The Thyroid Solution: A Revolutionary Mind-Body Program for Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health

Don't bother getting any other books on the subject!After reading this one you will know more about the realities of Thyroid Problems and solutions (and similar conditions that look like or go with Thyroid Problems) than any other book can tell you! (You will also realize that most of the other authors are just making stuff up!) I read through about a dozen other books, that were highly recommended, on Thyroid Problems. This was the only one that used science and reality as a foundation.Ridha Arem is an endocrinologist. He started out as a psychologist and realized that a lot of his patients were not having mental problems (despite what their doctors were telling them). He then went on to become an endocrinologist because he realized that very little real research was being done in the field of thyroid problems, and that there was a huge need. He had accidentally stumbled into some solutions to the thyroid problems that made him want to make a significant impact on the huge numbers of untreated thyroid patients; especially for hypothyroid patients, who suffered but were ignored until their symptoms were life threatening!This book is easy to read and FULL of great information!I think that my favorite part of this book is all the quizzes that allow one to determine if one really has a Thyroid Problem, or if it is a similar condition that shares a lot of the same symptoms.My next favorite part is where the book informs readers of conditions to watch for. Apparently, if you have certain conditions, they tend to run in parallel. If women have issues with uterine fibroids, endometriosis, or sleep apnea, these could instead be symptoms of hypothyroidism. If you have lupus, you could be more likely to become hypothyroid. There are lots of lists of this kind of helpful information that can help one to gain an accurate diagnosis of what is REALLY the problem!Ridha Arem also discusses why diagnosis' are so poor. Endocrinology is, apparently, still very poorly understood. The workings of the brain and the endocrine system have not had a lot of advances until the last decade or so; and most doctors have no training in either field, more or less the advances that have occurred since they left medical school.So, if your numbers are outside of .6 to 2.0, or if your numbers go up and down more than .1, then you should be reading Ridha Arem's (M.D.) "The Thyroid Solution"!This book saved my life!!!(The only other book that was of any use at all, was Kathryn R. Simpson's (MS) "The Women's guide to Thyroid Health". This book has some good information along with some clearly bogus information...)

If you are having thyroid issues this is the book for you. It has a very detailed and easy to understand feel to it. This book has so much information. Regardless if you have hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. This book will be very helpful to you.

As a patient who has been diagnosed with borderline hyperthyroidism, I have been gathering as much information as I can about thyroid disorders. In terms of well-researched information, this book is definitely one of the most thorough and informative. And for that I give it three big stars. The reason I didn't give it an additional two stars is because this resource left me feeling more depressed, hopeless -- and even terrified -- after I read all the standard options for hyperthyroid treatment.The "solutions" outlined by the author seem nothing short of barbaric and inhumane and outdated -- often worse, in many ways, than enduring the actual disease itself. The author's brutal honesty about the severity, side effects, and risks of the various hyperthyroid "solutions" or treatments is commendable -- yet not at all reassuring to the patient faced with frightening decisions. Would you like to have your thyroid gland nuked with radioactive iodine and then be forced to take thyroid meds for the rest of your life? Or would you prefer an unpredictable course of antithyroid meds that could possibly damage other organs while temporarily "treating" your thyroid symptoms...??The fact that there are no real cures for thyroid disease is not the fault of the author, of course. But after reading this carefully researched book, I was more inclined to go untreated than to try any of his "Solutions." Sadly, alternative or naturopathic therapies are not included, which was another disappointment. One can only hope that there have been at least a few medical advances -- or new research -- in thyroid endocrinology since this book was "revised" in 2007. I purchased the book in late 2013, and kept reminding myself that the information in the book was updated nearly 7 years ago. I am hoping there's something more hopeful in the way of treatment and reference sources for thyroid patients in the future.

When a recent series of lab tests revealed that I was hypothyroid, I contacted a nurse practitioner friend and asked her what books she might recommend. She told me that Dr. Arem's book was not only the one she recommended to her patients, but the one she kept in her office. I now understand why.Before I was even given my medications, I was able to better understand my disease ... and to see how many times I had been diagnosed with another ailment because the symptoms of hypothyroid are so similar to clinical depression and perimenopause. I found myself both a little angry and a little relieved as I read this book, wondering how many health issues might have been resolved many years ago if my doctors had tried a simple blood test (as a new physician did) instead of dismissing my symptoms as "merely part of growing older."I will admit that I skipped sections on hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer and thyroid disease relating to fertility ... but the good news is that they are there should I need to reference them at any point.This book is an outstanding read for a layman, whether it is themselves or a family member for whom they are gathering information. Dr. Arem provides information on which vitamin supplements to consider along with medical treatment, how to start taking exercise if one has previously been unable to do so due to thyroid-related joint pain and so on.I'm one who likes to study what's going on with my body, and this book was (and will continue to be) an outstanding resource. Highly recommended!

This is a very informative book for all thyroid disease sufferers with sections on use of T3 for depression (as well as for hypothyroid treatment) which should be read by all sufferers.

Interesting for the layperson with an interest in healthy living. But you need to be strongly interested as the book is not a quick read.

Good details and facts

Bought for a friend who suffers having found the original one purchased so useful.

Good background on the thyroid. Simple to understand