Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More

by Christopher M. Palmer

His normal doses of thyroid medication—enough to increase his hormone levels into the “healthy” range—had done nothing to improve his depression, but we decided to try high-dose thyroid hormone as a treatment. It made a huge difference! His levels of thyroid hormone were now abnormally high, so we had to keep an eye out for side effects, such as heart arrhythmias and osteoporosis. But overall, he tolerated it quite well, and it changed his life. His recurrent depressions were all but gone. After about ten years of treatment with a high-dose of thyroid hormone, he was able to decrease the dose to a normal range and has continued to do well to this day. He still uses a low-dose antidepressant and sleep medication occasionally, but he hasn’t experienced a severe depression in many years now. At the time I used this treatment with James, I didn’t know how or why it worked. Now I do: brain energy.