Commentary Overall, the TSH paradigm tends to see thyroid therapy from the perspective of the health care system, the doctor, and the pituitary gland as a biochemical condition that must be safely and efficiently managed. In contrast, the T3 paradigm… Read More ›
The full text of Choosing Wisely’s email reply to patients: “Thank you for raising your concerns and sharing your personal experience. Choosing Wisely Canada and our partners, the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (CSEM) are not recommending to eliminate… Read More ›
Assessing the RATIO between Free T3 and Free T4 within the reference range is clinically relevant, even for people without thyroid disease. Why, then, should these two tests be considered unnecessary for assessing the thyroid hormone status and the health… Read More ›
Canada, Defend access to T3-hormone thyroid medications that have been approved by Health Canada and have been used in therapy for decades. Drug shortages and cost-cutting guidelines are preventing good doctors from giving T3 hormone to fix chronic suboptimal T3…. Read More ›
Source: Abdalla, S. M., & Bianco, A. C. (2014). Defending plasma T3 is a biological priority. Clinical Endocrinology, 81(5), 633–641. LINK https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699302/ In this ground-breaking article with a profound title, Abdalla and Bianco explain that human biology is set up… Read More ›
In Chatizomaris et al’s (2017) article, Table 2 illustrates the many health conditions — beyond thyroid gland failure — in which a TSH test result is NOT indicative of the patient’s true thyroid hormone status. The table shows what usually… Read More ›
This excellent scientific article by Chatzitomaris et al discusses the various NON-thyroidal causes of thyroid hormone T4, T3 and pituitary TSH imbalance. Source Chatzitomaris, A., Hoermann, R., Midgley, J. E., Hering, S., Urban, A., Dietrich, B., … Dietrich, J. W…. Read More ›
What are thyroid patients asking for? True evidence-based medicine. T3 is the most powerful thyroid hormone. Don’t assume thyroid patients have optimal T3 whenever their TSH and T4 are normal. Choose wisely. Test Free T3. PETITION LINK: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Home/Index Read our Campaign… Read More ›