Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield qualified at Guy's Hospital in 1960 and worked for two years at Croydon Hospital before entering general practice. Increasing disenchantment with the NHS decided him to enter private practice, where he at once felt drawn to diagnosis and treatment of thyroid problems. Much impressed by the work of Dr Broda Barnes in the USA, he visited the Barnes Foundation and returned to the UK determined to improve the lot of patients with thryoid illness. His emphasis on the use of clinical diagnosis, both of thyroid and adrenal problems, and an holistic approach using non-synthetic treatment, enjoyed a great deal of success but brought him into conflict with establishment medicine and he finally decided to retire from active medical practice to study nutrition, write and lecture. Your Thyroid reflects his long clinical experience as a nutritional therapist. He now lectures and holds nutritional clinics specialising in metabolic health.

How the thyroid gland works When things go wrong - Part I: The overactive thyroid gland and its treatment When things for wrong - Part II: The under-active thyroid gland Hypothyroidism - the symptoms Hypothyroidism - the signs Iodine, other hormones and the thyroid A: The role of iodine B: Oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone C: Pregnenolone, DHEA and melatonin The adrenal connection Hypothyroidism - the treatment The full treatment protocol Reverse T3 and Wilson's symptoms The parathyroid glands Chronic fatigue and the thyroid factor The thyroid and diabetes The thyroid and cholesterol The thyroid and depression The growth hormone saga For doctors Helping yourself - the interpretation of TSH blood test results Losing weight - refined carbohydrate, the great enemy Appendices: Dental amalgam; Lists of symptoms and signs; Assessment charts; Resources and Further Reading; References