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Below you will find the
text of the CD, A Therapeutic Trial of T3 Therapy.
Hello, and thanks for
listening to this program. Over the next 30 minutes or so I'm going
to share with you a surprisingly simple and easy way to turn
some of your least favorite kinds of patients into some of
your most favorite.
Do you ever have patients
that have a lot of complaints even though there doesn't seem to
be anything wrong with them? Do they complain of symptoms
like fatigue, headaches, depression, PMS, irritability, easy weight
gain, and perhaps many more complaints...even though their physical
exam and blood tests all come back normal? They insist there
must be something terribly wrong. You might feel they're just looking
for attention or sympathy, or you might believe they are actually
suffering but you can't seem to find a treatable problem?
Wouldn't it be great
if you could find a treatable explanation for a lot of these
patients? And wouldn't it be better still if their problems weren't
only treatable but curable? It would be like a Gosdsend
if you could easily help these patients after all the other doctors
they've been to couldn't.
As it turns out many
of those patients may be suffering from a newly discovered Reversible
thyroid problem. That's right, I said a Reversible thyroid
problem! This problem is called Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. Patients
suffering from it can have numerous debilitating low thyroid
symptoms even though their thyroid blood tests are normal.
Indeed, normal thyroid blood tests are a good indicator that
the patients' complaints may be completely curable! A certain
regimen of thyroid treatment might correct all their complaints,
and their symptoms may remain improved even after the treatment's
been discontinued.
The treatment resets
the thyroid system much the same way that birth control pills can
reset the female hormone system. for example, it's common practice
for doctors to give women with irregular menstrual cycles birth
control pills to regulate their periods. After a time, the
birth control pills are discontinued, and the women's periods often
remain regular even after the treatment. This diagnosis, treatment,
and result are usually accomplished without the benefit of
female hormone blood tests, but are based on clinical findings.
This paradigm of a reversible functional impairmeent
of a hormone system, diagnosed and treated clinically and
not necessarily evident on blood tests applies to the thyroid
system as well.
Some of your patients
will be amazed that the solutions for their problems were
so simple especially since their symptoms have absolutely
baffled specialists, and defied expensive work-ups. Your
patients will be tremendously grateful because of the huge difference
your care makes in their lives. This is because their symptoms
are not mild symptoms. The symptoms we're talking about can
include debilitating fatigue, headaches, PMS, irritability, fluid
retention, anxiety and panic attacks, easy weight gain, depression,
decreased memory and concentration, dry skin, hair loss, and many
other disturbing complaints. This means that patients who have been
suffering debilitating symptoms for years, can often be restored
to normal in a matter of months and can be weaned off the treatment!
I'm going to more thoroughly
describe the Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, and how to recognize
it. Then I'll review some of the basic science and supporting medical
literature. At that point, I will go over a little of the history
of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, and how it was uncovered. Then
I'll describe briefly what it's like to treat Wilson's Temperature
Syndrome. And finally, I will give you a few points to consider
to help you see if you might like to begin implementing the treatment
of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome in your practice.
OK, I'm going to begin
by more thoroughly describing Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. I'd like
to point out that a book of over 300 pages titled: Wilson's Temperature
Syndrome--A Reversible Thyroid Problem, describes the manifestations
and ramifications of the syndrome in full detail. There is
also a Wilson's Temperature Syndrome Doctor's Manual that has over 200
easy to read pages that fully explain the treatment protocol.
So there is thorough detail available to you, but right now
I'm just going to give you a short overview of some key points to
give you the gist of the problem and its treatment. There
are four major characteristics of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome.
First, the symptoms
are classic for low thyroid function. As mentioned previously
these symptoms can include severe fatigue, headaches and migraines,
PMS, hair loss, depression, constipation, easy weight gain, cold
intolerance, irritability, decreased memory and ambition, anxiety
and panic attacks, and others.
Second, these
symptoms tend to come on after a major stress and can persist
even after the stress has passed. The symptoms typically
come on or worsen after a severe stress such as childbirth, divorce,
death of a loved one, job or family stress, and surgery or accidents.
The number one cause is childbirth.
Third, the condition
is characterized by a low body temperature. All of
the patients who suffer from this condition have a body temperature
on the order of a degree below normal. And their symptoms
respond when the treatment protocol brings their temperatures up
to normal.
Fourth, thyroid
blood tests are in the normal range. T4 production from the
thyroid gland is normal, but T4 to T3 conversion is apparently
reversibly impaired.
Now let me review some
of the basic science and supporting medical literature. As you know,
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone or TSH from the pituitary gland stimulates
the thyroid gland to make T4.
But did you know that
T4 is not the active thyroid hormone, and that over 80% of
the active thyroid hormone is produced outside the thyroid
gland?
That's right, T4 or thyroxine
is the raw material that the body converts into T3 or
liothyronine, which is the active hormone.
Only a small portion
of the body's production of T3 occurs inside the thyroid
gland.
By far, most of the body's
T3 production occurs in the peripheral tissues of the body through
conversion of T4 to T3 by a deiodinating enzyme called
5-prime-deiodinase. Most people think that the thyroid gland
is where the thyroid hormones are produced, but isn't it interesting
that most of the active form of thyroid hormone isn't
produced in the thyroid gland? This fact shifts our focus away from
the thyroid gland, and toward where the action is. As it
turns out T4 can also be converted peripherally into Reverse-T3
which is completely inactive.
Let me repeat, T4 can
either get converted peripherally to the active hormone T3
or to the inactive Reverse-T3.
And how much T4 gets
converted to T3 and how much gets converted to Reverse-T3 can change
readily under different circumstances, and appears to be under some
form of regulation. It is clear that the metabolic rate is greatly
determined by how much T4 gets converted to T3 and how much gets
converted to Reverse-T3. And the metabolic rate determines how much
heat the cells of the body produce, which in turn
determines body temperature.
There is a direct correlation
between thyroid stimulation of the cells and body temperature.
In hyperthyroid storm, patients have fevers... and in hypothyroid
coma, patients are hypothermic. And there is a direct
correlation between body temperature patterns and the symptoms
of low thyroid system function.
In fact, it appears that
the low body temperature is what causes the symptoms of low
thyroid function! That is, it appears that the symptoms of low thyroid
function are temperature-mediated.
Let me show you how easily
this can be explained. You know that the metabolism is the sum of
all the chemical reactions that take place in the body, and that
most of those chemical reactions are catalyzed by enzymes.
You probably also know that temperature greatly affects the function
of enzymes. Changes in temperature, change an enzyme's shape,
or conformation, which greatly affects its function.
That's why it can become a medical emergency when a patient's temperature
gets too high, or too low. Mild changes in
temperature can cause more mild problems. Patients with temperatures
of just 1 and 1/2 degrees above normal or a fever of 100
degrees can get classic febrile symptoms such as listlessness, headaches,
fatigue, achiness, and malaise. While patients with temperatures
1 degree below normal can also develop classic symptoms,
such as fatigue, headaches and migraines, depression, fluid retention,
easy weight gain, and more. These classic symptoms are consistent
with the symptoms of low thyroid function. And these classic
symptoms resolve with normalization of body temperature patterns
just as surely as do those of a fever. Regardless of the
explanation, you can be absolutely positively 100% sure of
one thing: Patients with symptoms that are due to low thyroid function
have low body temperatures, period.
And the symptoms of low
thyroid function don't get better until the body temperature goes
up. This thyroid-temperature correlation ends up being extremely
useful in the management of patients taking thyroid medicine.
I'll now review some
of the supporting medical literature. In the Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
Doctor's Manual on page 210 there is a review article that covers
and lists the pertinent medical references, but for now, I'll just
point out some of key findings. It has been shown that the amount
of T4 that is converted to T3 can decrease by 50% under conditions
of severe stress, fasting and/or illness. It has also been
shown that at the same time, the amount of T4 converted to Reverse
T3 can increase by 50%. It appears that this shunting
of T4 away from T3 and toward Reverse T3 is a survival mechanism
against starvation.
A finding that correlates
well with this is that fasting has been shown to depress the
metabolic rate. And, the depressed metabolic rate can often
persist even long after the fasting is over and normal
feeding has resumed.
There is good evidence
that the metabolism can slow down, and stay down like
a starvation coping mechanism that has gotten stuck.
To summarize, there is
evidence that suggests that there can be a persistent impairment
in the conversion of T4 to T3 that can persist even
after the stress or fasting has passed. This represents a bit of
a paradigm shift. It means that even though a person has sufficient
T4 production, there may be impaired conversion of T4 to
T3 in the periphery, resulting in a low body temperature. This means
that a person could be suffering from classic signs and symptoms
of hypothyroidism in spite of having normal blood tests!
It also suggests that T3 might be the treatment of choice
in these cases instead of T4.
As it turns out, patients
with Wilson's Temperature Syndrome often respond beautifully and dramatically
to a little T3 medicine given in the right way. Unlike T4
which must be converted to T3 over a period of days, T3 is the active
hormone and begins working immediately. Patients respond sometimes
in a few hours, usually in a few days, and almost certainly in a
couple of weeks. This makes T3 excellent for a therapeutic trial,
since it doesn't take long to see if it will work, and whether or
not you're on the right track.
Dr. Wilson has been emphasizing
the importance of T3 in the lives of many patients for over a decade.
More recently,
an article in the February '99 issue of the New England Journal
of Medicine also emphasized the importance of T3 therapy. It's titled,
"Effects of Thyroxine as Compared with Thyroxine plus Triiodothyronine
in Patients with Hypothyroidism. " This article showed that
many people do better with the addition of T3 than they do with
T4 alone. As it turns out, some people do even better with T3 alone.
At
this point, I'm going to give you some of the history of Wilson's
Thyroid Syndrome, and how it came about. By the way, how it came
to be named Wilson's Temperature Syndrome is an interesting story
in itself, which you can read in the introduction of the Doctor's
Manual. But back in 1988 a doctor named E. Denis Wilson, MD was
seeing that a lot of his patients had common complaints such as
fatigue, headaches, depression, irritability, and many others. These
complaints can easily be viewed as a part of everyday life, but
one day a patient gave him a book titled Hypothyroidism, The
Unsuspected Illness. The main point of this book was that the
body temperature correlates far better with the symptoms
of hypothyroidism, than thyroid blood tests do. This book
also proposed that euthyroid patients that were clinically
hypothyroid might benefit from a therapeutic trial with dessicated
thyroid using body temperature as a guide.
Dr. Wilson was amazed
at how dramatically some of his patients improved with this approach.
The approach didn't work for everyone he tried it with, but when
it worked, boy did it work. In some of the cases,
the symptoms didn't just improve, they disappeared completely.
That means that people who had been suffering for years with
mysterious and debilitating complaints quickly got back to being
100% normal. If you've ever seen anything like that,
it can be quite an eye-opening experience. Staring him right
in the face were patients who were told by our medical system that
nothing was wrong with them because all kinds of tests came
back normal. And yet, their classic symptoms of low thyroid
function resolved when he treated them with thyroid medicine.
Perhaps that should not have surprised him as much as it did, but
at the same time it seemed like everybody was acting like thyroid
blood tests were conclusive, and it became totally
obvious that they weren't.
In his book and Doctor's
Manual Dr. Wilson reconciles this contradiction, and shows how in
practice doctors have come to act like thyroid blood tests are conclusive
when in reality they're not. And they never were.
Let me give you just
one example. You probably know that the 3rd generation TSH assay
is regarded as the most sensitve indicator of thyroid status. Did
you ever actually look at the studies that established it
as such? The studies took a number of CLINICALLY euthyroid
patients, and CLINICALLY hypothyroid patients and took their
thyroid blood tests to see which blood test correlated best with
the CLINICAL findings. They based the usefulness of
the biochemical tests on the clinical findings. They
established that the TSH assay correlated best with the clinical
findings. Which is great, but it appears that doctors have lost
sight of this fact or were never aware of it. Because a lot of doctors
act like the TSH assay is more reliable than clinical findings,
when its reliability was determined based on
clinical findings in the first place! Do you see the convoluted
reasoning there? And who decides what is clinically
hypothyroid since the symptoms can be so numerous, varied, and subtle.
Yes clinical findings can be very subjective, but the blood
tests can't be any more accurate since they are based totally
on those clinical findings to begin with. It's really quite
simple, since clinical findings are the gold standard by which biochemical
tests are evaluated, then they need to be the gold standard by which
patients are evaluated.
Hopefully, the significance
of this is starting to unfold before you. Think about it just a
little bit more. The control groups in these studies were contrived
or arbitrary. They were no less contrived, arbitrary, or
subjective than control groups you might select. Which
means that everyone and anyone that you feel clinically might be
suffering from low thyroid system function, very well may be...
regardless of what their thyroid blood tests show.
And every one of those patients might respond very well to
thyroid medicine...provided that it's the right thyroid
medicine given in the right way. Believe me, a lot
more people have beautifully thyroid-responsive problems than just
those with mxydema coma. What thyroid medicine is given, and how
it's given ends up making all the difference.
Dr. Wilson could see
clearly that some patients with symptoms consistent with low thyroid
function responded completely to a therapeutic trial of thyroid
medicine in spite of having normal blood tests. And many
responded very quickly. This improvement instantly
changed the complexion of those fortunate patients' lives. It changed
everything. It changed their health, how they got along in their
relationships at home, and how they functioned and progressed at
work. And it was so simple and easy. And the patients
were so happy and grateful. Clearly, these were great
results. He could see though, that a lot of the patients did not
respond as well.
At that point, he had
two choices. He could have assumed that the patients that did not
respond did not have a thyroid-responsive problem. But instead
he wanted to see if more patients might respond if the treatment
was improved. Because of some of the basic science that we've
already discussed, he wondered if perhaps some of these patients
were having difficulty converting T4 to T3.
He wondered if perhaps
they had some kind of persistent impairment in the conversion
of T4 to T3. He reasoned that in such a case T3 may be preferrable
to T4. He was able to greatly increase the percentage of patients
that responded when he started using T3 instead of T4. Over
a period of years, and in work with thousands of patients his treatment
protocol evolved into its present form found in the Doctor's Manual.
The most significant aspect of T3 therapy however, Dr. Wilson
discovered quite by accident. It was something he never would
have expected. He found that when patients improved with T3 therapy
they often REMAINED improved even after the T3 therapy was
discontinued! This was a totally unexpected finding, because
when patients who responded well to T4-containing medicine
were weaned off treatment, their symptoms would return...suggesting
that they might have to take the medicine for life. But when
they weaned off the T3 therapy their symptoms would tend
not to return completely, if at all. Dr. Wilson found
that if he started another cycle of the T3 therapy in patients
who did not stay completely well, that they would usually
not need as much T3 as they did on the first cycle. He found
that he could cycle the patients on and off the T3 therapy in such
a way that they would get closer and closer to normal on less and
less medicine, until they remained completely normal off
the medicine. Needless to say, this changes everything. We're talking
about a whole new way of looking at the thyroid system.
Dr. Wilson also noticed
that even though more patients got better with T3 than they
did with T4-containing medicines, they were also more prone
to having side effects. It was obvious that this was due to the
short half-life of T3. T3 is 3 times shorter-acting than T4. He
found that the incidence of side effects dropped significantly
if he gave the medicine in divided doses throughout the day. He
ended up not feeling comfortable prescribing the T3 in less than
6 equally divided doses throughout the day, one dose every
3 hours. He could also see that it was important for the patients
to take the T3 very much on time. This was very difficult
for patients. Then Dr. Wilson became aware that certain pharmacists
were able to put medicine into a capsule with a sustained-release
agent. So he asked a pharmacist to prepare T3 capsules incorporating
a sustained-release agent designed to be taken every 12 hours.
Subjectively, this approach decreased the incidence and severity
of side effects by twenty-fold. When Dr. Wilson started using
the T3 capsules instead of Cytomel or liothyronine tablets which
are instant-release, he went from getting about 8 patient
side effect calls over a weekend to not getting a page on his beeper
for months.
The T3 capsules also
made the treatment far more effective as well as better tolerated.
The percentage yield of patients successfully responding soared
to impressive heights. Now about two-thirds of patients that
are good candidates for a therapeutic trial of the T3 therapy protocol
are absolutely delighted with the results. And more
than 90% of patients notice at least some unequivocal
improvement. If there are two hallmarks for this approach, they
are
Number 1-- that when
the treatment does work, it works dramatically well;
and
Number 2-- When patients
get better with T3 therapy they tend to remain improved even
after the treatment has been discontinued.
In other words, there
are two reasons that someone would want to use T3 over a
T4-containing medicine in these patients:
#1 with T3, more patients
do well while on the treatment, and
#2 with T3, they also
tend to remain improved off the treatment.
These benefits of T3
therapy, coupled by the decreased risk brought about by T3 capsules
taken every 12 hours, and refinements in the treatment protocol
have rendered this approach extremely attractive. The huge
potential benefit of proper T3 therapy now greatly outweighs
the risk for a large number of patients.
There are many more details
to the treatment protocol, but those are addressed in the Doctors
Manual, so now I would rather share with you a part of the story
that's not covered in the book or Doctor's Manual.
When Dr. Wilson began seeing such great success in his patients,
the paradigm started to shift for him. He could see that a lot more
patients could possibly benefit from thyroid treatment than we've
previously thought. And the fact that patients remained
improved after the treatment was discontinued reassured him that
a needed and beneficial change was taking place. The more
his patients benefited the more elated they became. His patients
were increasingly incredulous when their horrendous long-term
problems were so easily corrected...after all that they had
been through. And the happier his patients got, the more Dr. Wilson
enjoyed practicing medicine. Treating Wilson's Temperature Syndrome was more
fun than treating anything else because it was so simple,
and because the benefits were so dramatic. In fact, Dr. Wilson's
practice was more fun and rewarding than ever, in spite of the fact
that he was working with patients that other doctors had considered
problem cases. Imagine your practice filled with your favorite
kind of patients, which also happened to be other doctors' least
favorite kind. The fact that these patients have had difficulty
obtaining help in the past only adds to the gratitude and
respect they have for you. There are so many people
that suffer from such complaints who can benefit from
this approach. The need for this kind of treatment is immense. When
Dr. Wilson would list the symptoms in the newspaper indicating that
the symptoms tend to come on with stress and a low body temperature
with thyroid blood tests being in the normal range, twenty to
forty people would call to make appointments. Lots of patients
told their families and friends how well they were doing.
Working 4 days a week, it got to the point that Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
was all that Dr. Wilson was treating. He would see
about 30 to 40 patients a day, with as many as 10 new patients
a day. So over a period of years Dr. Wilson treated thousands of
patients. Patients began coming from all over the state and different
parts of the country to obtain treatment, because they were not
able to get the help they needed locally. The real roadblock
was that there was no way to easily convey the treatment
protocol to other doctors. It can be difficult to convey
a lot of information and medical experience in a very short period
of time....
But there is something
about Wilson's Temperature Syndrome that makes it very different
than other medical treatments. It is extremely predictable
and reproducible. This makes the treatment more clear-cut,
which is always a welcome pleasure. This uncanny attribute
of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome has made it possible for Dr. Wilson to capture
the essence of all his experience in such a way as to make it easily
transferrable to you! This makes it possible for you to literally
become an expert in the area of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome overnight!
This wouldn't usually be possible, but it is with Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
-- because it is so predictable and reproducible.
Dr. Wilson has spent
a full year carefully revising the Doctor's Manual in such
a way as to take full advantage of this unusual characteristic
of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. In the beginning of the manual are 8 case
studies a doctor can read through in less than an hour to quickly
get a feel for the treatment. The case studies are followed by fully
illustrated pages that clearly and concisely explain the key principles
a doctor must know to become proficient. There are also 12
pages of management flowcharts that bring all the principles
together in an easy to follow format. Finally there's a list
of the major key points and all the main questions that ever
come up with the treatment of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, and their answers.
As you would expect,
you will still get better at treating Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
as you gain more experience, but the revised Doctor's Manual makes
it possible for you to be an expert before you ever start.
In fact, you will be more proficient after spending 5 or 6 hours
carefully reading the revised Doctor's Manual, than you would ever
be in more than 2 years treating hundreds of patients without
having read it. This is possible because the manual captures and
transfers Dr. Wilson's experience which can't be easily duplicated.
There is a catch though. To get all of this benefit out of the manual
you have to read it. All of it. The manual has been condensed,
polished and refined to the point that nothing more can be taken
out or expressed any more simply and clearly. Everything left in
the Doctor's Manual has been left in for a reason. You may
find it to be one of the most enlightening, easy and enjoyable
to read medical books that you have ever read. Dr. Wilson has
used a programmed learning approach that guarantees your success
in quickly mastering the treatment protocol, because he's
well aware of the time constraints doctors face.
Imagine how much better
it is to be able to say "I think I know what might be wrong
with you, and I know of a treatment that might work." Than it is
to say "I can't find anything wrong with you, and I have no idea
of what might help you." It's so nice to actually be able to significantly
change the life of a patient for the better. And it's great
to have patients come to see you because they want to. For
many doctors Wilson's Temperature Syndrome puts back all the best
things about practicing medicine.
At this point, I'll give
you a few points to consider to help you see if you might like to
begin implementing the treatment of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome in
your practice. Perhaps the first thing to consider is are you
more clinically-oriented or more test-oriented. There
is an old saying in medicine that says "treat the patient not
the blood tests." This is an important saying because of how
doctors can get preoccupied with tests and technology. But
there are conditions that are still better managed clinically.
They are the ones that don't yet have conclusive tests. Thyroid
blood tests are not conclusive, so clinical judgment remains
the strongest tool in managing Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. A thyroid
expert quoted in a medical journal called Postgraduate Medicine
said this: "Thyroid function tests have certain limitations that
must be recognized before they can be used effectively. Most important
is the physician's awareness that the tests do not replace good
clinical judgment and should not be used alone to confirm
a diagnostic impression or to dictate therapy." Thyroid experts
keep telling doctors that thyroid blood tests aren't conclusive,
but unfortunately a lot of doctors still don't realize it and they
act like the tests are conclusive when they aren't. Which would
you find more rewarding, treating your patients and eliminating
their symptoms, or not treating them because all their
tests come back normal (even though their symptoms persist and perhaps
worsen over time)? Do you like to focus more on solving patients'
problems, or more on what their tests say? How do you
feel about your patients' instincts? How do you feel about the old
saying that says: "If you listen to your patients long enough they'll
tell you what's wrong with them, and if you listen longer still
they'll tell you how to fix it?" Are you comfortable with the concept
of a therapeutic trial, and considering if the potential benefits
far outweigh the risks? If you are a clinically-oriented
physician then you should absolutely love treating Wilson's
Thyroid Syndrome. It's pretty much a clinician's dream come true.
Huge life changing benefits with little risk from a simple therapeutic
trial.
And it's essentially
the same thing that's been done for years. Let me explain.
The PDR says that Cytomel or T3 may be preferred when impairment
of peripheral conversion of T4 is suspected. That,
of course, would be when the patient is clinically hypothyroid
even though the blood tests are normal. The PDR also states
that dosage of thyroid hormones is determined by the indication
and must be in every case individualized according to patient
response. The treatment protocol for Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
involves giving patients thyroid medicine according to patient response
and laboratory findings, which has been common practice for more
than 50 years. In the same way, men have been shooting basketballs
through hoops for a very long time. But only relatively recently
did players start slam-dunking the basketball through the
hoop. They're still using their hands to project the ball through
the hoop, but doing things a little differently can be quite
dramatic. In a similar way, the treatment protocol for Wilson's
Thyroid Syndrome specifies how to give the medicine in the
right way to give dramatic results. Basketball is not a new game,
but it's played a little differently these days. And thyroid medicine
is not a new medicine but the how's and why's can be very significant.
So you can see, this approach is really nothing different
than what's always been done.
If you haven't heard
much about Wilson's Temperature Syndrome and you've wondered why --
remember that some of the easiest and most powerful techniques in
life aren't common knowledge, and when discovered, seem like
the best kept secrets in the world. In fact, it's sad to
say but some of the most exciting developments never will
be common knowledge.
The good news
is that the word is spreading fast about Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
as evidenced by the fact that you're listening to this. There are
thousands of doctors who are treating Wilson's Temperature Syndrome.
These doctors first heard about Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
in varying ways. Some heard Dr. Wilson lecture about it at CME approved
medical conventions. Others heard about it from colleagues who were
reproducing Dr. Wilson's fantastic results. Still others heard about
it from patients with family members who had been treated successfully
in other parts of the country. Newsletters, News articles, TV, Magazines,
the Internet. There are lots of ways doctors are hearing
about Wilson's Temperature Syndrome.
How did you
hear about it? How will the rest of the doctors hear about it? Perhaps
they'll hear about it the old-fashioned way. Over a period of years,
it may filter down to them through our medical system and then again,
it may not.
There are at least four
reasons Wilson's Temperature Syndrome does not lend itself to being filtered
through our medical system any faster than many other developments.
First, it is more
than just a step in a new direction, it's almost a field unto
itself. Only a small fraction of the details of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome
can be covered in a 3 page article in a medical journal. Dr. Wilson's
book on Wilson's Temperature Syndrome is over 300 pages, and it takes over 200
pages in the new Doctor's Manual to adequately cover the
treatment protocol.
Second, it represents
a fairly significant paradigm shift, which means that a lot
of things would change, and lots of change doesn't happen
quickly.
Third, our medical
system has become very test and technology oriented, and the technology
necessary to be able to see what's happening in each cell of
the body at the same time is at least 2 decades away. This means
that no tests will be developed in the next 20 years that are any
more useful in the treatment of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome than what
we already have. In fact, it's not likely that there will
ever be a test developed that will be any more useful
in the treatment of Wilson's than the body temperature and clinical
findings are right now. This is because the body temperature
is already a perfect measure of what's most important, which is...
the body temperature! For some in our medical system, an ordinary
thermometer might be too simple.
Fourth, money
moves things along in medicine just as it does in any other
industry. Money is generated in medicine in a variety of ways. Sometimes
it's through expensive tests, and sometimes it's through the selling
of medicine. A thermometer is not expensive, and a thermometer company
is not really going to benefit much from Wilson's Temperature Syndrome,
because thermometers are inexpensive and almost everyone
already has one. Thyroid medicine has been on the market
for years and is not patentable, so a drug company has little
incentive to spend a lot of money educating doctors and funding
projects on Wilson's Temperature Syndrome.
So it will be a while
before most other doctors catch up with your knowledge and
insights. In the mean time, you can take advantage of this powerful
information right now. Wouldn't it be interesting
to just try the T3 therapy in a few patients to see if it works
the way Dr. Wilson and others say it does? What may have been mysteries
for you and other doctors will now be no problem.
You may become known for your expertise in being able to
provide the help so many patients desperately need. Each
day hundreds of people all over North America check our web site.
Many check our site to find a doctors in their area who are knowledgable
about Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. This is evidence of the huge
number of people who feel they might benefit from this kind
of approach. These patients are highly motivated, cooperative, and
grateful to doctors who will work with them. They understand
the doctor may not be able to help them, but are very glad
the doctor is willing to try. It's a very cost-effective
treatment that's sure to be one of the best things to try
in some of these so-called "difficult" patients
for years to come.
Be sure to read what
other doctors and patients are saying about T3 therapy for Wilson's
Thyroid Syndrome on our website at www.WilsonsTemperatureSyndrome.com,
that's, "wilson" - "s" - "thyroidsyndrome"
- "dot" - "com". No punctuation.
For more information,
or to order any materials, just visit our website or call 800-621-7006
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