If you feel worse on hormone therapy, whether that's thyroid hormone or sex hormone therapy, consider opening your drainage pathways.

Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP

When the drainage pathways are congested, especially the lymph, liver and kidneys, your body cannot expel excess hormones and you will feel unwell or you might even feel worse than you did before starting hormones. This is especially true if you are someone with the MTHFR gene mutation. The top...

If you have the MTHFR gene mutations iodine researchers recommend testing selenium levels using an RBC Selenium test prior to supplementing selenium.

Karen Fitzpatrick-Dame, ChhC, AADP

Those with MTHFR gene mutations tend to recycle selenium much more efficiently than those who do not have the MTHFR gene mutations. This recycling can cause elevated selenium levels, sometimes very elevated, well over 1,000 as it relates to the lab ranges.   If you have the MTHFR gene mutations,...