Our advocacy
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Give therapy options to thyroid patients
Hypothyroidism is a thyroid hormone deficiency, so it makes sense that our primary therapy involves ingesting either synthetic or animal-derived thyroid hormone. There are 2 primary forms of thyroid hormone in the human body. T4 is the relatively inactive form, with only minor non-genomic activity. It converts to T3 or to Reverse T3. T3 is…
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Renew the paradigm of thyroid therapy
The TSH-centered paradigm is like the old Ptolemaic or Geocentric model of the universe that put Earth at the center. Science has already corrected that incorrect model of the solar system and universe. Likewise, science has already given us enough evidence that the TSH-centric model is incorrect in the sense that it excludes so much that’s…
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Dear Doctors (who treat hypothyroidism)…
Thyroid patients, What would you like to say to Doctors who treat hypothyroidism? Give your “Dear Doctor” statement in comments. We hope this post and its comments will be interesting to doctors who join us! (We’ve got comments on this thread in our Facebook group already). My statement: Dear Doctors of thyroid patients on lifelong…
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IMAGE: Thyroid patients on L-T4 therapy
For hypothyroid patients taking medication, TSH is not sufficient as a guide. The medication we take will always be different from a healthy thyroid gland. The red lines and shapes are thyroid patients on standard “L-T4 monotherapy” (i.e. Synthroid, Levothyroxine, or Eltroxin). This form of therapy gives us excess T4 and less T3 hormone. T3…