Health Guidance

Overactive thyroid, or hyperthyroidism in children is marked by overproduction and secretion of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4), manufactured in the thyroid gland.

The effects of hyperactive thyroid are somewhat different than they are for adults, but not as severe. Most all children with Graves disease, or hyperthyroidism, have swollen thyroid glands, or goiters, as well as Graves’ ophthalmopathy, or bulging eyes.

Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO): Is a condition that impacts the eye muscles that rotate the eyeball. An immune response is triggered, causing activation of white blood cells (WBC), resulting in inflammation and periorbital edema. The swollen eye muscles force the eyeball to bulge out, causing difficulty in closing the eyelids completely. This results in irritation and dryness of the eyes and corneal abrasions, as well as vision difficulties. Continue reading ‘What is Overactive Thyroid in Children – Symptoms and Treatments’ »

When the thyroid gland is not responding to the pituitary gland’s release of thyroid stimulating hormone, the result is a hypoactive thyroid, or hypothyroidism, and insufficient levels of thyroid hormone in the blood. This condition affects more women than men, and requires life long treatment to replace the hormones not being produced by the thyroid.

Thyroid hormones

The hormones secreted by the thyroid are: Continue reading ‘Understanding Hypoactive Thyroid Causes, Symptoms and Treatments’ »

Fibroids are a very common condition. Indeed, most women who have fibroids probably never really know as they have few or no symptoms. However, for a number of women, the situation couldn’t be more different, with debilitating symptoms and little hope of a conventional cure. This may well be leading you to look at how to treat fibroids naturally, and one way of doing this is by carefully selecting the foods that we eat.

Many doctors will advocate a “wait and see” approach as fibroids will normally shrink during the menopause. However, this is not a good option if you are not on the brink of the change of life or, indeed, if your symptoms are adversely affecting your quality of life.

The truth is that unless you can eliminate the root causes of your fibroids, any treatment you have will just be a “Band-Aid” approach and will only treat the symptoms. This is one of the reasons why doctors are reluctant to advocate surgery, as they know that fibroids are likely to regrow, particularly if you are still a couple of years or more away from the menopause. Continue reading ‘How to Treat Fibroids Naturally Using Diet’ »

Thyroid disease affect approximately 27 million people in the United States. More women than men are commonly found to suffer from thyroid symptoms. It is estimated that 4 out of 100 women have some type of autoimmune thyroid disease.

A thyroid that is underproducing thyroid hormone is termed hypothyroidism. It is characterized by insufficient levels of the primary thyroid hormones thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Thyroxine is transformed into it’s active form of triiodothyronine by the liver. Continue reading ‘Thyroid Disease in Women – Symptoms, and Treatments’ »

A total lack of any supportive evidence does not necessarily prove that fat/saturated fat in the diet does not cause heart disease. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, let me now mention a few of the most powerful pieces of evidence that directly contradict the diet-heart hypothesis. But where to begin? There is just so much to choose from.

I think the best place to start is with the biggest trial on dietary modification ever done, and the biggest that will ever be done. Fifty million people were placed on a low saturated-fat diet for fourteen years. Sausages, eggs, cheese, bacon and milk were severely restricted. Fruit and fish, however, were freely available, those oh-so healthy foods. Continue reading ‘The French and Cholesterol Levels’ »

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The communication of the diagnosis of cancer triggers in general feelings such as fear, uncertainty and despair. Most people understand by “cancer” flat-malignant diseases that are incurable and associated with pain, suffering and disability. Fortunately, this disease does not take very many more, many are easy to treat, and sometimes even cure. Symptoms such as pain, weakness, or depression are usually treated so well that they do not constitute too great a burden.

The psycho-oncology is cancer in humans.
Still brings the diagnosis of cancer, with an incredible emotional distress, which will be an acute crisis situation, which resembles a “nervous breakdown”, similar. These pressures can lead regardless of the purely physical illness to mental illness or strengthen an already existing mental illness, such as a depression. This situation of people with cancer has led to a new area in medicine, psycho-oncology. Psycho oncologists to help people suffering from cancer, with the stressful situation, both the disease itself, as well as the treatment and its side effects more comfortable to come. Unfortunately, there is this really necessary and useful institution today only a few oncology clinics. Continue reading ‘Cancer and psyche: The soul suffers wit’ »

It has been recognized for many years that women, generally, suffer much less heart disease than men – especially younger women. The difference is normally about 300 per cent. This is despite the fact that women have higher average cholesterol levels. The widest gap I found was in New Zealand in the 1970s.

Here, women aged 45-55 had onetenth the mortality rate of men. Now that is what I call a gap. Women, therefore, present a problem for the cholesterol hypothesis. Higher cholesterol levels than men, but much lower rates of heart disease. Many findings for women were discrepant from those for men. Of particular importance in women was considered to be the essentially flat relation of total cholesterol to total mortality, total cardiovascular, and total cancer mortality. Continue reading ‘Do women suffer much less heart disease than men?’ »

The French, you see, eat more saturated fat than people do in the UK. They smoke more, take less exercise, have the same cholesterol/LDL levels, the same HDL levels. They also have the same average blood pressure and the same rate of obesity. And you know what? They have one quarter the rate of heart disease that we do. One-quarter!

In fact, the French consume more saturated fat than any other nation in Europe, and they have the lowest rate of heart disease. The only other nation that comes close to their super-low rate of heart disease is Switzerland, and the Swiss have the second highest consumption of saturated fat in Europe.I believe that I know what some of you are thinking right now. They, the French, are protected from heart disease by drinking red wine, eating freshly cooked vegetables (all those antioxidants, you see) and eating garlic. Continue reading ‘French Case’ »

Medication, panic attacks, and our health are all intertwined. Medication is often prescribed for almost any ailment that comes to mind. It can be both good and bad in many ways. Panic attacks usually won’t damage our health directly, but can contribute in other ways as well. What do both of these actually have to do with our health?

Let us start with medication. There are situations and circumstances in which it can be deemed necessary, and a life saver. We may have had an accident and need medication to keep infections under control for example. On the flip side, there are also many smaller issues that it is prescribed to regularly that may provide just a minimal benefit. Continue reading ‘Medication, Panic Attacks, and Your Health’ »

Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorder, and other fears and phobias can affect our lives in many ways. Various areas can take a noticeable change such as our health, happiness, our professional life and jobs. What are some of the things we should know about these?

We can start with our health and happiness. Panic attacks typically do not cause damage to our health directly. It can do so in other indirect ways however. Examples could be insomnia, depression, and potentially lowering the immune system. Some of these things directly tie in with our happiness. Continue reading ‘Panic Attacks, Anxiety Disorder, and What You Should Know about Them’ »