The Thyroid Part 6 – Graves’ Disease: My 3 Recommendations
Last week we talked about autoimmune hypothyroidism (called Hashimoto’s) and this week we’ll be discussing autoimmune hyperthyroidism (called Graves’ disease). ...
The Thyroid Part 5 – Hashimoto’s: It’s More Than Just Your Thyroid
Hashimoto’s is the most common autoimmune disease around. It is so common that it’s probably more often though of first ...
The Thyroid Part 4 – Non-Autoimmune Hypothyroidism: When the Thyroid is Actually the Cause of Symptoms of Thyroid Disease
From the previous blog posts in this series (The Basics and Do I Have to Stay on Thyroid Medication for ...
The Thyroid Part 3 – Why Over-Medicating Thyroid Disease Masks the Underlying Problem
…or Do I Have to Stay on Thyroid Medication for My Whole Life? It wasn’t long ago that someone referred ...
The Thyroid Part 2 – Five Reasons Why Testing Only TSH Isn’t Enough
Thyroid disease is incredibly common. If you haven’t been diagnosed with thyroid disease yourself, you probably have at least a ...
The Thyroid Part 1 – The Basics
There is often a paradox in conventional medicine’s dealing with thyroid disease. What I see from my perspective as a ...
Beyond Vitamin C: Building Strong Immunity With Vitamin A
Often when we talk about nutrition to build a healthy immune system we are told what to take out of our diets—sugars, ...
Summer Sunshine & A Few Things You Should Know (and probably don’t!) About Sun Protection
Welcome to summer in full swing! In both Colorado and California we have at least a couple more months left ...
Delicious, Nutritious Shamrock Smoothie
There were a few years in my childhood when I looked forward to Shamrock Shakes from McDonald’s as a special ...
Instead of Aspirin, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen . . . .
My goal as a Naturopathic Doctor is not to simply replace pharmaceutical medications with “natural” alternatives because of some notion ...