Renew the paradigm. Optimize our therapy.
Blog posts
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New Website Theme and Vision Page
I’d like to announce the update our website’s overall theme (layout and navigation) and share the contents of our new “Vision” page within this post. We have a new static Home page with new content at our domain https://thyroidpatients.ca. That page now summarizes what it means to “optimize our therapy”…
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Article on hypothyroidism features Thyroid Patients Canada’s Tania Smith
An excellent article on Healthing.ca by Postmedia Network journalist Karen Hawthorne provides a wealth of insight into hypothyroidism in a short article. I think it’s so well-written that it deserves an award for excellence in journalism. https://www.healthing.ca/wellness/hypothyroidism-in-canada-treatment-chronic-condition-status This is an article worth discussing and amplifying. I know that a journalistic…
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BBC UK TV segment on hypothyroidism is re-broadcast by TVO in Canada
A five-minute documentary segment on the topic of hypothyroidism is found in the BBC UK TV series “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” season 6 episode 2. It was first aired in the UK on February, 2017. The segment is part of the show’s larger discussion of the question, “Can we…
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5 steps to individually-optimized thyroid therapy
Patients should not have to cross their fingers, wait, and hope for change. The hopes of hypo- and hyperthyroid patients focus on attaining individually-optimized treatment. Their hopes, wishes, and requests are not unreasonable. Effective treatment ought to alleviate symptoms and improve health outcomes. Relative changes in thyroid hormone doses have…
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Four types of unstable thyroid function in the elderly
Diagnostic concepts like “subclinical hypothyroidism” have become cognitive barriers to understanding the adaptations and dysfunctions of the aging hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis. Thyroid diagnostic categories are usually based on whether TSH and FT4 are in range, above range, or below range, in relation to an age-blind reference range. These are convenient…
