Dr. Carly Polland is a clinician, educator, & medical consultant helping patients and practitioners navigate the intersection of hormones, the microbiome, and the immune system using integrative medicine.
Dr. Carly Polland is a clinician, educator, & medical consultant helping patients and practitioners navigate the intersection of hormones, the microbiome, and the immune system using integrative medicine.
If you are like many women, managing your hypothyroidism has been difficult. Your thyroid medication hasn’t really made you feel better and you wonder if you really need to be on it for the rest of your life. You wonder why your thyroid is having trouble making enough hormones and what else might be going on in your body to explain everything.
If you want to feel better with hypothyroidism, you need the right treatment. To figure out the right treatment, you need to know the root cause. It is as simple as that.
A stool test is a critical part of a comprehensive gut evaluation. However, not all stool tests are created equal. And unfortunately, your doctor may not know that. Many health practitioners understand that treating the gut is important for many health conditions, but most of them don’t know the best way to evaluate the gut. This article reviews the basics of stool testing so you don’t waste your money on the wrong test.