Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Treatment by Janie Bowthorpe book review by Jeffrey Dach MD Written by a non-professional, this is the most important thyroid book to come out in the last few years.

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Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of  Inferior Thyroid Treatment by Janie Bowthorpe

book review by Jeffrey Dach MD

Written by a non-professional, this is the most important thyroid book to come out in the last few years.  The book is timely because of two factors:

Number (1)
For decades, mainstream medicine has been guilty of mismanaging the low thyroid condition.

Number (2)
Patients are now empowered by the internet to collectively share notes and devise their own strategies for thyroid testing and treatment.

Empowered E-Patients

One of these empowered e-patients is Janie Bowthorpe, owner of  the Stop-the-thyroid-Madness-blog. In her book, she describes her ordeal with years of crippling fatigue, all the while her doctors told her "the labs were normal", and insisting she was adequately treated with Synthroid, the mainstream T4 thyroid medication.  Apparently she was not adequately treated.

Switched from Synthroid to Armour

Eventually after many years of needless suffering, Janie visited an internet thyroid message board and discovered information about natural thyroid medication called Armour.  Empowered with this new information, Janie switched over from the Synthroid to the Armour, and experienced a dramatic recovery, and has been well ever since.

Janie's Amazing Journey

The first section of her book chronicles this amazing journey, and later sections are the condensed wisdom from her blog and message boards. Important chapters in the book deal with the superior clinical results of Armour natural thyroid compared to Synthroid, the unreliability of the TSH test, and the issue of adrenal fatigue in relation to the low thyroid condition.  Also discussed are the role of Ferritin and Iodine.

A Very Important Book

Stop the Thyroid Madness is unquestionably a very important book which will influence mainstream medical treatment for the low thyroid condition.  Janie's activism has galvanized a revolution in medical care, with thousands of patients demanding superior  thyroid care described in her book.  I applaud Janie Bowthorpe's book,  and wish her strength and good fortune in her continuing efforts to reform the mainstream medical system.

Above Book Cover Courtesy of Janie Bowthorpe at Stop the Thyroid Madness Blog.

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Other Books Also Recommended:

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Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome  by Wilson

Links and References:

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/
Janie A. Bowthorpe, M.Ed. is a thyroid patient activist, author of the book Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of  Inferior Thyroid Treatment, and owner of the Stop the Thyroid Madness website.

http://thyroid.about.com/b/2009/01/27/the-desiccated-thyroid-controversy-why-endocrinologists-dont-like-armour-thyroid.htm
The Desiccated Thyroid Controversy: Why Endocrinologists Don't Like Armour Thyroid Tuesday January 27, 2009 Mary SHomon

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/174931-Synthroid-Sucks-The-Rallying-Cry-of-Thyroid-Patients-vs-Clueless-Doctors

Janie A. Bowthorpe, M.Ed. is a thyroid patient activist, author of the book Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Treatment and owner of the Stop the Thyroid Madness website.

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Jeffrey Dach MD is a physician and author of three books, Natural Medicine 101, and Bioidentical Hormones 101, and Heart Book all available on Amazon, or as a free e-book on his web sites.

Dr. Dach is founder and chief medical officer of TrueMedMD, a clinic in Davie, Florida specializing in Bioidentical Hormones, natural thyroid, functional medicine and low level laser therapy.

Dr. Dach was originally trained and board certified as an Interventional and Diagnostic Radiologist, and worked in the hospital setting for 30 years in Broward County at the Memorial Hospital System. Because of declining visual acuity, Dr Dach retired from radiology and returned to clinical medicine about 8 years ago when he founded the TruMedMD Clinic offering bioidentical hormones and natural thyroid to the South Florida region. For more information about Dr Dach, you can find his entire CV posted on-line on his web site.