Your latest TSH suggests that your pituitary gland is not happy with the amount of thyroid hormone in your body and is trying to increase its output by raising the TSH to stimulate more thyroid hormone production. Hormones never act alone; and surely you are experiencing the effects that they have with other hormones, but your thyroid does appear ...

Breast are essentially fatty tumors on the chest.  Estrogen makes fat cells multiply and women tend to have much more estrogen than men which is why they tend to have more breast tissue- as well as curves and softer bodies.  Men can develop fat in the breast area too when their estrogen levels climb. Are they continuing to enlarge.  ...

Try d-mannose. This is what the bugs like to stick to in the bladder.  Give them plenty of it, let them swirl on out of the bladder on it; as they detach themselves from the bladder wall. Max

I was given radioactive iodine over 30 years ago. I went from being very thin and hyper, eating all of the time and losing weight to going a good portion of the day before I realized that I had not eaten.  I didn't really get hungry and gained a great deal of weight.  My endocrinologist told me, "You probably don't realize ...

Not really sure your age, but women progess through age related hormonal loss at varying ages. The first thing that happens is they stop ovulating which can begin to slow as early as 32. Tends to be big drop off after 35 and by 40 most women may ovulate only few times/year.  Fertility drops off significantly after 40 and there is a shift in ...

Try increasing stomach acid with Betain HCL/ pepsin  and add magnesium with each meal. Also add B complex vitamins a couple times daily.  Celiac diseae is an autoimmune condition caused by gluten. The real connection needs to be made between gluten and all autoimmune diseases rather than just celiac which is just an attack on the GI ...

For a recalcitrant cough that worsens at night, think gastroesophageal reflux.  This is a mechanical problem of the intestine that prohibits normal contraction and relaxation of the muscles allowing stomach contents to spash backwards.  In some this causes burning, but in people who don't make enough acid, it just causes a ...

Vitiligo is an autoimmune condition. This means that your own immune system (your own defense system) has gotten confused about who is a friend and who is an enemy and has started to attack your body. Vitiligo is an attack on the cells that make melanin which give your skin color.  A very common reason for the confusion is exposure to a ...

B-12 deficiency.  Causes all of your nerves to dysfunction.  Missed because doctors often rely on blood levels which are useless (unless you can identify one that is clearly low.)  B-12 and folic acid work as a tag-team and so when one is low so are the effects of the other. Unless you are a strict vegetarian B-12 is in your diet, ...

As a rule I think migraines reflect a magnesium deficiency.  I wonder why headaches only with exercise?  Exercise does cause a hypertensive response and low magnesium relative to calcium can contribute to this.  However, should check blood pressure when having headaches.  At 38 likely to be skipping ovulations and making less ...