A significant body of science now links poor thyroid function and cognitive decline, including Alzheimer’s risk (doubling the risk for women).  The information is proving interesting, and not what many would expect.  In fact, taking thyroid hormone to help offset aging issues may make cognitive decline worse.

An interesting study shows that individuals with insulin resistance and low thyroid have a much more difficult time trying to fix their metabolism.  On a 16 week weight loss program of diet and exercise, those without thyroid problems were much more able to correct insulin resistance. 

The myopic public health machine is clinging to their anti-viral drugs and future experimental vaccines as their great hope for minimizing a potential Swine flu pandemic.  It is a paradigm of assistance that woefully falls short.  What the public really needs is credible immune system information that not only helps overcome the fear of this flu, but also provides tangible steps to take in addition to hand washing, hygiene, and reducing potential exposure.  In the case of a pandemic, everyone will be exposed.  The million dollar question is: What determines immune system fitness?

Over the past year or so I have written a number of articles about thyroid, many of which are feature length articles.  This is a considerable amount of extremely useful information.  Below is a handy index so you can quickly look up articles of interest to you.  To see the full article, click on the headline.

A new thyroid study shows that a mother who smokes during pregnancy not only has an adverse influence on her own thyroid hormone status during pregnancy, but also passes abnormalities in thyroid hormone function on to her baby.  This latter finding should serve as a heads up to women or men who had smoking mothers – as it is quite likely that this causes later-life risk for thyroid problems – especially those induced by stress.

It is very common that individuals who are overweight have a majority of the symptoms associated with a hypothyroid-like condition.  This is especially true for those who have a history of yo-yo dieting or have difficulty losing weight by cutting back on calories and trying to exercise more.

Oprah is creating a lot of buzz after gaining forty pounds and simultaneously claiming she solved her thyroid problem.  Her statements sent internet bloggers into a frenzy.  How did she get off her thyroid medication?  Did she really solve her thyroid problem?  Isn’t this just a temporary break from a sinister and permanent thyroid illness?  If her thyroid is in such great shape why did she pile on forty pounds? 

Oprah is creating a lot of buzz after gaining forty pounds and simultaneously claiming she solved her thyroid problem.  Her statements sent internet bloggers into a frenzy.  How did she get off her thyroid medication?  Did she really solve her thyroid problem?  Isn’t this just a temporary break from a sinister and permanent thyroid illness?  If her thyroid is in such great shape why did she pile on forty pounds? 

There are five simple rules that form the core of the Leptin Diet^®.  The quality of the food you eat is of course important.  What is interesting about the Leptin Diet is that it is just as important when you eat as what you eat. 

I have spent more than twenty years on the front lines of clinical nutrition helping thousands of people solve very difficult health problems - naturally.  In all these years I have never encountered more powerful principles of health than those relating to leptin. 

It’s time now to clear out the holiday sludge, get your appetite back under control, and kick your metabolism into gear.  There is no better way to do this than my favorite quick weight loss plan, a modified diet plan that is high in quality protein and fiber.

Brand new research has established that when leptin registers properly in your brain, signifying nutritional adequacy, an energetic gene switch is thrown called TORC1.  TORC1 then activates multiple genes associated robust energy use, including genes that enable a woman to become pregnant (KISS1).

Those of us living in the Northern states have gotten our first dose of thyroid shock.  Unseasonably cold temperatures have many people feeling that winter is coming too soon – a subconscious perception that is sure to throw many into thyroid distress.

How many of us struggle with bad experiences or memories, the “old tapes” that come back to haunt us at the most inopportune times?  A new study has unlocked the key to this mechanism, offering hope for improvement to everyone.

In a study that rocks the wobbly foundation of the low fat diet for heart health paradigm (which is of course a major fraud), LDL cholesterol was lowered by 8% when participants ate 20% of their calories per day from pistachios (34% fat diet).