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…
I spend the majority of my blogging efforts helping you avoid spinning your wheels seeking worthless diagnostic testing and useless Alternative Medicine therapies. Instead,…
Chances are you’ve searched for a new primary care physician or sub-specialist at some point in the last couple of years. If not, just wait…
I’m kicking this post off with a disclosure: what you read today is heavy on speculation and light on evidence because…well…the evidence in this space…
I recently spent the better part of a week at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ annual meeting, where I picked up some fascinating pearls…
Why has Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) become the Rodney Dangerfield of hormone tests? If I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen a practitioner…
It has been two years since I launched Hormones Demystified. When it turned 1-year-old, I was excited and a little shocked that: one, I’d been…
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…