Reddit reviews Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems (Harvard Medical School Guides)

Stop, I'm blushing. :)

There is SO MUCH alt-thyroid crap science. I understand why-- the standard medical treatment does not address the autoimmune aspect of thyroid disease at all, which is just stupid given what we know about the effects of autoimmunity. It often doesn't relieve symptoms. Many doctors are misinformed or disagree (several of mine explicitly told me certain things were not thyroid symptoms, even if they were listed on the Mayo Clinic website as such). People who are suffering look for cures and are willing to experiment on themselves. Self-experimentation is subject to confirmation bias, the placebo effect, and all kinds of other problems. But it's all there is for a lot of us. I'm as guilty as the next person of rubbing glutathione cream on the bottoms of my feet and hoping for the best. It just didn't get me anywhere. It helps that I'm married to an evolutionary biologist (little-known fact: skepticism is sexually transmitted)!

If you like the science without the speculation, I recommend the Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems. It covers autoimmune and non-autoimmune thyroid problems, thyroid cancers and nodules, etc.