca­ted thy­roid alive all these years later when we, as patients, were paying attention.

Rhea is now up to 4 grains Armour and fee­ling much bet­ter, and may have to go a little higher before she’s opti­mal. Thank you, Rhea, for giving me and anyone rea­ding this a little peek into the won­der­ful Broda Barnes.

I often won­der how many cele­bri­ties MUST have hypothy­roi­dism, yet we don’t know it. Tonite, I just found out that Jillian Michaels, the tough and mus­cu­lar fit­ness buff on the TV show Big­gest Loser, has hypothyroidism.

And you’re left to won­der: is she, and are others, on Armour, Natu­reth­roid, Westh­roid?? Have they found out about the supe­rior treat­ment of desic­ca­ted thy­roid over a T4-only treat­ment with Synth­roid, Levoxyl, et al?

Other cele­bri­ties with hypo inc­lude Kim Ale­xis, Linda Rons­tadt, Kim Cat­trall, Kelly Osbourne, Oprah Win­frey and others. We can only hope that one day, someone will figure out that desic­ca­ted thy­roid is a supe­rior treat­ment, and help us spread the word. So far, Oprah has let us down. Maybe…maybe…someone with the abi­lity to spread the word will step up to the plate.

p.s. Pre­fer a book to a web­site? STTM is now in book form, with even more infor­ma­tion than you can find on this site, and wai­ting to be in your hands.

Star­ted with a new doc. He presc­ri­bes Armour and is rea­ding the STTM book. That lat­ter in itself is an eye-popping miracle.

And…as we were going over my exten­sive lab­work, which he does for new patients, and as I was lamen­ting the way too many doc­tors put their patients on the lousy sta­tins (when all they need to do is treat hypo CORRECTLY), he sta­ted, with a sigh of dis­may and humi­lity, something to the effect of: We doc­tors are simply too busy to keep up with the latest good infor­ma­tion that patients are fin­ding out far ahead of us.

I nearly fell off my chair!! He was honestly and hum­bling admit­ting that patients are fin­ding out good infor­ma­tion far ahead of doc­tors! i.e. he was NOT dis­sing the inter­net; he was NOT dis­sing that a patient could actually be more infor­med than him; he was not dis­sing infor­ma­tion that goes against the Big Pharma Con Job .

This doc is a keeper.

p.s. Think your doc is open-minded enough to read the STTM book?? You can have the publishing com­pany send one directly to your doc­tor. Click on the SEND A BOOK TO YOUR DOCTOR.