Broda Barnes

In their own words

• 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.

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

  Atherosclerosis·On the Genesis of Atherosclerosis·1973