While optimizing thyroid hormones is a worthy effort, one missing piece of the conversation is often thyroid hormone conversion.

I’ve been listening hard about COVID-19 in America. But what I am coming to realize is controversial and contradictory. It’s becoming increasingly clear that, however well intentioned, our public health authorities—both on the federal and the state level—are failing us.

Alopecia is multi-factorial. And it’s an inside job. And in my experience, in the context of autoimmune conditions, there are two things that make alopecia an outlier.