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In the corner of the kitchen by the red-and-white checked curtains in an old ranch style house on Maple Lane sits an icebox as vintage as the house. It uses two-to-three times more energy than modern ones, and it doesn't keep the contents as cold as it used to.So, the dutiful owner, Mr. O, decides it's time for a new and reformed refrigerator. So he drives to his trusted Sears store, purchases a side by side stainless steal beaut with 3 Glass Shelves, 3 Humidity Controls, Transition Lighting and External 7 Button Ice/Water Dispenser .
When the new refrigerator arrives, the dutiful head of house transfers the pre-existing food from the old icebox to the new one, including the half gallon of milk, sharp cheddar cheese, nitrate free bacon, cottage cheese, lettuce, real mayonnaise, the hidden cold chocolate chips consumed by his wife, Tupperware containers of leftovers, and a half used can of Del Monte tomatoes.
Mr. O then sits back with a smug smile with his hands behind his head while his loyal family members cheer at their new reformed refrigeration which lowers their utilities, cools the food better, and puts a happy smile on everyone's face. Anybody want a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich?
And in the darkness behind the closed door of the newly reformed refrigerator lurks the half-used can of Del Monte tomatoes with a nice rounded colony of green furry mold and all its mycotoxins reaching down into the tomatoes via the trusty root threads.
Today, estimates range as high as 50 million individuals in the US who are living with the effects of hypothyroidism... and a certain percentage are reading this and don't even know they have it, or don't realize they are inadequately treated.
And for the last fifty years under our U.S. health system, millions are either undiagnosed due to one of the lousiest tests ever used to discern hypothyroidism (the TSH test) or they are put on one of the worst medications ever thrust onto hapless thyroid patients for a long miserable 50 years--T4-only, aka Thyroxine, such as Synthroid, Levoxyl, Levothyroxine, Unithroid, etc., all which leave patients with lingering hypothyroid symptoms while clueless doctors blame their cause to a myriad of other ridiculous reasons: you are eating wrong, you need to exercise more, you are depressed, you need to see a Psychiatrist, you are a hypochondriac, you are getting older, it's in your genes, it's just you.
So they are put on statins, anti-depressants, blood pressure meds, and host of other pharmaceutically-worshiped pills to "treat" what are actually continuing symptoms of hypothyroidism, either undiagnosed or because of a lousy medication.
Additionally, a huge percentage of these 50 million undiagnosed or undertreated hypothyroid patients are falling into adrenal stress, first with too high cortisol, then too low, with its side effects of anxiety, poor coping skills, easy anger, difficulty waking up refreshed, difficulty falling asleep, overly bothered by bright lights or loud noises, and/or a low affair with Starbuck's coffee. Adrenal issues are just another side effect of a TSH lab test which fails most all patients by taking years to rise high enough to reveal the ongoing hypothyroidism, or the inferior thyroxine medication, which pushes the adrenals to work harder to keep the poorly-treated hypothyroid patient going.
Using the incompetent TSH lab to diagnose or treat hypothyroidism, and treating low thyroid disorders with thyroxine, are the toxic mold on the tomatoes that are going to be passed over into Barack Obama's new reformed health care plan unless someone, somewhere, gets the word out and starts a needed process of change in this travesty and 50 year scandal in the treatment of thyroid problems.
