# Broda Barnes

Physician–endocrinologist; thyroid and basal-temperature pioneer · 1906–1988

American physician and endocrinologist whose decades of clinical work on hypothyroidism — popularized in Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness (1976) and the Barnes basal body-temperature test — became a foundational reference for the bioenergetic emphasis on metabolic rate, body temperature, and the thyroid's role in heart disease.

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## In their own words

> Of all the problems that can affect physical or mental health, none is more common than thyroid gland disturbance.

Thyroid · Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness · 1976

> Since the authors found only twice the number of cancers in the thyroid-treated group as in normal women, and since the incidence in untreated hypothyroid patients is up to ten times as great, the authors should have concluded that thyroid therapy substantially reduces the incidence of breast cancer in hypothyroid women.

Cancer · Thyroid Supplements and Breast Cancer · 1976

## Against the grain

Positions from Broda Barnes that run counter to mainstream consensus.

> Our results suggest that the atherogenesis in diabetes is not due to the disturbance in carbohydrate metabolism but to an associated hypothyroidism.

Frames against: Counter to the standard view that atherosclerosis in diabetes stems from disturbed carbohydrate metabolism rather than hypothyroidism

Atherosclerosis · On the Genesis of Atherosclerosis · 1973

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## Books

Full-length works in the corpus. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — see the [disclosure](https://bioenergeticoracle.com/legal/affiliate-disclosure).

- Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness (1976)
- Hope for Hypoglycemia (1989)
- Solved: The Riddle of Heart Attacks (1976)