When Low Thyroid Can Kill You
Your thyroid gland makes hormones that regulate your body’s temperature and metabolism. Under certain circumstances, when your thyroid falters, it puts your life in danger. The thyroid secretes two...
View ArticleThe Hidden Threat To Your Thyroid
Don’t think the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster is over. Heartbreakingly, the tragic effects are showing themselves in Japan with increases in thyroid cancers and other cancers related to radiation...
View ArticleThe Thyroid Toxin All Around Us
The toxins in our homes and workplaces represent a serious threat to health. A study in Taiwan shows that a chemical widely used in the products you handle every day can impair your thyroid function....
View ArticleThe toxins that threaten your thyroid and fertility
Your health is threatened by endocrine-disrupting chemicals in your household products that distort the functions of your hormones. Research by German and Danish scientists highlights how these toxins...
View ArticleNatural protection for your thyroid
Even though we don’t think about it often, the thyroid gland plays numerous critical roles in health and illness. Thyroid hormones influence metabolism, growth and development, hormone balance, body...
View ArticleA new thyroid problem
There is no doubt that there has been a rapid increase in people found to have thyroid cancer. But a study at Dartmouth shows that there’s a thyroid complication you need to avoid. The dilemma, say the...
View ArticleDon’t let your thyroid do this to your heart
Scientists at the New York Institute of Technology have found that a common thyroid problem doctors usually overlook can make your heart fail. But there’s an easy solution to this health threat. In lab...
View ArticleBeware of these thyroid-destroying chemicals
When researchers investigated a growing industry spreading across the United States, they found that these companies were pumping two dozen hormone-disrupting chemicals into the ground. Are the...
View ArticleThe thyroid threat in food packaging
The potential toxins contained in food packaging have begun to concern experts. A look at how one of these chemicals may harm your thyroid function is particularly worrying. When French scientists...
View ArticleKnow the signs of thyroid problems
How’s your thyroid? It’s a crucial endocrine gland, involved in energy regulation, the production of proteins and sensitivity to hormones, among a wide variety of important functions. Medical...
View ArticleThe reasons your doctor may miss your thyroid issues
When your thyroid functions properly, your health blossoms. But you have to know what to do if it falters or it becomes too active. Otherwise, serious illness can complicate your life. Ironically, as...
View ArticleDefend against the toxin that disrupts your thyroid
A study at the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that a nasty toxin that is circulating in your body right now doesn’t affect the amount of thyroid hormone in your blood but can still hamper...
View ArticleAre you living in a thyroid cancer hot spot?
During the past 40 years, the incidence of thyroid cancer in the U.S. has tripled. And the statistics concerning this dread illness shows that one state leads the rest in this dangerous development....
View ArticleWhere to start with your health?
My study of health through the years has convinced me that the first priority is to check your own thyroid function. No matter the nature health concern that you might have or think that you have,...
View ArticleOne big reason aggressive thyroid cancer is on the rise
A study of 12,000 people shows why the global threat of aggressive thyroid cancer has grown significantly during the past decade. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have...
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Iodine deficiency linked to cancers and thyroid disorders
In his blog entry on June 7, Dr. David Brownstein notes a link between breast cancer (afflicting 14 percent of U.S. women), thyroid disorders (afflicting 10 percent to 40 percent of U.S. adults) and...
View ArticleHow to save yourself from the thyroid cover-up
Did you know that Pennsylvania leads the U.S. in the incidence of thyroid cancer? Mainstream cancer researchers do NOT want anyone thinking that Three Mile Island could have anything to do with this,...
View ArticleLow thyroid function causes high health risks
Low thyroid function is a very prevalent problem that really deserves some explanation. Your thyroid hormones are important for numerous functions in the body, and several chronic health conditions can...
View ArticleWhat’s behind low thyroid function?
Why do nearly 50% of Americans [1] have hypothyroidism according to the European endocrinologists? Known causes for hypothyroidism are autoimmune Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, radioactive iodine ablation...
View ArticleSupplements and foods that boost your thyroid — and what to avoid
Over the last two weeks, we’ve been focusing on your thyroid health. If you want to review those articles, just read Low thyroid function causes high health risks and What’s behind low thyroid...
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