Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Recognise this: low thyroid, bloating, can’t get your Vitamin D to stay up, burping a lot, leaky gut won’t heal, ever-more food sensitivities, drying out generally? If your thyroid is low for ages before it is diagnosed (that’s most people then!), it can play havoc with your gallbladder function, and this is missed 99% of …
A lot of you have thyroid issues, so I thought this statement might be useful for you. The two main antibodies used to screen for Hashimoto’s are thyroid peroxidase (TPO) and thyroglobulin (Tg). It’s important to check both because either one can be elevated, although TPO is more commonly elevated. An important thing to understand about thyroid antibodies is …
Quote of the week today comes from Dr Kharrazian, the author of Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When My Lab Results Are Normal? I see this all the time: people told they don’t have thyroid issues, even though their autoimmune antibodies are higher than they should be. It’s an early warning sign, folks! …
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How to test your thyroid properly and get some answers!
Two-thirds of people with a gluten sensitivity experience neurological symptoms instead of gut symptoms. This is because the tissue most affected by a gluten sensitivity is nerve tissue. The majority of Hashimoto’s [autoimmune hypothyroid] patients are gluten-sensitive or have celiac disease, which means gluten can play a role in their depression and anxiety. Gluten cross reacts with dairy, …
One of the most common things I get asked about is thyroid issues. A person can be hypothyroid (underactive) or hyperthyroid (overactive). So far, so easy. The difficulties come in testing the thyroid because, as we know, the vast majority of mainstream doctors will test the TSH and T4 levels, including an autoimmune antibody if …
Since I changed the test service so I could crawl out from under the admin (!), I know some of you have been a bit confused. Sorry about that! I have today updated the test instructions a bit and put a link to all the different test sections (eg. Adrenal, Detox, Immune, Thyroid etc) on …
Just a quickie this morning to let you know that the labs are back open after the Christmas break now and are taking orders and samples. Also, I have added a few of the Genova tests back on to the Purehealth Tests section in the shop. I missed them! You’ll find the Genova Adrenal and …
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Lab test service
Having thyroid problems? What’s going on?
