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What is Adrenal Fatigue and Why is it Such a Controversial Diagnosis?

Tags: adrenal dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, fibromyalgia, low thyroid function|

Adrenal fatigue, or dysfunction, is a condition (group of symptoms) that occur when your adrenal glands are having trouble keeping up with the demands being made on them. Normally, your adrenal glands mobilize your body’s response to stress by secreting hormones that regulate energy production and storage, immune function, heart rate, muscle tone and other processes that enable you to cope. But people’s capacity to handle stress varies tremendously, and chronic stress takes its toll on just about everyone.

Adrenal fatigue is not full-fledged adrenal insufficiency, a serious medical diagnosis that is accepted by mainstream medicine. But it is a

New Year Message from Dr. Wilson!

Happy New Year! Will 2015 be the year you are able to get on an upward spiral of improving health? I sure hope so! 2014 was a great year with many more doctors learning of and embracing recent research that shows that people with normal TSH may still benefit from thyroid support.*

Over the past twenty years, I’ve seen hundreds of physicians enthusiastically embrace the concept and begin restoring wellness to their patients through the simple means of normalizing their patients’ low body temperatures. At a recent conference, a doctor told me that 21 years ago, his wife was finally

A Tricky Way in Which Your Coverage for Essential Medications May be Denied

Tags: Action Alert, Alliance for Natural Health, Compounding Pharmacies, medication, Pharmacy Benefit Managers|

We all know that the American healthcare system is a complex one with a lot of bureaucracy. One such complexity involves how prescription medications are handled. Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) process prescriptions for insurance companies and corporations, using their size to negotiate low prices with drug makers and pharmacies. Essentially, they act as the “middlemen” between the payer and everyone else in the healthcare system.

Recently, a PBM named Express Scripts, adopted a policy to block coverage of approximately 1,000 ingredients used in compounding; they made this decision for no other reason than to cut their expenses. They actually went

Do you Dread Winter? Check your Body Temperature!

Tags: depression, Low body temperature, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, T3, TSH, winter blues|

If all you want to do is burrow into your couch and hibernate when winter comes around, check your body temperature. It’s possible that you have low thyroid hormone function.

Low thyroid hormone function causes low metabolism, which leads to low body temperature–consistently below 98.5 F., or 36.94 C, but typically lower than 97.8 F, or 36.56 C.

Low body temperature due to low thyroid hormone activity can cause many of the symptoms you might blame on chilly winds and dark days such as dry skin, cold hands and feet, fatigue, weight gain and carb cravings, leg cramps, poor immunity and

FDA Action Alert- Please Share!

Tags: FDA regulations, IND, nutrient studies, supplement research|

The FDA Doesn’t Want You to Know the Healing Power of Your Nutrients

The FDA is up to no good when it comes to your nutritional supplements. They are attempting to require medical foods and dietary supplements to undergo the same extremely burdensome and expensive approval process to simply to initiate research. The FDA has just opened a public comment period and it is critical for us to flood the agency as well as Congress with messages about why we oppose this proposed legislation.

What this proposed legislation means to you is that your nutrients will become much more expensive due to

Don’t forget to do this if you have chronic fatigue syndrome

Tags: CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue, hypothyroidism, Low body temperature, T3, TSH, Wilson's Temperature Syndrome|

Everyone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is familiar with the frustration of getting a proper diagnosis and treatment. You also know that at times, you have to take your health into your own hands. That’s why I recommend that anyone with a diagnosis of CFS do one vitally important thing: check your body temperature.

The details on how to do this correctly are on my website, under How are body temperatures measured? If your body temperature is consistently low (below 98.5 F., or 36.94 C. but typically lower than 97.8 F, or 36.56 C) it means that your metabolism is

Can thyroid disorders lead to addictions?

Tags: addiction, depression, hypothyroidism, T3, wilson's temperatiure syndrome|

Well no, thyroid disorder does not directly cause addiction. But it can cause vague mental symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, cognitive problems, nervousness, irritability, and fatigue that can drive a person to self-medicate with legal or illegal drugs, including alcohol, in order to feel better. Ongoing drug or alcohol use can, in turn, affect thyroid hormone levels. Drug or alcohol use appear to inhibit the liver’s ability to make the proteins that help convert T4 to T3, for instance. It can also lead to a build-up of inactive forms of thyroid hormone. And it’s speculated that low thyroid hormone activity