Scientific research analysis
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The TSH-T3 disjoint in thyroid therapy
There’s a deep lie behind today’s TSH-based definition of “euthyroid” status and today’s policies of TSH normalization in therapy. The lie is that the loss of the thyroid and the initiation of thyroid hormone dosing has NOT altered and skewed natural TSH-FT3-FT4 hormone relationships. Yes, thyroid disease and therapy DO alter and skew these functional…
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Stop spreading the unscientific myth about the normal T4:T3 ratio!
Sigh. Just sigh. Even some of our best thyroid patient advocates can unknowingly share misinformation about thyroid therapy. Mary Shomon’s thyroid articles on Verywell.com are usually to be trusted. But yesterday I was saddened to see that an article supposedly authored by Mary Shomon was spreading unscientific myths about “normal” thyroid secretion ratios being 13:1…
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The loss of thyroid clinical knowledge from Werner & Ingbar’s The Thyroid
Decades ago, a lot more doctors knew how thyroid hormone levels influenced all organs and tissues’ health. It wasn’t all about the influence of thyroid hormones on the TSH. It was more about the influence of truly adequate thyroid hormone levels on real health outcomes. A lot more doctors learned and understood that if thyroid…
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How to calculate LT3 vs. LT4 substitution: Reference List
Part 1: How to calculate LT3 vs. LT4 substitution: History had it right“ Part 2: How to calculate LT3 vs. LT4 substitution: New thyroid science“ REFERENCES Pharmaceutical monographs Armour Thyroid web page: https://www.rxlist.com/armour-thyroid-drug.htm#description Erfa Thyroid monograph, page 8 https://pdf.hres.ca/dpd_pm/00034857.PDF Pfizer Cytomel monograph, page 12 https://www.pfizer.ca/sites/default/files/201710/Cytomel_PM.pdf Mylan Synthroid monograph, page 25 https://www.mylan.ca/-/media/mylanca/documents/english/product%20pdf/1.3.1-synthroid-pm.pdf Thyroid scientific literature Bianco,…
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A Dialogue with Utiger: T3-based thyroid therapy over-suppresses TSH
Robert Utiger, M.D. (1931-2008) is well known in endocrinology as the father of the TSH test. Despite his trust in the TSH test, in his publications he acknowledged that TSH behaved very unnaturally in response to T3 levels in blood while dosing T3 thyroid medication. What Utiger discovered in the 1970s and 1980s about the…