Health Book of the Week Thyroid Disease ; Tv Presenter and Property Guru Melissa Porter, 35, Was Diagnosed with an Under-Active Thyroid Nine Years Ago. Here, She Reviews Thyroid Disease by Mark Vanderpump & Michael Tunbridge (Oxford University Press, Eur 16.99).

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AT THE age of 26, I was 2st overweight, had permanent brain fog and suffered terrible depression. I finally went to my GP when a friend noticed a lump on my neck, which turned out to be an enlarged thyroid gland.

The thought of having to take a daily drug for life, combined with the weight gain, memory loss, fatigue and depression, was too much to bear, so I decided ignorance would be bliss; I consciously chose at the time not to read any books on the subject - I didn't want to know what my fate might be. Instead, I relied on my consultant and other cherry-picked sources of information.

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Health Book of the Week Thyroid Disease ; Tv Presenter and Property Guru Melissa Porter, 35, Was Diagnosed with an Under-Active Thyroid Nine Years Ago. Here, She Reviews Thyroid Disease by Mark Vanderpump & Michael Tunbridge (Oxford University Press, Eur 16.99).

Having said that, this book has a lot of i...

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