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Dr. John C. Lowe is a fibromyalgia, thyroid, and metabolism
researcher. As Director of Research for the Fibromyalgia Research
Foundation, he has spearheaded the scientific study of two related
topics: the metabolic causes of fibromyalgia, and the relief of
fibromyalgia symptoms through the treatment approach he developed
and named "metabolic rehabilitation."
He and his research team
determined that the two main underlying causes of the documented
symptoms and objective features of fibromyalgia are hypothyroidism
and/or peripheral thyroid hormone resistance.
Dr. Lowe is author of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning book
The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia. The book is
considered by many to be the most important document every published on
fibromyalgia. At the same time, the book comprehensively covers basic
and clinical thyroidology.
In addition to conducting studies, Dr. Lowe also provides
long-distance educational consulting for clinicians, fibromyalgia
patients, and other patients with hypothyroidism or thyroid hormone
resistance.
Biography. On his maternal side of
his family, the Whaleys, Dr. Lowe is a descendant of British subjects.
Two Whaley brothers traveled to the British colonies, that were to
become the United States. They fought for the colonies in the
Revolutionary War. One of the two Whaley brothers a Major fifer, sending
coded-sound signals from commanders to military units. (A fife is
a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly for military messages and
marching musical groups.)
For his service to the newly-constituted United States,
Major Whaley was granted land in North Carolina. He prospered, and his
sons migrated further south. They eventually made their homes in
Northwest Florida and in the civil war, they fought for the Confederate
States of America.
After growing up in the confusing and troubling south in the 1950s and
1960s, Dr. Lowe became a liberal in the real sense of the
word---freedom. To him, the term liberal has nothing to do with the
meaning implied by half-educated bigots such as Rush Limbaugh. Instead,
as dictionaries specify, "liberal" refers to freedom of
individuality expression, as long as one abstains from stepping on other
people's toes.
Dr. Lowe holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in
research-oriented general psychology from the University of West
Florida. He also holds a B.S. degree in human biology and a doctorate in
chiropractic from the institution now named the
Southern California University of Health Sciences. He formerly taught
psychology at the Miami Dade Community College and was a faculty member
in the Clinical Sciences Division of the Texas Chiropractic College.
Dr. Lowe maintained a clinical practice for more than
thirty years. As explained in the section below, he voluntarily
surrended his clinical licenses in Colorado and Texas as a preemptive
move. By doing so, he sidestepped unscrupulous tactics to silence him
from his highly-vocal, highly-precise, and forthright exposure of
profit-driven saboteurs of human health and well-being (section below).
Clinical Licenses. Dr.
Lowe has been a chiropractic physician since 1977. At different times in
his clinical career, he was licensed to practice in Florida, Texas, and
Colorado. He was originally licensed to practice in 1978; he voluntarily
gave up his final clinical license on January 1, 2010.
Dr. Lowe had long decided (some ten years before) to strategically give up his licenses
at a certain point in his career. He was well prepared for that point,
having been advised and tutored about it by many of his medical colleagues
who had been defrocked by their regulatory boards and courts for resisting the use of T4 replacement therapy
and actually helping thyroid patients recover their health.
The predetermined point to forfeit his licenses was clearly defined: it
was when it became his evidence-based opinion that
a corrupt chiropractic board and/or corrupt judicial officials
were arranging to try to silence him from his constant reports of the
corruption and incompetence of the endocrinology specialty in dealing
with hypothyroidism and thyroid hormone resistance.
Dr. Lowe used a calculated judo approach to what he believes was finally an unscrupulous attempt to silence him.
By using this long planned approach, he avoided much of the
apparently work-distracting and resource-draining intentions of his opponents.
At that point, he gave up his clinical licenses, thereby
removing from his forehead the license-based target for the snipers of
corruption. He had long prepared for this eventuality. Because of this,
giving up the licenses caused
him and his family no hardship and little distraction. As he had often warned, the attempt to silence him
would merely free
him to speak
more often and more vociferously about the horrors imposed on humanity
by the endocrinology specialty and its Big Pharma
sponsors.
Rather than clinical care, Dr. Lowe now continues his many-years practice of informational/educational consulting with clinicians and patients.
He provides them with information the patients need to achieve optimal health. His main focus in informational consulting is the safe and effective use of thyroid hormone,
but he also provides consultations on health in general.
Publications. Dr. Lowe has authored more than 160 articles, scientific papers, and book chapters. His writings have appeared many journals, including
Psychological Reports; Medical Science Monitor; the
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry; the
American Journal of Pain Management;
Anabolism—A Journal of Preventive Medicine; Medical Hypotheses;
Lyon Méditerranée Médical: Médecine du Sud-Est; the British Medical
Journal; the Journal of Myofascial Therapy; the
Clinical Bulletin of Myofascial Therapy; the Massage
Therapy Journal; the Journal of the American Chiropractic
Association; and Thyroid Science. Trade papers such
as Dynamic Chiropractic, the Chiropractic Journal, and others
have published articles and monthly columns by Dr. Lowe.
The authors of at least
twenty-three books
have cited or described Dr. Lowe's work. Among his own published books
are
Spasm,
Your Guide to Metabolic Health, and
The Metabolic Treatment of Fibromyalgia. Study Sphere gave Dr.
Lowe its
Excellence Award
for his chapter in
The Metabolic Treatment of
Fibromyalgia
in which he shows that fibromyalgia is not a psychiatric
disorder. In the chapter, he refutes the notion that fibromyalgia is a
mental or emotional disorder. He also argues that the misdiagnosis is
usually a product of the psychological disturbance of physicians who
make the misdiagnosis.
Awards and Memberships.
In 1977, the American Chiropractic Association awarded Dr. Lowe its
Annual Scientific Paper Award. In 1992, for his contributions to the
field of myofascial therapy, the National Association of Myofascial
Trigger Point Therapists appointed him an honorary lifetime member. He
has served as an official scientific reviewer on the International
Reviewers' Panel of
Medical Science Monitor, an international journal for
experimental and clinical research. As a reviewer, he did critical
reviews of submitted research papers in the fields of hypothyroidism and
thyroid hormone resistance.
Dr. Lowe is a member of the Board of Medical Advisors of Thyroid UK, and
is a member of
Index Copernicus Scientists, a
global information networking system for scientists. He is
Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal
Thyroid Science (www.ThyroidScience.com),
which publishes papers on the full range of topics in thyroidology. He
formerly served on the Advisory Board of Inside Texas Running
Magazine and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of
Bodywork and Movement Therapies. He is a former editor of the
Journal of Myofascial Therapy and the Clinical Bulletin of
Myofascial Therapy.
In December 2005, Dr. Lowe became a member of
Index Copernicus Scientists upon invitation from its CEO Mark R.
Graczynski, MD, PhD. Index Copernicus Scientists is a global information
networking system for scientists, designed by and for scientists.
According to Dr. Graczynski, “The aim of this web-based communication
platform is to offer a set of essential tools to encourage the effective
exchange of information between scientists worldwide as well as to promote
and initiate international research collaboration.” He also notes, “The
system encourages the effective exchange of information between scientists
worldwide as well as to promote and initiate international research
collaboration.”
Dr. Lowe's line of metabolism research over the last twenty years led to two
significant outcomes: First was
the solution to the problem of fibromyalgia, showing that its main
underlying mechanism is too little thyroid hormone regulation, often
complicated by nutritional deficiencies, low physical fitness, an
unwholesome diet, blood sugar dysregulation, and the use of
metabolism-impeding drugs; second was his creation and coining of “metabolic
rehabilitation,” a high-precision, data-driven clinical approach for helping
patients to improve or recover. His hope is that his interaction within the
community of international scientists through Index Copernicus Scientists
will lead to researchers in other countries becoming involved in the line of
metabolic research he began and continues.
The 62nd edition of the premier biographical source
Marquis Who's Who in American was published in 2008. (For a
history and description and Marquis, and its committee's process
of selecting individuals to include, see
Wikipedia's
article on Marquis.) Dr. Lowe was selected by the Marquis
committee to be included.
Marquis, which began publication in 1899, chronicles the lives and
careers of men and women their committee considers noteworthy Americans.
(Dr.
Lowe's comments on his inclusion in Marquis.)
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