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Meet deiodinase type 1 (D1): The philanthropist enzyme
In this educational post, I introduce our thyroid hormone conversion enzyme “deiodinase type 1” (D1) in the personality of “The philanthropist” as I draw on many scientific articles. Of course, D1 is a genderless enzyme. I am personifying “her” in the image of a human female in a social role to bring the unseen world…
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The 7 lessons of the thyroid hormone deiodinases
The recent post “Thyroid hormone journey: Metabolism” is an educational compendium of diagrams, tables and bullet lists that highlight key lessons from the past five decades of thyroid science. It’s like a booklet in a blog post. The article concluded with summary of seven major lessons taught by the deiodinases. In this post, I use…
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Thyroid hormone journey: Metabolism
As one follows the thyroid hormone journey through the human body, at a crucial stage inside many of our cells, a beautiful and complex cascade transforms our thyroid hormones. In this post, I use many visuals and analogies — waterfall, professions, leaky buckets — to help conceptualize for laypeople the science found in original research…
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Finkler, 1959: Liothyronine as a replacement for thyroid therapy
One of Thyroid Patients Canada’s values is to bring to light little-known aspects of the history of thyroid therapy so that it can open minds about future possibilities. The history of L-T3 (Liothyronine) monotherapy brings to light the flexibility and diversity of our thyroid pharmaceuticals to adapt to the unique metabolic needs of the individual.…
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Thyroid Patients Canada: Looking back on 2020, entering 2021
The year 2020 has been a productive year for our organization of thyroid patients and our website, despite the challenges we all faced on a global scale. In this post, HIGHLIGHTS: I’ll briefly mention our organizational milestones of the year. TOP 10: Then I will give links, visuals, and introductory summaries of our 10 most…