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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. 

Look at my blog post below and you’ll see the latest duhhh entry – i.e Endoc­ri­no­lo­gists finally repor­ted that T3 was an effec­tive treat­ment in place of T4. Finally!! Of course, patients know that desic­ca­ted thy­roid is an even BETTER treat­ment, and that has been unders­co­red by those that tried T3 with their T4 (without having a reverse T3 issue), then switched to desic­ca­ted thy­roid like Armour, and noted they felt much bet­ter. But it’s still an announ­ce­ment in the right direction.

But we now have another duhhh entry: The Jour­nal of Cli­ni­cal Endoc­ri­no­logy & Meta­bo­lism has repor­ted that long-term levothy­ro­xine repla­ce­ment the­rapy in young adults is asso­cia­ted with car­dio­vas­cu­lar abnor­ma­li­ties. Another finally. We as patients have already known that for years! We’ve expe­rien­ced what Synth­roid, Levoxyl and all other T4-only medi­ca­tions have done to our hearts! I watched my own mother have to have an angio­plasty because of her long-term use of Synthroid…and we have NO heart disease or pro­blems like this in our family history!

So yes, you will see the announ­ce­ment that a new page is going to be crea­ted here on STTM which will high­light jour­nal entries and medi­cal announ­ce­ments which only sup­port what patients have been expe­rien­cing and trying to tell their doc­tors for a longgggg time. lol. And your con­tri­bu­tions to this new page will be welcomed. 

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The new page is here: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/medical-research Check this page often, either to send me new research which sup­ports what we already know, or to find meat to give your rigid doctor. 

***You can order the STTM book here, which is a com­plete patient-to-patient book on far bet­ter thy­roid treat­ment. It’s YOUR book!

It would make an inc­re­di­ble horror movie. The plot: stun­ningly con­vince at least hun­dreds of millions of indi­vi­duals world­wide that what has always been obvious, isn’t. That lea­ves only look green because of alien fil­ters in your eyes. That ripe apples fall because water pulls them down. That fire doesn’t really burn your skin; it’s just your imagination. 

And about hun­dred more schi­zoph­re­nic ying yangs. Because if those in autho­rity say so, it must be so. 

But the horror movie is a rea­lity, and I see it EVERY TIME I come into con­tact with peo­ple and the sub­ject of my thy­roid advo­cacy comes up. 

Like today. A cou­ple saw my book and struck up a con­ver­sa­tion. She was on Synth­roid; he was on Levoxyl. They had each been on their T4-only treat­ment for 12 and 14 years res­pec­ti­vely, felt their hypo was per­fectly trea­ted, belie­ved their doctors…and were now dea­ling with other pro­blems: his rising cho­les­te­rol, her depres­sion, his fati­gue, and her weight gain. BUT OF COURSE, THOSE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEIR T4-ONLY TREATED HYPOTHYROID AND SOME OF IT IS THEIR OWN FAULT…leaves aren’t really green, water makes ripe apples fall, and fire doesn’t really burn. 

It just struck me. And it’s struck me before. There’s just a LOT of SILENT SUCKERS wal­king around. I was one; my mother was one; and there are obviously millions out there, still wal­king around trying to live with the side effects of a treat­ment that their doc­tors say are NOT cau­sed by their thyroid. 

Sad.

(Has your cho­les­te­rol and other lipids impro­ved since you switched to Armour and rai­sed without using the TSH? Your story of suc­cess is wel­come on the blog post below!)

Have you ever had someone say something in JUST a way that it hits you bet­ween the eyes?? That’s what Diane did to me. She’s a thy­roid and adre­nal patient, and we were dis­cus­sing the way a huge medi­cal web­site still gives out back­wards and harm­ful thy­roid treat­ment infor­ma­tion, telling patients to “raise their Synth­roid” to coun­ter their con­ti­nuing hypothy­roid symp­toms (which doesn’t work), or pro­noun­cing that because their TSH is “nor­mal”, those symp­toms are not rela­ted to hypothy­roid (they are.) This huge web­site has kept patients sick for YEARS, and is one of the main rea­sons I crea­ted STTM!

And Diane said to me “Somehow the true mes­sage needs to get into the main stream.”

Boink! That just hit me squa­rely bet­ween the eyes! Sure, I’ve been saying the same in a dif­fe­rent way for years – that our mes­sage needs to get out. But when Diane men­tio­ned the “mains­tream”, it hit me. 

Here we are, vic­tims of a medi­cal scan­dal which has been going on for 50 years, and which has effec­ted HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS all that time. Some of those vic­tims are dead; and many more are still alive, with new vic­tims hap­pe­ning DAILY. Yet, the “mains­tream media” has never taken the time or inte­rest to report on this. HUHHH??

Wiki­pe­dia defi­nes the mains­tream media as the sec­tion of the media spe­ci­fi­cally envi­sio­ned and desig­ned to reach a very large audience, and that might inc­lude tele­vi­sion, radio, news­pa­pers and maga­zi­nes. Yet, what do you see on any of those mediums? You see the regur­gi­ta­tion of the old-boy, Poll­yanna methods of hypothy­roid diag­no­sis and treat­ment – the use of the TSH and total T4, plus T4-only meds like Synth­roid, Levoxyl, Levothy­ro­xine, et al. And if there is men­tion of desic­ca­ted thy­roid, it’s bare. YAWN.

Some pun­dants feel that there is a form of lite­rary cen­sorship going on in the main media…i.e. if it’s not sen­sa­tio­nal, for­get it. Others will cite bias and mani­pu­la­tion by those that report, espe­cially in the poli­ti­cal arena. 

But what I lean to believe is that there’s a monkey-see, monkey-do men­ta­lity in the media. Namely, the mains­tream media lazily con­forms itself to the lou­dest, lon­gest or most financially-influential voice. And who’s had that voice in the thy­roid treat­ment arena?? The money-grubbing phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, who thrust billions of dollars into medi­cal schools, besi­des their bright-eyed reps, to even­tually con­vince every doc­tor since the early 1960’s that the lousy T4-only medi­ca­tions (Synth­roid, Levoxyl, et al), and the dubious TSH lab tests, are from God Almighty. 

So, that lie keeps being repea­ted, ad nau­seum, and the TRUTH, which comes from every­day patients all around the world, gets igno­red by the mains­tream media. Thus, millions out there still sit, mise­ra­ble or com­pro­mi­sed in their day-to-day lives, and on a myriad of other pills to coun­ter the lin­ge­ring symptoms…because their main con­tact with the world – the mains­tream media – is deaf and dumb – and they have not yet found Stop the Thy­roid Mad­ness, and may not for years!

So.…what can YOU do?? Con­tact the mains­tream media. SCREAM at the mains­tream media. DOG the mains­tream media. I have wor­ked hard to put YOUR truth up here and in the book. You can help by sprea­ding that word, one by one, like the Lilli­pu­tians who moved the giant. 

*To con­tact ABC, go here.
*To con­tact MSNBC, go here or email Health@MSNBC.com
*To con­tact CBS, go here. Use the drop down menu to click on a news pro­gram
*To con­tact Fox News, go here.
*To con­tact CNN, go here.
*The top 20 Women’s maga­zi­nes are here.

Want to add more emails or web­site URL’s for con­tact? Just add a com­ment to this post below. 

**Patients are repor­ting that the STTM book is even bet­ter than the web­site! Yeehaw! To order your copy, go to the publishing web­site here. There are also options to order one for your doc­tor, and one for Oprah!

UPDATE: I am plea­sed to announce that the most gutsy, revo­lu­tio­nary, com­prehen­sive and prac­ti­cal book on the sub­ject of diag­no­sis, treat­ment, and medi­ca­tions for hypothy­roid, as well as rela­ted con­di­tions, inc­lu­ding low ferri­tin, adre­nal fati­gue and other pro­blems which befall hypothy­roid patients…is out! This is YOUR book as a patient-to-patient book. 

The link below will take you to the Publisher’s web­site. On the home page, you can read about the publisher. Then click on the PRODUCTS page to see the book and infor­ma­tion. Click on the DOUBLE GREEN ARROWS to open up the entire text plus ship­ping infor­ma­tion.

www.laughinggrapepublishing.com

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Yup, it’s done. It’s com­plete. And I can say without a doubt that there is NO book on hypothy­roid as hands-on as this one. Why can I say that? Because the book is based on YOUR EXPERIENCE and thou­sands like you. Because this is THE patient-to-patient book. Yes, I wrote it, but YOU wrote it, too. 

Where is the STTM book avai­la­ble? It will FIRST be avai­la­ble right here on the site in appro­xi­ma­tely two weeks. It’s about 300 pages and will sell for 19.95. So keep coming back here. 

Is the STTM book a copy of the web­site? Not exactly. Yes, you will see some things in the book that ARE on the web­site. That was impor­tant. But.…you will also find a chap­ter totally on T3. You will learn some his­tory that’s not on the web­site. You will get more details on adre­nal sup­port. You will have new sto­ries of others. You will read a chap­ter totally writ­ten for and about doc­tors. And there’s much more that is not right on the STTM site…little details inser­ted here and inser­ted there. 

Why did I write it? Because though the STTM web­site has done WONDERS to reach peo­ple, MORE is nee­ded. There are folks out there who are NOT coming to the web, or even know to look for ans­wers, and this book will reach them. And.…it can simply be more pro­duc­tive to have a BOOK to refer to and a BOOK to read when you are tra­ve­ling in the air­plane or wai­ting in the doctor’s office. AND.….FINALLY, we have something to HAND THE DOCTOR when he or she doesn’t get what we are tal­king about…or to our family or friends when they don’t get it, either. 

Get ready. I’m exci­ted. I hope you are too. 

P.S. Guess what Oprah Win­frey may be drin­king daily?? Soy milk. And since soy is a known thy­roid inhi­bi­tor, guess what she’s doing to her thy­roid? Quo­ted directly from her site: Thanks to all the yogurt and calcium-enriched soy­milk she con­su­mes, she’s get­ting an ave­rage of about 1,100 mg of cal­cium daily OOPS.