Hormones Dr. Carly Polland, ND Hormones Dr. Carly Polland, ND

Understanding Your Thyroid Labs through Integrative Medicine

You see, conventional medicine doesn't teach doctors how to properly assess thyroid function. They only teach doctors how to detect severe thyroid dysfunction. Because it is only when thyroid dysfunction is severe that conventional medicine can treat it (with drugs and surgery). Conventional medicine is not interested in knowing when your thyroid dysfunction is mild or moderate because they can do nothing to help you. So most doctors are not interested in looking for a problem if they can't fix it. So they don't run the right tests.

But lucky for you, there are doctors, such as myself, that know how to detect and treat all stages of thyroid dysfunction.

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Digestive Health Dr. Carly Polland, ND Digestive Health Dr. Carly Polland, ND

What is Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)?

If you have been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), chances are that you actually have small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). Normally, you have small amounts of bacteria present in your small intestine. In SIBO, the bacteria proliferate in your small intestine where they ferment sugars from your food leading to digestive symptoms.

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Digestive Health Dr. Carly Polland, ND Digestive Health Dr. Carly Polland, ND

You don't have IBS

If you have been diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), there are a few things you need to know. First of all, IBS isn’t real. This leads to my second point: you don’t have IBS (because you can’t have something that isn’t real).

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