If you are one of the more than 14 million Americans who suffers from a thyroid disorder, knowingly or unknowingly, Thyroid Balance is the key to restoring your health and well-being. Never before has there been a comprehensive guide that explains all the traditional and alternative methods available for treating thyroid disorders, and allows you to become an active participant in designing a balanced, practical treatment program. Using the amassed knowledge of twenty-five years at the forefront of the complementary medicine movement, Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld answers every question the thyroid patient might have, including how to: - Recognize a thyroid condition
- Determine if the adrenal gland is the real culprit
- Distinguish between hypo, hyper, autoimmune, and subclinical conditions
- Integrate conventional and alternative treatments
- Know what to do when treatment fails
- Get your metabolism and your body thermostat back under control
- Control weight gain and loss
- Manage a thyroid condition's interaction with other problems
- Minimize the thyroid's impact on a woman's cycle and fertility
Dr. Glenn S. Rothfeld provides the tools patients need to take charge of their own treatments, including a reader quiz and a worksheet for creating a personal plan. From allopathic medicine to alternative medicine to integrative medicine, Thyroid Balance gives you all the tools you need to choose and adapt the traditional and alternative methods that best suit your needs and help you find balance. Glenn S. Rothfeld, M.D., M.Ac., is currently the Clinical Assistant Professor of family medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he developed one of the nation's first courses on alternative medicine.
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