A patient diagnosed with hypothyroidism gets a routine lab test back showing high TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) indicating her brain is signaling for more thyroid hormone. Instead of increasing the dosage of her natural thyroid or investigating any secondary causes of the hypothyroidism, the prescribing physician puts our mutual patient on synthroid (synthetic thyroid). Follow-up […]
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Infections Part 2: Treatment
After understanding the landscape of chronic infections, we need to turn our attention to strategies to boost immunity, treat the infection directly, or both. But how do chronic infections take root to begin with? With a robust immune system, many acute infections can be overcome efficiently, and recovery, rapid. Such is the case […]