Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat: The Doctor's 28-Day Diet that Tests Your Metabolism as You Lose Weight

Siegal outlines a noninvasive, 28-day program designed to help identify thyroid malfunction. The program consists of eating a healthy percentage of protein, carbohydrates and fat over a 28-day period while taking weight and temperature measurements. Once diagnosed, he provides recommended medication and a special eating plan.

"A unique method to identify people with a sluggish metabolism...The medical community should initiate appropriate studies to substantiate Dr. Siegal's extraordinary findings." -- --Steven R. Peikin, M.D., professor of medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and author of The Complete Book of Diet Drugs

"Dr. Siegal deserves to be commended for prescribing thyroid hormones the way he does and for having the courage to write about it." -- --Alan R. Gaby, former president, American Holistic Medical Association, and author of The Patient's Book of Natural Healing

"Low-dose thyroid supplementation--even when a patient tests in the normal range of thyroid function--can be useful therapy. [This book] brings to light many unappreciated aspects of the dynamic between thyroid activity and a number of maladies." -- --Dennis gage, M.D., F.A.C.P., former acting director, The Obesity Center, St. Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital

"Supplemental 'natural' thyroid is often the Rosetta stone of good health and should not be overlooked or underestimated...makes a valuable contribution to the thyroid literature." -- --Stephen E. Langer, M.D., president, American Nutritional Medical Association, and author of Solved: The Riddle of Illness

"This book is an absolute must for those who've almost lost faith in weight loss. For the multitude who've slogged through a mountain of weight-loss diet books to no avail: You can stop blaming yourself--it may be your sluggish thyroid." -- --Robert Fried, Ph.D., coauthor of The Arginine Solution