November 2009

More Thyroid Misinformation…

by Leisa on November 8, 2009

Mary Shomon – thyroid.about.com: Jeff Mason, who runs a health care system in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area, exemplifies the typical uninformed attitude about thyroid disease and the connection to weight loss, in his guest article at the Green Bay Press Gazette, titled “Pay For Nature – Not Nurture” Mason asserts that “The reality is
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Swine Flu Jab Fells Nurse

by Leisa on November 6, 2009

It’s never nice when someone gets harmed by medication – but allowing yourself to be injected with an un-proven, un-tested vaccine (which ironically they ALL are), is just asking for trouble.  This article doesn’t surprise me one bit, and there are going to be hundreds of cases like this or worse.  Hopefully people will start
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Pregnancy and Thyroxine

by Leisa on November 4, 2009

I have witnessed first-hand many, many patients who do not do well on T4 replacement therapy (Thyroxine, Oroxine) medication.  In the body, T4 needs to be converted to its active form of T3 before it can perform its actions at a cellular level.  For this to happen we need to have good adrenal function, a
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Animal Action Alerts

by Leisa on November 2, 2009

I was very privileged at my last retreat in WA Perth to meet many fantastic people and make some new friends on that side of the country.  There was one very special lady there – Maree – who runs a service called “Animal Action Alert – making a difference for those without a voice”. This
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