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Best Kept Secret

A Successful Approach to

Underactive Thyroid Hormone Function

by John Dommisse, MD

T
here is widespread dissatisfaction and frustration
among people with underactive thyroid hormone

function: The majority of them feel that their
condition has been missed or that the treatment they are

receiving has never really restored that function to normal
or gotten their lives back to what they were before they

became hypothyroid. This occurs despite the fact
that the endocrinologists and thyroidologists who drive

the teaching and treatment of this condition are intelli-
gent people with many years of education and training in

medicine, thyroid hormone function and the treatment of
thyroid diseases.
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They even admit that this tragic situation exists but are, for
various reasons, unable to re-think their approach sufficiently to ef-
fect the necessary changes in patient outcomes. We will try to ascer-
tain what some of those reasons are and show that hypothyroidism
can be treated satisfactorily, but the protocol is a well kept secret.
T his is a tragic situation because thyroid hormone function is extremely impor-
tant for the metabolism of every cell in the body, including the brain, and people
in whom this function is low suffer myriad possible negative consequences.

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