Welcome to AHSTA.com! Welcome to Alternative Health Solutions for Thyroid Autoimmunity (AHSTA.com) an interactive feature-rich space designed to bring together thyroid disease sufferers to discuss therapies for which there is often little data and even fewer studies. It is the path less trodden to help our thyroid disease members improve their lives more significantly until there is a cure which has been long in coming. This site is dedicated to exploring health solutions for Graves' and Hashimoto's thyroid disease, which includes investigating alternative therapies like low-dose Naltrexone and other treatments not in the mainstream in order to help mitigate the autoimmune, not just endocrine, aspects of thyroid disease. Traditionally, treatments have been confined to alleviating symptoms, not to treating autoimmunity.  As a result, many patients are left bewildered as to why they fail to reach optimal health. The word “alternative” in the context of this site means not only therapies, treatments and protocols not commonly used by medical practitioners – from herbal treatments like Bugleweed or Rehmannie, to  supplementation, acupuncture and nutrition – but also new scientific research springing from traditional sources, such as the investigation of low-dose Naltrexone on autoimmune diseases, coming out of Stanford and Penn State, or UCLA’s research on IgG/fibroblast interaction for the development of new therapeutic targets. Continued...