An Alternative to Thyroid Biopsy for Diagnosis of Nodule

The patient, a 45-year-old white female, told me that her primary care physician had recommended a biopsy for a nodule on her thyroid. “I don’t want to do that,” she said.

I told her, “You have a choice.”

Upon further discussion, I discovered that she was taking Synthroid, having been irradiated from the thyroid through the thorax for Hodgkin’s in her teen years. She was athletic and ate an excellent diet, so I saw no cause for concern there. She did have uterine fibroids and irregular periods, and felt she wasn’t mentally quite as sharp as she could be. It did not seem to me that this was an emergency situation.

“What we can do,” I said, “is do an AMAS test now, so we can see if the body is responding to a threat of cancer. In the meantime you can start doing castor oil packs to see if we can soften up the fibroids. We’ll also adjust the neck and abdomen.”

The AMAS (antimalignin antibody in serum) blood test read “borderline” when it came back the following week. My experience tells me that the body has some concern when we get this result, but it is still far from being a full-blown cancer. Her thyroid was struggling already due to the history of irradiation, and we both wanted to spare it further stress.

When I adjusted the neck the first time, I felt a strange energetic gap around C4, so I worked to reestablish continuity there.

Why might the thyroid be producing a nodule? The first adjustment demonstrated probable nerve interference. I was also looking at a nutritional cause: The substrate for thyroid hormone is iodine. Because she was from a coastal area and now living inland, it occurred to me that her thyroid was not getting the iodine that it expected from her food or from the air. So the thyroid might be trying to enlarge in order to compensate for a lack of iodine. I recommended that she begin eating seaweed every day. She asked what kind. I said, “Whatever kind you like, because that is the one your body needs.” She eventually settled on kombu. We added Four + One tea, containing sheep sorrel, burdock root, slippery elm bark, and turkey rhubarb root, to help liver and digestion. I had used this tea successfully treating myself for endometrial cancer.

The presence of fibroids made sense in the context of low thyroid, because low thyroid, in slowing the metabolism, would produce stagnation. The castor oil packs and abdominal adjusting would help move lymphatics and digestion, also aiding the liver in processing whatever thyroid hormone she had. To help induce a period, I recommended chaste tree berries (Vitex). She ground them up in her morning shake. This worked.

She commented after she had been on the seaweed for a while that she was feeling mentally sharper again and had more energy.

Four months after the first AMAS, we repeated this test. This time it was well within the normal range. I felt for the thyroid nodule and could not find it. Biopsy averted.

“It was so easy,” she said.

Nancy Offenhauser, DC

P.O. Box 583

Amenia, NY 12501

845-373-9220

healingcancerpeacefully@gmail.com

Dr. Offenhauser, a chiropractor in Amenia, New York, is the author of Healing Cancer Peacefully, an account of her treating herself naturally for endometrial cancer, without surgery, chemo, or radiation. Healing Cancer Peacefully is available at healingcancerpeacefully.com, theroundhousepress.com, or amazon.com.