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15 things you, as a thyroid patient, need to teach your doctor!

August 8, 2015

By Janie Bowthorpe

…symptoms! Whereas blood cortisol testing is measuring both bound and unbound cortisol, and most of the time does NOT fit the symptoms, showing high cortisol when we are really low,…

Give Me a Break!! aka Doctor’s Hall of Shame

December 2, 2005

By Janie Bowthorpe

…have symptoms. (cough) When she mentioned testing her adrenals for low cortisol, doctor states that cortisol doesn’t have anything to do with being hypo. (cough) He then stated that she…

Why do some patients escape adrenal dysfunction?? I think I know why I did.

April 30, 2011

By Janie Bowthorpe

…and low cortisol. Those were horrible, miserable, stressful, debilitating years. Yet, I escaped it. For awhile after I entered the thyroid patient activist field, I felt guilty. That was especially…

10 Gray Areas about Thyroid Treatment and related issues: The Anomalies

September 1, 2015

By Janie Bowthorpe

…way of handling stress? Supplements we took? HOW MUCH NDT CAN BE TOLERATED WITH LOW CORTISOL Though a large body of low cortisol patients can only tolerate “up to” 1…

A Speculative Account of the Effects of Iodine Supplementation at Different Doses

January 14, 2016

By Janie Bowthorpe

…overcome the blockage of adrenal function that is creating impaired adrenal function in the first place. Meaning: Low cortisol synthesis and low cortisol levels, because of Mercury blocking cortisol Synthesis…

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