Janie A. Bowthorpe M.Ed
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Elle Russ chats with thyroid patient advocate and author Janie A. Bowthorpe M.Ed, who suffered at the hands of doctors for 20 years. Why? They failed to see the connection between her chronic and debilitating symptoms and forcing her body to live for conversion alone, aka T4-only like Synthroid. The examining room responses were always along the lines of “You are normal” and “It’s something else besides your thyroid”. All the latter meant money down the drain, frustrating and false pronouncements by doctors, along with painful tests, dead ends, and the dark realization she would finally have to apply for Social Security Disability.
But Bowthorpe proved them all wrong in 2002. She switched to Natural Desiccated Thyroid, raised and found her optimal amount, and every single debilitating symptom went completely away. That change spurred her to create the movement later called Stop the Thyroid Madness, aka STTM.
What makes the Stop the Thyroid Madness movement different from other websites and books? It's near totally about 17 years of reported patient experiences in getting well, and the wisdom gained from those experiences. Janie is the author of three great books: The 2019 updated revision of Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Treatment - this book compiles all the patient wisdom in getting well and is often called the bible of patient experiences. Hashimoto's: Taming the Beast for those with the autoimmune Hashimoto's disease. Another patient-to-patient book, telling you first about Hashimotos, references to plenty of research, all the ways gut health issues can impact one's issues, and moves into several patient-to-patient information about frustrations, how foods affect different patients, better ways to eat, and 96 short testimonies how how Hashi's patients are taming the beast successfully. And lastly, Stop the Thyroid Madness II: How Thyroid Experts are Challenging Ineffective Treatments and Improving the Lives of Patients (aka STTM II). Each chapter contributed by a practitioner.
SELECTED LINKS
The website is https://stopthethyroidmadness.com
facebook page https://www.facebook.com/StoptheThyroidMadness/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome. |
| 0:09.8 | Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com. |
| 0:21.8 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcastcom. Hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | I am so excited to have one of my heroes of thyroid health here, Janie Bothorpe. |
| 0:29.5 | She started an entire patient-to-patient revolution called Stop the Thyroid Madness many years ago. |
| 0:35.9 | You can go to that website as well. It's one of the best |
| 0:38.8 | websites, actually the best website for thyroid information, and also a book by the same name. |
| 0:44.0 | She's a three, four-time author now, and we'll put all of the links to connect with her books |
| 0:49.6 | in the show notes, but welcome to the show, Janie Balthorpe. Oh, thank you, Elle. I'm so glad to be here |
| 0:55.8 | and have a lot to tell you. Yeah, so for those that don't know, Janie really helped me save my own |
| 1:01.3 | life back in like 2005 before she published the book and had the website. She started a natural |
| 1:07.4 | thyroid hormones Yahoo group that was a patient-to-patient sort of peer help for just, |
| 1:14.3 | you know, people left in the dust by doctors like me. And for those of us who don't know your |
| 1:20.9 | story, tell us how did you get into that? Because you were left in the dust for years and then |
| 1:25.8 | you figured it out. So give us your journey. Boy, you said it right. And we can add, I was left in the dust for years and then you figured it out. So give us your journey. |
| 1:28.6 | Boy, you said it right. And we can add I was left in the dark too because I was diagnosed |
| 1:34.4 | with hypothyroidism and many years ago and they put me on the typical T4 only meds. |
| 1:42.1 | It was first synthroid and later lavoxal, I never got better. Never. I still |
| 1:48.0 | continued to have problems. I tried to keep living. I was a mother with children and I still |
| 1:53.9 | tried to do everything, but I had great limitations. That's why they even changed me to LaVoxal |
| 1:58.9 | to see if the problem was synthoid. |
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