How's your thyroid gland?

[Backlighting]

 

Here's an interesting discussion about the role your thyroid gland plays in one's overall health and what affects it.

 

[BaalChatzaf]

1 hour ago, Backlighting said:

 

Here's an interesting discussion about the role your thyroid gland plays in one's overall health and what affects it.

 

Why not look  here and get the scientific data:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroid#Function

[Backlighting]

Baal, I've looked at that and thanks. These 2 M.D.s are at the forefront of medical research in their given specialities...plus they put it in laymens terms. Better for us non-MDs that way. Their opinions are not likely based on fiction. Purlmutter's site features a potpourri of specialists commenting on what they know best, based on recent studies. It's a good place to start.--Joe

[BaalChatzaf]

5 hours ago, Backlighting said:

 

Here's an interesting discussion about the role your thyroid gland plays in one's overall health and what affects it.

 

I get my medical data from medical textbooks and medical journal items.  I have to patience for most youtube presentations.  And I reject "proof by youtube"  on principle.  

[Backlighting]

2 hours ago, BaalChatzaf said:

I get my medical data from medical textbooks and medical journal items.  I have to patience for most youtube presentations.  And I reject "proof by youtube"  on principle.  

Now suppose the presenter on youtube cites verifiable medical studies, as Purlmutter & his guests usually do...would that suffice? I usually pursue further and check them out if I'm very interested in the topic. I frequent The New England Journal of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine et.al. Both are peer reviewed. The problem with textbooks is they are often outdated by the time, or shortly after, they are published. As you are aware, the field of medicine is quite fluid. Staying up with it in just a single specialty requires an enormous amount of time.

If I were to come back in another life I'd be an ophthalmologist...the eye fascinates me. --J

P.S. I spent 15 yrs in the management and marketing of urgent care centers, family practices and various specialities. I drove all the docs nuts with the amount of questions I asked regarding disease, treatment and prevention. I'm the curious type.

[Brant Gaede]

4 minutes ago, Backlighting said:

Now suppose the presenter on youtube cites verifiable medical studies, as Purlmutter & his guests usually do...would that suffice? I usually pursue further and check them out if I'm very interested in the topic. I frequent The New England Journal of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine. Both are peer reviewed. The problem with textbooks is they are often outdated by the time, or shortly after, they are published. As you are aware, the field of medicine is quite fluid. Staying up with it requires an enormous amount of time. If I were to come back in another life I'd be an ophthalmologist...the eye fascinates me. --J

Text only, thank you. The closer you get to science the farther you get from videos which mostly tend to blather.

--Brant

[jts]

1 hour ago, BaalChatzaf said:

I get my medical data from medical textbooks and medical journal items.  I have to patience for most youtube presentations.  And I reject "proof by youtube"  on principle.  

Can you point me to a medical textbook or a medical journal item that would give me information about autolysis of tumors? By 'autolysis' I do not mean merely that growth is slowed or it gets slightly smaller. I mean the tumor completely disappears, and without what most people would call treatment.

I doubt you can get information about autolysis of tumors from conventional (government approved, generally accepted) sources. That suggests to me that it is necessary to look elsewhere for information about this subject.

You probably will say you don't believe in autolysis of tumors because there is no evidence (that you will accept). On principle you reject all possible evidence of autolysis because the source is not conventional. In addition you might quote a generally accepted theory that implies that autolysis of tumors is impossible, a theory that you don't question.

Let me remind you. When there is a conflict between a theory and a fact, the theory is wrong. Autolysis of a tumor is a fact of accomplishment. It has been done. Hundreds of times in the experience of Dr. HMS and thousands of times in the experience of other doctors. But you will reject that because it is not in the medical textbooks and not in the medical journals. You reject the facts; I reject all theories that say it can't be done.

Some years ago I had a tumor disappear off a foot during a fast. But you don't believe that because it's no better than a youtube video.

 

[BaalChatzaf]

10 hours ago, Backlighting said:

Now suppose the presenter on youtube cites verifiable medical studies, as Purlmutter & his guests usually do...would that suffice? I usually pursue further and check them out if I'm very interested in the topic. I frequent The New England Journal of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine et.al. Both are peer reviewed. The problem with textbooks is they are often outdated by the time, or shortly after, they are published. As you are aware, the field of medicine is quite fluid. Staying up with it in just a single specialty requires an enormous amount of time.

If I were to come back in another life I'd be an ophthalmologist...the eye fascinates me. --J

P.S. I spent 15 yrs in the management and marketing of urgent care centers, family practices and various specialities. I drove all the docs nuts with the amount of questions I asked regarding disease, treatment and prevention. I'm the curious type.

If he/she writes a refereed paper in a respectable journal I will read it.  I only deal with refereed works. 

[Mikee]

Jerry:  Dr. Rhonda Patrick interviews Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis

I've been intermittent fasting for some time.  Your views on longer fasts have become more interesting to me.  Do you know anyone who has reversed the remodeling effects on the heart of atrial fibrillation by fasting?

[jts]

6 hours ago, Mikee said:

Jerry:  Dr. Rhonda Patrick interviews Valter Longo, Ph.D. on Fasting-Mimicking Diet & Fasting for Longevity, Cancer & Multiple Sclerosis

I've been intermittent fasting for some time.  Your views on longer fasts have become more interesting to me.  Do you know anyone who has reversed the remodeling effects on the heart of atrial fibrillation by fasting?

I don't know much about heart disease, because I was never diagnosed with it and therefore never looked into it.

All I know about cases of reversing heart disease is a story told by Dr. Fuhrman about a patient who reversed heart disease nutritionally. I don't know what kind of heart disease it was. He went back to his heart specialist and confirmed that the heart condition was reversed and this was the first time this heart specialist saw heart disease reversed nutritionally. Dr. Fuhrman says he sees this sort of thing as normal in his practice. Dr. Fuhrman's main theme seems to be the 'nutritarian' diet, which means high ratio of nutrients over calories, with special emphasis on micronutrients and phytochemicals.

There is a myth going on even to this day that fasting is dangerous to the heart. In the 1800s the medical profession believed that you die of heart failure on the 10th day of a fast. Dr. Tanner tried to commit suicide this way but he went 40 days and his health improved. The medical profession didn't believe it and he offered to do it again under observation. In Shelton's experience, there is no danger to the heart and heart patients benefit. But the myth persists. I tried to track down the source of this myth and the only hypothesis I can come up with is that they are confusing between fasting and starving. Starving (not to be confused with fasting) might do damage to the heart.