Did you know simply adjusting your thyroid levels could solve your battles with depression, anxiety and weight gain among other psychological factors? LA’s the Place health correspondent, Dr. Kent Holtorf of Holtorf Medical Group, Inc. of Torrance, CA, has just launch an incredibly informative and user friendly non-profit website, National Academy of Hypothyroidism, addressing issues and solutions concerning low thyroid levels. www.nahypothyroidism.org
Symptoms of Low Thyroid
Hypothyroidism is a common disorder where there is inadequate cellular thyroid effect to meet the needs of the tissues. Typical symptoms of hypothyroidism include fatigue, weight gain, depression, cold extremities, muscle aches, headaches, decreased libido, weakness, cold intolerance, water retention, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and dry skin. Low thyroid causes or causes or contributes to the symptoms of many conditions can but the deficiency is often missed by standard thyroid testing. This is frequently the case with depression, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), menstrual irregularities, infertility, PMS, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, fibrocystic breasts, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), hyperhomocysteinuria (high homocystine), atherosclerosis, hypertension, obesity, diabetes and insulin resistance.
Website Features
- Conveniently test if you have low thyroid online.
- Join a community of other people also concerned with low thyroid issues.
- Find out why your endocrinologist doesn’t know all of this concerning hypothyroidism.
- Learn more about thyroid physiology.
- Know why TSH testing is important and when TSH testing is unreliable.
Website Feedback
Here are just a few comments given by users of the new NA Hypothyroidism website:
I do not have the words to express what it meant to me to see this site last night! Finally, a site that clearly outlines what so many of we thyroid patients know – the TSH test has kept us sick for years and years and has probably killed some of us. And finally, someone has outlined with good science and research the reasons why the TSH test has failed us. Thank you, thank you, thank you! And there is so much more on the site for us. I just can not adequately express how much it means to me to know there is a doctor who cares enough to put this information on the Internet for us. Not only will you have helped save our sanity (smile), you will be saving many lives with this information. I’m sending it to every physician who told me my TSH (which was over 2) was “normal” while I was suffering for 1/4 of a century before it rose high enough for treatment. Heck, I may just send it to every doctor in my local phonebook. Thank you, Dr. Holtorf! Member Cindi S.
Yes – thank you so much for doing this! Looking forward to understanding this disease so much better for myself, my family, and untold thousands of others. I’m with CindiS, this site will be sent to countless others that I know. Member txnancy
NA Hypothyroidism’s Mission/Goals
The National Academy of Hypothyroidism is a non-profit, multidisciplinary medical society dedicated to the dissemination of new information on the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism.
- Improve physician, endocrinologist, healthcare provider and patient understanding of the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism
- Advance the standards of care for hypothyroidism and its associated diseases
- To disseminate new knowledge that leads to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism.
- To implement change in “standard” endocrinological dogma that has historically left the majority of patients misdiagnosed as euthyroid (normal thyroid) based on the use of inaccurate out-dated “standard” blood tests
- To implement change in the “standard” treatment of hypothyroidism that has historically left the majority of patients with suboptimal treatment
- To establish and guide public policies on new concepts on the causes, diagnosis, and management of hypothyroidism and related disorders
- To be an advocate for thyroid specialists who are knowledgeable about new concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism
- Review, develop and implement training programs and education for physicians
- Provide a thought leadership role for fields and industries associated with the treatment of hypothyroidism.
Who are they?
The National Academy of Hypothyroidism is a group of thyroidologists, headed by Kent Holtorf, M.D. of Horltof Medical Group, who are dedicated to the promotion of scientifically sound and medically validated concepts and information regarding the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism.
About Dr. Kent Holtorf
Dr. Kent Holtorf
Dr. Holtorf is a diplomat and a board examiner for American Board of Anti-Aging Medicine (ABAAM). As a board examiner, Dr. Holtorf is responsible for administering the oral portion of the board exam and evaluating the physicians’ responses to determine if their knowledge base in endocrinology and natural hormones is high enough to receive board certification in this field.
Dr. Holtorf received his doctorate of medicine from St. Louis University with residency training at UCLA. He has personally trained physicians across the country in the use of bioidentical hormones, hypothyroidism, complex endocrine dysfunction and innovative treatments of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and chronic infectious diseases, including Lyme disease. He was the founding medical director and developed the protocols for Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers and other centers.
To find out more about hypothyroidism, visit www.nahypothyroidism.org
To make an appointment with Dr. Kent Holtorf’s Holtorf Medical Group, Inc., visit: www.HoltorfMed.com.
Read our article on Dr. Holtorf here…
Two offices in California:
Los Angeles (Torrance) (310) 375-2705
San Francisco (Foster City) (650)641-3539
