Product Description

Thyroid problems affect an estimated one in three of the adult population, yet they are difficult to diagnose on the basis of blood tests and often go undiagnosed for many year. This is the second, greatly updated and revised, edition of Dr Durrant-Peatfield's practical guide to recognizing the signs and symptoms of thyroid disease and to treating the problem with diet and natural supplements, in conjunction with modern western drugs and surgery when really necessary.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11781 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

great book for laymen
This is a very helpful book and the most valuable part for me was the very small section (only one page) about having to build up the adrenals first - easy to overlook, as I almost did.

Be warned: if you have had low thyroid for several years (in my case over a decade before I finally self-diagnosed - partly thanks to this book and also thanks to the excellent "Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic" by Mark Starr, M.D. - and thus was able to take the first steps towards recovery) then you will almost certainly have adrenal exhaustion.

Although I initially ignored the warning about adrenal exhaustion, I found that even taking three times the normal dose of thyroid for over four months did not help. I had to stop, take adrenal support tablets for several weeks, and then restart thyroid at a smaller dose. I continued taking adrenal support tablets for several months too.

I am finally seeing noticeable improvements. Even a spring in my step, which I never expected to enjoy again, after over a decade of thinking I had ME/CFS or something even worse.

I am giving the book only four stars because it does not contain clear enough indications of dosages. For instance, in the tiny section on adrenal supplementation, it refers to Nutri tablets but ignores the fact that Nutri offers two strengths of adrenal support tablets, one containing about three times the dose of the other. When it says you might need to take two or three, which one does it mean? Why not mention actual dosages, instead of vaguely referring to "two or three tablets" of undisclosed strengths?

P.S. Five subsequent recommendations:

- The MUST-READ book on low thyroid is "Stop the Thyroid Madness", passionate and comprehensive, it explains that the most-used thyroid test is inaccurate and why synthetic thyroid does not work.

- "Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can't Live Without It" by Brownstein can also be useful.

- "Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms?" explains that if taking natural thyroid still leaves you with a number of symptoms, it is an autoimmune disease, not a primary thyroid problem. Based thoroughly on scientific research, this book gives the low down on what your doctor never hears at his pharmaceutical sponsored education events.

- The healing abilities of coconut oil and other coconut products (including support for low thyroid) are explained in "Coconut Cures" by Bruce Fife.

- The latest miracle cure worth investigating is claimed to be high-dose Vitamin D3 which apparently can cure cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, bone density issues, arthritis, flu, muscle pain, chronic pain, fatigue, seasonal (and other) depression and various autoimmune disorders. Anyone living above the 35th parallel (England runs from the 50th upwards) is highly likely to have a sunshine/vit D deficiency that can also lead to many common symptoms. Those who react badly to Vitamin D and/or sunshine may need the Marshall Protocol.

Excellent, a 'must read' for patients and doctors
This book is well written, and helpful to patients suffering from this debilitating condition. It lets you see why you are so ill when your doctor pretends you are well treated or there is nothing wrong according to your blood tests. Even when on treatment your adrenals can become sluggish causing symptoms akin to CFS and FM.
This book should be required reading for all GPs who really care about getting their patients well, as they profess to know nothing about the problems outlined here. sufferers know and have a testimony that these treatments work.
It empowers patients to further research and find treatment for their symptoms and shows how to tell what is causing what and how it should be put right.
No person with the symptoms of CFS, Fibromyalgia, Hypothyroidism, or Hashimotos autoimmune thyroid disease should be without this book.

Everything you need to know about thyroid/adrenal illnesses
This book has been an absolute eye opener. As I read it I recognised all the symptoms I have been suffering from for years. I have actually now met Dr. Peatfield at his clinic and he talks to you just like an ordinary person and acknowledges you know what you are talking about. Very rare with doctors these days. He is a life saver and now with nutritional treatment I am starting to get my life back once more.