Join the Momentum Membership Community: Transforming Healthcare From Symptoms to Root Causes
Our patient-led initiative is revolutionizing healthcare by showing how to dig deeper than surface symptoms and address systemic failures.
We start with thyroid disorders—affecting 12% of Americans—because they are both common and highly dismissed. The American Thyroid Association (ATA) openly admits that the majority of cases have no known cause. Meanwhile, patients consistently report that their physicians never looked deeper for a root cause.
This is where U.S. healthcare fails: even common conditions with documented quality-of-life impacts are overlooked when they don’t involve high-cost procedures. Instead, patients are handed a one-size-fits-all medication despite Yale research cautioning against this practice. We don’t believe care should mean letting people suffer while shrugging at the “unknown.”
Both iodine excess and spinal CSF leaks are documented yet under-recognized causes of thyroid disorders. Research linking iodine excess to thyroid dysfunction is extensive. Spinal CSF leaks—impacting over 20 million Americans, mostly women—are underdiagnosed and often dismissed, despite their ability to directly or indirectly cause thyroid disorders (including by potentially increasing iodine sensitivity)..png "Untitled (12)")
By starting with thyroid disorders as a common condition and education on iodine excess as an easy solution, we gain clinician trust and public health traction. From there, we can reveal the need for low-risk approaches to screening for spinal CSF leaks and improving spinal CSF leak care itself, which will require medical education and healthcare reform.
This includes:
- Better training in epidural blood patches
- Improved spinal needle design that accounts for blood viscosity
- Reducing common physician errors such as clotting masses, mistargeted injections, and accidental dural punctures during patches that leave patients more disabled than before
This “surface-to-root-cause” approach mirrors our entire healthcare reform strategy where we meet providers where they are then systematically reveal the hidden failures driving patient suffering.
Our B2B contracts with institutions, governments, and international clinician partners apply this methodology to create lasting change. But patients asked us how they could join this mission—not just through courses or contracts but by directly supporting systemic transformation while staying informed about progress.
This is your chance.
How Your Membership Creates Systematic Change
Your financial support strengthens our institutional partnerships and fuels independent patient-led reform. We send weekly updates on our progress with easy-to-digest bullet points with the highlights. Here’s what you make possible:
✅ Weekly Strategic Updates – Reports on how we’re moving systems from treating symptoms to addressing root causes: which institutions we’ve influenced, what resistance we’ve encountered, and how we’ve overcome it
✅ Root Cause Methodology Reports – Insights into how thyroid education serves as our “Trojan horse,” opening the door to spinal CSF leak recognition and other systemic healthcare problems
✅ Institutional Change Intelligence – Documentation of specific community education classes, public health programs, hospitals, clinics, and medical schools adopting our protocols and reform strategies
✅ International Collaboration Insights – Behind-the-scenes updates with international physicians, public health officials, thyroid researchers, healthcare educators, and global partners driving systemic change
✅ Evidence-Based Research Pipeline – Early access to findings on iodine excess-thyroid and thyroid-CSF leak connections, iodine sensitivity, and diagnostic innovation before they’re public
A Patient-Led Social Enterprise With Real Impact
We are a for-profit, patient-led initiative and a 2024 Comcast RISE Grant winner. Your membership is not tax-deductible, but every dollar goes directly into expanding reform efforts and demonstrating market demand for root-cause healthcare. Our efforts have already led to changes at Mayo Jacksonville and Cuyuna Regional Medical Center after we provided feedback on incorrect approaches and/or competence gaps in spinal CSF leak. Our efforts in thyroid care have led to speaking opportunities such as at Weight Inclusive Dietitians in Canada (WIDIC) where a dietitian recognized that her hypothyroid patient might have a spinal CSF leak and took action to gather information on iodine intake assessment and management as well as information on low-risk evaluation paths for a spinal CSF leak diagnosis for the patient to finally have answers and to consider root cause care if appropriate.
We’re proving there is a better way through systematic, patient-led reform that delivers real outcomes and creates institutional accountability.
Join the Movement Today
If you believe healthcare should move beyond often-inefficient symptom management to root-cause medicine, this is your way to help.
Thank you for being part of this movement. 🌍 Together, we can transform healthcare from the inside out.
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