Thyroid hormone effects
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Thyroid hormone economics 101: Less FT3 per unit of TSH
Despite a normal TSH, some thyroid patients will fall far below their healthy set point for Free T3, the active thyroid hormone. TSH behaves differently in thyroid patients. TSH cannot indicate T3 sufficiency in thyroid therapy. Source of graph: Hoermann, R., Midgley, J. E. M., Larisch, R., & Dietrich, J. W. (2016). Relational Stability in…
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Infographic: Myxedema Coma
Source Mathew, V., Misgar, R. A., Ghosh, S., Mukhopadhyay, P., Roychowdhury, P., Pandit, K., … Chowdhury, S. (2011). Myxedema Coma: A New Look into an Old Crisis. Journal of Thyroid Research, 2011. LINK: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175396/
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Defend our plasma T3. Today.
Source: Abdalla, S. M., & Bianco, A. C. (2014). Defending plasma T3 is a biological priority. Clinical Endocrinology, 81(5), 633–641. LINK https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699302/ In this ground-breaking article with a profound title, Abdalla and Bianco explain that human biology is set up to carefully protect and defend optimal thyroid T3 hormone levels in our bloodstream (plasma). This…
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REVIEW: In illness, T3 testing is more reliable than TSH
In Chatizomaris et al’s (2017) article, Table 2 illustrates the many health conditions — beyond thyroid gland failure — in which a TSH test result is NOT indicative of the patient’s true thyroid hormone status. The table shows what usually happens to thyroid hormones and TSH in a patient who is NOT taking any thyroid…
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Cardiovascular disease research should focus more on patients’ T3 levels than TSH
Science has already shown that at T3 is more important than TSH to the functional parameters of the cardiovascular system: At the molecular and tissue level, the T3 hormone directly affects the cardiovascular system in a myriad of important ways (see “Low T3’s effects on the cardiovascular system.”) Why, then, when researchers shift their focus…