Mary is author of a number of best-selling books on thyroid disease and weight loss, and a nationally-known patient advocate. In addition to her work with About.com, Mary founded and runs the Thyroid-Info Website, and since 1997 has published Sticking Out Our Necks, the only independent, bimonthly print newsletter on thyroid disease for patients.
Experience:
Mary is the author of numerous patient-oriented health books and educational materials. Her 2004 book “The Thyroid Diet: Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss,” was a New York Times best-seller, an Amazon.com Top 10 Health book of 2004, and a semi-finalist for the Quills Awards.
Mary is also author of Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough: Overcoming Sexual and Hormonal Problems at Every Age, The Thyroid Diet: Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss, Living Well With Hypothyroidism: What Your doctor Doesn’t Tell you…That You Need to Know, Living Well With Graves’ Disease and Hyperthyroidism, Living Well With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia and Living Well With Autoimmune Disease, all published by HarperCollins. She co-authored What Your Dr May Not Tell You About Parkinson’s Disease, published by Time Warner.
Mary also serves on the faculty of the New York Open Center, a leading holistic health educational center located in New York City.
Education:
Mary belongs to the Endocrine Society, the world’s largest professional organization of endocrinologists in the world, known as the leading source of research and advancements in endocrinology and metabolism.
She is also one of the first patient members of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare, a professional society dedicated to research and education in patient-doctor communications.
Mary holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Mary Shomon in the Media:
In her work as a patient advocate, Mary has been featured in the media, including ABC World News Tonight, CBS Radio, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s World, First for Women, Alternative Medicine Magazine, the CBC, and hundreds of TV, radio, magazine, and news outlets in the U.S. and abroad.
Mary Shomon’s latest book published by Harper Collins is “The Menopause Thyroid Solution”. In Mary’s own words concerning this book…
I wrote the book for two audiences:
1. Women in their 40s and 50s who are suffering symptoms often assumed to be related to perimenopause and menopause — i.e., weight gain, fatigue, moodiness, erratic periods, sleep problems, and loss of sex drive — who may not realize that these can be symptoms of hypothyroidism — an underactive, slowed-down thyroid or “thyropause” so to speak.
2. Thyroid patients in their 40s and older who are suffering perimenopausal or menopausal imbalances in their hormones — including reproductive hormones and adrenal/stress hormones — that may be destabilizing their thyroid, and causing new symptoms and health concerns.
As you know, women in their 40s and older are the group at highest risk of developing thyroid problems. Yet rather than suspecting thyroid problems and getting the proper tests and evaluation, many of these women never get thyroid tests. Instead, they’re being given estrogen and progesterone hormone treatments (”HRT”), antidepressants, sleeping pills, or soy supplements — all of which can miss the real problem entirely, or can even make symptoms worse!
And women with thyroid problems don’t realize that as early as 40, the shifts in estrogen and progesterone balance — coupled with excess physical and emotional stress in our lives — can make it difficult to keep our thyroid conditions and health in balance.
“The Menopause Thyroid Solution” explores the connection between thyroid problems, perimenopause and menopause, and offers practical guidelines to help women get hormonal issues properly identified, diagnosed and treated.
In addition to thyroid diagnosis and treatment, the book also explains, in a clear, direct way that women can understand, the pros and cons of traditional, natural and bioidentical hormone treatments for estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, pregnenolone, and cortisol imbalances. Effective exercise, mind-body approaches, and complementary options - - including herbs, supplements, and nutrition — that can help women over 40 balance their hormones are also discussed.
For more info:
http://www.menopausethyroid.com
Patient advocate and writer Mary Shomon transformed her own 1995 thyroid diagnosis into a mission to educate and empower other patients who struggle with thyroid, autoimmune, and weight loss challenges.
As many as 60 million Americans have thyroid conditions, and the majority aren’t even diagnosed. Among those who know they have thyroid problems, the majority don’t even feel well. Clearly, something needs to be done to help patients get diagnosed accurately and quickly, and once diagnosed, receive effective treatment.
