Voices in the corpus

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.