Atrial fibrillation is a cardiac rhythm disorder that significantly elevates the risk of stroke as well as stroke severity. Thyroid hormone excess caused by hyperthyroidism is often named as one of the risk factors for atrial fibrillation. However, it does not require excess thyroid hormone above the reference range to elevate risk of atrial fibrillation. … Continue reading Anderson, 2020: Thyroid hormones and atrial fibrillation
They say that history is written by the victors. Not always. Sometimes histories are written by advocates for the oppressed and disenfranchised. A common theme on our website is the need to see current practices and thyroid therapy challenges in light of thyroid therapy history. Instead of trusting histories written by scientists, one ought to … Continue reading Mimicry: The idol of T3-T4 combo therapy 2004-2014
A trend in thyroid therapy, sparked by a 1995 rat study, attempted to mimic a narrowly estimated T3:T4 ratio secreted by human thyroid glands. This trend was based on a theory of pharmaceutical mimicry of "the" thyroid gland. Its proponents chose to represent every human being's thyroid gland by the narrow statistical average secretion ratio … Continue reading The foundations of synthetic T3-T4 therapy in the 1990s
