 About Dr. Amy MyersÂ
My story started like many of yours.
As featured in
 Why This Work Is Personal
In my second year of medical school, I started having insomnia, anxiety, mood swings, weight loss, and a hand tremor. My doctor told me it was stress. Med students imagine they have every disease they study, she said.
I knew better. I'd just spent two years in the Peace Corps in Paraguay and lost my mother to pancreatic cancer. I'd been through real stress, and it never looked like this. So I pushed for a full workup.
A few weeks later, the call came. Graves' disease. My immune system was attacking my thyroid.
My doctor had no interest in why. She gave me three options: medication to shut my thyroid down, surgery to remove it, or radioactive iodine to destroy it.
I tried the medication first. Within weeks, it caused toxic hepatitis and pushed me toward liver failure. With that option gone, I chose to have my thyroid ablated. It remains the biggest regret of my life.
That experience shaped everything that came after. As an ER physician, I kept seeing patients dismissed the way I had been. Functional medicine gave me the answer I'd been looking for: find the root cause instead of managing symptoms forever.
Conventional medicine failed me. My mission is to make sure it doesn't fail you too.
Trained in Emergency Medicine. Committed to
Root-Cause Care.
2005: Earns her MD from Louisiana State University
2010: Founds Austin UltraHealth, her functional medicine clinic
2015: The Autoimmune Solution™ becomes an instant NYT bestseller
2016: The Thyroid Connection™ becomes her second NYT bestseller
2017: Founds Amy Myers MD®
2024: Launches the Take Back Your Health® podcast
2027: Releases the revised and expanded edition of “The Autoimmune Solution™” on January 2027
2X
NYT Bestselling Author
Founder
AMMD™ by Amy Myers MD®
Expert
Gut · Autoimmune · Thyroid
Millions
Of Lives Impacted Worldwide
 The Myers Way®
Your body isn't broken. It's responding to something.
The Myers Way focuses on the factors that drive inflammation and autoimmunity, including gut health, diet, toxins, infections, and stress, so you can address the cause instead of managing symptoms forever.
Heal Your Gut
Get Rid of Gluten, Grains, and Legumes
Tame the Toxins
Heal Your Infections, Relieve Your Stress, and Let Go of Trauma
Healing Isn't a Finish Line
In 2016, I survived a life-threatening toxic mold exposure. Then, in a single month in early 2017, my father died and my daughter Elle was born.
I stepped back from AMMD™ by Amy Myers MD® to grieve, heal, and raise her. What I thought would be a short pause became nearly ten years. In that time I separated from my husband, found toxic mold in our new home, lost my sister, and faced a cancer scare of my own.
Those years brought real joy. They were also the hardest of my life.
I share this because health isn't static. Healing once doesn't mean you're done. I've had to find my way back more than once, and I know the path back is possible. There is always hope.
The Books That Started a Movement
Revised and Expanded Edition
January 26, 2027
The Autoimmune Solution™
Prevent and reverse the full spectrum of inflammatory symptoms and diseases. The new edition adds an updated, four-level spectrum, new material on trauma and Long COVID, and more than a decade of new insight.
 Amazon #1 BestsellerÂ
The Autoimmune Solution™ Cookbook
More than 150 recipes that follow The Myers Way®, created as the companion to The Autoimmune Solution™
The Thyroid Connection™
Why you feel tired, brain-fogged, and overweight, and how to get your life back.
Real solutions for gut health, autoimmunity, thyroid, hormones, and toxic mold.
What I wish someone had told me, plus first access to new episodes, guides, and courses.
