Your Thyroid and How to Keep It Healthy

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A life saver - literally - Rated
This book probably does save lives. It's very easy to read - just as though Dr Peatfield is talking to you - and it gives you all the information you need about thyroid and related problems. It's quite brilliant.

Brilliant - Rated
When I read this book, I feel overwhelmed as I feel understood.

Dr Peatfield understands how I feel and he writes about all of these problems in such detail, but you can understand it.

Anyone who has a thyroid or adrenal problem MUST buy this book.

What a marvellous man!!!

Buy This Book! - Rated
This is a great book about thyroid and adrenal problems. All doctors and medical practitioners should read this book too! Barry Durrant-Peatfield is an authority on this subject. I'd recommend this book to everyone.

great book for laymen - Rated
This is a very helpful book and the most valuable part for me was the very small section (only one page) about having to build up the adrenals first - easy to overlook, as I almost did.

Be warned: if you have had low thyroid for several years (in my case over a decade before I finally self-diagnosed - partly thanks to this book and also thanks to the excellent "Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic" by Mark Starr, M.D. - and thus was able to take the first steps towards recovery) then you will almost certainly have adrenal exhaustion.

Although I initially ignored the warning about adrenal exhaustion, I found that even taking three times the normal dose of thyroid for over four months did not help. I had to stop, take adrenal support tablets for several weeks, and then restart thyroid at a smaller dose. I continued taking adrenal support tablets for several months too.

I am finally seeing noticeable improvements. Even a spring in my step, which I never expected to enjoy again, after over a decade of thinking I had ME/CFS or something even worse.

I am giving the book only four stars because it does not contain clear enough indications of dosages. For instance, in the tiny section on adrenal supplementation, it refers to Nutri tablets but ignores the fact that Nutri offers two strengths of adrenal support tablets, one containing about three times the dose of the other. When it says you might need to take two or three, which one does it mean? Why not mention actual dosages, instead of vaguely referring to "two or three tablets" of undisclosed strengths?

The Bible! If you are suffering from Thyroid disorder you must buy this book - Rated
A really clear, concise easy to read book. Split into various chapters which makes it an easy reference tool for a) understanding what is wrong with you and b) empowering you to seek a soloution and feel knowledgebale in doing so.

I have met Dr Pearfield, he is straight up and says it how it is, very involved with the TPA group which can be found via the YAHOO site. You can not be without this book.