TSH test
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Dosing by TSH results in FT3 inequity and health discrimination
The standard measure of thyroid gland health (the TSH normal range) is not a fair or accurate measure of thyroid hormone sufficiency in thyroid therapy. And the same meme, this time with MEN — since men have hypothyroidism too. In a 2015 article, Midgley et al (1) wrote “the effective TSH level derived in a…
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VIDEO: What’s wrong with therapy for hypothyroidism?
On December 17, I decided to purchase “Doodly” video creation software that was being advertised on Facebook, and I made this 10-minute educational video. It is meant to raise an appropriate sense of alarm at the problems with thyroid therapy and to offer some possible solutions. Clicking the title image will take you to YouTube to…
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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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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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Dosing by the TSH can cause Low T3
Research has proven repeatedly that TSH is not the same to a thyroid patient as it is to a person who is not taking any thyroid hormone medication. For example, on standard L-T4 monotherapy, at any given level of TSH, a thyroid patient will have a higher T4 and a lower T3. If TSH is…