I would like to introduce you to Subject #7, the only person in Pilo's 1990 study who had a thyroid secretion ratio of 14.5 parts T4 to 1 part T3, which was closest to the statistical average of 15.87 to 1. Why is this individual so important to the history of thyroid science and modern … Continue reading Meet a person with the perfect T3:T4 thyroid secretion ratio
Canadians can take pride in their historical defense of T3 testing in thyroid therapy. Our job defending the T3 test today is to remind people of what has changed since then in thyroid testing, and what is still the same. In 1981, Min Min Wong and Robert Volpé, MD published an article in the Canadian … Continue reading In 1981, Canadian physicians argued T3 was the best test in thyroid therapy
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 … Continue reading Stop spreading the unscientific myth about the normal T4:T3 ratio!
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 … Continue reading The loss of thyroid clinical knowledge from Werner & Ingbar’s The Thyroid
Many aspects of biology are incredibly complex. People love simplicity. It’s necessary for a model to reduce a system down to its basic principles and proportions. Pilo’s research study published in 1990 is now cited as the definitive proof of where human beings’ T3 thyroid hormone supply comes from. Pilo’s paper is what many people … Continue reading Question Pilo’s Study: Thyroid Hormone Reductionism
