iHealth Labs designs and manufactures consumer-friendly, mobile personal healthcare products. The company focuses on delivering easy-to-use products that empower you to take control of your health and improve your life by testing, tracking, graphing, and sharing your health information regularly. iHealth has developed a suite of personal healthcare devices designed for the iOS mobile platform. We stopped by their booth at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics show CES. Take a look at a quick demo of their blood pressure wrist monitor.
LiveFAQ.com Real Experts, Real Advice, in Real Time. Mary Shomon answers the most frequently asked questions she receives about Thyroid health.
Mary Shomon is a patient advocate, writer and communicator who has transformed her own struggle with thyroid disease into an advocacy campaign on behalf of patients with chronic diseases such as thyroid disease, autoimmune conditions, and chronic fatigue.
Mary is the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Thyroid Diet: Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss. (2004) "Thyroid Diet" was also a semi-finalist for the prestigious Quills Awards in 2005. To learn more, visit; http://thyroid-info.com/
Questions answered during this hangout:
What is the thyroid, and what does it do?
What is hypothyroidism?
What are the symptoms of an underactive thyroid/hypothyroidism?
What is hyperthyroidism
What are the symptoms of an overactive thyroid/hyperthyroidism?
What is hyperthyroidism?
What are the symptoms of an overactive thyroid/hyperthyroidism?
What is a goiter?
What is autoimmune thyroid disease?
What are the key risk factors for thyroid disease?
How can you find out if you have a thyroid condition?
How is hypothyroidism diagnosed?
How is Hashimoto's disease diagnosed?
How is hyperthyroidism diagnosed?
How is Graves' disease diagnosed?
If you have a lump in your thyroid, is it cancer?
Is it safe to take thyroid medication when you're pregnant or breastfeeding?
What does the TSH test measure?
What do Free T4 and Free T3 measure?
Why is Reverse T3 (RT3) measured?
What is the thyroid peroxidase antibody test?
Are you at the right TSH level?
To order the lab tests Mary Mentions in the hangout, visit
https://www.mymedlab.com/thyroid/thyroid-basic-panel
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LiveFAQ.com Real Experts, Real Advice, in Real Time. Marjie Andrejciw answers the most frequently asked questions from newly diagnosed autism parents.
Marjie is a Holistic Nutritional Counselor and a Defeat Autism Now! Practitioner. Her practice is Circle of Life Nutrition, LLC, to learn more about her practice and philosophies go to http://www.circleoflifenutrition.net.
Marjie answers the following questions:
Is what happened to my child my fault?
Where do I begin when my child has been diagnosed with autism?
Why is my child in a fog or in his own world most of the time?
Why are no two autistic children are exactly alike?
My child regressed after his vaccinations. Did the shots cause his autism?
Can my child recover from autism?
Why does my child have chronic diarrhea and/or constipation?
Why has the prevalence of autism skyrocketed from 1:10,000 in the early 1990's to 1:58 boys in 2009?
What does changing my child's diet have to do with the recovery of autism?
My child has these big, dark circles under his eyes. What is the cause of that?
I have ordered these laboratory tests, and I do not understand them. Who do I ask for help me?
Reading the information on this website, participating in and viewing live and or recorded video discussions does not create a physician-patient relationship.
Today health care is changing, Away from waiting till you're sick towards new ways to help you stay well. 80% of people are eligible for one or more free screening How will you manage? The health information-age has arrived. What's changing for you?
The Modern Health Care System in the United States and a history and timeline of how we got to where we are today. This whiteboard video / lecture. During the 2nd World War, wage and price controls are placed on American employers. To compete for workers, companies began to offer health benefits, giving rise to the employer-based system in place today.
