Physician McCall McPherson developed a severe thyroid disorder at 27 that left him bedridden 16 hours daily, despite taking Synthroid. His doctor dismissed his symptoms and suggested reducing medication. After seeking integrative treatment in Austin, he recovered within months, then founded the Modern Thyroid Clinic to help others with thyroid dysfunction.
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Mine was 27, so not super far from a timeline from yours. And I was already practicing medicine, already diagnosed with a thyroid disorder on Synthroid and was like bedbound. I was spending 16 hours a day in bed, overweight, hair was falling out, depressed, couldn't function. Weekends were spent in bed like trying to recover.
But you were medicated. Synthroid is a thyroid medication.
Oh yeah, we're going to have to dig into that one for sure. So naturally, like, I was like, oh, I just need a dose adjustment. I went to my doctor and he's like, no, your thyroid's fine. Actually, we need to reduce your medication. Right. And I broke down. I'm like, look, if you take anything from me, I'm going to be unemployed. I'm going to be disabled.
Yeah.
Did some research, although he did want to put me on Lipitor for my cholesterol problem at 27, of course. Did some research, came back with a little Post-it, asked him to run what I found a full thyroid panel to be. So got on the waitlist for one of the only integrative medicine docs in Austin back then. So saw an integrative doc and got my life back in a couple months. Obviously, that profoundly changed the trajectory of my life and started applying this in my own patients, dug into absolutely all the research. And in my little integrative psychiatry practice, like 80% of my new patients became thyroid because my patients spread my, my name and work far and wide. Like, my life's work is thyroid. And from that, Modern Thyroid Clinic was born. And now I get to help people just like you, just like me, get their lives back.
