Hotze Health & Wellness Center welcomes distinguished thyroid activist Janie Bowthorpe, M.Ed, as a guest on Health & Wellness Solutions radio program
Release date: 4/6/2010
Author of “Stop the Thyroid Madness” will be interviewed on April 12
HOUSTON (April 6, 2010) – Hotze Health & Wellness Center (HHWC), a world leader in the alternative health care industry, is excited to announce that Janie Bowthorpe, M.Ed, thyroid patient activist and author of “Stop the Thyroid Madness”, will join Health & Wellness Solutions radio program on April 12. Bowthorpe will share her story of her challenging and frustrating battle with hypothyroidism.
According to Bowthorpe’s Web site, www.stopthethyroidmadness.com, she struggled with symptoms of hypothyroidism for several years, only to be told by her doctors that she was merely “borderline hypothyroid”. After 17 years of being placed on inadequate thyroid medications, such as Levoxyl and Synthroid, she was still suffering from symptoms of hypothyroidism, including chronic fatigue and depression. Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid medication, contains only one of the thyroid hormones, Thyroxine (T4), which is the least active of the two thyroid hormones.
Frustrated by her lack of improvement, Bowthorope began to conduct her own in-depth research on the disease. Through this, she discovered desiccated thyroid, which she began taking in July 2002. Once on the desiccated thyroid medication, which contains Tri-iodothyronine (T3), the most active thyroid hormone, and T4, her symptoms were finally resolved. In order to help others affected by the misdiagnoses of thyroid issues, Bowthorpe wrote, “Stop the Thyroid Madness”, a patient-to-patient book, filled with practical information about effective thyroid treatment, more revealing lab work, and conditions that accompany hypothyroidism.
Bowthorpe defines ‘Thyroid Madness’ on her site as the following:
1. Treating hypothyroid patients solely with T4-only medications.
2. Dosing solely by the thyroid stimulating hormone level (TSH) and the total T4, or using the outdated ‘Thyroid Panel’.
3. Prescribing anti-depressants in lieu of evaluating and treating the free T3.
4. Telling thyroid patients that desiccated natural thyroid, like Armour Thyroid, is unreliable, inconsistent, dangerous or outdated.
5. Making lab work more important than the hypothyroidism symptoms, which scream their presence.
6. Failing to see the OBVIOUS symptoms of poorly treated thyroid, and instead, recommending a slew of other tests and diagnoses.
HHWC’s approach to hypothyroidism is alternative and complimentary. The two main differences in HHWC’s approach to hypothyroidism compared to traditional treatment methods are as follows:
1. HHWC does not believe that blood tests are the primary way to diagnose hypothyroidism and looks to the patient first, keeping in mind that lab tests may lie, but patients do not.
2. HHWC treats hypothyroidism with desiccated thyroid that contains both the inactive thyroid hormone T4, and the active form, T3.
Health & Wellness Solutions, a daily radio program featuring Dr. Steven F. Hotze and his team of doctors, is broadcast live weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. CST on 700 AM KSEV, in Houston. For more information on Health & Wellness Solutions or to listen live, please visit, http://www.drhotze.com/Resource-Library/Radio.aspx.
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About Hotze Health & Wellness Center:
Hotze Health & Wellness Center (HHWC), a part of Hotze Enterprises, is leading the revolution in wellness care by transforming the way patients are treated both internally and externally. Founded in 1989 by Steven F. Hotze, M.D., the Center has successfully treated nearly 20,000 patients. Physicians and registered nurses on staff address the root cause of problems and correct them naturally, in an effort to obtain and maintain life-long health and wellness.
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