Each of us has a unique life with different mental, physical, and environmental factors affecting our health. We may get similar sicknesses but for entirely different reasons, and that means the treatments that will help us get better should also be different. This inevitable diversity should be accounted for in our health care, but it rarely is.
When I published my first book, on the autoimmune mechanisms of Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism, thousands of emails began pouring into our office. My book emphasizes that treatment based only on lab values fails to address what is making our readers sick in the first place. Lab values are a necessary part of care, but they’re just indicators. And while medication may normalize lab values, patients continue to suffer symptoms.
