Author Archives
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Summary: T3 secretion and T4-T3 conversion
My article published May 4, 2020, “Thyroid T3 secretion compensates for T4-T3 conversion” has received very strong positive feedback. People are saying that it’s a ground-breaking, game-changing article on the HPT axis in health versus thyroid disease, and that it… Read More ›
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Infographics for Antibody testing
This post concludes our series on “Developing Infographics for thyroid testing.” In this post I discuss the scientific basis and potential usefulness of two of our infographic memes: Thyroid antibody tests (overview) TSH-Receptor antibodies (TRAb) Overview of thyroid antibody tests… Read More ›
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Infographic: Tests to optimize thyroid therapy
This post continues our opening series on “Developing Infographics for thyroid testing.” In this post I discuss the scientific basis and potential usefulness of a meme on “Tests to optimize thyroid therapy.” In this infographic, we stand firmly on the… Read More ›
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Infographic: Screening for hypo
This post continues our opening series on “Developing Infographics for thyroid testing.” In this post I discuss the scientific basis and potential usefulness of an infographic meme on “Screening for hypo, before therapy begins.” Antibodies Q: Why doesn’t this meme… Read More ›
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Developing infographics for thyroid testing
A common type of infographic shared on thyroid patient online support groups is an image with text that provides a comprehensive list of thyroid tests. Many of these thyroid-test-list infographics are in circulation. They reappear over and over again as… Read More ›
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Review: Hoang’s 2013 conversion table for desiccated thyroid
Please circulate this widely to help science win the upper hand over rigid opinions. The table shown above is a clinical research-based pharmaceutical conversion estimate. It’s from Hoang et al’s 2013 randomized clinical trial comparing NDT (desiccated thyroid extract, DTE)… Read More ›
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Featuring our Thyroid Support Group moderators
In Thyroid Patients Canada, our growing organization now features two Facebook groups. In our new patients-only thyroid support group, Thyroid Patients Canada Support, we have a well-qualified team of SIX peer moderators. In our open-membership Thyroidpatients.ca Public Group, we have… Read More ›
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Thyroid peer support: Reasoning carefully
This post provides a tutorial for thyroid patients who want to analyze their own and each other’s health data without leading each other astray. Our Thyroid Patients Canada peer-led private support group, recently launched in April 2020, is built on… Read More ›