Zinc Deficiency and Children with Autism

Thanks to a commenter for pointing me to a newish study (open access):  Infantile zinc deficiency: Association with autism spectrum disorders.I see...

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Thyrotropin Day to Night

It's a chilly Sunday morning.  More plowing away at the endocrine system, and now I remember why endocrinologists can be cranky sometimes.  Gads...

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Meatless = Less Tense in the Short Term

Hi!  Back to the thyroid in a bit� but I've had a few questions about a study that came out earlier this week so I thought I would do a quick post.Restriction...

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Seasonal Variations in Thyroid Hormones

Just a little bit of an information post to get a handle on things and to open up some more lines of questions�in that vein:This Head I Hold by Electric...

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The Treatment of Depression with T3

Psychiatry is one of the few specialties where we are "allowed" to use T3 (the active thyroid hormone, instead of the safer prohormone T4) for treatment...

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Thyroid and Psychiatric Illness

The thyroid is one of those glands that is hooked into everything.  Mood, cognition, metabolism, bones, heart, cholesterol� all can be affected by...

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Upcoming Talks and Topics

Foster the People, Don't Stop (right click to open in new tab)Time is flying by and my clinic is very busy, and the phone is ringing off the hook, but...

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Magnesium Deficiency and Fibromyalgia

Free the Animal's Richard Nikoley may have no use for government (I recommend the depressing but excellent book, Humanity, A Moral History of the 20th...

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