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Excellent! Thanks for sharing this one.Bill Hicks <billhicks_98@...> wrote: http://biz./prnews/080214/lath058.html?.v=101 . Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Gee - what a thoroughly good read - pity there are no

paragraphs, it would have made reading Broda article so much easier. If

anybody has the inclination and the time, it would be great to copy this and

put the paragraphs back so we could put it into our files for all to read. Why,

oh why isn't there more doctors like Broda - and thank God for the

wonderful doctors who back TPA-UK - who have a similar diagnostic and treatment

protocol.

Luv - Sheila

A Broda article from 1950 i think. Plus

this website has a lot of other useful articles.

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Wow yes absolutely fantastic and answers many questions I have asked my doctors

over the years.

Thanks for sharing.

Lynne

Why, oh

> why isn't there more doctors like Broda - and thank God for the

> wonderful doctors who back TPA-UK - who have a similar diagnostic and

> treatment protocol.

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> Luv - Sheila

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I've just saved this to my computer, it saves as a text file in Wordpad complete

with paragraphs! When I have a moment I will drop it into a Word document and

send it to you.

Glynis

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> Gee - what a thoroughly good read - pity there are no paragraphs, it

> would have made reading Broda article so much easier. If anybody has

> the inclination and the time, it would be great to copy this and put the

> paragraphs back so we could put it into our files for all to read. Why, oh

> why isn't there more doctors like Broda - and thank God for the

> wonderful doctors who back TPA-UK - who have a similar diagnostic and

> treatment protocol.

>

> Luv - Sheila

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> A Broda article from 1950 i think. Plus this website has a lot of

> other useful articles.

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TITLE: IF YOU WANT TO BE CONFUSED, RUN A BLOOD TEST FOR THYROID FUNCTION

TEXT: It was fifty years ago this month, when I first started working on the

thyroid gland. In spite of fifty years, I don't know much about it yet.

At the time I started in, studying the thyroid, we only had one means of

diagnosing low thyroid function. And that was the old basal metabolism test. I

don't think many of you have had it. They put a clothes pin on your nose, stuff

a rubber tube in your mouth, and tell you, " Now just relax for a few minutes. "

You ought to try that some time. Or they put a mask over your mouth and nose,

tight so you can't breathe. But this was the test they were using, the basal

metabolism test for thyroid function.

I'll tell you right now, that that test is better than the rest of the blood

tests that are being foisted upon you today. It had it's objections, if the

patient was a little nervous, hyperventilating, or the patient happened to be,

one with claustrophobia, that mask came off the face in a minute, and went clear

across the room. They just couldn't tolerate it. If they were just nervous, they

were under tension, their muscles were tense, they're going to use more oxygen

and you'd get a reading that was too high. I was aware of that, in my early work

with it, I ran a thousand basal metabolism tests. And I always ran my own. I

always ran my own. I would never turn it over to a technician, because I'd want

to watch the patient at the time, and see if they are relaxed.

To show you how wrong you can be, with the basal metabolism test. I had a

college student one day. And I knew he was low. Knew he needed thyroid. And ran

the basal, and he was apparently well relaxed, the curve was nice and smooth, as

it should be. But I could see he was as tense as a fiddle string, all during the

test. He came out a plus twenty four. Which to me was wrong. I pulled the mask

off, told him a dirty story, told him the machine hadn't bitten anyone in three

days, he didn't need to be scared. And reran the test five minutes later, and he

was minus fifteen. Instead of a plus twenty five. So any test that varies,

twenty percent in five minutes, doesn't belong in the hands of a doctor, I can

tell you. They're going to have trouble with it.

I'm running my own, basal metabolisms, and there's one other check that we

always had to do. You had to check the patient's temperature at the time. In

other words, if you're running some fever, the metabolism would be elevated

about ten degrees for each degree of fever. Checking these temperatures it soon

became apparent, that the basal temperature reading, and we say basal, because

this means they've had nothing to eat for twelve hours, no exercise, no stress,

not even a fight with your wife, and those are basal conditions. This basal

temperature, correlated much better with the patient's symptoms, than did,

oxygen consumption.

So that I coined the term, 'basal temperature', way back in 1942, published it

in the AMA Journal. They wouldn't think of publishing such a thing today.

They've been 'reborn' since that time. I've been 'reborn' too. I was 'reborn' a

hobo. But, they accepted it. And nobody ever used it. Why? Because they didn't

make any money out of it. The patient could read their basal temperature for

you, before they got out of bed in the morning at home. They shake the

thermometer down, put it by their bedside the night before, and put it snugly in

their armpit, for ten minutes by the clock. And you've got a better index of

your thyroid function with that, than any test that has been described to date.

Now, why do I use the armpit? Why don't you use the mouth? That's what you use

to take the temperature. Well, I'll tell you why. I was out on the desert of

Arizona during the war. I put in thirty nine months down there . I wanted to see

how the oral temperature, the axillary temperature, and the nether temperature

would compare. I was out and about before reveille, with a bunch of

thermometers. One went under their tongue, one went under their armpit, and it's

none of your business where the other one went. I found very clearly, that here,

where there was no exercise as such, that the armpit and the oral were almost

identical. They were within two tenths. If, the individual didn't have a sinus

infection. You get a lot of dust, in the desert, sinus infections were rampart,

and those with a sinus infection might run an oral temperature as high as the

rectal. About eight tenths of a degree higher. That's why I went to the axilla

temperatures, and I've been using it successfully, since 1943, since my work was

published in the AMA.

Around 1940, we were becoming much more exact in medicine. Everything had to be

according to you had to have a test for everything. And the PBI test came along.

Protein Bound Iodine. Now, this should have been the best test, clinical test

you could get for the thyroid function. Because, thyroid hormone has iodine in

it, it is combined with protein, the thyroglobulin that's circulating in the

blood, and it's broken down either before or after it gets into the cells.

Everyone went for the PBI.

Except an old guy named . I'd been at this racket at that time, from '37

to '40, and was seeing a lot of thyroid patients. Now why was I seeing thyroid

patients? Because I'd been working on it since 1930, the thyroid gland. I had

demonstrated to a class in physiology, for five years, four times a year. A

little cretin baby rabbit. Take them when they're about three weeks old, just a

little ball of fur in your hand, and if you remove their thyroid gland, in the

course of three months, which is how long the course of the endocrines ran, the

students could observe everything in that baby rabbit that you can observe in a

patient that has thyroid deficiency. I mean everything. From the dry falling

hair, to the lack of muscle tone. They're pot bellied, because their muscles are

so weak they can't hold the abdomen up. To the anaemia, because the bone marrow

isn't working up to snuff, everything you can think about the thyroid, I have

seen, and taught the students repeatedly.

And I hadn't been in practise more than a month, when along came a nice young

lady, complaining of a lot of fatigue, and the usual symptoms. She had returned

from one of the major medical clinics in the mid West, whose name we'll leave

out, to keep from being sued. And they had told her, " You have neuro

circulatory asthenia " (her blood pressure was low) " Go home and get used to it,

there's nothing that can be done for you. " She had about nine tenths of the

symptoms that I'd seen in these baby rabbits, and consequently was put on some

thyroid. In about a month to six weeks, this depressed, tired, worn out girl,

had began to bloom, she felt like a human being, and could hold her own place in

society.

Now this alerted me, that whenever you see something you don't understand, don't

know what to do for it, give them some thyroid first. It's never killed anybody,

in the doses that we use. And it helps so many of them, that it pays the rent

every month. So that, as a result of the early training on the rabbits, knowing

it can affect every cell in your body, from the hair on your head to the

toenails. Every one of these cells needs three things, every minutes, twenty

four hours a day. They need oxygen, to burn the food that you eat to give you

energy. They need thyroid, to regulate the rate at which that food is burnt.

It's just like the carburettor on your car. Those of you old enough to remember

Model T Fords remember on the dash board, there was a carburettor control. You

set it a little richer to get it running, and after it started, you'd turn it

down a little to save gas. That's what your thyroid's doing for every cell in

your body. It's regulating the rate at which you're burning energy. Every cell

got to have food brought to it by the blood every minute. And the blood very

kindly, carries the garbage away. That is life. And the thyroid plays a very

important role in every cell in the body, as a result of it. All right?

Now, in the early days, I was using basal metabolism, to diagnose them. Then

came the basal temperature, and about that time, around 1940, came the PBI. Well

when something's new, the medical racket says you've got to use it, you've got

to stay up to date, or we'll ostracise you. So, I began running PBIs in my new

patients. I wasn't using basal temperature yet at that time. But I found very

shortly, that oftentimes, here was a clear picture of thyroid deficiency,

clinically, and yet their PBI was perfectly normal, or might be a little high.

Now what's loose? It isn't the clinical judgement, because that's been going on

for years and years. Something had to be wrong with the test. And I never bought

it. I ran I don't know how many of them, enough to satisfy myself that it wasn't

telling me what I knew, it wasn't telling me about the patient. And I discarded

it.

I was on the South Side of Chicago. Starr was over at North Western on the

North Side. And for years, and I had a running battle on. He swore by it,

and I swore at it. In 1967 I finally won the argument. When , an endocrinologist

from dear old Harvard, I hate to give them credit for anything, but every once

in a while I have to. pointed out very clearly, " That we cannot use the PBI test

for diagnosing thyroid diseases. During that time, I hadn't missed any thyroid

deficiencies knowingly. My colleagues had been refusing therapy, or even taking

patients off therapy. And I see a few of these old patients yet today. Who were

on thyroid. Successfully treated. When the blood tests came out, the doctor ran

a PBI, and says, " No, your PBI is normal, you don't need it. " And wouldn't give

it to them. The patient would plead, to go back to the thyroid, because they

knew they felt better. And they'd return to their previous state, and they'd be

denied. Occasionally one of those patients will come into my office even today.

This year, I've even had one. That was taken off thyroid because of the PBI

test. Suffered all this time. And don't think, I don't get a big hug and a kiss,

when I straighten them out and put them back on it. We've got to be careful in

medicine, that we don't get too technical, and there's still room for some

clinical judgement.

And of course, when the PBI was thrown out, here came a whole rash of them. And

I guess there's about twenty nine of them at the present time. Why do we have

twenty nine tests? Because none of them are worth a darn. If we had a good one,

everybody would be using it, and the rest would be thrown out. But to date came

all the biochemistry, and it's good stuff, it's nice to know it, but don't

penalise the patient by using it, if it isn't going to solve their problem. They

now tell us, that the impulse has to rise in the hypothalamus, it has to go to

the pituitary, and then the TSH has to go to the thyroid. And so on. Well,

that's very good. We've got tests all along the way.

Don't waste time and money running them because you'll run into two hundred

dollars the first thing you know. If the patient had that much money, he

wouldn't be coming to see you in the first place. All they do is confuse you.

All you need to do, is sit down, and let the patient tell their story. The only

smart doctor America ever had, he came down here from Canada, at the time they

founded Hopkins University, and founded the medical department at

Hopkins. Brilliant chap, went on to England later, the Queen crowned him Sir

, as a result of his accomplishments. Sir told us at the start of

the century, " If you give a patient enough time, he'll make the diagnosis for

you. Let him talk " That has been forgotten, but it's still just as true as it

was, eighty years ago. Listen to your patient. They've got a whole bunch of

symptoms I'm not going into here, because you know all of them anyway. I want to

save you time. But listen to those symptoms. If it fits, and you have to ease

your conscience a little, get a basal temperature test.

You may need one blood test, to keep the AMA off your back. Because they have a

habit of picking on somebody that isn't doing at least some blood tests. It

doesn't matter which one you pick out. Get the cheapest one, because you won't

follow it anyway. Go ahead and treat your patient with some thyroid, and I can

assure you, your office will build up rather rapidly.

I have started a practise five time, during my career. The first time in

Illinois, where I graduated. My wife blew up with tuberculosis and I had to move

her to Colorado, where her tuberculosis healed spontaneously. I started

practising again. The military came along, and send me to Arizona. I had to

start over down there. The military came back again and sucked me back in. And

it sure blows up your ego to think they can't fight a war without you. They

called me back in for the Korean affair, and sent me back to Denver. And more

recently, I left Denver and moved up to Fort , sixty five miles north.

Now these low thyroids are so common, and so simple, that patients will follow

you all over the country, and even beyond that to get relief. Because my

colleagues have not, kept pack with what the problem is, and tried to keep these

people happy. You can't name one of the fifty states there hasn't been a patient

in my office in Fort after we moved up there sixteen years ago. They've

come from Harvard. A teacher of art, who'd been through all the mill around

there, including a psychiatrist. She psyched him better than he psyched her.

They've come from Alaska, they've come from Hawaii, they've come from Canada,

they've come from Mexico. Not because I'm so brilliant, but because I understood

the hypothyroid, and they couldn't get help at home.

I need a lot of help, because I'm going to retire, this fall, very soon in fact.

I'm going up to California where I picked oranges and shovelled snow in the

first place. I want to write more books, and do more lecturing of this kind as

well as to the layman. And get the doctors, enlightened, on how simple this

thing is and what they can do about it, without a lot of expense and so forth.

So you fellows that have time, to see some of these patients. If you'll see

them, and not run them through two hundred dollars worth of laboratory work to

start with. And us a little clinical judgement, I'll be happy to refer them to

you. And I need them all over the United States, because my patients come from

all over there. I can't take care of them any more. And, you fellows can

certainly help me. All right?

Now what about treatment. A few words on that. Diagnosis is simple. You just

listen to the patient, and they'll tell you. And it's surprising how often

they're right and the doctor isn't. Treatment. You need to start slowly. Don't

start out with a big dose. Our trouble with the profession today, a doctor who

in 1938, started a patient, with coronary disease, on four grains of thyroid

daily. Now, if he had known anything about the literature, he was told in 1925,

that patients with heart disease should not be started on more than one grain

day! He was going to be a hero and start the patient on four grains, and he

wound up a hobo, because the patient was dead in a week. He blamed the thyroid

for it, wrote a scathing article in American Heart Journal, about how dangerous

thyroid was, and since 1938, we've been fighting an uphill struggle, to use

thyroid in, many, many conditions.

We'll talk tomorrow about heart attacks, coronary disease, and it's use there.

But it's the best thing we've got for prevention today. Now, if the patient has

had a heart attack, and some of them will come in like that, start that

individual on half a grain daily. It will be enough to start with. Wait a couple

of months and then raise it half a grain. Another couple of months and raise it

a half grain, but don't go beyond two grains a day. I haven't seen a patient,

who had a previous heart attack, that couldn't stand two grains a day if you go

up slowly.

What's going to happen to such patients? Well, I lost one of my champions, a

year ago Christmas time. He had two heart attacks before I ever saw him. Both of

them severe. I started him slowly, and went on up to two grains, which he was

on. For about thirteen years. He finally had a fatal heart attack, at the age of

seventy two. Now, if you can take someone who had a heart attack in their

thirties, and carry them up to their average life span, I think you've

accomplished something. I know of no other way that will keep them alive and

healthy. He was a business manager for a public service company. He rounded out

his time, retired, caught enough fish out of the river. I had fresh fish in the

ice box, all the time until he died. He was careless and he cut off my fish

supply.

Now, where are you going to use it? I think about 40% of the population at the

present time, are low thyroid in the United States.

Where do they all come from? It took a big jump when the antibiotics came in.

The low thyroid is susceptible to infections and they die like flies as babies,

as young children. Pneumonia is something I haven't seen for several years. If

one of my patients gets pneumonia, he'll die, because I don't see enough of them

to know how to treat it any more. When the antibiotics stopped the premature

deaths from infections, here was whole group of low thyroid individuals that

used to die early, that are now living into advanced age. So that there isn't

any question about it. By the use of thyroid, we can cut down on infections.

Before the antibiotics came in, I was preventing rheumatic fever, by putting

them on thyroid. I haven't seen a case of rheumatic fever develop yet, in a kid

that was low on thyroid and was put on it. Those that had rheumatic fever, were

on antibiotics, continually. I've taken them off after I got them onto thyroid

for a month. And lo and behold, stopped the antibiotics, and I've yet to see a

recurrence. Your infections is one place where you need it very strongly. I'll

tell you some more about the others later.

Now, what are you going to use as treatment? Now in 1917, Dr Kimball at the Mayo

Clinic isolated thyroxin. And that was a big step, And all of the marble halls,

came out with a statement, " Thyroxin is the thyroid hormone. Use nothing else. "

That was put in the text books then, and many of the doctors haven't read a text

book since then, so they're still using thyroxin only. Or if they're on

something else, they go back to it. All right?

There's plenty going on, the British, and the British started thyroid physiology

in the first place. And they are still leading us in that field. In fact, Dr

Kimball gave us the wrong formula for it. And it took over in England to

straighten him out, and told him, " Sorry, buddy, but here's the real formula, "

and he was right.

The British, in 1952, came out, with a new hormone for thyroid, which is the T3

that you're all acquainted with now. And T3 is just four times as active as

thyroxin, metabolically. Somebody's face should have been red, about saying you

should use nothing but thyroxin, but I have yet to see the first blush. All

right?

Then the manufacturers get into the act. And the detail men, coming into your

office today, are telling you, " Now here, by all means get off the natural

hormone, the synthetic, you can regulate the dosage better, it will last longer,

it isn't labelled and so forth. " They'll give you a song and dance act about why

you should use, the synthetic. You know why he puts on that little show. Because

he makes more money out of the synthetics than he does out of the natural. And

it doesn't matter to him how big the lie is, and what it does to your patients,

as long as he makes more money. This is happening repeatedly.

Into the office will come a patient who has been on, both synthetics. Some of

them are using a combination now, of T4 and T3. You're looking at the colour of

the fellow's hair, that tested Armour's combination before it came out.

Thyrolar. They selected four doctors, in the United States, to check this new

compound they were coming out with. They wouldn't tell us what it was. I was one

of the four. " Here's a new compound we're coming out with to market. We want you

to take 40 patients that have been on the natural Armour desiccated thyroid,

well controlled. Run two thyroid function tests on them. Then, start in with the

new preparation. In place of the old. In a month, repeat both thyroid function

tests. And in two months repeat them again. " Within two weeks, after I started,

my forty patients on it, I wrote them a letter and said, " If you've got T3 in

this preparation, you've got too much in there. I'm running into some

tachycardias that I never see, with the natural thyroid, and have to take them

off of it. " And exactly, 40% of those on the new compound, couldn't take it. All

right? They wouldn't acknowledge that T3 was in there nor would they do anything

about it. It came on the market, and then they told us, it was a mixture of T4

and T3.

The following year when I went over to Europe, which we've done since 1958,

almost every year. For research on the autopsies over there. I found that they

too, were using a mixture of T4 and T3. But. There was one difference. They had

25% less T3 in their preparation. Now I didn't tell them that. Somebody else

found it out over there and told them. The old European outsmarts us every time

we turn around. And they are not seeing the toxicities that we're seeing with

thyrolar.

There's another preparation took that's a combination of both by _______. I do

not use the combinations at all, and I'll tell you why. Here comes another

reason. I see patients today, coming into the office, that are on the

combination of both synthetics, and they got two symptoms of thyroid deficiency

that haven't cleared up. Number one. They've got a dry skin that they had before

they started on the synthetics. It did not disappear. Number two, their tissues

are holding onto water. And that's a mighty big factor in thyroid deficiency. So

that there is a third hormone in the natural gland, that we don't have out yet.

Because I can take that same patient, put him on the regular, desiccated, whole

thyroid. And in six weeks his skin is nice and soft. You know that school girl

complexion you'd love to touch and don't dare. And he's turned loose the water.

Side B: There's a third hormone that isn't out yet, and I'm not using the

synthetics until we get complete replacement with it, and don't have, the

possibilities of upsetting some other things with the patient. I will start

them, an adult, even a small female, 120lb, I'll start her on one grain a day.

If she's fair, fat and forty, it will probably be two grains a day. Most of the

ordinary sized men we'll start on two grains a day, to begin. And I'll gradually

go up to 2, from 2 to 3, or maybe even four. But there I level off. If there's

something beyond that, something hasn't cleared up, then, I'm going to think of

something else.

And the thing that we have to think of very often, is a partial adrenal

deficiency too. I expect Dr will tell us much more about that. He may disagree

with me, for using it along with the thyroid, but it's worked for me. If the

blood pressure of a patient is 100 systolic or below, I hesitate, in fact I

won't start them on thyroid, without giving them 5mg of prednisone at the same

time. Because, if you raise the metabolism a little as we're doing with the

thyroid, you also have to have a little more secretion from the adrenal. The

normal gland, can furnish it and do all right. But if the blood pressure is too

low in the beginning, the chances are that this patient is going to get worse,

about four days after you start them on thyroid, they will become worse than

they were. They're weak, they're nervous, and you can pick them up with 5mg of

Prednisone. They would never know, never have any danger from the thyroid

whatsoever. Thyroid, and accompanying prednisone with. All right?

What about the youngsters, the babies? The youngest that I ever started was

three weeks of age. I delivered the little devil. I even used to deliver babies

before the pill came out. Then I told the girls, " Now you can avoid that, you're

on your own, I'm going to do something else. " And I delivered this little

rascal. And he never took a breath through his nose, from the time he was

delivered for three weeks. I knew he was a low thyroid, because his parents were

both on thyroid, and so were his grandparents. The kid didn't have a chance. So

I started him on a ¼ grain daily, at three weeks of age. In about 40 days, his

nose opened up. He began to breathe through it. He had a chronic cold from

birth. Until that time, when he grew up to be a perfectly, normal youngster.

Then about the age of 3, to 4, I'll move them up to a ½ grain a day. Around 7,

to a grain, and from that time on they're on the adult schedule. All depending

on their size and so forth.

How long is he going to be on it? He's probably going to be on it for life. If

he wants to feel well, and influence people. Because, in spite of the food nuts,

who say they can stimulate the thyroid with kelp, or with iodine, and they don't

need it any more. I'll tell you what happens to them. When I lecture before the

National Health Federation, which I've done for many years, when I leave the

platform, here they come, mobbing me. Their kelp didn't stimulate their thyroid,

they've still got their old symptoms, and they want some thyroid. New York City

I nearly got killed, one time. I got away from them by backing into the

elevator. When it came, there was only one place. Otherwise, there'd been a

riot, I'm sure. So, to my knowledge today, there is no way of stimulating the

thyroid even with yogi, because I've had them that tried that too. But, you can

substitute for it, and you can do it quite successfully. All right? ...

Question: The question is, is there any advantage or disadvantage to any

particular brand of desiccated thyroid? As long as it comes from a hog. Because

the hog has more in it. He grows faster than anything else. As long as it comes

from a hog, I think most of the brands on the market today are active.

Occasionally you'll find one that isn't. There was an article in the AMA about

two months ago, where they had tested several brands of desiccated thyroid, and

few of them were not quite up to par. But I think most of them are all right.

Question: How about thyroid and diabetes? I may have a few words on that later.

Not on diabetes, but on the complications of diabetes. All of the 'opothies are

related to low thyroid function, and I can do a great deal about them.

Question: Good point. What happens to the glands natural secretion when you put

them on desiccated thyroid? Now this gland is running as fast as it can, before

you put them on, or they wouldn't have their symptoms. If you give them a little

too much, and here is the nicest thing, in the human body. If you give them a

little too much thyroid, their own gland will cut down a little on it's

production, to balance it out. It's the only drug I know of that's got a built

in safety valve. And, should you discontinue, that from the outside, it can come

back to it's previous level, without any harm being done. So that, you don't

'kill' it. I have patients whose doctors have told them, " Don't start on thyroid

it will destroy your own. That is so much baloney.

Question: Question does Prednisone add to obesity that the patient might have.

The answer is no, not in the doses I use. Prednisone got it's dirty name, as

cortisone in 1949, when , at the Mayo Clinic came out with cortisone for

arthritis. And it's true, that some of the arthritics that had been bed ridden

for five years got up and went to work. But in two years they were dead. They

were using 200mg of cortisone a day. I never picked that up. I never gave my

patients cortisone, because I told my wife (she watches me like a hawk), " No

adrenal gland can produce that quantity, and when you get outside, Mother

Nature's limits, you're going to get in trouble. " All right?

Cortisone died a natural death because it was killing people, and causing the

obesity, and the water retention and so forth that you're so well acquainted

with. Now, I stumbled across the use of small doses of prednisone, by accident,

when a patient from a neighbouring town, came in with some arthritis. He'd been

on thyroid for five years, and had done very well. But overnight, he blew up

with rheumatoid arthritis, his wrists were about 50% increased in size, he had

about 'that much' motion in his fingers. He was an automobile mechanic. How are

you going to adjust the carburettor with those kind of fingers? I tried

everything in the book, to get him back on the job and I couldn't. Finally, in

desperation, I gave him 21 tablets of 5mg prednisone and told him, " You take one

after each meal and I want to see you in a week. " I didn't give him more than 21

because I didn't want him to have more than that. He came back in a week doing

'this'. He said, " I'm cured! " I says, " Like hell you are, just stick around a

while. " In two weeks he was right back where he was.

This was so dramatic, what happened with this tiny dose of Prednisone, 15mg a

day, I had put him onto 5 and left him on it. He's still on it after eight years

and hasn't missed a days work because of arthritis since.

Then I dug through the literature, there must be some relation between the

thyroid, and the adrenals. I began at the present and worked back, and when I

got to 1950, one year after cortisone was described, there was a beautiful

article from dear old Harvard again, where they had taken a bunch of allegedly

normal people. They call them 'normal', because they were medical students and

nurses. they didn't know that that was a crackpot bunch to start with, or they

never have selected them. They had taken some of them, and put them on 200mg of

prednisone a day, or cortisone, and studied all the perimeters. What they found

was, the thyroid was completely suppressed as if you'd cut it out with a knife.

That's what your big doses do, is suppress the thyroid. Small doses do not, and

you can keep it up indefinitely.

Last July, from Hopkins, came a report on 76 patients, that had been on 15

mg of cortisone, or prednisone a day, for up to 19 years. And not one side

effect from it.

Five milligrams is entirely safe, you'll be surprised how often you need it. Al

right?

Question:How about thyroid in pregnancy. Well, the British knew, years ago, that

many patients who couldn't have babies, could have babies if you put them on

thyroid. It has relieved more sterility than all the other medicines we have

ever put together. And it doesn't give you a 'litter', the way some of the

preparations they inject into them today does. I'd be afraid to take some of

those injections. You could wind up thinking you were an old sow with a whole

litter of pigs.

You can maintain a pregnancy through it. If a patient of mine is on thyroid when

she gets pregnant, I may raise it a degree during the pregnancy, because the

metabolism goes up about 20% during the pregnancy, normally. So that you do need

it there, and you need it very badly. Pregnancy is tied in with it, and so is

every other menstrual problem that women have, and we don't have time to get

into those today.

Question: Does it lengthen the time of term? No, not in my experience, they'll

deliver on time. I'll throw in another nickel's worth about the prednisone here.

I've had two patients that couldn't get pregnant even on the thyroid. They had

some adrenal deficiency too, I gave them 5mg of prednisone a day. They became

pregnant, they continued it through to term, delivered normal babies. If we can

figure out, what the normal physiology is, and, correct it, it's amazing what

old Mother Nature can do.

Question: I give it in a single dose. I give it in the morning, because it's

during the day that you need it. The adrenal gland produces far more during the

day than it does at night. In fact, that factor is so sensitive, that at night

it shuts down some of it's production.

Question: That's a good point. For a while you couldn't get the adrenal

extracts. I think they're back on the market now. For a while they weren't,

because the AMA said, " You shall not use something that we can't measure, and we

can't standardise, the cortical extracts. And I found that the 5mg works very

well. It is cheap, it saves an injection, which saves the patient money, and so

far I haven't had any bad effects. When I do, I'll probably be reaching for the

extracts. All right?

Question: How much thyroid do you give in sterility? I pay no attention to the

sterility, and treat the thyroid, and most of the sterility will straighten

around. A few of them won't, but most of them will. In other words, your

schedule will be just the same, it's just another symptoms

Question: 4 grains is about as high as I'll go, with one exception and I'll

throw this in. You're not treating anything except the symptoms, and as soon as

you get rid of the symptoms, I'll level off. In other words, it's no use

suppressing their own gland if they don't need that much. There's one place

where I'll go above 4 grains, and that is cancer of the thyroid. Cancer of the

thyroid occurs, if you get a malignancy, it will kill. And today, and this comes

from the Clinic in Cleveland. I never had an original ideas in my life, I just

read a little. But finds, today he's liable not to operate a cancer of the

thyroid. He'll put them on an excess dosage, about as much as the person can

stand, which puts the metastases, as well as their own thyroid into suppression.

And he gets better results than he does trying to operate and take it out.

I've got a little girl in Cheyenne, Wyoming, won't weigh a hundred pounds, and

she's on six grains a day. Because she had a cancer of the thyroid. It was

operated, and as long as she can tolerate it, you don't go up to the toxic

state, but as long as they can tolerate it, you go up, to suppress any possible

malignancy.

Question: The question is a little complex. We use in treating sterility, what

about where you're using it for weight reduction? I'm a funny old devil. I

worked on obesity for three years at the University of Illinois in 1938, and

found that I could take weight off of these people. If their thyroid was

deficient I straightened it out. but I never tried to speed up the metabolism to

cut the weight off. They can turn loose of the water, very nicely, because they

will turn loose of some water. But I have found, more effective, to use a diet

high in fat. To scare you half to death, it happens to be animal fat. I won't

use vegetable fat. Vegetable fat is one reason for the large increase in cancer

we are seeing today. And I don't think there's any question about that. I wish I

had time to bring the evidence to you. So that in the obesity, if they've got a

thyroid deficiency, yes, I'll use thyroid, but within these limits I have told

about.

And the libido is liable to come back. Not always, but liable. And, they can

control their appetite a whole lot better if their thyroid's functioning

normally, than they can if they're tired, and trying to eat food for energy.

Question: Why do they develop libido taking the thyroid? Well, in the first

place they feel better, and if there's anything that will turn sex off, it's a

tired housewife. So they feel better, they've got more energy, they've got more

circulation, they ought to have more sex life!

End of lecture and tape.

[Guest guest]

Hi Sheila, He was brilliant wasn't he. Reminds me a bit of an elderly doc I used to see sadly also long gone. thyroid treatment From: sheila@...Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:26:08 +0000Subject: RE: Re: Fantastic article

Wow Glynis, many thanks for this. I think it will help a lot of

our members understand more about their hypothyroidism. NHS doctors certainly

do not have this knowledge to share with their patients.

Luv - Sheila

I've just saved this to my computer, it saves

as a text file in Wordpad complete with paragraphs! When I have a moment I will

drop it into a Word document and send it to you.

Glynis

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Hi Sheila,

Have just e-mailed you the Word document, suitably adapted for easy reading!!

Glynis

> understand more about their hypothyroidism. NHS doctors certainly do not

> have this knowledge to share with their patients.

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[Guest guest]

PS Wasn't it wonderful where he said that doctors should listen to their

patients and they will diagnose their own illness? I'm refusing to have

anything to do with blood tests at the moment, not until the doc acknowledges my

symptoms at least!!

Glynis

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> Have just e-mailed you the Word document, suitably adapted for easy reading!!

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