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Many patients experience low thyroid symptoms long before they are diagnosed with thyroid disease.

This is because the medical field uses lab averages as the standard for what’s considered “normal” bloodwork.

Lab averages are based on the average ranges of people who get their blood work done.

The problem with using lab averages is that it’s typically people who are sick that are getting their blood work done...

so if you are in the “normal range,” it just means that you are in the same range as other people who are sick.

At Premier Health Care, we use functional lab ranges, which are based on healthy people - which is why our patients finally start to feel better once they start our treatment plan.

To learn more about our approach, click here to download my free Natural Approach Series, in which I explain the causes and treatment of thyroid conditions.

To see if you qualify for a free consultation, call 314-647-1384.

⁣Did you know that grass fed beef is significantly better for you than grain fed beef? Unless it specifically states grass fed, the beef you’re getting at the grocery store is corn fed. Neither the human body nor the cow’s body are designed to digest corn.

Feeding cattle on corn fundamentally changes the meat they produce, greatly increasing levels of unhealthy Omega-6 fatty acids and decreasing levels of healthy Omega-3 fatty acids.

Grass fed beef is higher in vitamins A, E, and other antioxidants; and also has significantly lower levels of saturated fat than grain fed beef.

While grass fed beef is much more expensive at the store, you can save greatly by purchasing from a local farmer.

If you’re in the St. Louis area, I highly recommend Daniel Morgan for ethically raised grass fed beef at a great price and free delivery. You can contact him at 660-676-8868 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For more about the effects of the Standard American Diet on the body, download my free Natural Approach to Digestive Disorders Series here, or call my office at 314-647-1384.

Most patients come to me with a blood sugar problem, toxic liver, and inflammation.

When you’re eating food that contains toxins at every meal, your liver can’t keep up with filtering out everything it’s supposed to, which creates a domino effect of health issues over time.

The Standard American Diet is very toxic, which is why I start just about every patient with a liver cleanse.

I put them on a clean, non-inflammatory diet along with natural products that take the patient through a detox. This detox cleans out the liver, blood, and digestive system; and sets the stage for the next phase of treatment so that the patient can achieve maximum results from everything we do going forward.

During a liver cleanse, almost every patient reports back that they have more energy than they’ve had in years, are sleeping better, having regular bowel movements, and lessening of the symptoms they initially came to see me about.

Don’t underestimate the importance of the food you put into your body - it is ALL connected; and if your liver isn’t working properly, eventually nothing will be working properly.

If you’d like to learn more about how highly refined foods impact your health, I go more in depth on the subject here.

If you'd like to see if you qualify for a free consultation, give our office a call at 314-647-1384.

The number one cause of primary hypothyroidism in the United States is a condition called Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune thyroid condition. To understand autoimmune, you first need to understand the immune system. The immune system is the body’s defense system. Eighty percent of the immune system lives in the gut.

To illustrate how a properly functioning immune system works, let’s say you go to a party and someone at that party is sick. You are exposed to a bacteria or virus. If your immune system is strong, you’ll fight the bacteria or virus, you’ll win the fight, and you won’t end up sick.

Now let’s say it’s holiday time - you’ve been busy, stress is high, maybe your diet hasn’t been great and you’ve been eating a few too many desserts. Sugar suppresses the immune system; you’re exposed to that same bacteria or virus at the party, your immune system fights it and loses the fight, and you end up sick.

Both of these are examples of a normally functioning immune system.

In an autoimmune situation, the immune system is no longer functioning properly...

...and it’s not even attacking the bacteria or virus anymore. Instead, it’s turned on your own body and is literally attacking and destroying (in the case of Hashimoto’s) thyroid tissue.

The reason Hashimoto’s patients are in a low thyroid situation is because there’s less thyroid tissue than what’s needed to meet the hormonal demand. The standard of care for low thyroid function in the United State is to put the patient on thyroid hormones, regardless of the cause.

A patient who is only given thyroid hormones and has Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is literally being ignored, because they’re treating the wrong thing. Thyroid hormones do nothing for the cause of the problem, which is the immune system.

This explains why a patient that has Hashitmoto’s may get a little bit better initially after starting thyroid hormones...

...because you’re giving them a boost; but the cause is not being treated, and the symptoms come right back. As the symptoms come back, they are prescribed a higher dose of medication, and the cycle continues to repeat.

At Premier Health Care, we treat the causes of your illness. We do comprehensive testing to uncover the cause of your illness, and create a diet and treatment plan customized to each individual.

Patients who have been sick and tired for years get their lives back; they lose 30-50 pounds on average; they go off many or all of their medications; they have energy to do things they never thought they’d do again.

If you’re interested in learning more about how we treat thyroid conditions, download my free Natural Approach Series here.

To see if you qualify to become a patient, give us a call at 314-647-1384.

It’s very common for new patients to find me because they’ve been diagnosed with (or are living with symptoms of) Irritable Bowel Syndrome. In this blog, I’m going to share with you the journey that usually leads them to me, and what’s really going on.

Bloating, diarrhea, constipation, gas, acid reflux, headaches, memory issues, brain fog, and anxiety are some of the most common symptoms digestive patients deal with on a daily basis.

Many of these patients have lived with these symptoms for so long that they just ignore them - sometimes for years. Eventually, the symptoms get bad enough that they can no longer be ignored, and the first test that their doctor will typically run is a Comprehensive Metabolic Panel.

It's not Comprehensive...

While the name indicates that the testing is comprehensive, it’s actually just a fraction of information that’s needed to find out what’s really going on. Because of this, the Comprehensive Metabolic Panel typically comes back normal - or with very few findings; nothing that explains all the symptoms. Since the blood work comes back normal, the doctor may then order an endoscopy and/or colonoscopy; and most of that comes back normal too.

At this point, the patient is oftentimes diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). In the medical profession, IBS is widely accepted as a diagnosis by exclusion. This means that there is no test that can be run to confirm or deny the presence of IBS. Once the tests have been run and no cause has been found, the patient is diagnosed with IBS and treated for their symptoms.

The medications used to treat these symptoms come with a list of side effects, which are then treated with more medications. Before you know it, the patient is on 10+ medications and the sickest they’ve ever been. Patients that are diagnosed with IBS continue to get worse as time goes on, because the causes of their symptoms have never been treated.

The Real Condition

The real condition that patients are dealing with is called Leaky Gut Syndrome. Leaky Gut Syndrome is a condition in which repeated inflammation over time destroys the lining of the stomach and the lining of the small intestine.

What causes this repeated inflammation? The Standard American Diet - foods high in sugar, processed or refined carbohydrates, genetically modified foods, herbicides, pesticides, antibiotic overuse, alcohol, soda, etc.

Most Americans are ingesting these foods every single day, multiple times a day - and that repeated inflammation literally erodes the linings of the stomach and small intestine.

The Good News

The good news is that with the proper lifestyle changes, Leaky Gut Syndrome can be reversed. At Premier Health Care, we do comprehensive testing to check hormone levels, food sensitivities, and every organ system in your body to find the root cause of your illness. We then create a custom diet and treatment plan for each patient.

To learn more about Leaky Gut Syndrome, download my free Natural Approach series here.

To book a free consultation, click here or call our office at 314-647-1384.