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Choosing Wisely: False reassurance to thyroid patients
The full text of Choosing Wisely’s email reply to patients: “Thank you for raising your concerns and sharing your personal experience. Choosing Wisely Canada and our partners, the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (CSEM) are not recommending to eliminate T3 testing. Choosing Wisely Canada is a national, clinician-led campaign focused on reducing unnecessary tests…
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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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Choose Evidence. Choose Free T3.
What are thyroid patients asking for? True evidence-based medicine. T3 is the most powerful thyroid hormone. Don’t assume thyroid patients have optimal T3 whenever their TSH and T4 are normal. Choose wisely. Test Free T3. PETITION LINK: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Home/Index Read our Campaign Statement for more information
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Are you a poor T4 converter? How low is your Free T3?
When you are on standard levothyroxine (LT4) monotherapy (Synthroid, Eltroxin, Levothyrox, Tirosint, and so on) are you a “good converter” of T4 to T3 hormone? Would you likely be better off on a T3-inclusive therapy? Find out by skimming our review and application of this scientific journal article: Midgley, J. E. M., Larisch, R., Dietrich,…