People who know me (including
my conventional doctor I see once a year for a physical) tell me that I am 10 - 15 years younger than my chronological...
Not exact matches
But the NIH says people shouldn't use Ayurveda to replace
conventional care or postpone
seeing a
doctor.
I
saw endless
doctors and underwent both
conventional and experimental therapies over the course of three - plus years in an effort to recover.
Our
doctor confirmed that the
conventional approach is «wait and
see.»
Hitting dead - ends with
conventional medicine, I decided to
see a functional medicine
doctor who I researched online.
I mean, you've got your
conventional doctors where they'll run things like your white blood cells, where we can
see things that get affected.
And keep in mind if you
saw a
conventional medical
doctor then your thyroid results are potentially inaccurate.
You can go
see your
conventional medical
doctor to make sure your TSH isn't elevated, right?
While I have the utmost respect for the profession of endocrinology and believe that every person who has been diagnosed with Hashimoto's should
see an endocrinologist at least once for a full evaluation and a thyroid ultrasound, many patients with Hashimoto's end up disappointed with the care they receive from their endocrinologists and
conventional doctors.
If you're
seeing a
conventional doctor and taking a synthetic thyroid medication, you can cry, plead and beg for NDT or a T3 containing medication, but most of them are not going to give you a medication they have learned is inferior and potentially dangerous.
Instead I
saw a lot of
conventional doctors who did a lot of tests and I got nothing.
If you
see a
conventional medical
doctor and have your blood tested at a
conventional medical laboratory for celiac disease / gluten sensitivity, you will be tested for IgA and IgG antibodies to the 33 - mer peptide of deamidated alpha - gliadin and transglutaminase 2.
Like you said, most of the patients that we
see, we run this salivary cortisol rhythm test and again, a salivary cortisol rhythm is looking at the free fraction of your cortisol so I know a lot of people may get confused because they may have had their
conventional doctor run a cortisol and that's typically via blood and blood primarily, actually it's only testing for cortisol, the serum, the protein - bound cortisol.
When you're
conventional doctor is testing for your cortisol, we already talked about that they're looking at your protein levels, just your typical cortisol sum, cortisol serum, so if you
see serum that means it's protein - bound.