January 9, 2024
Dr. Friedman is one of the world's experts on treating Graves' disease. Graves' disease is a type of hyperthyroidism that is autoimmune...
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January 8, 2024
Hypothyroidism is usually diagnosed with an elevated TSH and often with a low free T4. The symptoms of hypothyroidism include ...
June 14, 2023
It is very important to correctly diagnose hypothyroidism. If a patient truly has hypothyroidism, they need to go on thyroid medicine; otherwise, their condition will worsen. On the other hand, if they do not have hypothyroidism and are treated with thyroid medicine, their own thyroid will shut down and it will be very hard to get off thyroid medicine. If […]
April 5, 2022
Dr. Friedman uses several medications to treat Cushing’s syndrome that are summarized in this table. Dr. Friedman especially recommends ketoconazole.
July 7, 2021
Dr. Friedman's main approach to weight loss is to rule out any endocrine problems, such as hypothyroidism, Cushing syndrome, or growth hormone deficiency, that may lead to weight gain.
February 3, 2021
Dr. Friedman has extensive experience with treating patients with diabetes at his county job. He is always looking for new agents to help control people’s diabetes as well as prevent people from getting diabetes, and he actually found a new agent for this that is actually quite old. This supplement is called berberine. Berberine is […]
January 28, 2021
Dr. Friedman re-joins Dr. Thomas Hughes to give some very important information about the COVID-19 vaccine for the general public ...
January 27, 2021
Dr Friedman joins Dr. Thomas Hughes to discuss Thyroid health & Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism.
January 27, 2020
Many patients with fatigue as a main complaint are eventually diagnosed as having an endocrine problem. However, an often overlooked reason for fatigue in women who are menstruating is iron-deficiency. Iron is needed for thyroid hormone biosynthesis and action, including the conversion from the inactive thyroid hormone, T4, to the active hormone, T3. Women taking […]
October 31, 2019
The 3 S’s of how cortisol leads to weight gain: In December, 2015, I gave a webinar on the hormonal effects on obesity, that was one of my most popular webinars. Everybody wants to learn about how hormones are related to body weight and food intake. I talked a lot about how cortisol is involved […]
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