Dr. Mike Pierce

So with a thyroid...

I believe that there's a lot of things that we can do and need to do to help the thyroid heal.

But I go back to if the nerve communicating to the thyroid is being pinched and isn't getting proper signaling from the brain for healing, you're missing a big starting piece if we're not addressing that first.

So I always say with anything in the body, address the nervous system first.

Make sure the nerve is properly healthy going to that area and then do the other things we need to make sure we're going to capitalize and support that.

Short answer is this.

I don't.

Here's the longer answer is that when somebody comes in and they're on a medication, the only reason you're on a medication is because your body is expressing some level of dysfunction and disease.

High blood pressure is not a normal function of a normal, healthy body.

So if somebody has high blood pressure, for example, your body is expressing disease to some degree.

So we don't pursue how to get off the drug.

We pursue health.

We pursue what would it look like to help the body regulate blood pressure?

What controls blood pressure?

And we start taking the right supplements.

We do the right adjustments, meaning there's a study that was done to the atlas bone, the number one top bone that regulates around the vagus nerve.

And this study found that it looked at adjustments to that atlas bone versus taking lisinopril and HCT, two blood pressure medications, and the adjustment to the atlas had better outcomes in reducing blood pressure than both of these medications.

So when we look at getting off a medication, you go back and say, well, where is the dysfunction?

And if we can pursue helping the dysfunction to heal, then the body no longer needs the medication.

So in our office, we celebrate people coming off drugs all the time.