Shane, you ROCK! Say it like it is. I so admire that, which is evident by the many years I’ve worked with Prof. Brian Peskin. you’re both brutal… but the world vitally NEEDS guys like you! THANK YOU!!!

I just have to make a comment. My thyroid has been inactive for many years even though I ate properly with healthy, organic foods and none of the sodas or doughnuts! I also had gained over 100 pounds eating 300 fewer calories than necessary every day in an effort to keep my weight in check!

Two years ago I had a massive stroke and spent the next 2 1/2 months between 4 different hospitals. I am still not able to walk on my own.

I had studied nutrition for many years and helped other people but could not help myself until I finally gave up meats and all dairy. I have now lost 50+ pounds.

I am primarily an 85% raw vegan but have about 15% lightly cooked foods. About once a month I do eat a small portion of salmon.

Sometimes, thyroid problems are caused by stress also. I had/have been under tremendous stress for many years. I used some natural supplements and use seaweed daily in my green smoothies for additional iodine.

I am studying to become an online health coach to help others.

1 out of 3 born from year 2000 will have metabolic syndrome. So, thank you Shane for giving a jolt of reality that people need to take responsibility for the Land of the Obese. That’s right..we used to be Land of the Free but now most are Americans are so fat they are bankrupting our diseasecare system and use every excuse in the book to account for their atrocious bodies! Sometimes the truth hurts that is all that Shane is trying to say.

Most people don’t think about the fact that their diet and lifestyle choices affect not only themselves, but their family members who may have to carry their fat diabetic, heart bypassed ass to the finish line.

Also, taxpayers, through the disease care systems like Medicaid, will have to pay for their meds, scooter, electric bed, wheelchair, therapy, doctor visits, and much more.

We are all connected not just by our common biology and our humanity, but financially via our personal nutrition and lifestyle choices.

Taking personal responsibility for our own health and well being is the only sustainable answer for our nation’s health care dilemma.

I’m speaking from my personal experience. I have a “sick mom, well dad”. My dad is nearly 80 years old, flies airplanes, still works, and his doctor recently told him he has the prostate of a 17 year old. Over the years he has eaten well, exercised, and would only go to a doctor or a hospital if something was falling off or he needed stiches for a wound.

My dear mom over the years has eaten snack cakes, donuts, ice cream, deep fried foods, drank tons of soda, and not exercised. Now the family is literally carrying her ass down the road to the finish line. She is obese, diabetic, has had triple bypass surgery, sits in a chair all day watching Wheel of Fortune, and has to have her ass wiped and her diaper changed.

Well dad, sick mom, is the result of personal choices over time. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Our country needs the reality checks as administered by Shane Ellison. We don’t need to be coddled by the Dr. Oz’s, the Sanjay Gupta’s, and the like.

These lovable white coats have one foot in the natural camp, and the other in the pharmaceutical sector. Their information is sugarcoated and sanitized for mass consumption and “drug friendliness”.

They would never say “Fat Cow Hall of Fame” because it would be too real, a bitter pill for the masses to swallow. Yet this is what we really need. Enough coddling!

Chuck

I used to be one of those donut eaters complaining (or atleast wondering) about my thyroud. Losing my gallbladder was the event that finally woke me up. I now lost 40lbs + and feeling great – still have another 50 to go though
Shane – please help – even after removing my gallbladder I keep forming stones over and over in the bile ducts. I was told I have high cholesterol and I need to take medicines because it’s genetics and lifestyle changes won’t make a difference. I refused the meds and with healthy lifestyle I dropped over 40 points of total cholesterol. My triglycerides are still very high and according to my doctor that’s why I form stones still. I am taking stone dissolving medicines and that seems to stop the problem. Is there anything natural equivalent to these medicines (urso) ??? Should I stop it?? Does high triglyceride level cause the stones to form still? I can’t have any more endoscopies to remove them so I’m afraid to stop the urso but I also don’t like the idea of taking meds at age 30. HELP!!!!!!!!!!

I had a great figure for years but then I got huge and the docs treated me with your fat cow slovenly sloth attitude that you are projecting. As a result I stayed fat and almost died because they wanted to call my fat a behavior problem and sent me to psych! Turned out I had a tumor on my adrenal gland. It is called Cushings disease. Subsequently I cured my thyroid with Bach Flower Remedies but even as a raw foodist I cannot help but be a fat cow. I am currently battling high blood pressure that is not responding to any natural means that I have tried so far. You may have a wonderful product for me but since you called me a fat cow and assume that I have eating behaviors that I do not have – you demonstrate a sexist chauvinist ignorant attitude that shows me that you do not have the intricate knowledge of the body necessary to understand how to help me, therefore I do not have the confidence in you to try your product. You show me the same ignorance and hatefulness as the allopaths who almost killed me. You can also remove me from your mailing list.

Fat Cow,

Your medical condition represents an infitessimally small portion of obese America.

Numbers posted in 2009 by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 34 percent of Americans are obese, and 32.7 percent are overweight. It is these 80 million “plus Americans” that Shane is addressing in his blogs and health education, not those with medical anomalies like you.

Isn’t it better to err on the side of prevention and good health, to even employ insult as a tool for cutting through the deception, clutter and bullshit?

The message needs to be delivered efffectively…sans caution, reservation and political correctness.

Chuck

I told a friend the very same thing last week. He wanted to eat
DIET ICE CREAM WHILE ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT OF THE FAT COW HALL OF
FAME!!! I hope he listens but I do not think he will. I am a RD
student at EMU and I believe pretty much what you preach. Keep
up the good work and stay true to the truth.
Robert Loyd

Cushings disease is a consequence not a cause of obesity.  The only way to conquer it and all the other complications of obesity is hormone intelligence, which I teach in The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery pacakge.  All of this is well documented.

Reference:

Stewart PM, Toogood AA, Tomlinson JW.  Growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor-I and the cortisol-cortisone shuttle.  Hormone Research. 2001;56 Suppl 1:1-6. 

Shane I know a lot of people use their thyroid as an excuse for not being able to lose weight. These people are probably not even trying or are eating high-carb, low-fat, low-protein.

Are you saying that people with legitimate low-thyroid tests should not be on thyroxine? Will the right diet get the thyroid working efficiently again? What about certain deficiencies that may be causing a low thyroid function?

I found the video to be very truthful. If we all begin to eat “LIVE” foods, organic healthy foods, GOD’S foods only — then we would all be so much better off and healthier. But I must say that you must not make such “broad” statements like that, since there are many other factors that disrupt the thyroid gland, those are called “endocrine disruptors” and they are literally everywhere, they are chemicals found in our water, in our air, cleaning products, lotions, shampoos, soaps, sprays, and in our foods as well. So food is not the only culprit here.

Also, Mercury — as found in mercury fillings is a HUGE thyroid basher!! I am living proof of that. Mercury in our teeth, ie: fillings, and mercury in the flu shots, and mercury everywhere can majorly disrupt the endocrine system.

You can read a book written by a chemist and scientist called “Amalgam illness” his name is Andy Cutler and he is brilliant, and his book helped me a lot. My thyroid was bad due to mercury (high amounts) found in my teeth and in my body and brain.

So please don’t say that it’s all what we eat, because it’s not, I have been organic and eating healthy for a while now and only thyroid meds (a natural one– called Armour) helped me lose the weight.

Now I am 121 pounds.

Mia

A lot of what you say about eating habits and blaming ‘being fat’ on something is correct but you must be aware that resechers now realize that many people with thyroid disease test negative for it and that the % of people with it is much larger than thought.

It took me years to get diagnosed because blood work says no problem but I do have thyroid and was proven by luck. It was ruining my life. Just be careful that you don’t paint everyone with the same brush for sensationalism. Because you are respected, you have to be that much more concerned with how people who trust you will take your information. It is never all or nothing.

You probably totally turned off alot of people who actually have thyroid problems but are not diagnosed and you probably go through to others that they can’t use excuses – they have to accept the blame for themselves.

I’m just asking you be careful in the presentation of things.

I have met so many who complain of their weight but do nothing about it and continue eating the processed junk called “food”. They are willfully ignorant, refuse to get educated and when they do come down with a plethora of illnesses (usually chronic), they continue the “pitty me” attitude and want everyone to feel sorry for them. Having compassion is one thing but enabling the “victim” mentality is another. We are either victims or survivors…..which one do you want to be?

As far as hypothyroidism goes, I just discovered I have that (which would explain my adrenal crash a few years ago). I know I have a metabolic issue as my body temps are averaging 96.0-97.0! There is much to be learned at http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com. I also highly suggest dessicated thyroid (like Armour) and as much education as you can get.

Shane, your program is amazing! I recommend the AM/PM to everyone I know struggling with their weight as a result of poor lifestyle choices (intentional or not). As soon as my baby is done nursing, I WILL be on your program!!! I know it changes lives for the better. Truth is truth wherever you find it….even if the delivery isn’t sugar-coated (pardon the pun!!haha)

This a great topic but I have two other suggestions for you, that both touch this area as well. PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and hysterectomy and most importantly oophorectomy. Women lose their ovaries and synthetic HRT does not work and causes all kinds of awful problems. I have lost my gallbladder since taking HRT. I don’t now but I’m in hormone hell. Bioidenticals also arent’ the easy answer. It is very hard to get this correctly balanced. Thousands of women are suffering but no one is talking about oophorectomies and what that really does and how to cope with it. We get told to take HRT and SSRI. We deserve better.

I read everything that people have written and I watched this video. I can’t believe that someone who say that, but I really needed to hear that from someone. I have been told that I need medications to take care of my “thyroid problem” recently. I am going to have to refuse now. I have changed my entire diet, including my son’s, and some other close family. I feel that we all have a habit of telling eachother buying certain things is acceptable when it is really not. I think that “we all” need some kind of slap in the face everyonce in a while. I just hope that the people that called you ” unnecessarily hurtful, with the “fat cow bit” Just need to understand that the only reason it hurts is because we know it is true.

**It would be cool if that man actually does read these**

I’ve just had a blood test which showed a low reading for the thyroid but slighly improved on this time last year. I’m very slim, don’t eat junk food, exercise and don’t want to take drugs. I eat more leafy greens (for iodine) than a person can possibly imagine. I live in Europe and found a pharmacy that makes it’s own pure remedies and I’ve bought some of the things you advise through him. I’m also menopausal and in pretty bad shape (mood wise). Can you suggest anything that will help me please? I’m having acupuncture with a highly respected Chinese doctor here who’s said that I’ve been carrying around a lot of stress for a very long time, my gut is full of toxins and my body is very weak. I’ve also had Staphycoccus Aureus which antibiotics did not clear up. I don’t want to take any more antibiotics. Is there a way to get rid of this nasty infection without them? The doctor says not! Along with all of this a psychiatrist has said I had bipolar and wanted me to go on three different types of drugs, which I haven’t done but I do feel that I’m going crazy because I’ve been regularly ill for the past two years with one infection after another. Importantly perhaps, I even (stupidly) tried to get rid of my continual bouts of cold-sores) by taking MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement) and I think I’ve been ill since I took that really. I’m wondering if I’ll ever feel well again … My other half is losing patience with me fast.