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Summary: Sage Advice for Today's Illnesses
Review: After reading many books and doing countless hours of research about hypothyroidism, I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Broda Barnes really knew what he was talking about. I wish that all of today's doctors would read this book and use it to diagnose and treat hypothyroidism. Dr. Barnes understood the connection of the many symptoms of hypothyroidism to the low functioning thyroid gland. He diagnosed and treated many, many patients in his time without the new TSH tests used today. It is no coincidence that these patients got better when he treated them. To truly understand hypothyroidism you must read this book. It may be a little outdated, but it is fundamentally correct in what it says. More doctors need to understand and use the information that Dr. Barnes has written about in this book.
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Summary: An important read!
Review: After reading many books and doing countless hours of research about hypothyroidism, I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Broda Barnes really knew what he was talking about. I wish that all of today's doctors would read this book and use it to diagnose and treat hypothyroidism. Dr. Barnes understood the connection of the many symptoms of hypothyroidism to the low functioning thyroid gland. He diagnosed and treated many, many patients in his time without the new TSH tests used today. It is no coincidence that these patients got better when he treated them. To truly understand hypothyroidism you must read this book. It may be a little outdated, but it is fundamentally correct in what it says. More doctors need to understand and use the information that Dr. Barnes has written about in this book.
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Summary: Revolutionary concept of modern disease causation.
Review: After spending years reviewing autopsy reports in a small town in Germany that required autopsies on all citizen over many decades Dr. Barnes came to some startling conclusions concerning the basis for much of modern disease. Blaming under diag nosing and misdiagnosing of thyroid disease coupled with a new proliferation of thyroid disease (by virtue of the new survival rates of thyroid patients)as the foundation of the increase of many "mysterious" ,"new" or "modern" conditions. What a concept! I just hope many medical people in endocrinology and immunology etc. read this book and share the idea with many others--We need some research on this idea-- that because of antibiotics many more people are sur viving and marrying other people with genetic similarities(especially infection related diseases) causing exponential disease increase.
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Summary: Should be required reading for all medical students!
Review: An excellent book on a technical subject that was so easy to understand. I was amazed at how many illnesses are related to hypothyroidism. You have to wonder why there seems to be so much mystery regarding the disease today since Dr. Barnes knew so much back during his lifetime and practice. I admired the way he even admitted to missing the fact that he too, was hypothyroid for the first five years he practiced medicine and even before that, he taught the subject to medical students.Every General Practitioner would serve him or herself well reading this well documented book. If you have any of the symptoms, you need to read it also. Another appropriate title would have been, "All You Ever Wanted To Know About Hypothyroidism."
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Summary: Dr Barnes was ahead of his time
Review: Anyone with hypothyroidism or other unexplained symptoms should read this book. Dr Barnes views on infectious disease and its possible relationship to low thyroid function are insightful. If you have diabetes read this book, Dr Barnes points out that the symptoms for diabetes and hypothyroidism are identical except for the metabolism of carbohydrates. Many diabetics also have hypothyroidism.
While the medical profession continues to treat atherosclerosis as a separate and distinct disease Dr Barnes points to the fact that the thyroid regulates the levels of cholesterol in our bloodstream. He cites studies where animals with healthy thyroids were fed obscenely large levels of cholesterol with no adverse effects. But when animals that had their thyroids removed were fed high levels of cholesterol they developed atherosclerosis. This book has changed my life because I had many of the early signs of low thyroid function mentioned by Dr Barnes, that no doctor picked up on. I suffered for over 20 years before my elevated TSH levels finally showed up in a blood test. Read this and Dr Arem Ridha's book on Hypothyroidism. If you need more help contact the Broda Barnes Foundation.
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Summary: THE Alternative medicine BIBLE of thyroid disease
Review: Despite the fact that Broda Barnes was an M.D., his book Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness is the bible for alternative medicine's view of hypothyroidism. Frankly, I think Dr. Barnes was a pioneer in identifying the many ways thyroid
problems affect us that conventional medicine today doesn't recognize. If you've ever wondered if hypothyroidism is causing certain symptoms, or how it may be affecting you, this book is excellent. It also describes the controversial -- but still used by some -- Barnes Basal Temperature method of diagnosing hypothyroidism. Amazingly, Dr. Barnes also describes an optimal diet in his 1976 book that is remarkably similar to the popular "Zone" diet which is finding favor with many people with hypothyroidism today, 20 years later. Dr. Barnes really often seems to be one of the only doctors who truly understand the impact of thyroid disease on overall health and the difficulty medicine seems to have with it. Here's a quote from his book.
"It may seem almost incredible that scientists can sit quietly on earth and follow the activity of the heart of a man walking on the moon and yet they have had so much difficulty in measuring the amount of thyroid hormone necessary for health and in developing effective and reliable tests to determine when thyroid function is inadequate." Dr. Barnes is also one of the doctors who regularly prescribed Armour Thryoid, the naturally- derived T4/T3 drug, for his
patients instead of the sythetic T4 only preparations (i.e., Synthroid, Levoxyl, generic levo-thyroxine) that are currently
popular. He says in the book: "[Synthetic] thyroxine...proved to have only one-tenth to one-twentieth of the metabolic activity
of the natural Levo-thyroxine."
Dr. Barnes also felt that doctors needed to gauge symptoms as well as blood tests when treating patients. Again, from his book: "The efforts though the various tests to measure thyroid activity by determining the amount of hormone stored in the gland or alternatively the amount present in the bloodstream fail to do what really counts: provide an indication of the amount of thyroid hormone available and being used within cells throughout the body. They are somewhat akin to trying to get an idea of a thrifty man's spending habits from the amount of money in his wallet or the size of his bank account. The amounts of money in wallet or bank account, like test for the amount of hormone in gland or bloodstream, tell us nothing about how much is being spent."
Mary Shomon, Editor, The Thyroid Disease Website and Newsletter, http://thyroid.miningco.com
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Summary: I was a patient of Dr Barnes
Review: Dr Barnes is still the master of Hypothyroidism. It's really sad todays doctors are listening to the AMA & drug salesmen, they have their head in the sand. Money is the object of anyone not willing to use Dr Barnes ideas for treating this disease. My Mother was in hospital for 3 months deathly sick only to be removed in a comatose condition. All hospital Staff & Drs treating her with ?? had a fit. She had been ill since 1960. This year 2000 she is 92 years old. After using Dr Barnes to help all symptoms are gone. The only reason the Medical profession won't use his theory is money. GET THE BOOK THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING PRINTED THAT WILL HELP YOU MORE THAN THIS BOOK. :EXCEPTION: BIBLE Dr Barnes methods are very simple & easy to understand, it may save your life, most doctors won't.
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Summary: I was a patient of Dr Barnes
Review: Dr Barnes is still the master of Hypothyroidism. It's really sad todays doctors are listening to the AMA & drug salesmen, they have their head in the sand. Money is the object of anyone not willing to use Dr Barnes ideas for treating this disease. My Mother was in hospital for 3 months deathly sick only to be removed in a comatose condition. All hospital Staff & Drs treating her with ?? had a fit. She had been ill since 1960. This year 2000 she is 92 years old. After using Dr Barnes to help all symptoms are gone. The only reason the Medical profession won't use his theory is money. GET THE BOOK THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING PRINTED THAT WILL HELP YOU MORE THAN THIS BOOK. :EXCEPTION: BIBLE Dr Barnes methods are very simple & easy to understand, it may save your life, most doctors won't.
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Summary: I was a patient of Dr Barnes
Review: Dr Barnes is still the master of Hypothyroidism. It's really sad todays doctors are listening to the AMA & drug salesmen, they have their head in the sand. Money is the object of anyone not willing to use Dr Barnes ideas for treating this disease. My Mother was in hospital for 3 months deathly sick only to be removed in a comatose condition. All hospital Staff & Drs treating her with ?? had a fit. She had been ill since 1960. This year 2000 she is 92 years old. After using Dr Barnes to help all symptoms are gone. The only reason the Medical profession won't use his theory is money. GET THE BOOK THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING PRINTED THAT WILL HELP YOU MORE THAN THIS BOOK. :EXCEPTION: BIBLE Dr Barnes methods are very simple & easy to understand, it may save your life, most doctors won't.
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Summary: I'm not Crazy, I really do have a thyroid problem!!!!!!
Review: Excellent source for the lay person on diagnosing your hypothyroidism and understanding why standard thyroid test are not always "right". Easy to follow instruction and a lot of common sense application. Not for the purest as it is not scientific enough. This book helped to improve my quality of life and got me and my doctor on the right track to treating my disease. Have recommended this book to many friends and gave a copy to my doctor.
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