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The Metabolic Treatment
of Fibromyalgia
by Dr. John C. Lowe
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Thyroid Hormone Molecules

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. (E-Chapters: All book chapters available as pdfs.)

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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

Latest Updates to drlowe.com
2/1/10	• Is there any benefit to using HSF in addition to other thyroid hormone products? Dr. Lowe
1/30/10	• Sunnier days for fibromyalgia patients. Dr. Lowe
1/30/10	• Dr. Lowe invites you to see the new website of the Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
1/11/09	• Why do I have tremors on 3 caps of Nutri-Thyroid? The role of underlying factors. Dr. Lowe
1/8/09	• Janie Bowthrope comments on Dr. Lowe's appearance on her webcam show
1/7/09	• Dr. Lowe interviewed tonight by Janie Bowthrope: webcam show with free access for everyone
12/6/09	• All chapters of The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia now available separately as pdfs Dr. Lowe
12/6/09	• Why We Can't Tell Everything We Know about Hypo Support Formula Dr. Lowe
12/6/09	• Big Pharma and the FDA: My Enemy and Yours Dr. Lowe
11/30/09	• Most Over-the-Counter Desiccated Thyroid Capsules Contain 130 mg of Thyroid Powder. Why?
11/24/09	• What can Increase or Decrease the Protein that Carries Thyroid Hormone into the Brain Dr. Lowe
11/24/09	• Find-needle aspiration can reduce operations for solitary thyroid nodules Study in Thyroid Science
11/15/09	• Thyroid and Fibromyalgia in the United Kingdom Dr. Lowe
10/27/09	• Study Shows that Women and Their Newborns are Likely to be Harmed by T4 Replacement
10/27/09	• Researchers Find that Pregnant Women with Preeclampsia have Lower Free T3 Levels
9/29/09	• Article by Mary Shomon: Dr. Lowe's Debunking Dr. Richard Guttler's False Claims about Natural Desiccated Thyroid
9/26/09	• Does Nonprescription Dietary Desiccated Thyroid Really Work Well, or Does it Not? Dr. Lowe
9/24/09	• Natural Desiccated Thyroid: Dr. Richard Guttler's False Claim about It Dr. Lowe at Thyroid Science
9/22/09	• In brief: Derry's evidence-based belief that iodine can prevent swine flu and other infections?
9/19/09	• Dr. David Derry proposes the iodine can prevent the swine flu & other infections Thyroid Science
8/19/09	• Does the Shortage of Nature-Throid and Armour Mean We Can't Get Hypo Support Formula?
8/18/09	• Why Nature-Throid & Westhroid are Back-ordered. Editorial at Thyroid Science by Dr. Lowe
8/18/09	• Official Statement by RLC Labs about Back-Orders for Nature-Throid & Westhroid
8/9/09	• How-to Information for Self-treating Hypothyroid Patients
8/8/09	• How to Know when You're Overstimulated by Thyroid Hormone
8/7/09	• Keeping Track of How Your Thyroid Hormone Therapy is Progressing
8/6/09	• How to Find the Dose of HSF (or any other Thyroid Hormone Product) that's Right for You
6/8/09	• New Study Shows Muscle Damage in Subclinical Hypothyroidism: Reason to Treat Early Dr. Lowe
5/13/09	• Physician Believes I'm Irresponsible to Advise Hypothyroid Patients to Treat Themselves
5/9/09	• Why Doesn't Hypo Support Formula (HSF) Require a Prescription Like Nature-Throid?
5/7/09	• No More Begging & Pleading with Doctors Misinformed about Thyroid Hormone Therapy
5/6/09	• Free Chapter Downloads for Self-treating Hypothyroid and Thyroid Resistance Patients
5/2/09	• How does Organic "Hypo Support Formula" Compare to other Dietary Desiccated Thyroid Products?
4/28/09	• RLC Labs, Makers of Nature-Throid, Releases Statement on Swine Flu & Pig-derived Thyroid
4/28/09	• Mary Shomon's Coverage of Swine Flu and Pork-derived Desiccated Thyroid
4/27/09	• Swine Flu and Pork-derived Desiccated Thyroid Products: Reason for Concern? Dr. Lowe
4/27/09	• Dr. Allahabadia, Secretary of the British Thyroid Association Replies to Dr. Lowe
4/18/09	• Adrenal Fatigue—A Real Disorder No Matter What its Name: A Response to Dr. Peter Hibberd
4/5/09	• Relief from Allergic Itching on Armour by Switching to Hypoallergenic Nature-Throid Dr. Lowe
4/4/09	• Is the Organic Desiccated Thyroid Product "Hypo Support Formula" Available Online? Dr. Lowe
3/31/09	• Changes in Thyroid Lab Test Results During the Trimesters of Pregnancy Thyroid Science
3/22/09	• Organic Over-the-Counter Desiccated Thyroid Product: Study Shows it is Clinically Effective
3/16/09	• My Rebuttal to the British Thyroid Association's Position on Desiccated Thyroid Dr. Lowe
3/16/09	• Patient Recovered from Anemia and Graves' Symptoms by Gluten Withdrawal Dr. Lowe
1/26/09	• New Thyroid Hormone Product as Effective as Cynomel Dr. Lowe
1/26/09	• Electronic and Geratherm Thermometers: Both Give Consistent Readings Dr. Lowe
12/25/08	• How T3 Reduces Fat: Dr. Lowe's Reply to a Patient Doing Better on Armour after Levothyroxine
12/11/08	• Defense of Dr. Bjørn Øverbye Innovative Research Methods. Dr. Lowe, Thyroid Science Letters
12/1/08	• Weight Gain & the TSH: Dr. Lowe Replies to Patient Complaint (Scroll to "June Hyslop") Thyroid Science
11/16/08	• "Weight Gain and the TSH: Prevention Writer's Good Deed" Editorial in Thyroid Science by Dr. Lowe
10/22/08	• What Your Patients Should Know about Synthroid: Article for Chiropractic Doctors Dr. Lowe
10/15/08	• Patient with Both Hypothyroidism and Diabetes: Controlling These Overlapping Conditions Dr. Lowe
9/18/08	• Temporarily Out of Contact Due to Hurricane Ike Dr. Lowe
9/18/08	• Patients Who Are Unable to Obtain Mexican Cynomel Dr. Lowe
8/26/08	• Safety Precautions for Thyroid Hormone Therapy Dr. Lowe at Thyroid Science
7/27/08	• An Urgent Appeal: Help Stop Wyeth and the FDA Dr. Lowe
7/19/08	• Starting Cortisol Before Cortisol Lab Testing: A Risk of Worsening a Cortisol Excess Dr. Lowe
6/19/08	• The Evidence that Too Little Thyroid Regulation is the Main Cause of Fibromyalgia. Lowe & Yellin
4/6/08	• Lack of Periods on 100 mcg of Synthroid: Should I see a Reproductive Endocrinologist? Dr. Lowe
3/17/08	• The Common Thread: What the New Thyroid Research Shows Jackie Yellin in Thyroid Science
3/16/08	• Autoimmune Thyroiditis Shown by Needle Aspiration but Not Shown by Blood Work Thyroid Science
2/5/08	• What's Different About Your Approach with Thyroid Patients? Dr. Lowe
2/4/08	• Your Criticisms of Dr. Dennis Wilson's Therapy & Theories: Are They Inconsistent? Dr. Lowe
1/11/08	• Dr. Kenneth Blanchard’s False Beliefs About T3 Therapy Dr. Lowe
1/11/08	• The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia: Not Just About Fibromyalgia Dr. Lowe
1/2/08	• Increasing Cortisol Rather than Thyroid Hormone During Stress Dr. John C. Lowe
12/6/07	• Norwegian Study Supports the "Lowe Thesis": Metabolic Failure Underlies Fibromyalgia
12/6/07	• If I'm Hypothyroid from Hashimoto's, Why Do I Feel So Revved Up Dr. John C. Lowe
10/29/07	• Surgeon's Comment on the Integrity of Effective Medical Procedures Dr. John C. Lowe
10/22/07	• Am I Hypothyroid or Thyroid Hormone Resistant? A Way to Decide. Dr. John C. Lowe
10/22/07	• How Long Does It Take for Overstimulation from T3 to Stop? Dr. John C. Lowe
10/16/07	• FRF's Comments on Dr. John C. Lowe's Inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in American
10/10/07	• Our Sincerely Gratitude for Your Donations to FRF Dr. Lowe
10/7/07	• Do We Have to Take Synthroid to Get Thyroid Hormone into the Brain? Dr. Lowe
9/25/07	• Autoimmune Thyroid Disease that Eludes Detection by Standard Laboratory Tests Dr. Lowe
9/14/07	• Dr. Lowe Demands Retraction from Dr. Honeyman for False Claims About Metabolic Rehab
9/6/07	• Fertility and Hypothyroidism Dr. Lowe
8/31/07	• A Tribute to My Friend & Research Colleague Richard L. Garrison, MD Dr. Lowe
8/21/07	• Should We Trust Expert Opinion in Medicine? (FibromyalgiaResearch.org) Dr. Lowe
8/19/07B	• Changes in the TSH, T4, and T3 with Calorie Restriction Dr. Lowe
7/29/07	• Low Blood Sugar Despite a Complex Carb Diet: Finding It and Fixing It Dr. Lowe
7/26/07	• Infertility: A Viral Infection or Too Little Thyroid Hormone Regulation? Dr. Lowe
7/4/07	• Omega-3 Fatty Acids: A Scientifically-Verified Effective Pain-Relieving Supplement Dr. Lowe
7/1/07	• An Abnormal Skin Condition Associated with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Dr. John C. Lowe
6/20/07	• Normal Metabolic Rates Despite TSH-Suppression: Support for Dr. Skinner's Safe Care Dr. Lowe
6/11/07	• Can My Labs Say I Have Too Much Thyroid Hormone When I Really Have to Little? Dr. Lowe
6/5/07	• Peripheral Thyroid Hormone Resistance—Not So Rare After All! Dr. John C. Lowe
4/26/07	• Why Don't You Just Measure the Temperature, Like Dr. Broda Barnes Did? Dr. Lowe
4/22/07	• Why Did I Have a Bad Reaction to Synthroid? Dr. John C. Lowe
4/21/07	• Why Do I Push Nutritional Supplements? Maybe Because of Gloria Swanson Dr. Lowe
10/17/06	• Dr. Gina Honeyman Dismissed from Advisor Board of Fibromyalgia Research Foundation
8/25/06	• Two New Studies Confirm the Major Cause of Fibromyalgia

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