David Brownstein, M.D., is a board-certified family physician and one of the foremost practitioners of holistic medicine and editor of Dr. David Brownstein’s Natural Way to Health newsletter.
There are safer options for treating mild to moderate depression. Both doctors and patients should not be so quick to use an antidepressant medication.
Diagnosing thyroid illness is much more complicated than doing the single "third generation" test that conventional medicine relies on. This test can be misleading and thrown off by many factors, including mercury toxicity.
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