Your thyroid gland controls your metabolism – essentially, how fast and efficiently your body burns its fuel; and if you have low thyroid function, you may experience any or all of the following symptoms: fatigue lethargy weight gain constipation dry skin thinning at the outer edges of your eyebrows (Queen Anne’s Sign) depression or mental fogginess hair…
Whenever I am talking to a patient and they tell me about some particular set of symptoms that suddenly came on, I always ask them “What changed around that time?”. Such a simple question and it’s amazing how often it can lead us to the cause, or at least a main contributing factor, of their…
So it’s the middle of winter (or April in Seattle), you’ve got the winter blahs, and it feels like the sun will never shine again. Besides buying a straightjacket or a ticket to Mexico, what else can be done to preserve (or recapture) your sanity? Therapeutic light boxes are available for purchase online (check out…
