If you had only $100 to spend, and could buy just a few books about thyroid disease to keep close at hand, what would they be? Here are the five most recommended books for thyroid patients. Buying all five could cost less than even one visit to an endocrinologist, but reading them could be worth your better health for years to come!
1. Living Well With Hypothyroidism
Definitive, comprehensive patient manual for people coping with an underactive thyroid -- including hypothyroidism, post-hyperthyroid/Graves' patients on thyroid hormone replacement, and people who have had thyroid surgery. Special chapters on conventional/alternative approaches to diagnosis, treatment, diet, depression, fertility and thyroid cancer.
2. Graves' Disease: A Practical Guide
Elaine Moore has written simply the best book for patients who are currently hyperthyroid, or dealing with hyperthyroidism caused by Graves' disease. Both conventional and alternative options are presented in an unbiased, informed approach. A must-read for any patient considering radioactive iodine, antithyroid drugs, or looking for alternative approaches to an overactive thyroid.3. Thyroid Power: Ten Steps to Total Health
Drs. Richard and Karilee Shames have joined together to create this sound mind-body and autoimmune-based approach to hypothyroidism, with emphasis on the role of good relationships with your practitioners, and mind-body health in thyroid disease. As practitioners with first-hand experience dealing with thyroid problems, they bring great empathy to their treatment approaches.4. Solved: The Riddle of Illness
Stephen Langer, M.D. and James Scheer have created a nutritionally oriented approach to thyroid disease that continues in the spirit of thyroid pioneer Dr. Broda Barnes, which looks at the wide-ranging symptoms, and offers possible nutritional solutions.5. The Thyroid Diet: Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss
The definitive guide to weight loss for anyone with a thyroid condition, featuring information on insulin resistance, leptin/ghrelin, metabolism-boosting herbs, supplements and foods, exercise, and many other factors that can help transform a diet into a healthy lifestyle for lifelong weight control.
