by Kenneth Ain, M. Sara Rosenthal
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The ultimate resource for the growing number of thyroid disease sufferers Bestselling thyroid health author M. Sara Rosenthal has teamed up with world-renowned thyroid expert Kenneth B. Ain, M.D., to bring you the most up-to-date guide to understanding and managing virtually every type of thyroid problem, including Hashimoto's disease, Graves' disease, and thyroid cancer. An exhaustive source of information in accessible language with expert guidance, The Complete Thyroid Book: - Is the only guide covering all state-of-the-art therapies and treatments for every clinically recognized thyroid condition
- Describes all diagnostic tests, scans, various forms of thyroid hormone, and all other medications used in thyroid disease treatment
- Offers expert advice for pregnancy, menopause, infants and children, obesity, and elderly people
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Good book I can no longer read!, 2007-12-07
Good book as a reference! Purchased as an ebook in May 2006. Tried to access it recently and could not open it as Adobe has changed signatures. Moreover, Adobe says that it is ENTIRELY THE FAULT OF AMAZON. And, it is no longer available as an ebook even if I want to pay for it again. ..... MAKES ME WONDER WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT YEAR TO ALL THOSE BOOKS I PURCHASED ON MY NEW KINDLE.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 Big Pharma [..], 2007-02-01
This book is fairly comprehensive. For that I give it the two stars. But, it uses the conventional endocrinologist view that TSH is god and treatment with "T4 Only" is the ONLY way to go. WRONG. It does work for SOME people, but not all can convert T4 into T3. If your doctor is of the "T4 Only" school, and your free T3 and free T4 and TSH tests all come back "within normal ranges", find another doctor who will treat by symptoms. The authors feel that sub clinical hypothyroidism does not exist. They state to "look for other reasons for your health problems" if your tests come back normal. This is totally WRONG and the reason we have so many people out there with chronic illnesses. They also trash Armour in this book when it has helped millions of people. Net result: find a doctor who will treat symptoms, not test numbers!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Best I've Read on Thyroid, 2007-01-21
I'll simply echo the five star reviews. I've read a lot of Thyroid books and agree that this one is the most complete, informative and also well written book I have read. Of the husband and wife team one is a long term medical writer on Thyroid; the other is a medical doctor with a Thyroid clinic in Lexington, Ky. Additionally, both author's are hypothyroid patients. This an introductory book instead of a medical text, obviously intended as basically explanatory of various thyroid problems. Where the book gives a point of view or preference to particular treatment or test, there is a thorough analysis and explanation. After reading this book you will understand why most thyroid doctors avoid prescribing T3, but also the arguments in favor. I found the book very even handed in its approach. If I had any complaint there might be a more detailed explanation of hypothyroid related to heart problems and the mechanics of congestive heart failure caused by hypo. I was very impressed with this book and as a hypo patient refer to it constantly.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
 The best thyroid book on the market !!, 2006-05-04
My family and friends tell me that I am obsessive and compulsive. I think that they must be right. When my doctor told me that she suspected that I had a thyroid problem, I went to the Borders in Montreal and sat down at the cafe with all of their thyroid books. After two hours I had read or skimmed nearly every page in most of them. It was immediately clear that The Complete Thyroid Book was head and shoulders above every other book that was there. The depth and breadth of the information covered in the book was amazing, yet it was completely understandable. I had never heard of either of the two authors at that time, but I`ve googled them and now see that they`re both very qualified and this explains how they were able to write such a wonderful book. Hypothyroid problems run in my family and each of them is going to get this book from me as a birthday gift.
25 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
 Pharmaceutical propaganda?, 2006-01-22
Although there is some good technical thyroid information contained in the book, I found the usual "TSH is God" propaganda. A review of any thyroid forum on the Internet will show very quickly that TSH isn't working and that when folks switch back to the old ways, they can get well. Old ways means treating by symptoms and using desiccated thyroid extract which has been used successfully for over 100 years.
Two new books written this year by Dr. Starr and Dr. Hotze finally offer real relief to hypothyroid suffers who find that the synthetic chemicals just don't work for them.
By the way, I would be extremely cautious in believing anything in a thyroid book if the writer receives funding by Abbott, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures Synthroid.
I was almost dead from advice that TSH rules. And I'd be dead again if I continued to listen to it. No thank you.
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