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per day. “I used to have cystic lumps of
the worst kind, known to turn to cancer at
over 10 times the normal rate; now I have
no lumps at all. None. I’m very healthy
and have known many others who have
had good results with the iodine
treatment.”
Her opinion of Dr. Derry? “He colours
outside the lines—an original thinker. He
didn’t just one day decide he was going to
do this; he’s done a lot of research. And he
cares about his patients. After working all
day, he goes home and answers patients’
e-mails half the night.”
Outside the lines indeed! The
pioneering physician is now the target of
an investigation by the B.C. College of
Physicians and Surgeons which, in
November, temporarily removed his
licence to prescribe thyroid medication. If
that condition becomes permanent, and
he cannot go on exploring thyroid, the
general practitioner, with 60% of his
practice thyroid-related, says he might
simply retire. “It would be too boring; I
like to fix people” he explains.
Dr. Derry argues that his practice is not
revolutionary; he is merely returning to
the traditional practice used between
1892 and 1973, before a “hoax” hit. A
huge shipment of the “dirt-cheap” natural
desiccated thyroid made from pigs’
thyroids was found to be mysteriously
lacking in thyroid. As a result of this
scandal, patients got sick, and the use of
dessicated thyroid was largely
discontinued in favour of the new, manmade
chemical.
Suspicions about Synthroid have been
growing ever since its arrival. Last week
its manufacturer privately settled a classaction
lawsuit in the Ontario Superior
Court, reportedly offering the litigants
$2.25 million. They had claimed the
manufacturer suppressed a study to
control the thyroid market in Canada.
At the same time Synthroid was
introduced, Dr. Derry says, “for no reason
at all”, dosages were dropped to one-third
their previous levels, and, rather than
listening to patients’ descriptions of their
symptoms, doctors were taught to rely
instead on a lab test. As a result, he says,
the approximately 10% of the population
who require thyroid according to lab tests
are being under-treated, while the many
more who should be started on thyroid
medication are not.
“This was all done with no scrap of
evidence and no comparison studies
being done—one of the biggest changes
in the history of medicine, and it was
never checked, causing the biggest
disaster medically of all time” storms Dr.
Derry.
[Editor’s note: It makes perfect sense if
you understand the goal of the medical
establishment is NOT to cure illnesses, but
“manage” them, because that’s how you
keep the cash flowing from your pocket
into theirs.]
“The numbers are staggering, the
diseases and deficiencies they have
caused—including an epidemic of low
IQs, learning disabilities, and dyslexia
among their children—are unbelievable,
and the arrogance in their opinions and
through their teaching has led to many
unnecessary deaths.”
Dr. Derry associates these dramatic
medical changes in the mid-1970s with
the number of new diseases that were
either first noticed or that suddenly
increased in the 1980s, including AIDS,
chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia,
autism, ADHD, sleep apnea, hepatitis C,
and Alzheimer’s disease.
He has found all of these ailments
respond to thyroid treatment, including
Alzheimer’s caught in the early stages:
“Brains sharpen within two weeks,
although if Alzheimer’s gets beyond me, I
can usually slow it, but can’t reverse it”
he says. After conducting his own
successful informal study on AIDS and
thyroid, he attempted to do a large-scale
double-blind study, but found AIDS
organizations uninterested.
[Editor’s note: They don’t want it cured
any more than the ones making loads of
money from air pollution are interested in
techniques/devices which REALLY get rid
of the pollution. This actual state of
affairs has always come as a surprise to
those who encounter this “selfpreservation”
philosophy for the first
time.]
All of these research findings are new.
In fact, most of them have never been
published outside his book before. And
they’re controversial. However, the
treatment the college is concerned about
is neither new nor unique to Dr. Derry.
The focus is on the amount of thyroid
he prescribes as a result of his
understanding that 1-in-10 patients can
require much higher than the normal
dosage. This finding was documented in
textbooks of the 1960s. “Ignorance has
allowed the college to manipulate this
material to make it look as if I were
overdosing some patients” he says.
“Since those requiring higher thyroid
usually had a traumatic childhood, my
theory is that long-term stress makes the
receptors for hormones, particularly
thyroid, less receptive. As a result, the
current practice taught by
endocrinologists is a terrible injustice to
these people who have had childhoodabuse
problems.”
The registrar of the B.C. College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Morris
VanAndel, comments: “There is room for
innovation in controlled, ethical settings
where patients are aware they are being
experimented on, with controls and
checks and balances such as in a
university setting, but not every
technician should be given free rein. Dr.
Derry’s treatment is not only nonmainstream,
but this type of care has
significant risk, which was brought out in
court. People may feel better on high
doses of thyroid, but sudden irregularities
of the heart can result in complications,
including sudden death. Dr. Derry is
saying, ‘Show us the bodies’, but the
college would be legitimately criticized if
it waited for bodies.”
Responds Dr. Derry: “This is untrue.
‘Significant risk’ never came out in court.
There’s a great deal of ignorance, even
among physicians, that natural dessicated
thyroid is the safest drug—a natural
hormone—discovered in the last two
centuries. [These] barely potty-trained
physicians and academics have no idea
how to interview a patient and appreciate
the suffering they have been going
through. Millions are suffering, and they
talk of university-monitored research.
The university academia are the cause of
the problem, not the place to look for a
solution. No one has been harmed under
my thyroid care; however, the college has
temporarily banned my prescribing
thyroid in any form.”
So far, he says, the college’s ban has
caused the death of two people directly
related to their inability to get adequate
thyroid medication. He fully expects
more deaths to follow. “I warned the
college of this fact and they told me the
patients could get it from other
physicians. But because of the chill
induced by the college’s actions, this is
not happening. Several patients have run
out of thyroid and are threatening
suicide.”
As for Dr. VanAndel’s assertion about
possible sudden death from high doses of
thyroid, Dr. Derry responds: “Dr. VanAndel
has stated the above but refused to quote
the reference that confirms this type of
argument. Where does he get this? It
does not exist.” He concludes: “The
college has an infinite amount of money
and absolute license to do anything they
want. They could close my practice or
bury me in concrete.”
Dr. Derry’s lawyer, Kevin Doyle of
Victoria, says the college’s refusal to set a
date for a full hearing has left Dr. Derry
“twisting in the wind indefinitely”. Like
several Ontario doctors facing the loss of
their licences, Dr. Derry plans a court
challenge to the college, claiming the
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