Book Review: Thyroid Power

Thyroid Power

by Richard & Karilee Shames

Richard and Karilee Shames are husband/wife medical professionals, who specialize in treating patients with symptoms of hypothyroidism. This book is full of case history references to their own patients, and to Karilee’s personal experiences as a hypothyroid patient herself. One of the central assertions of the book is that hypothyroidism manifests in each patient differently, leading to highly individual results on various thyroid function tests, and widely differing responses to different types of thyroid medication. Read more

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The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland at the front of your neck, just below your adam's apple. Thyroid hormones control the body's metabolism. When it doesn't produce enough hormones, you have hypothyroidism.

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