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The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health [Paperback]

Ridha Arem (Author)
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One in ten Americans suffers from thyroid dysfunction, yet most don't realize the mental and emotional components of this condition. "This is the first book to explain the hidden suffering that many patients have difficulty expressing and the first book to provide new ways of helping address and heal this suffering," promises author Ridha Arem, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of endocrinology and metabolism at Ben Taub General Hospital, both in Houston, Texas. This book explains the link between stress and thyroid imbalance; how thyroid imbalance affects your emotions, sex life, and relationships; and how to cope with the effects of this imbalance. Because thyroid problems primarily strike women, a whole section deals with women's health issues, such as infertility, miscarriage, postpartum depression, premenstrual syndrome, and menopause. Another section provides practical tools, such as evaluating lab tests and self-diagnosis techniques, dealing with treatment problems and side effects, and preventing memory lapses and depression. The book covers lifestyle choices that affect thyroid health, such as diet, supplementation, and exercise. Frequent case studies (usually told as first-person narratives), checklists, and questionnaires help to simplify the material and make it easier to check the medical information against your own situation. Each chapter ends with "valuable points to remember," making review easy. If you suffer from thyroid imbalance, or think you might, this book could be a valuable resource. --Joan Price --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Arem, a clinical endocrinologist and researcher, says that 20 million Americans (one in ten) have a thyroid disorder. He argues that millions more suffer from undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction and the resulting mental and physical symptoms. Arem clearly and extensively examines the fundamentals of thyroid disease, including diagnosis and therapy, although his focus is on the significance of the thyroid in cognition and emotionAthe mind/body connection. Arem's thesis, derived from mainstream medicine but illustrated throughout by anecdotal reports, is that abnormal thyroid hormone production and dispersal can lead to health problems that range from the psychiatric to ophthalmologic. However, he may be overstating the case when he suggests that thyroid disturbances can underlie depression, anxiety, decreased motivation, and sexual difficulties even in those with normal blood tests. Further, he asserts that thyroid hormone is a bona fide antidepressant. Although thyroid hormone regulation can be important, it isn't the answer to all problems. This book should be of interest to those with thyroid disease; for others, it provides appropriate encouragement to remind their physicians to consider thyroid issues. Recommended for libraries with large budgets.ALinda M.G. Katz, MCP Hahnemann Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed this book. :), Oct 14 2002
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Miyoko (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health (Paperback)
This book was refreshing becuase it covers not just the clinical basic side of thyroid disease, but the emotional mental side as well. I recommend this to so many people as a must read for thyroid patients. Even if it just helps you to realize you are not alone, and that you deserve quality care. :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book on thyroid problems, Aug 15 2002
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Roy Gordon (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health (Paperback)
Ridha Arem is an an endocrinologist and a specialist on the thyroid.

This book details problems of the thyroid, which can range from depression to the desire to compulsively eat carbohydrates.

Brief case histories are presented typically in which thyroid problems were the real culprit underlying some other set of symptoms, such as depression.

There is also more detailed medical discussion than one typically gets in a book meant for a lay audience. But Arem is a specialist here with years in the hopper, and he doesn't talk down to his audience.

With respect to hypothyroidism (not enough thyroid) Arem considers the normal range of TSH (what's usually tested for) as considerably too broad. He also points out that the TSH test doesn't show that the hormone is converted properly from T4 to the active T3. Thus, the standard test can be misleading.

Arem also recommends on occasion supplementing synthetic T4 with T3 and provides his own protocol for doing so.

My only criticism of this book is one that applies to most "single substance" books. After a while it appears that almost all problems are related to whatever it is. But this book is actually quite restrained here as opposed to what's typical.

This book is cuts above the norm. Arem provides a reasoned, knowledgeable, if somewhat cutting edge, view of the thyroid and how its malfunction can so affect us. It has served me well personally. Nearly anyone would do well to read this excellent book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars information thyroid highway!, Jun 8 2002
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This review is from: The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health (Paperback)
WOW! all the answers are here, all the reasons and the puzzling behaviour and weird things your body does with this disease is explained in this book,"why am so tired?!!" "why do I want to sleep all the time?" "I exercise and eat like a bird and I am SO fat"
THEN you get the answers, I took the book to my Doc and we started on a plan of action.
Excellent book ,very informative.
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