Free T3 test
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If you truly care to help, optimize my Free T3. Listen to the research.
Our image makes strong claims that Free T3, not TSH, needs to become the main target in thyroid therapy. It is based on three scientific articles in 2015, 2016, and 2018 by a team of four thyroid researchers. I summarize and quote them here. (1) “My free T3 is at risk” This research reveals the…
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Free T3 testing reveals autoimmune thyroid damage
The American Thyroid Association prolongs the suffering of patients with autoimmune thyroid damage whose TSH has not yet risen to >10 mIU/L or their Free T4 has not yet fallen below reference. (1, 2) As I will outline in this post, medicine’s inability to distinguish “subclinical hypothyroidism” from true hypothyroidism stems from the misguided policy…
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No, T4 does not always convert to enough T3.
“T4 is converted into T3 at the cellular level in virtually all organs” This is what Canada’s endocrinologists claim at the opening of their statement under their recommendation “Don’t use Free T4 or T3 to screen for hypothyroidism or to monitor and adjust levothyroxine (T4) dose in patients with known primary hypothyroidism.” What does this…
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The blindness of TSH to the most powerful thyroid hormone.
Standard therapy for hypothyroidism today is built on a myth of TSH omniscience. “Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is the most sensitive and specific test for the investigation and management of primary thyroid dysfunction” (1) If TSH is so “sensitive,” then why is TSH completely blind to blood levels of the most powerful thyroid hormone, T3,…
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2018 study shows T3 in upper half of reference range relieves hypothyroid symptoms
This Sept. 2018 research article proved that thyroid patients’ continued hypothyroid symptoms are connected to Free T3 levels.(1) Symptom relief for thyroid patients on the standard T4 monotherapy is found “in the upper half of the FT3 reference range.” Symptoms had a limited and paradoxical relationship with TSH, and absolutely no relationship to a patient’s…