Acella, the makers of NP Thyroid, issued a voluntary recall notice on May 22, 2020. This is part 2 of a two-part series reviewing the drug recall notice’s statements and the science behind them. [Part 1: Acella NP Thyroid recall:… Read More ›
NDT / Desiccated thyroid
Acella NP Thyroid recall: Ethical yet low-risk
Acella, the makers of NP Thyroid, issued a voluntary recall notice on May 22, 2020. This is part 1 of a two-part series reviewing the drug recall notice’s statements and the science behind them. In this post, I put this… Read More ›
Review: Hoang’s 2013 conversion table for desiccated thyroid
Please circulate this widely to help science win the upper hand over rigid opinions. The table shown above is a clinical research-based pharmaceutical conversion estimate. It’s from Hoang et al’s 2013 randomized clinical trial comparing NDT (desiccated thyroid extract, DTE)… Read More ›
New clinical trial of Armour Thyroid is recruiting U.S. patients
A clinical trial comparing Armour Thyroid (NDT) and Levothyroxine (LT4) is now recruiting patients in the United States. The sponsor of the study is Allergan, the makers of Armour Thyroid in the United States. They hope to recruit 220 patients… Read More ›
Free T3 peaks and valleys in T3 and NDT therapy
Lack of knowledge about Free T3 peaks and valleys contributes to failure and frustration in T3-based therapies, including desiccated thyroid and T3-T4 combination therapy. On patient support groups, I often see conversations that go like this: “My FT3 result was… Read More ›
Stop spreading the unscientific myth about the normal T4:T3 ratio!
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… Read More ›
2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid
If we want to disagree with the American Thyroid Association’s prejudice against animal sources of thyroid hormone, we should to at least prove we’re trying to listen to them. Then we should fairly point out what they didn’t say, what truths… Read More ›
2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics
Here I move on to part 2 of my summary of ATA thyroid therapy guidelines, where they try to defend the ethics their own stance (Jonklaas et al, 2014). Their self-righteous, defensive and arrogant reply to question 11 deserves its… Read More ›