30 review for The Thyroid Cure - The Functional Mind-Body Approach to Reversing Your Autoimmune Condition and Reclaiming Your Health!

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   5 out of 5

   Ian Miller – Sep 29, 2015

   This book is nominally for people (mainly women) the thyroid problems, however, it expands across to just about any autoimmune disease, and then to problems with the environment. It starts with Michelle's health history, then moves along to diagnosis and advocated cures. There are various statements on the science behind the diseases, and the advocated cures tend to be along the lines: go to your health professional, preferably one belonging to "functional medicine", get tests, preferably from n This book is nominally for people (mainly women) the thyroid problems, however, it expands across to just about any autoimmune disease, and then to problems with the environment. It starts with Michelle's health history, then moves along to diagnosis and advocated cures. There are various statements on the science behind the diseases, and the advocated cures tend to be along the lines: go to your health professional, preferably one belonging to "functional medicine", get tests, preferably from nominated labs, then change your diet first to "detoxify" and then eliminate nasties. There are a number of anecdotal stories, then interviews with some designated health professionals in the "functional medicine" area. Consider detox. Michelle had a history where she maintains she had mercury poisoning. This may well have been the case, as she had worked in a dental practice making amalgams. Hardly anyone else has this history, but she infers that amalgam in your teeth will give the same effect. This is not the case. Once the amalgam "sets", we have an alloy in which the mercury is chemically bonded. Further, if you eat anything with S-H bonds, you get a coating on the amalgam that prevents mercury escaping. So, we have a problem: Michelle makes statements that seem "scientific", but are merely assertions without data, and in my opinion, many are false. Some of the statements I found hard to believe, such as she led an active life and only ate 1500 calories a day, and got fat. Fat is stored surplus energy, and I simply don't believe this. In the scientific statements, there are some clear errors. Michelle correctly points out the role of oxidation of iodide in the thyroxine loop, but then warns against the other halogens. Sorry, but fluorine, chlorine and bromine have higher oxidation potentials so there is no problem. Worse, your sodium/potassium system would go haywire with no chloride, and the amount of fluoride in a system is negligible in the presence of calcium. Worse, later she talks of methylation being a key part of metabolism, and lists a number of important methylating agents. They are not, although what she lists are necessary for the body to function. Actually, methylating agents are highly carcinogenic because they methylate DNA. My problem now is when I see a number of statements I know are wrong, what about the rest where I have no idea? My next problem lies in the area of diagnosis. Michelle lists a huge number of symptoms, and anyone who has had any stress in their life is going to find some there. My problem is, while these symptoms may be present when there is an autoimmune problem, they may also arise from relatively harmless problems. Michelle correctly says, "See a doctor", but then goes on to say, keep seeing different ones until you find one sympathetic to your problems. For me, this encourages hypochondriacs to waste an awful lot of money, particularly since the recommended professionals are apparently not supported by insurance companies. Buried in all this there is a lot of good advice, but the list of what you should avoid is so encyclopedic I believe that following it will lead most people on an unnecessarily stark life. Some may thrive on this, but others will not. Most of the "badness" is by assertion. To summarize, I feel that some will feel enabled and thrive on this advice, but I am far from convinced that all will, or that the rigorous following of this advice will improve your health. Declaration of Interest: My wife had a deficient thyroid, and the problem was treated successfully with levothyroxine. My wife also found a book like this about cancer, and followed what I believe was an unnecessary "healthy diet". She has since died of cancer. Equally, conventional medicine had no answer to this cancer.

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   5 out of 5

   Christie Davis – Oct 04, 2015

   For several years now, I have suffered with hypothyroidism. A friend of mine told me about Michelle Corey’s The Thyroid Cure: The Functional Mind-Body Approach to Reversing Your Autoimmune Condition and Reclaiming Your Health. In this book, you will learn the autoimmune condition. You will learn how to work within your health plan, alternative medicine, complementary and alternative medicine and traditional medicine. You will also learn about integrative, holistic and functional medicine as well For several years now, I have suffered with hypothyroidism. A friend of mine told me about Michelle Corey’s The Thyroid Cure: The Functional Mind-Body Approach to Reversing Your Autoimmune Condition and Reclaiming Your Health. In this book, you will learn the autoimmune condition. You will learn how to work within your health plan, alternative medicine, complementary and alternative medicine and traditional medicine. You will also learn about integrative, holistic and functional medicine as well as how to find a doctor. This book will show you how a healthy thyroid functions and why we need optimal thyroid hormone levels. In addition, this book will show you how to understand you immune system and how to reframe the autoimmune process. This book also discusses the autoimmune thyroid conditions out there and how to become conscious of stress and body burdens. If you follow the guidelines that Ms. Corey sets forth in her book, you will be on your way to a healthier thyroid and to a healthier body.

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   5 out of 5

   Darla – Sep 05, 2019

   Michelle tells you the things western medicine ignores. I believed her so much I hired her as my functional medicine practitioner!

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