Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal

by Anthony William

One major confusion is that patients think thyroid medications go after the root cause of their illness. In fact, these drugs do not treat the thyroid itself. They just add hormones to the bloodstream in hopes that the body will use them to replace the hormones the thyroid isn’t producing. It’s a secret that thyroid drugs are mild steroids, and that they slow the immune system down from reacting to your symptoms. It’s a secret that doctors often don’t even know; they just haven’t been told. And typically, doctors don’t explain to patients that they don’t truly understand hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s or that the medications will not alleviate the conditions themselves.