Review: Some Good Information, Some Erroneous Information
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
In this book she says something that floors me. First she lists (some) of the possible symptoms or side effects of untreated hypothyroidism; a couple of them being heart failure and cardiomyopathy. But, then she goes on to say, "untreated hypothyroidism isn't fatal"! What!? She must mean, "It's not going to kill you next day, or next week, or maybe next year even", but let me tell you "HEART FAILURE & CARDIOMYOPATHY *IS* FATAL!!!" Sure, it may be a long, slow, torturous death, but death means FATAL!In this short book, one of the things she says is, "although completely curable, hypothyroidism requires a lifetime of therapy." This is a contradiction in terms! IF it was curable, then you wouldn't need a lifetime of therapy! It ISN'T curable! Even the natural therapies she recommend to boost your thyroid function, isn't a cure, but a therapy; one that is a short-term bandaid. You will eventually need to resort to the lifetime of medication, which she doesn't share in her book.She does give some good suggestions for natural treatments, if you keep in mind that these are stop-gap measures. Some of the natural treatments I question the validity and safety of using for hypothyroidism.Sometimes a little information is a dangerous thing, especially when bad information is mixed in with good information, and you have to ferrit out what is good and what is bad. A beginner may not be able to do so. So, personally I would recommend you get better and more accurate information elsewhere.Also, NOTE that this was a VERY short book, which seemed even shorter since 30% of it was RECIPES.