The Recluse: How Radiation Produced a Sea of Thyroid Imbalance & Caused our Grandparents to Isolate

My paternal Grandmother was one of the first to be prescribed Xanax in 1981. At that time I was not aware of the changes to the primary grain that we call "wheat!" Nor had I transitioned from the SAD diet which Grandmother ate largely from her lush garden in Livermore, California.

Anxiety set in, and, reclusing when Olive, my Grandmother was at one time very socially active, loved the horse races, and was a beacon of joy! Years later, I learned about what the wheat was doing, how thyroid glands were affected with goiter and imbalance, how drugs were opportunistically being distributed by the doctors to trusting Mothers and Grandmothers like my own!

As I prepared to write and publish my second book: Detox & Heal Your Thyroid, I reflected upon all this isolation, reclusing behaviors like hers, my own, and the people all around me! Our diet, detoxification, all the signs, and the history of the Cold War, I-131 (radioactive iodine) and our thyroid gland and I began to put a lot of pieces together for people in my book. I began to heal my own thyroid and see the majority did in fact have a thyroid imbalance, which was underlying most every diagnosis I worked with! It was one of the root causes of the many labels people carried: PD, Lupus, Myasthenia Gravis, Kidney Disease, and even my own Ovarian Carcinoma diagnosis of 2008!

Now today with the "virus" and "socially distancing" our people for nearly a year? We are exacerbating the pandemic which in my mind is truly a thyroid pandemic!

I long for our times of connection and trust, joy, and fullness of life! That's why I am here!