I had a patient who came to me with hyperthyroidism and after looking at his labs I said, “You know, this doesn’t really make a lot of sense,” and I started asking him about what he does. He’s a hunter. And he has a group of his friends, and they all go hunting, and because they don’t want to waste anything, they eat the neck muscles of which the thyroids are attached to, and it’s actually a delicacy. It’s actually a Filipino, Hawaiian local kind of custom that they just go ahead and eat it. And I said, “You know, I think you have thyrotoxicosis because of this practice,” and I said “Tell me how often you eat that. How many would you eat and how do you eat it? How do you prepare it?” I learned a lot about how you prepare thyroid and neck muscles and how they eat it.
[Lindberg:]
Well, I’ve never seen a recipe.
[Mau:]
And when we got to that he goes, “Gosh, I didn't know that was that important.” I said, “Of course it’s important.”