All about Thyroids

“Balancing hormones” is big business: from “clinics” with no actual medical doctors to supplement sales to crazy diets to home testing kits to online docs with no actual clinics….  I’ve started with your THYROID queries because that one is probably one of the most common in my real-life practice: “Doctor, are you sure it’s not my thyroid?” or “I’ve been on XXX supplement but doesn’t seem to help my thyroid.” Thyroid problems are common, so well worth checking in with your GP if you are worried.

**If you are eagle-eyed and are wondering about “Wilson’s Syndrome” on the slides – it’s a discredited pseudoscience diagnosis BUT it is different than “Wilson’s Disease” – a very real but rare copper-storage disorder that has featured as the impossible-to-determine diagnosis on episodes of TV shows “House” and “Scrubs”