M.Ed. Janie A.Bowthorpe After a complete reversal with the treatment of desiccated thyroid and the correction of crippling difficulties that plagued her following T4-only use, she became a thyroid patient activist in 2002. She is adamant that thyroid sufferers (regardless of the source of their hypothyroidism) become aware to begin the process of change as a messenger of what patients have learned all across the world. In addition, she is the author of Hashimoto's: Taming the Beast.