Tag Archives: Thyroid

Will your dog eat your pig thyroid jerky?

Will your dog eat your pig thyroid jerky? I couldn’t sleep last night thinking about this.  My mind jumped from one question to the other. Recently I’ve been working on an update for the Hypothyroidism Self-Study Course.  As part of … Continue reading

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Special Holiday Offer – 50% off Downloadable Thyroid Self-Study Course – Expires Midnight, December 31, 2011

HYPOTHYROIDISM – ANSWERS FOR A POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD Written for preppers worried about how to treat their thyroid condition at the end of the world as we know it, this 35-page downloadable self-study course by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD, offers more … Continue reading

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Insulin, thyroxine, and biotech: feasible or fantasy?

Tomorrow’s headline: Hospitals Flooded with Patients Suffering Racing Hearts  – Source Traced to Bioengineered Bacteria. Can Experts Reverse the Epidemic Before More Succumb? * * * Today both KF and JW ask about an online article do-it-yourself biotech. Is it actually feasible to duplicate big … Continue reading

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Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (low thyroid) – Part 5 of 5 – Rational treatment or cannibalism?

Image via Wikipedia At the end of the world as we know it, there is one other treatment option for hypothyroidism that I refrained from mentioning. I am not aware that this treatment is practiced anywhere in the world, though it is … Continue reading

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Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (low thyroid) – Part 1 of 5

The following is excerpted from my upcoming book, Armageddon Medicine. Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (Low thyroid) The question of treating low thyroid in a post-apocalyptic world is a common one.  If Synthroid becomes unavailable, is a hypothyroid person doomed? The … Continue reading

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Nuclear fallout and harvesting thyroid tissue

A curious reader asks: Does your book address the possibility of a nuclear fallout situation?  I have Graves disease and very little functioning thyroid left.  How would nuclear fallout affect harvesting supplemental thyroid from exposed animals? The self-study course, HYPOTHYROIDISM … Continue reading

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Potassium Iodide to Protect the Thyroid from Nuclear Fallout – Reader’s Questions

With recent nuclear power plant crisis in Japan, everyone’s asking about taking potassium iodide. Since the CDC and FDA offer detailed information, I will not duplicate that information (see references below), but rather focus here on questions readers have asked.  … Continue reading

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Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (low thyroid) – Part 4 of 5 – Herbal treatment

What is the role of herbal medicine in the treatment of hypothyroid disease?  I spent all afternoon looking into the question. In searching the traditional medical literature I could find no studies that substantiate herbal therapy.  It is unlikely such … Continue reading

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Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (low thyroid) – Part 3 of 5 – Do you need medicine?

Do you recognize the chemical structure to the left?  If you are hypothyroid, that’s what you’re probably taking:  levothyroxine, the primary thyroid hormone in humans.  No doubt your doctor prescribed this medication, but the question is why?  Were you overtly … Continue reading

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Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (low thyroid) – Part 2 of 5

The following is excerpted from my upcoming book, Armageddon Medicine. Thyroid disease – Hypothyroidism (Low thyroid) In Part 1 of this series we discussed different types of hypothyroidism and how the diagnosis is made.  The current installment focuses on treatment considerations.    … Continue reading

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