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Welcome to drlowe.com. My
purpose in maintaining
drlowe.com is to provide readers with scientifically-documented
information about several interrelated topics: hypothyroidism, thyroid hormone
resistance, and fibromyalgia. The information I post to
drlowe.com is mainly
about the causes of these problems and how readers can safely and
effectively free themselves from
these conditions, or at least control or compensate for them. This, too, is
the purpose of my award-winning book
The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia. |
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At
drlowe.com, I focus on what impairs
patients' metabolism, slowing it to the point that patients have symptoms of abnormally low metabolism. I include a large amount of information on
two common and potent causes of impaired
metabolism—hypothyroidism and thyroid hormone resistance. I also include
information on other causes of slowed metabolism. Among the
causes are poor diet,
nutritional deficiencies, low physical fitness, low cortisol, imbalances
of sex hormones,
and various medications and environmental pollutants.
Impaired metabolism affects different people in different ways,
resulting in a variety of symptoms. Doctors usually give people with different symptoms
different diagnoses. For example, the most prominent symptoms of
some people are chronic widespread aches and pains. These people's doctors
are likely to give them the diagnosis of "fibromyalgia."
The main symptoms of
other people are lethargy and fatigue. Their doctors may diagnose their
symptoms as "chronic fatigue syndrome." Still other people may
have depression, and others poor concentration and memory. The entire lists
of potential symptoms and signs are too long to include here. I have included
the most common symptoms and
signs on other pages at
drlowe.com.
Few conventional doctors search out and correct
the underlying metabolism-impeding factors I mentioned above.
Instead, they prescribe one or more drugs, hoping to relieve
the patients' troubling symptoms. The diagnoses the doctors give
the patients are simply labels that justify the doctors prescribing
particular patented medicines that drugs companies are promoting at the
time.
But I believe that
most
sets of symptoms—diagnosed as different disorders—have a common underlying
cause.
That cause is abnormally
low metabolism (called "hypometabolism"). A
part of the treatment approach I created and coined, "metabolic
rehab," is to identify factors
that are slowing a patient's metabolism. After the patient and I identify
the factors, they, their primary doctors, I (or all of us together) engineer
a treatment regimen to eliminate, correct, or control the factors. The patient may have to tweak his or her treatment regimen
one or more times. This tweaking is intended to enable the patient to find
his or her individual route to recovering normal metabolism. If the
patient succeeds at finding this route, he or she is freed from symptoms and signs of low metabolism.
Hypometabolism may be the basis of your health problems. If so, my
colleagues and I have provided as much free information as possible on
drlowe.com (contained in
roughly three-hundred pages) to help you learn which factors
may be slowing your metabolism and how to control with the aim of
recovering your health.
A final word, in case you
are new to drlowe.com: My research
group at the Fibromyalgia
Research Foundation have determined the main cause of fibromyalgia. If
you meet the criteria for fibromyalgia, chances are you don't have
to suffer from it any long. I encourage you to read about fibromyalgia on
drlowe.com.
Thank you for visiting
drlowe.com. I sincerely hope
you find it helpful. —Dr. John C. Lowe
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