Publisher's Synopsis
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disorder and the leading cause of hypothyroidism. And while it affects almost 31 million people in the USA alone, it is still greatly misunderstood. When Dr Izabella Wentz found out she had Hashimoto's in 2009, she was unable to accept the common prescription that comes with this diagnosis - a lifelong effort to mask her symptoms through medication. Determined to find a better way, she used her medical background as a pharmacist to research the underlying causes of her condition and published her results in a New York Times bestselling guide. This self-published book sold tens of thousands of copies, becoming one of the go-to sources for understanding the theory and causes of Hashimoto's.
Now, in Hashimoto's Protocol, Dr Wentz has brought together updated research, patient stories and practical action steps to create an assessment-based, 90-day protocol that gives readers a personalized roadmap to a healthy life. It is filled with quizzes to help readers dig down to the root cause of their immune system imbalance, which could be anything from an imbalanced gut to underactive adrenals to a deficiency in a protein called alkaline phosphatase. By focusing on simple lifestyle interventions based on readers' specific root causes, this book helps dismantle the vicious symptoms of Hashimoto's piece by piece. In these pages, readers will learn how to remove triggers, restore equilibrium and allow the body to rebuild itself, so they can feel better, reduce their thyroid antibodies and even take their condition into remission.
