The “Choosing Wisely Canada” toolkit promoting limitation of Free T3 and Free T4 testing has been the food for some meme refutations. Choosing Wisely Canada. (n.d.). Toolkit: Less is More with T3 & T4. Retrieved December 30, 2018, from https://choosingwiselycanada.org/perspective/toolkit-t4-t3/… Read More ›
Month: December 2018
Ubiquitination: The glass ceiling of T4 monotherapy
UBIQUITINATION: This is the “Glass ceiling” of T4 monotherapy — in some patients, there is a biological limit on how much T3 they can get out of treatment with T4 thyroid hormone alone (Synthroid, levothyroxine). Scientists recently explained how D2’s… Read More ›
Our response to Choosing Wisely’s harmful Table 2
Choosing Wisely Canada, together with the Canadian Society for Endocrinology and Metabolism, have collaborated on a harmful toolkit to reduce Free T3 and Free T4 hormone testing in order to save money. As you can see in their Table 2… Read More ›
BIBLIO: Atrophic Thyroiditis
We have compiled a bibliography on Atrophic Thyroiditis and the TSHR antibody that is continually under development. 127 items exist in the bibliography as of December 2018 Screenshot The database is in a Google Spreadsheet. Click this link to access… Read More ›
Simpson’s paradox: Hoermann et al explain why T4-T3 therapy trials are faulty
Why have clinical trials of T3-T4 combination therapy failed to show significant benefit? Hoermann et al explain that the trials and the meta-analyses exhibit a fundamental problem with research methodology and a fundamental misunderstanding of thyroid hormone relationships that results… Read More ›
The THIRD type of autoimmune thyroid disease: Atrophic Thyroiditis
Do you know about the THIRD type of autoimmune thyroid disease? Atrophic thyroiditis may coexist with Hashimoto’s and can occur in people with Graves’ disease. Atrophic Thyroiditis is an extreme form of primary hypothyroidism in which the thyroid gland is… Read More ›
Coming soon: Jan. 28, 2019 petition reading in the House of Commons
The government tells us this about the process of our petition: Verification “On December 25th at 3:13 pm EDT the petition will close for signatures. Then the Clerk of Petition’s office will verify to make sure that there are 500… Read More ›
Thyroid petition closes with 5,681 signatures
Well done, thyroid warriors and caring citizens! https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-1819 This is a strong number, considering our challenges. Of course we wish we could have had a larger number. But this is a fledgling campaign group led by a small handful of… Read More ›