Author Archives
-
Acella NP Thyroid recall: maternal risk inflated
Acella, the makers of NP Thyroid, issued a voluntary recall notice on May 22, 2020. This is part 2 of a two-part series reviewing the drug recall notice’s statements and the science behind them. [Part 1: Acella NP Thyroid recall:… Read More ›
-
Acella NP Thyroid recall: Ethical yet low-risk
Acella, the makers of NP Thyroid, issued a voluntary recall notice on May 22, 2020. This is part 1 of a two-part series reviewing the drug recall notice’s statements and the science behind them. In this post, I put this… Read More ›
-
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 ›
-
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 ›
-
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 ›
-
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 ›
-
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 ›
-
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 ›