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under the care of a brilliant WAPF looking forward to healing my digestive the crown anyway, and I thought that
chapter-leader naturopathic doctor, a issues completely though a traditional rather than invest in the new crown, I
change in my dietary habits, targeted diet and the WAPF guidelines. Thank would hold off on any further thyroid
Standard Process supplementation and you, thank you for all you do and the treatment and see about having the
lots of prayer, but I was completely knowledge you have imparted to me tooth properly extracted instead.
healed and restored to a place so much over the years. My family and I are One of my hypothyroid symp-
healthier and stronger than I could ever eternally grateful. toms was always being cold, and I
have dreamed. The healing process Vanessa Leahey tracked my body temperature almost
through the use of traditional foods was South Salem, New York obsessively for over a year prior to the
astounding to watch and to experience, tooth extraction. I normally ran 96.5
as each day brought with it a renewed THE ROOT OF to 97.5 degrees. Nine days after the
hope. A THYROID PROBLEM tooth extraction, my body temperature
Inspired and encouraged by how I am writing because I had a root went up, and I am over 98.0 every day
powerfully food and the healing arts canal-treated tooth removed at the end now, hitting 98.6 most days. My first
affected my life, I completed the nu- of July after spending eighteen months full menstrual cycle since the tooth
tritional therapy consultant course working with a thyroid specialist to get extraction went from forty-two days to
through the Nutritional Therapy Asso- to the root of my Hashimoto’s Disease. twenty-nine days, and my basal body
ciation in 2014 in order to help others. I’ve likely had Hashimoto’s most of temperature seems to have a more
I had been enjoying a very full life as my life, however, I only received a delineated follicular and luteal phase
a wife and mother, feeling wonderful, diagnosis about two years ago when I pattern, as it should.
until some digestive issues flared up a abandoned our conventional health care Given several significant changes
few weeks ago out of the blue. To my system and had a full thyroid panel of obviously related to shifts in my hor-
chagrin, I found myself unable to eat tests done on my own. I tested high for mones, my doctor ordered blood work
anything at all without being in searing, thyroid antibodies, a test which all of to determine whether my estrogen and
agonizing pain for hours. The pain was my previous doctors failed to mention. progesterone had gone up. Consistent
comparable to childbirth and had me The long and the short is that I went with my symptom improvement, my
losing weight quickly again. through all the conventional treatments estrogen has doubled and my proges-
My trusted naturopathic doctor for hypothyroidism, and none of them terone has increased over 1000 percent!
recommended three things: raw milk, yielded any lasting improvement. I even For over two years, my progesterone
rare beef and Gastrex from Standard did three rounds of something called the has tested in the post-menopausal
Process. Raw milk is readily available Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome Pro- range. I am forty-two and every health
at the health food store over the border tocol which did initially produce some care practitioner I have met with agrees
in Connecticut from where I live in New symptom improvement but ultimately that my symptoms are not perimeno-
York, and I have consumed gallons over did not resolve my issues. pausal in nature. My tooth is the only
the past few weeks. I have felt wonder- I was gearing up to start another variable that changed in this period of
ful and have not once had a day where cycle of this T3-only treatment, which time, and my doctors had exhausted
I was dizzy or weak. Raw milk has is on the controversial end of the spec- all of their usual treatments for auto-
sustained me and I am able to consume trum by conventional standards, when immune hypothyroidism, including
it without any pain whatsoever. The I came across some research by Dr. radical dietary and lifestyle changes.
addition of rare beef last night had me Weston Price. I had a post and crown This is still likely to be a long
anxious, as anything solid I have tried in a root-canal-treated tooth since it was journey, but I feel like I am finally on
has left me in agony for hours, but for- knocked out by a rock when I was ten the right path. I have asked my doctors
tunately, it did not cause any pain. I am years old. I was getting ready to replace for help for over twenty years only to be

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