T3-T4 combo-therapy
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Study the patients who need T3 and are harmed by its withdrawal
Clinical trials of T3 (Liothyronine) have been barking up the wrong tree. The limitations of their research designs are now actively harming patients who need T3 medication. Prices for T3 have been rising, medical prejudice against T3 is rising, worldwide T3 shortages are occurring, and patients who truly require T3 are being harmed by denying…
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Simpson’s paradox: Hoermann et al explain why T4-T3 therapy trials are faulty
Why have clinical trials of T3-T4 combination therapy failed to show significant benefit? Hoermann et al explain that the trials and the meta-analyses exhibit a fundamental problem with research methodology and a fundamental misunderstanding of thyroid hormone relationships that results in statistical errors. SOURCE Hoermann, R., Midgley, J. E. M., Larisch, R., & Dietrich, J.…
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The ATA is worried about doctors prescribing T3/T4 combo therapy
Here, I comment on a brief October 2018 article in a journal of the American Thyroid Association — the association that writes the guidelines that dismisses Free T3 testing and T3/T4 therapy. Link: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ct.2018%3B30.523-525 This article shows the leading endocrinologists are getting worried about doctors not adhering to guidelines. They did a study that showed…
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Bianco interview on T3 combination therapy, May 2018
LISTEN to an audio interview with leading US endocrinologist Dr. Antonio Bianco in March 2018. He explains why T4 monotherapy became so successful, and why the addition of T3 medication to some thyroid patients’ therapy may be helpful in removing chronic hypothyroid symptoms. In this post we give you a commentary. https://docthyroid.com/75-fat-foggy-and-depressed-after-thyroidectomy-you-may-benefit-from-t3-with-dr-antonio-bianco-from-rush-university/ The first 3…
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REVIEW: Dr. Antonio Bianco’s 2016 interview on hypothyroidism
In 2016, Dr. Elizabeth McAninch and Dr. Antonio Bianco published a research paper called “The History and Future of Treatment with Hypothyroidism.” On Dr. Bianco’s research team’s website, deiodinase.org, there is a blog post about this study that includes a wonderful video of Dr. McAninch talking about the historical research they did on thyroid therapy.…