Broda Otto Barnes (April 14, 1906 – November 1, 1988) was an American physician who studied endocrine dysfunction, particularly hypothyroidism. In the 1970s, Barnes published several books proposing that hypothyroidism was more prevalent in the U.S. than standard measurements were predicting. He believed that standard assays of thyroid function were inadequate, and that undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction was responsible for a wide range of health pr...
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Broda Otto Barnes (April 14, 1906 – November 1, 1988) was an American physician who studied endocrine dysfunction, particularly hypothyroidism. In the 1970s, Barnes published several books proposing that hypothyroidism was more prevalent in the U.S. than standard measurements were predicting. He believed that standard assays of thyroid function were inadequate, and that undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction was responsible for a wide range of health problems. Barnes' views on the prevalence of hypothyroidism were never widely adopted in mainstream medicine and run counter to the current medical understanding of thyroid function, but they have been embraced by some elements of the alternative medicine community.
Barnes was born on April 14, 1906 in a log cabin in Missouri, the son of Addie and Robert B. Barnes. Barnes studied chemistry at the University of Denver, and became an instructor of physiological chemistry at Western Reserve University for two years and received his MS in 1930 from...
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