American Nutrition Association- Brownstein May 2011

Here's the transcript of the presentation.

I'd like to thank you all for taking the

time to come out tonight and hear my

talk and hopefully I'll give you some

things to think about and to utilize in

your daily lives to help you improve

your health and help you improve your

family's health before I get started I

was a conventionally trained physician

not interested in anything that I'm

going to talk to you about tonight and

in fact if you could have showed me a

video of me saying what I'm going to say

tonight twenty-five years ago I wouldn't

believe it

I used to tell people don't take natural

things you know I wasn't trained on that

and I used to make fun of my

mother-in-law for taking vitamins and

you know I admitted to her later I was

wrong but my turning point came about

six months after practicing medicine and

I started to lose some sleep for reasons

I couldn't understand and after a couple

of nights of not sleeping well my wife

and I are getting up getting ready for

work and I blurred out to her out of the

blue I don't want to be a doctor anymore

her first comment was well I don't want

to tell you that one we had 90 thousand

dollars in student loans all's I wanted

to be was a doctor and my sector second

comment was well what are you going to

do about it and I didn't know at that

point but I knew that I wasn't happy

about what I was doing in practice I was

treating people with drugs that weren't

helping the underlying cause of their

illness and then I was finding I was

having to use another drug to treat the

side effect of the first drug and side

effect of the second drug and I was just

giving him a polypharmacy of medications

that really wasn't working and I really

had nothing in my toolbox for them

around that time a patient of mine was

bothering me to meet his chiropractor

and at that point in my medical career I

used to tell people don't go see

chiropractors they were dangerous I'd

never met one before never knew what

they did but that's how we were trained

so in my lack of sleep and unhappiness

and weakness I did set up a meeting with

that chiropractor I remember clearly

getting home from work telling my wife

I'm gonna call him and cancel this is a

waste of my time and she said that would

be rude you need to go and then you

don't have to talk to him again if you

don't want to so I went his and his name

was dr. Robert Radke

and he started telling me about how he

was treating people with vitamins and

minerals and herbs and the chiropractic

philosophy and how they seemed to be

getting better at what he was doing so

either he was lying or there were some

other therapies that I wasn't taught in

medical school

he happened to give me a book that night

called healing healing with nutrition by

Jonathan Wright who was an allopathic

physician and I took that book home

opened it up to the section on

cardiovascular disease my father had his

first heart attack at age 40 his second

heart attack a few years later he had

angioplasty and bypass surgeries and at

that point in my life he wasn't doing

very well at all he was at about ten

medications now my father wasn't the

optimal patient he smoked he was

overweight didn't eat well never

exercised a day in his life but he was

pretty much dying at that point and I

read what dr. Wright wrote about

cardiovascular disease called my dad in

the office jus a few blood tests on him

and diagnosed him as having

non-detectable testosterone levels by

the lab so I was basically close to zero

and his thyroid hormone levels were

blown they were in the normal range but

on the lower end of the normal range and

no one had really bothered to do an

in-depth analysis of either of those

things I put him on natural thyroid

hormone natural testosterone within

seven days his 25-year history of angina

went away never to return and within a

month is cholesterol in the 300s fell

below 200 without changing any of his

bad habits more importantly he looked

better and acted better and once I saw

the changes in him I knew that's what I

wanted to do in medicine and that takes

me through to today and ten books later

and and the lecture we're going to talk

about tonight so well we'll start with

thyroid disorders that was the first

thing I became interested in when I

started looking at my dad and I found

this just occurring at epidemic rates

out there it's not being diagnosed

properly in conventional medicine nor is

it being treated properly let me start

off with a quote the superior position

helps before the early budding of the

disease the inferior position begins to

help when the disease has already

developed in medical school we're taught

about what is pathology how to diagnose

it and how to prescribe that one drug to

treat it the problem is by the time

you're diagnosing pathology the disease

is already there we're not taught about

health what it is and how to maintain it

in fact there's no mention of health and

medical

at all we would spend a lot less money

on health care doctors would be a lot

better at their at their practice if

they would focus a little bit more on

health instead of just on pathology so

this quote was written 35 years ago 40

percent of the American people four of

every ten children and adults today are

suffering needlessly and many are dying

for lack of an ingredient vital for

health is the ingredient unknown no or

unavailable know for years medicine has

recognized the role the deficiency in

some areas of health and disease and has

had clues to its great importance in

many other areas but the now it's too

often is not being used and still is not

being used because of the unreliability

of lab tests that have failed to show

the deficiency even when doctors could

see its manifestations clearly enough in

patients before them and while lab tests

have erred and have misled both doctors

and patients the patients have suffered

as doctor wrote about this in the early

1970s that the commonly used thyroid lab

tests were missing most of the people

with thyroid problems and he was

frustrated because he grew up in a he

practiced medicine at a time where they

didn't rely on lab tests they took a

history they did a physical exam and

then they made a diagnosis based on that

picture and use the lab tests sort of as

a guide but not as the end-all test all

his name was dr. Broder Barnes he wrote

a book hypothyroidism the unsuspected

illness it's a fabulous book to read I

learned a lot from his book and I

believe he was right then the problem

we've got now with the increasing toxic

load were exposed to with the radiation

from Japan with our lowered mineral

levels the thyroid epidemic has

increased markedly since he wrote this

quote in the early 1970s so who are

these characters who's the guy in the

middle now who is he who is the

character Marty McFly and who's talking

to him see who's really good with Back

to the Future mr. Strickland mr.

Strickland was the principal and mr.

Strickland says I'm telling you McFly

it's more likely 60% what he means is

he's very knowledgeable about thyroid

problems and he's saying that it's not

40% as dr. Baron said in 1970s I believe

the number 60% now I lecture across the

country I always stop at the beginning

my thyroid lecture asked a group of

doctors what percent of people you think

are walking around

as thyroid problems invariably the

number comes back from 50 to 90%

most of them agreeing it's about 60 to

70 percent so we got a major problem out

there it's not being recognized by

conventional medicine nor is it being

appropriately treated these are the

chapter in my book overcoming thyroid

disorders we won't go through all this

but we'll focus primarily in

hypothyroidism or an underactive thyroid

and the thyroid gland sits in lower part

of our neck here it produces a teaspoon

of thyroid hormone for a whole year that

teaspoon of thyroid hormone has to drive

the metabolic rate of each of the cells

of the body 24 hours a day seven days a

week so every cell in the body depends

on adequate thyroid hormone levels you

can't achieve your optimal health

without a properly functioning thyroid

gland and an underactive thyroid or

hypothyroidism is probably the most

commonly misdiagnosis today my estimate

is 60% of the population we live in is

an undiagnosed thyroid problem now why

how could 6 of 10 of us have an

undiagnosed thyroid problem I say the

main reason we're seeing an increase

from dr. Barnes is quote in the 1970s is

this toxicity that we're exposed to

triclosan

it's an antibacterial agent it's similar

to bisphenol A and it's found in

toothpaste mouthwash soap deodorant

shaving cream cleaning supplies kitchen

utensils trash bags clothing bedding

children's toys they find this in

everybody find it in newborns they find

it in cord blood newborn rats fed in

varying amounts of triclosan for 31 days

they had altering thyroid hormone levels

decrease in t4 which is a thyroid

hormone with increasing concentrations

of triclosan and they also found

significant increases in liver weights

of the rats when they were exposed to

higher doses we've got one in three

Americans having what's called fatty

liver disease and I just wrote a

newsletter on this a couple of months

ago and walking around that are being

not being diagnosed with this and when

you have fatty liver disease your

mortality goes up 12% over the next five

years and it's because of this toxic

exposure word now another study with

rats found serum thyroid hormone

concentrations are suppressed by

triclosan

remember this has been found in nearly

every American where they've tested for

it pregnant rats exposed to triclosan

decreased thyroid hormone 31% and that's

because it's disrupting this

earth way when I lecture to doctors and

I'm doing a lecture to doctors tomorrow

I'll talk about this pathway and how to

optimize it and when we are exposed to

mercury and and radioactive iodine and

triclosan and bisphenol A and all these

these chemicals and plastics this

pathway gets disrupted patients end up

sick and the end result is direct

problems breast problems prostate

problems ovarian problems all the

glandular problems that we're seeing

occurring at epidemic rates so here's a

who's who of who's not feeling well out

there and these can all be related to

thyroid as well as other endocrine

problems and what we find in our

practice my partners in item when we

balance their thyroid gland and balance

neural hormonal system these conditions

get better now what what the authors of

this study the Colorado thyroid disease

prevalence study did was they set up a

booth at the Colorado State Fair they

drew the blood from ten twenty five

thousand eight hundred and sixty two

subjects they didn't take a history they

didn't take a physical exam they just

looked at the blood tests they found ten

percent of the people were found to have

an undiagnosed abnormal thyroid function

they extrapolated those numbers out

nationally these were adults and they

stated the 13 million Americans

nationally may have an undiagnosed

abnormal thyroid problem well I say

that's if you're just going to use the

standard blood tests once you do a

proper history do a proper physical exam

and use the the cranium to think about

it the numbers are probably four to five

to six fold higher than that that's a

lot of people now sunscreen I'm not a

big fan of using sunscreen we've created

a whole population of Americans afraid

of the Sun and we've what we've created

from that is a whole population of

Americans deficient in vitamin D now I

saw a dermatologist as a patient not too

long ago and after the visit with her I

said to I asked her if I could ask her a

few questions

I said does the Sun cause skin cancer oh

yes Sun causes skin cancer should

everyone avoid the Sun everyone should

avoid the Sun should everyone use

sunscreen everyone should do sunscreen

she's about my age and I said to her

well what did your mother put on you

when you went outside as a kid and she

thought for a moment pause and said well

I don't know I said what wasn't

sunscreen because we don't worse ones

develop them

we were we didn't have computers we

didn't have iPods we didn't have 120 TV

channels we were outside as kids and

nobody was wearing sunscreen where's all

the skin cancer back then I say the skin

cancer is coming from nutritional

deficiencies hormonal imbalances and the

use of sunscreen on the skin this study

showed rats treated with 4nbc and

benzophenone - which are commonly found

in most sunscreens for five days were

found as significantly increase TSH was

a thyroid hormone and lower t4 the

weights of the thyroid glands of the

rats increased and all the results were

preventative there was adequate iodine

present I'll talk to you in part two of

this talk tonight about iodine but I say

we should go back to common sense with

the Sun you should cover yourself and

that gets sunburned but I don't see any

reason we should be slathering sunscreen

on us 24 hours a day seven days a week

the author said this work has shown that

NBC and BP - are potent disruptors of

the pituitary thyroid hormone system and

rats if the same effect is discovered in

humans then we may have to rethink how

we protect our children and those with

existing thyroid problems or those in

iodine deficient areas from sun exposure

now I mentioned my dad to you and

treated him with thyroid hormone the

relationship between low thyroid and the

atherosclerosis was written about in the

1800s now I say a cardiologist before

reflexively putting a new cardiovascular

patient and a statin drug should

investigate the hormonal status of his

patient first including the thyroid

gland 2550 subjects in this study a

subclinical hypothyroidism with a 260

percent increase in the prevalence of

heart disease as far as I know patients

with heart disease don't have statin

deficiency syndromes I haven't seen it

yet been looking for it haven't found

one yet but I've seen many of them have

thyroid problems low testosterone levels

mineral deficiencies vitamin

deficiencies that when they're corrected

their cardiovascular disease gets

markedly better that's looking for the

underlying cause of their problems and

not just treating a symptom the high

cholesterol may be just a symptom of

heart disease I didn't that's another

talk for another time I

about this more of my drugs that don't

work book 97 subjects with subclinical

hypothyroidism very slightly lower

thyroid levels 20 years of follow-up

subclinical hypothyroidism associated

with a 76 percent increase in heart

disease and a 79 percent increase in

mortality from heart disease and this is

not being picked up by the cardiologists

because they're not looking for it is

one of the reasons why heart disease is

still our number one killer we've made

very little progress in long-term

treatment of our disease when

subclinical hypothyroidism with thyroid

hormone there was no different seem

between the treated group and the

subject groups now this is getting some

news in the journals here's you know an

article they don't really talk about

what to do with it and they still say

you have to rely on the blood tests well

that's nonsense and I'll talk to you

about that

we know there's TSH receptors expressed

on coronary arteries and the fat cells

and we know that an elevated TSH which

occurs in a low thyroid condition can

affect the coronary arteries and the fat

cells and it's been shown that an

elevated TSH can induce ischemic heart

disease or angina or spasm of the

coronary arteries it's not just the

heart that's affected by low thyroid

it's pretty much all the gland all the

systems of the body

aníbal bowel syndrome you know in

medicine if you don't know what's wrong

with someone they come up with GI

complaints what do you tell them you got

irritable bowel I know I got irritable

bowel that's why I'm here

it's irritating me irritable bowel

doesn't tell you anything just I don't

like when people tell me that's what

their diagnosis is because it tells me

their stomach hurts

you've got hurt stomach syndrome I could

tell oh man small intestinal bacterial

overgrowth was diagnosed by this lecture

Lowe's blood trust was founded 54% of

hypothyroid patients and they found that

occurred even when the patients were you

theright so what they mean is that they

have abnormal bacterial overgrowth in

their small bowel just from being

hypothyroid these people need a holistic

workup to figure out what's going on in

their body and how to get the right

nutrition in and how to balance their

bacteria levels in their gut and what we

find in our practice is irritable bowel

is diet related it's hormone related

it's nutrition related and when you

correct those imbalances those

conditions get better and there's no

question that the thyroid relates to

neural development the thyroid glands

forms in the first trimester of

pregnancy if the moms thyroid if the

mother doesn't have enough thyroid to

supply the baby with adequate thyroid

hormone that baby will have thyroid

problems at some point in his or her

life and one of the problems they'll

develop our neurologic problems now this

was a study where they looked at 169

participants 53 children of the mothers

who had hypothyroidism they only

monitored the TSH and they were compared

to a control group and what they found

was the children of the low thyroid

mothers were found to have abnormal

visual processing deficits and attention

as well sensory motor e-skills in memory

and at age 5 the mean IQ was 5 points

lower in the children of the hypothyroid

mothers they also had lower scores and

tests of working memory as well as

verbal and associative learning what are

we seeing in our public schools right

now ad D where was ad D when I was a kid

we didn't really we didn't see this

stuff and you got over 16% of public

school age boys on some mood altering

drug right now now as far as I know I

haven't seen a ritalin deficient

syndrome child been looking I haven't

seen one of those either I don't think

they're born ritalin deficient but I

think that they're born with hormonal

nutritional imbalances and that's and

diet problems and when these kids get a

holistic workup we see these problems

get better without the need for those

toxic psych drugs this was the author of

that book dr. proto Barnes and he he

said that we need to move away from the

lab test now remember this was in 1970s

and lab tests were becoming in vogue he

said he warned us if we just relied on

the lab tests we were going to make the

thyroid epidemic that he was diagnosing

at that time worse and he predicted that

if we rely on the lab tests it's going

to skyrocket and affect most of our

population and I believe his prediction

has come true today so how do I do it

when I lectured to the doctors tomorrow

I'm going to teach them how to take them

do a proper history and ask the right

questions too and listen to patients too

to ascertain if they have some of the

signs of low thyroid I'll just give you

some of the common signs it's you know

coldness cold hands and cold feet they

have brain fog they're tired headaches

high cholesterol can be associated with

low thyroid

menstrual disorders such as heavy

menstrual bleeding PMS memory and and

brain fog all related to low thyroid

function after you take a history you do

what we were taught in medical school do

a proper physical exam and look for some

of the signs of low thyroid on the body

do they have dry skin do they have

swelling and I'll show you some pictures

of patients do they have you know how to

palpate a thyroid most actors do not

know how to palpate a thyroid and it's

important if you're going to diagnose

this to learn how to palpate a thyroid

they have hair loss particularly frontal

hair loss they can have high blood

pressure or low blood pressure it can

have a swollen tongue I'll show you a

picture that they can have swelling on

under the eyes it's periorbital edema

poor eyebrow growth especially the outer

third of the eyebrows can thin out they

have a puffy face in general they can

have slow reflexes well this is patient

with a swollen tongue and you'd be

amazed at how many times they ask a

patient is your tongue do you like your

tongues too big for your mouth and

they're like yeah how did you know well

I look at their tongue and what you look

for are they

scalloping around the edges of the

tongue where the tongue is banging into

the teeth and it's become so swollen

they're tripping over their tongue they

they they feel like when they're talking

the tongue is getting in the way of

talking when you treat if this is truly

a low thyroid patient when you treat

this tongue swelling will go down now

the other things that I will teach the

doctors tomorrow is how to do a proper

ankle reflex that's a cardinal sign of

low thyroid but they also have coarse

skin puffiness in general constipation

slow movement so those stars I put on

there we're the biggest difference

between low thyroid patients and normal

patients and what they saw on the

physical exam next exactly what I see

with my patients now I do a history I do

a physical exam I also do lab tests I

think the lab tests are helpful but I

don't think they should be the end-all

to everything if they were the end-all

that we don't really need to see

patients we can just draw their blood

look at the lab tests and mail and

prescription or tell them to be on their

way but I do read lab tests I check iron

levels I check b12 levels these are all

important for proper thyroid functioning

I'm going to skip on reverse t3 is

another one the doctors don't check

and reverse t3 is an important lab

tested I don't need to get into with you

but if reverse t3 levels are elevated

these are the patients that are toxic

and need to liver detox and they might

need a little bit of a different thyroid

preparation a good holistic doctor can

check this for you now this is from the

British Medical Journal because I was

taught in medical school just check a

TSH level TSH levels normal they don't

have a thyroid problem if it's AB if

it's abnormal give them a prescription

for thyroid hormone British Medical

Journal said the biological effects of

thyroid hormones at the peripheral

tissues and mat TSH concentrations

reflect the clinical severity of

hypothyroidism a judicious initiation of

thyroid hormone treatment should be

guided by clinical and metabolic

presentation and thyroid hormone

concentrations and not by serum TSH

concentrations I couldn't say it any

better now here's a high normal TSH

linked to cardiovascular risk and teens

what they're saying is that within the

normal range of TSH which is too large

if someone starts creeping up on their

their cardiovascular risk is going to go

up and they're finding the

cardiovascular is going up even in

teenagers I I can tell you if 60% of

population adult population has

hypothyroid right now and it's occurring

more and more in each generation you can

only gather what's going to happen the

next generation behind us so 838 youth

thyroid which is normal thyroid

adolescent subjects they head in normal

they were in the normal TSH range which

I show you there they had no history of

thyroid disease they compared to mean

TSH and the obese subjects compared to

the overweight and normal subjects so

they had three groups obese overweight

and normal weight subjects what they

found was that the TSH between the obese

and the other two groups was

significantly different now these are

still normal ranges but their

cardiovascular risk in this group was

significantly higher doctors aren't

looking at this they're just looking in

that normal range and telling you

everything's fine it's important to look

at your TSH TSH ranges over time and you

can follow them if they start to creep

up even in the normal range that's a

sign that you might want to act on that

now prior to the TSH test when dr.

Baran's was practicing in the

50s and 60s they didn't have the TSH

test so their standard doses of thyroid

hormone were 200 to 300 micrograms per

day 1971 was the first TSH test and they

reported the serum TSH restored to

normal with a hundred to 150 micrograms

per day of thyroid hormone what they did

was it was a 50% lowering of thyroid

hormone automatically so instead of

doctors prescribing two hundred three

hundred micrograms per day with that CRM

TSH test they just lowered the dose and

said oh people need now 100 micrograms

per day so for those of you one since

early birth right up at the majority of

yuan 0.1 or one hundred micrograms a day

that's half the dose there people around

in the 50s and 60s this is part of the

reason we're seeing such a thyroid

epidemic people are being under treated

with it now we have two thirds of our

population either overweight or obese

right now for women for each for each

one unit incremented TSH concentration

that goes up in the normal range their

weight goes up by about five pounds for

men for each one unit increment and

weight goes up about 2.2 pounds is it

any wonder why we have two thirds of our

population overweight and obese is

because we're not diagnosing

thyroid problems appropriately in

treating them appropriately so the

author said changes in serum TSH

concentrations over time within the

reference range was strongly and

literally associated with weight gain

four year old children TSH levels and

neuro behavioral changes were looked at

a high normal TSH

was negatively associated with memory

and verbal and quantitative skills

positivism

associate with hyperactivity and

impulsivity and a TSH over 2.2 which is

normal presented lower neural

developmental scores as well as a higher

risk of a DD and hyperactivity symptoms

this is why we've got seventh over 16%

of our public school age boys on some

mood-altering drug they're not being

diagnosed appropriately and not being

treated appropriately

I can guarantee you they don't have

ritalin deficiency syndrome they might

have thyroid deficiency syndrome going

on Alzheimer's disease epidemic rates

right now 209 participants in the study

twelve point seven years of follow-up

women in the lowest and

highest of serum TSH had an increased

risk of Alzheimer's compared to those in

the middle range when I when I do this

lecture for doctors I always ask them

what do you think of normal TSH is we'll

go run around the room and I'll hear

different notes I can tell you I've done

this hundreds of times north to south

east to west the answer from doctors

literally comes in a normal TSH range

that we are all seeing out there is

about one to two most of the people

around one so what this study is showing

is when the TSH gets too low or too high

Alzheimer's goes up and you can

literally see it in people if you follow

them over time the lowest turtle 239

percent increase of Alzheimer's the

highest of 215 percent increase of

Alzheimer's so how do I do it I check I

do a history I do a physical exam I

check the lab tests I also have patients

check their basal body temperatures

first morning temperature before you get

out of bed it can signify the metabolic

rate of the body so in a hypothyroid

condition when there's not enough

thyroid hormone the little energy

producing cells in the body are

functioning too slowly not producing

enough heat people are cold tired brain

fogged and their body temperature will

fall now I used to be I'm told by my

conventional doctors it's nonsense the

body temperature has nothing to do with

health it is that's there's just natural

body temperature is allowed to deal with

health enzymes and vitamins and minerals

and hormones all function better at a

very tightly controlled temperature

range and a temperature range should be

ninety seven point eight to ninety eight

point two under your arm or you can add

a degree for your mouth you do it for

your mouth and when the temperature is

too low

enzymes don't work well in the body

vitamins don't work well in the body

hormones don't work well in the body

this is just another sign there can be a

thyroid problem so this is how I put it

together I do a history I do a physical

exam I check the basal body temperatures

and I do the blood test that's a

holistic way to diagnose a thyroid

problem now this quote was written in

1930 by a physician are not the feelings

of the patients often as clinically

valuable as the other findings in no

case can we wholly discount them a good

lab report is cold comfort to a patient

whose symptoms remain unchanged

and the doctor can repeat such reports

until he's blue in the face but they

will not help us patient much if

unaccompanied by controlled symptoms and

change feelings

the successful the successful physician

is the one who knows best how to make

his patients feel better this is dr.

Henry Harrower we should have heeded his

advice 80 years ago we wouldn't be in

the healthcare mess were in right now

spending all this money and ranking

below nearly every Western country and

every health indicator now this

gentleman saw my lecture was this

Forrest Forrest Gump his mama tells him

don't rely solely on blood tests you

should get a doctor that listens to you

doctor the knows how to palpate a

thyroid checks your basal body

temperatures and puts the whole picture

together

that's a holistic way to diagnose a

problem that could affect every cell in

the body 24 hours a day seven days a

week so you're diagnosed now you get

treatment the conventional realm of

treatment is synthroid or leaveth raid

which is legal thorax and sodium up here

t4 only the that's fine for a lot of

patients but a lot of patients need more

than just t4 to get their thyroid to

work they need the t2 and t3 they need

calcitonin needs selenium that's where

the natural thyroid preparations such as

nature thyroid or armor thyroid come

into play

the vast majority patients who are who

are very ill or deficient in nutrients

will do better on the natural thyroid

than the synthetic thyroid preparations

there's other thyroid preparations for

those who are you have allergies or

sensitivities those can be made up by a

compounding pharmacist but starts start

with a small dose and you know raise the

dose depending on how they're doing but

more importantly I monitor my patients I

am check their temperatures I'll check

their lab tests I'll see them back

that's an appropriate way to follow this

illness I'd like to show you some slides

those at home I'm sorry I didn't have

releases from patients for this but this

is Carol Carol had a baby six months ago

Carol was at school teacher played

tennis three to four days a week got

pregnant at the fourth month of

pregnancy started to gain an inordinate

amount of weight was put to bed rest

five and a half months till the end of

the pregnancy she gained 100 pounds she

had the baby didn't lose an ounce after

the baby six months later she can

take care of the baby she's tired brains

not working her husband's having to stay

home her husband Todd's having to stay

home and help with the baby

she feels miserable Carol ate a great

diet she was on a bunch of supplements

came to see me I checked her thyroid

levels which were normal

all the thyroid levels were normal she

had a basal body temperature that was 2

degrees below normal was barely reading

on a thermometer called all the time you

can see her picture here her hair's

falling out she's all swollen in the

face it's almost like your eyes are

closed just from puffiness pushing up

you know the closing of her eyes so I

diagnosed her clinically with a

hypothyroid condition I put her on a

small amount of desiccated thyroid and

five months later this is Carol so Carol

like that and look at her hair

difference girls like when you do that

to their hair they're your patients for

life once you do that to their hair but

she lost almost all of her weight in

that time she went to playing tennis

again taking care of the baby Todd's

back to work everything's fine shows up

in my office a year and a half later

with a scowl on her face saying hi I'm

like hey what's wrong

he wants another baby I'm not the one

through that again and at that point we

had I had Caroline I had her thyroid

balance to head around a little adrenal

hormones DHEA and pregnant alone had her

nutritionally balanced she was on a

little bit of iodine also at that point

she was fine I said look I think you'll

do fine I think you had a thyroid

condition it was precipitated by the

pregnancy weren't properly diagnosed and

treated it won't happen again

she's a second pregnancy she gains 35

pounds loses the weight right after

plays tennis all through the pregnancy

and you know didn't have these problems

and certainly was able to take care of

two kids at the end of the second one

this is Lauren I was taking care of

lorenz mom for Hashimoto's disease

Lorenz mom tells me Lauren is lying

around all the time she doesn't do

anything she's cold in the middle of the

summer she's irritable and something's

happened to Lauren over the last six

months she didn't used to be this way so

you can look on the ranch he's got these

sort of puffy

purge exchanger eyes Loretta he had

normal thyroid blood test she had a very

low basal body temperature

she had slow reflexes just as Carol had

slow reflexes some of the physical exam

signs and I'll go over that with the

doctor is more tomorrow but I'm pointing

out these are patients who have normal

thyroid blood tests yet it's missing the

diagnosis I put Lauren on a small amount

of desiccated thyroid hormone here's

Loretta a six-month visit now girls like

when you do that to their hair right

even like that we've had to adjust

adjust her thyroid oh so she gets older

and this is her recently this is baby

Alec Alec what this is before I saw him

and I asked my mom to bring in this

picture and show me and I would guess

he's about 6 months old here now my kids

have seen my lecture enough and seeing

these faces and I have a bunch of

different faces that I show where they

can pick out hypothyroid patients when

my kids were little before they were

teenagers and we could actually go to

movies and be happy with me I remember

we were at the movie theater and we pay

the money and we walk away and my

daughter says dad she needs to see you

did you see her face she looks just like

your picture she's got a thyroid problem

so now you'll be able to recognize it

Alex all puffy in his face right here

that's when they get it right under the

eyes

this is Alec when I came in to see me so

this was a him in his wheelchair and I I

opened the door got the chart in one

hand handled or hand on the other hand

and I looked at him and I stopped never

I haven't done this before and I haven't

done it afterwards I don't say hello I

don't introduce myself I'm staring at

this kid

who looks ill to me and I said I just

there's a pregnant pause and I blurred

out he's mixed a Demming and the mom

goes what's that and I said he's hyper

severely hypothyroid and she starts

flipping through papers and she says we

just had a checked no he's not hands me

the levels which were normal and what

was struck me was he's all puffy in the

face and it's harder to see in this

picture but also he was all puffy on the

the wrist area and

puffy on his ankle area which I could

see in person and his tongue was so big

and fat it was sticking out of his mouth

and drools coming down so I recover I

apologize to the parents I do my visit

you know the father never forgave me he

wouldn't come back mother still brings

him milk

the he had normal thyroid blood tests he

had basal body temperatures that were

not reading on a thermometer

he was so low he had no reflexes I could

elicit which is a real sign of low

thyroid now alec was on three seizure

medications from cerebral palsy at birth

at high dose he was having 2030 seizures

a week on full dose medications I put

him on a small amount of thyroid hormone

here's Alka few months later now

Alec being a boy he doesn't really care

about his hair but his mother did like

that his tongue was still he's got some

health issues but it did recede back

into his mouth more appropriately his

reflexes came back more importantly as

seizures went down from 20 to 30 a week

down to two to three a week and one

seizure medication in half dose mom took

him back to the neurologist about a

month after I put him on thyroid hormone

the neurologist walked in door and

according to the mother she said he

paused at the door looked at him and

said wow what are you doing he looks a

lot better

so she tells him he starts flipping

through his chart and I told him I what

might happen here he says well you have

normal thyroid levels when I checked

them but I can't deny this you keep

doing what you're doing the neurologists

now sent my practice patients I found

what nearly every patient is suffering

from seizures disorders the hormonal

and/or thyroid imbalance is part of that

picture in many of them and maybe those

seizure medications cause other problems

that they can't get off until they get

over until they get off those seizure

medications or get them down to

manageable levels this is Alec recently

last one is Dawson Dawson's mom had

thyroid cancer almost died from

radioactive iodine treatments and his

thyroid didn't develop normally in utero

teachery

he's having problems at school

concentrating and so one of the teachers

want to put him on they're pressuring

the mom what's rental in you know one of

those ADT medications like he's an ad

like he's a riddle and deficient child

but mother didn't want to do that so he

had normal thyroid tests slow reflexes I

put him on a small amount of thyroid

hormone based on his history and

physical exam and his family history and

did much better so she sends me this

email I thought you'd like to see

Dawson's latest report Carter used to be

reused to be reserved and did not want

to interact socially he's been an

armored thyroid for six weeks now and

his teachers notice that he has changed

in personality and attentiveness maybe

all the kids being diagnosed ATD are

really hypothyroid I'm so thankful he

had help available to him

my mom commented in Easter that my kids

were like two different children I agree

doston could not sit in this chair

mealtime he was up and down and up and

down two drove us crazy now he sits

through the entire meal and eats I've

not heard that a stomach hurts which

used to be every night since the first

week he was on thyroid meds now Dawson

goes for the spelling test the spelling

test is 11 18:07 mom practices with him

the night before she calls me up

irritated he's not doing well he's up

and down everything's back again what's

going on and he fails a spelling test

and he misses all these words and he's

got some alien drawings up there and

stuff like that so I said is he in a

growth spurt

yeah his pants are short I said take his

basal temperatures she took his

temperatures sent me an email the next

day they dropped another hit they

dropped the Hat they came back up when

he went on thyroid they dropped a half a

degree

I said look we just need to up a thyroid

is he he is he gross so we adjusted his

thyroid and he retook the spelling test

11 days later now mom says she didn't

practice with them here I say this one

is ism is as stunning as those pictures

I just showed you

no more aliens he's in the lines here a

few words are spelled wrong but they're

much better she mom mom was very happy

with this but this is your brain when

the thyroid is not working and this is

the brain when the thyroid is working

it's just a report car from the teacher

saying how much better he's doing and

part of the reason we're seeing so much

thyroid

problems is a condition called thyroid

hormone resistance so they might be

producing enough thyroid hormone the

blood tests are normal yet it can't get

into the cells it's a very similar

analogy to type-2 diabetes where many

patients produce enough insulin yet the

insulin can't get into the cells to

lower blood sugar well enough and it was

a first reported in 1967 but the most

important thing to take in mind is the

lab tests are totally inaccurate in this

case yet conventional doctors won't

diagnose this I don't know why it's in

the literature they refuse to diagnose

it refused to give it any credence they

can also have what's called a tee for

conversion black the thyroid hormone

won't convert from inactive to active

thyroid hormone again it's in the

literature it's all over the place but

conventional doctors won't entertain

this now this has been in the elderly

this has been reported many times lower

detention depression increased mortality

lowered ability to perform activities of

daily living when they have this t4

conversion problem I diagnosis in many

older people as well as younger people

they'd have toxicities and poor

nutrition one of the reasons is nitrates

to contaminate drinking water for those

of you fertilizing your lawns and we

tell you to stop doing it

you put nitrates in the water supply so

it ended up getting back to my household

eventually and organic foods have a

little bit less nitrate as compared to

conventional lettuce not a lot but a

little bit less one of the reasons maybe

to have organic foods but compared to

women in the lowest quartile of nitrate

intake from public water supplies those

in the highest court trial or finally

have a two point two fold increased risk

of thyroid cancer think about all of us

fertilizing alliances we want green

lawns well I stopped that long ago I got

neighbors weren't too happy with me but

I would say we could save money and stop

polluting our water supply by putting

this stuff out there so there's many

other things that inhibit thyroid

hormone

there's nutrient deficiencies we're

going to talk about iodine iron selenium

zinc vitamins A E and the B vitamins and

look at the medication list the blacks

thyroid hormone amiodarone was used for

heart arrhythmias beta blockers you know

how many patient how many cardiac

patients reflexive we are put on beta

blockers right off the bat

they're not checked under thyroid

hormone and I checked on their

nutritional system yet they're thrown on

beta blockers which are known to make

thyroid problems worse birth control

pills make black that conversion down

SSRIs antidepressant drugs paxil prozac

all black thyroid conversion the aging

process slows it down BPA which again

another toxic chemical all over the

place

cigarette smoking fluoride in our water

supply blacks at conversion low adrenal

state mercury pesticides soy just spend

a second on soy soy his soy protein and

soy isoflavones have been shown to

reduce t4 absorption

black t4 to t3 conversion and increase

autoimmune thyroid disorders soy should

be avoided isoflavones these are the soy

chemicals which are sometimes the in

supplements dated Zenon genestein they

what they do is they inhibit

intracellular thyroid hormone production

they're found in all soy products such

as peas beans nuts grain products coffee

and tea the the u.s. averages 3.1

milligrams of dietary isoflavones and

it's consumed by 35 percent of US adults

at a daily basis adolescence diagnosed

with Graves or Hashimoto's are more

likely to be fed soy formulas infants

I'm going to go over this much more

detail with doctors tomorrow this is my

tenth book that just came out the soy

deception and this stuff should be

avoided this is a nasty product out

there the 90% of the soy out there is

genetically modified soy that has a

roundup gene in it so they can spread

lots of roundup on it and not kill the

soy plant but it ends up in the food

supply it's a totally different soy

wheat here than the Japanese eat and you

know I would advise you not to drink soy

milk or soy dogs or feed children soy

milk and certainly to get rid of edamame

and other things in your diet so we will

spend the rest of time talking about

iodine and since line is polling you

know spoke to you before I'm honored to

use a quote from him never put your

trust in anything but your own intellect

always think for yourself look if it

doesn't sound

I too think about it and step back and

do your own research or find someone

that can help you think about it if it

doesn't sound right to you to use drugs

that black ensign or poison enzymes or

black receptors and maybe you should

think about it well how can I support

the body instead of using toxic drugs so

thyroid is really important I'll leave

you with that it's impossible to achieve

your optimal health without a properly

functioning thyroid gland and this is

not being diagnosed by conventional

doctors and if you're just getting a

thyroid blood test and they're telling

you your thyroids fine and you don't

think it is because you're reading about

it then find someone who's willing to go

a step further for you let's talk about

iodine and certainly we talked about

thyroid that really the the apropos

subject to follow that is iodine the

highest concentration of iodine in the

body is in the thyroid and I always

refer to iodine as the most

misunderstood nutrients and there's no

better way to start this talk than a

quote from Leo Tolstoy I know the most

men including those at ease with the

problems of the greatest complexity can

sell them except even the simplest and

most obvious truth if it would oblige

him to admit to the falsity of

conclusions

they've delighted in explaining to their

colleagues there's no more falsity of

conclusions that occur with any single

substance than iodine this is my book

iodine why you need it why you can't

live without it and let's see if my

graphics work No so this is my professor

of endocrinology in medical school he

was chairman of the department and he

never refrained from telling us don't

take iodine for any condition you take

iodine you're going to make thyroid

problems were so you're going to

precipitate a thyroid problem now

interestingly he came to see me as a

patient a few years later and he wasn't

feeling good he was tired and irritable

and it wasn't good along with his family

and having problems breathing but I did

say to him I'm not going to see you

professor Vader unless you take off your

mask so he took off his mask and this is

him in the office and he's you guys can

diagnose him now he's low thyroid

it's puffy under the eyes and it's got

those allergic shiners like those other

patients I showed you so I had a low

basal body temperature and

and I also diagnosed some low iodine so

I put them on 50 milligrams of iodine

made him come back in three months and

look at the difference so that's the

difference that's what iodine can do for

you

and it really helped professor Vader he

was in a better mood and wasn't so

grouchy and so let's learn about iodine

there's a condition called medical IO to

phobia and it's the unwarranted fear of

using and recommending inorganic non

radioactive iodine within the range

known from the collective experience of

three generations of clinicians to be

the safest and most effective amounts

for treating the symptoms and signs of

iodine deficiency 12 to 50 milligrams

per day that's about a hundred times to

500 times the RDA for iodine I had

finished in iodine since I began

treating people with thyroid problems in

diagnosing this thyroid epidemic that's

out there and I kept thinking everyone

can't be lacking thyroid hormone they

must be lacking certain nutrients or

eating wrong or having toxicities

related to the thyroid problems maybe if

we correct that they won't all need

thyroid hormone so I always came back to

iodine I would use it I wouldn't use it

and I wasn't seeing great results with

it I never saw bad results this

gentleman on the right wrote an article

too wrote a letter to the editor of one

of my journals and I can he developed an

iodine test I called him he became

interested in me because my practice was

in Michigan in the middle of the Great

Lakes were we're in the quarter bouts of

the United States including you guys

Michigan Illinois Indiana Ohio and right

down the center of the country the soil

is one of the most iodine deficient

areas in the entire world so dr. Abraham

in the AL and the right in this picture

agreed to start testing my patience and

what we found were that over ninety five

percent of the first 250 patients were

significantly low in iodine now we've

tested over 5000 patients the numbers

are still holding true I'll show you

that and it's an epidemic that's

occurring across the country and it's

going to be worse in our states than the

goiter belt

edgar cayce the sleeping prophet said

they're only four elements in the body

water salt soda and iodine if we have

adequate amounts

these four elements in the balance the

body is fully capable of creating all

the other elements of the universe now

he was right

we need to hydrate we need the right

kind of salt unrefined salt my diet diet

coke and iodine we're ready to go now at

the time he made this statement

Diet Coke wasn't in what they didn't

make that coke at that time so maybe he

meant bicarbonate of soda to balance the

pH and I couldn't agree more people need

to be hydrated they need the right salt

they need pH balance and iodine now I

was taught in medical school you're

going to make thyroid problems worse if

you give him iodine well this study

showed both benign and malignant thyroid

nodules have significantly less iodine

as compared to normal thyroid tissue but

nine Naturals had 56 percent of the

iodine content as compared to normal

thyroid tissue and malignant nodules

only 3% of the iodine content now if I

then were causing these problems you

would expect the opposite to occur

iodine should be higher in those tissues

iodine found in the periodic table group

17 the halides all these highlights are

similar in structure they can they can

push push each other in and out of the

body we're going to focus on iodine so

was first discovered 18 by dr. William

Prout for he treated a patient with

goiter and the Gorder went away it was

written about in 1820 by coin day and he

recommended iodine preoperatively to

diminish the gorgeous eyes and

vascularity

however he accounted stiff opposition

with opponents claiming iodine was

poisonous he wouldn't leave his house

for fear of being stoned let me tell you

sometimes I fear for being stoned and

what I've said about iodine even some of

my holistic colleagues are suffering

from medical Iota phobia and iodine

instan the neatest thing I've done in my

practice over the last 20 years it gives

me the biggest bang for the buck and you

know it's really something we should all

look at so it's known iodine is known as

the birth of Western medicine because in

1918 24 boostin Gault observed the

goiter didn't occur it's many silver

mining sites he wrote an article

recommending those with quarter take

iodine it was really the first time that

a single item iodine was recommended for

a single problem quiter in conventional

medicine what do we do now

we make a diagnosis we prescribe the one

drug to treat their diagnosis here's the

RDA for iodine 150 micrograms per day

now I was talking to you about milligram

doses which is 100 times this and a

little bit more in pregnancy and

lactation I will tell you in today's

toxic world that we live in the RDA must

stand for rats drugs and assumptions

it's probably enough for rats to prevent

thyroid problems and breast cancer and

ovarian problems and uterine and

prostate problems but it's certainly not

enough for human beings now over the

last 50 years the government's own

studies show that iodine levels have

found 50 percent in United States

government does a survey every 10 years

of about 10,000 Americans and they check

various vitamin mineral toxicity levels

and they extrapolate those numbers out

nationally and what they found was from

1970 to 2000 iodine levels have fallen

over 50% the United States now during

this time iodine levels have found 50%

in the United States we have seen

significant increases in the incidence

of thyroid illnesses from low thyroid to

autoimmune thyroid illness to thyroid

cancer cancer of the breast prostate or

noemi treatment ovaries all those

conditions can be caused by iodine

deficiency the proportion of the u.s.

population with moderate to severe

iodine deficiency is increased over 300%

in the last 40 years there's the numbers

we graph it out it looks something like

that now this is severely iodine

deficient patients what about the mild

patients I can tell you my testing has

shown over 95% of patients deficient in

iodine pregnant women finally it's

starting to be realized in some of the

conventional literature and the author's

stayed here more than 70% of women with

access to dietary iodine we may remain

at risk for undiagnosed iodine

deficiency during pregnancy 16.8% of us

women of childbearing age had urinary

iodine concentrations where they fell

into the severe low iodine levels 11.5%

of pregnant women in 2008 I had severely

iodine deficient 35.8%

had mild to moderate and 5.2 percent

were pretty much reading is undetectable

these are huge numbers

because iodine is responsible for mental

retardation lowered IQ thyroid problems

breast problems uterine problems ovarian

problems prostate problems all the

things we're seeing as problems I say

this is a recipe for disaster for our

country so three groups of children

group one supplemented with iodine 200

micrograms per day which is the RDA for

iodine just at the beginning of

pregnancy four to six weeks of gestation

group to supplement with the same amount

at the end of the first trimester and

group three not supplemented during

pregnancy supplemented after pregnancy

here's the thyroid hormone levels of

Group three supplemented after pregnancy

and thirty forty percent were abnormal

in these neonates they weren't producing

enough thyroid hormone here's Group two

they were all in the normal range this

was supplemented at the end of the first

trimester here's Group one supplemented

the beginning of pregnancy the more

important numbers the IQ look at this IQ

difference Group one supplement in the

first four to six weeks look at the

difference between four to six weeks of

iodine supplementation versus 12 weeks

this child will graduate from high

school and go on to college this child

may graduate high school

not going to college and this one's

trouble so the author state of delay in

six to ten weeks of iodine

supplementation and at the beginning of

gestation increases the risk of neural

developmental delay in the progeny now

meta-analysis of 18 studies found that

iodine deficiency was associated with a

thirteen point five points lower IQ

score in children and adolescents that's

a difference between a successful child

and a childhoods going to be in trouble

in school and in trouble with the law

iodine has been shown to increase the

movement of white blood cells into areas

of inflammation and it improves the the

phagocytosis or they're coughing up

bacteria by the white blood cells and it

improves the white blood cells to kill

bacteria iodine has major physiologic

role in the inflammatory process and if

my numbers are right over ninety five

percent of us are low then why are we

seeing it would explain why we're seeing

so much inflammation and so many

inflammatory illnesses out there

iodine's been used over the years and

various infections leprosy

syphilis mycosis you know and the

positive effect of iodine is really not

related to a direct tax effect on the

organism it's to the immune system I'm

going to skip that one iodine deficiency

is a worldwide problem its efficiency

causes mental impairment reduce

intellectual ability ADT and autism it's

known to cause greater infertility and

increase risk of all the endocrine

cancers breast prostate or metrium ovary

as well as other cancers the newborn

thyroid only holds a 24-hour reserve of

iodine therefore fresh sources must be

supplied in a diet whereas the newborn

going to get it from if they're

breastfeeding well hopefully from the

mother's milk but this study showed 47

percent of women's samples may be

providing insufficient iodine to meet

the infant's requirements another study

13 breastfeeding women 92 percent hit

inadequate iodine in the breast milk

however 69 percent were high in

perchlorate perchlorate is a waste

product of rocket fuel and some other

manufacturing processes it's a toxic

item shouldn't be in our bodies and

binds to the iodine transport molecule

so we can't put iodine into our cells

the authors were dismayed to note that

while little the maternal iodine finds

its way into milk the bulk of the

perchlorate ends up in milk between 1965

and 1980 u.s. milk iodine content

increased by 300 to 500 percent due to

changes in cattle feed by 1986 the

amount of organic iodine meketa was

limited to 10 milligrams per day here's

the amount of iodine and US cow's milk

here's our recent measurements I feel

like with the we're getting hit from

iodine in so many different ways right

now it's no wonder we're all iodine

deficient what's rapeseed oil when you

use rapeseed oil on your kitchen floor

canola oil canola oil should be invited

when rapeseed was fed to Cal's it

resulted in increased thiocyanate level

thiocyanates a toxic item for the body

it blacks the iodine transport molecule

melka iodine reduced by 17% showed