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As a Thyroid Patient Advocate, I have experienced many of the same struggles my fellow patients go through. In the chapters of this book I share some of the more helpful knowledge I gained as a newly diagnosed thyroid patient, beginning in year 2003, to the present. I also express a few opinions and take a look at some of the controversies that have continued between medical professionals and patient advocates in regard to symptoms, diagnosis and treatments for hypothyroidism.

In an increasingly complex U.S. healthcare system, patients suffering from chronic illness are not always well served. Surviving Healthcare: Five STEPS to Cutting Through the BS, Getting the Treatment You Need, and Saving Your Life does exactly what the title promises. Dr. Cristy Kessler shares her five-step protocol for navigating a difficult medical journey, providing strategies that patients and their caregivers can easily put into practice as they strive with their doctors for a positive outcome.

Renowned gastroenterologist and nutritionist shares his seven-point digestive restoration plan that targets the gut-immune-skin-brain axis based on medical evidence and decades of experience. True health care reform begins with your gut! The roots of your future health were laid while you were in the womb and during your early years. Genes are only a small part of it! If you are at a loss as to what is wrong and why you can't be healthy, think about your gut.

Leukemia is a terrible disease! It rips families apart at the core. When leukemia takes hold, families can keep it together for only so long. This is the story of my mother's battle with leukemia and how she endured this disease in the early 1980s. We were without a cure and hope as she withered away before us.

This is my personal story regarding symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for autoimmune hypothyroidism caused by Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Adrenal Fatigue and other metabolic-related conditions that developed co-morbid to my thyroid disease. I also share information regarding my symptom-struggles including emotional aspects and about my difficulties in finding a doctor experienced in treating thyroid disease with related conditions attached to it.

At the peak of her career, classical homeopath and health-care columnist Katina Makris was stricken with a mysterious "flu". Only after five years of torment - two completely bedridden - and devastating blows to her professional and family life was Katina's illness finally diagnosed as Lyme disease.

When Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child Lucas, they are living the dream. They're happily married, they've just bought a house, the company they built together from the ground up is starting to blossom. But with the arrival of their son, a feeling of anxiety slips into their life. What starts as a feeling becomes a conviction.

Rund zehn Millionen Deutsche leiden an behandlungsbedürftigen rheumatischen Erkrankungen: ältere Patienten, Jüngere und sogar Kinder sind betroffen. Weil sie je nach Krankheitsbild andere Symptome zeigen, sind viele Hausärzte mit der richtigen Diagnose überfordert. Die meisten Patienten landen erst nach Monaten oder Jahren beim Spezialisten. Heilbar ist Rheuma bisher nur in wenigen Ausnahmefällen: durch einen lebensgefährlichen Neustart des Immunsystems.

Many of us are more than happy to rely on prescribed medication to help us cure a wide variety of ills. But did you know that people all over the world have been using spices to help relieve and even cure a variety of conditions? Turmeric and ginger are two of the most powerful and commonly used spices that are known to fight inflammation, infections, and so much more.

What is inflammation and how is it affecting people's lives? What is an anti-inflammatory diet and how can it help you? This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to lose or lessen inflammatory areas in our bodies. It contains information on different ways to heal your inflammation, combat heart disease, and eliminate pain.

Many thyroid disease patients become aware of the fact that they are at an increased risk for developing thyroid malignancy but they are unsure how much that risk increases following diagnosis of their thyroid condition. Within the chapters of this book, I offer information regarding these increased risk factors, backed by reputable medical information sources.

Most of the 25,000 genes we possess are the same for all of us. Compatibility genes are those that vary most from person to person and give each of us a unique molecular signature. These genes determine both the extent to which we are susceptible to a vast range of illnesses and the different ways each of us fights disease.

Are you gaining weight and losing your natural energy? Does your body feel totally burnt out, and you just can't figure out why? The answer is inflammation! The anti-inflammation diet plan will show you how to take the simple but absolutely necessary steps required to rescue your health, happiness, and longevity from the flames.

This book establishes and clarifies the true method of practicing cupping and in manifesting the scientific precise rules of true scientific hygienic cupping. These rules control the cupping operation, therefore they prevent any side effect and make it very fruitful. This book actually helps listeners differentiate between true cupping and the other false method of applying cupping.

Die bahnbrechende Behandlungsmethode bei allergischen Erkrankungen! In seiner Studie belegt Dr. Peter Liffler erstmals, dass Allergiker und ihre Angehörigen meist hochsensibel sind. Die Betroffenen nehmen Sinnesreize intensiver wahr und reagieren verstärkt sowohl auf ihr soziales Umfeld, als auch auf die zahlreichen Umwelteinflüsse. Das Immunsystem kapituliert und entwickelt Erkrankungen wie Neurodermitis, Allergien oder Asthma. Der ausgewiesene Experte entschlüsselt die möglichen Ursachen allergischer Erkrankungen und entwickelt einen genau darauf zugeschnittenen systemischen Therapieansatz.

Early in September, 1918, the United States was invaded by a scourge of highly infectious and fatal disease, which spread with rapidity throughout the country, eventually infecting 500 million people worldwide, or about 27 percent of the world population, killing anywhere from 17 million to as many as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. Known as Spanish Influenza, it was pandemic in its nature. No one seemed to know much about the disease or its treatment, and medical science and public health agencies were alike unprepared to cope with it.

Was passiert, wenn man sich krank fühlt, aber kein Arzt die Ursache findet? Dr. Izabella Wentz hat es erlebt. Im Alter von 27 Jahren wurde bei ihr die Schilddrüsen-Erkrankung Hashimoto Thyreoiditis festgestellt. Eine Hashimoto-Thyreoiditis ist mehr als nur eine einfache Unterfunktion der Schilddrüse.

A journey through the deepest valleys and highest peaks of parenting. When a two-month old baby falls ill, his apparently ordinary symptoms turn out to signal a rare and lethal immune deficiency. For parents Miguel Sancho and Felicia Morton, the discovery that their son, Sebastian, has chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) upends their lives and leaves the family with few options, all of them terrifying.

Ein Leben lang Medikamente nehmen?! Nein, das wollte Hannah Hauser nicht. Darum suchte sie andere Wege, um ihre Schilddrüsenerkrankungen – Hashimoto und Schilddrüsenunterfunktion – in den Griff zu bekommen. Dies gelang der studierten Ernährungswissenschaftlerin nicht nur durch Anpassung ihres Lebensstils, sondern auch durch die Ernährungsform des Pro-Metabolic-Eatings. Ihr Wissen gibt sie als Schilddrüsen-Empowerment-Coach mittlerweile in Kursen an die steigende Zahl an Schilddrüsenerkrankten – vorwiegend Frauen – weiter.

Immunforsvaret er et magisk og magtfuldt system, og mindst hvert andet dødsfald i Danmark hænger sammen med ubalance i immunsystemet. Søvn, motion, kost, røg, alkohol, vaccinationer, stress, bekymringer og livsindstilling påvirker immunsystemet. Du kan derfor selv gøre en masse for at skabe sund balance. Professor Bente Klarlund Pedersen gør op med alt, der lover at booste sundheden med et trylleslag, og forklarer – overraskende, personligt og helt ned på celleniveau – hvordan din livsstil påvirker din sundhed. Alle råd er forskningsbaserede.