by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
You may be reading two things: 1. Fruit is good for you 2. Fructose is as bad as sugar so you mustn’t eat it. And both of these things are against a background of it being suggested that we should be eating five portions of fruit and veg a day as an...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Did you know that Iodine is essential for the manufacture of the hormone thyroxine in the body? Why is that important? Well because thyroxine controls the metabolic rate and affects growth and development. However, its most crucial role is in the development of...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
We know that Hypothyroidism affects about one million British women, with Hashimoto’s (where the immune system attacks and destroys the thyroid) being the cause in about 10% of these cases. We are sure of this figure because that relates to the number of...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s estimated that one million people within the UK are on levothyroxine with the most common cause being hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) . This is the preferred drug because its administration most closely mimics glandular secretion and because its...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
If our bodies were indeed identical machines rather like the images on my website treatment would be simple, straightforward and unvaried – like a mechanic mending your car. Unfortunately this is not the case, and my job as an endocrinologist is to help along...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
In January 2014, by way of tackling gestational diabetes, the Preventive Services Task Force in the USA announced that it agreed that all women in America should be screened for the condition when they are 24 weeks pregnant. So where do we stand in the UK? ...
