The Underactive Thyroid

Dr Sarah Myhill qualified in medicine (with Honours) from Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1981 and has since focused tirelessly on identifying and treating the underlying causes of health problems, especially the 'diseases of civilisation' with which we are beset in the West. She has worked in NHS and private practice and for 17 years was the Hon Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, which focuses on the causes of disease and treating through diet, supplements and avoiding toxic stress. She helps to run and lectures at the Society's training courses and also lectures regularly on organophosphate poisoning, the problems of silicone, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Visit her website at www.drmyhill.co.uk Craig Robinson took a first in Mathematics at Oxford University in 1985. He then joined Price Waterhouse and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, after which he worked as a lecturer in the private sector, and also in The City of London, primarily in Financial Sector Regulation roles. Craig first met Sarah in 2001, as a patient for the treatment of his CFS, and since then they have developed a professional working relationship, where he helps with the maintenance of www.drmyhill.co.uk, the moderating of Dr Myhill's Facebook groups and other ad hoc projects, as well as with the editing and writing of her books.

Part I The practical: Are you hypothyroid? The symptoms and signs; Blood tests for hypothyroidism; Before you start a trial of natural desiccated thyroid (NDT); The adrenal 'gearbox'; How to trial NDT and balance up the dose long-term; Part II: The theory: How and why we become hypothyroid; What happens if the diagnosis of hypothyroidism is missed; Thyroid myths - how your doctor will discourage you; The hypothyroid child; The hypothyroid female; Thyrotoxicosis, nodules and cancer; Iodine; Appendices: How to access thyroid blood tests; The different NDT preparations and how to obtain them; The PK diet; Vitamin C; Detoxing; Groundhog basic; Groundhog acute; Groundhog chronic, DDD reactions; Resources; Glossary