You can call it Alternative Medicine, CAM, Naturopathy, Integrative Medicine, or Functional Medicine – doesn’t matter – a duck is still a duck. Come be a voyeur as a reader shares her real-life experience with a FM doc.
Category: Alternative Medicine
Is it time to throw out your thermometer? Here’s an evidence-based look at why BBT is not helpful for diagnosing/managing hypothyroidism.
There is a recurring thread throughout the comments on some of my posts, with respect to people’s desire to order their own blood work. To…
I give up. Like Danny Glover’s iconic character in Lethal Weapon: via GIPHY You win, alt med – everyone is hypothyroid. Lab testing in the…
Last summer, I published a post called Alternative Medicine is Kicking Our Ass. In it, I focused on one particularly slick alt-thyroid site that has…
I’m kicking today off with a mea culpa. Last year, I published The Ultimate Guide to Thyroid Function Testing – Hypothyroidism Edition. In that post, I…
I recently received the following plea for help from a reader; all identifying details have been changed. As you read my response – as…
While doing research for a different post, I recently stumbled across a website unlike the majority of histrionic thyroid sites on the internet. This…
I have spent a ridiculous amount of time contemplating why people seek out quackery and what I can do to save them from getting…
[HD: This post was also featured on KevinMD under the title, Advice for alternative medicine practitioners: Stay in your lane.] Dear Alternative Medicine, Hi, it’s…