The medical literature is full of reports going back many years that provide evidence that thyroid medication, used when indicated, is one of the mos…

- Broda Otto Barnes

Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid ha…

- Broda Otto Barnes

On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in…

- Broda Otto Barnes

From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woma…

- Broda Otto Barnes

But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the need for reco…

- Broda Otto Barnes

Thyroid secretions in adequate amounts appear to be essential for development of the egg and for proper ovarian secretions. If thyroid function is lo…

- Broda Otto Barnes

Many of the women who benefited from thyroid therapy provided added evidence that it was the thyroid which was responsible. There were the women who,…

- Broda Otto Barnes

In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse m…

- Broda Otto Barnes

Certainly miscarriage is not invariably related to low thyroid function. There are many other possible causes. Yet soon after thyroid therapy first b…

- Broda Otto Barnes