Patients should not have to cross their fingers, wait, and hope for change. The hopes of hypo- and hyperthyroid patients focus on attaining individually-optimized treatment. Their hopes, wishes, and requests are not unreasonable. Effective treatment ought to alleviate symptoms and improve health outcomes. Relative changes in thyroid hormone doses have a measurable effect on certain … Continue reading 5 steps to individually-optimized thyroid therapy
They say that history is written by the victors. Not always. Sometimes histories are written by advocates for the oppressed and disenfranchised. A common theme on our website is the need to see current practices and thyroid therapy challenges in light of thyroid therapy history. Instead of trusting histories written by scientists, one ought to … Continue reading Mimicry: The idol of T3-T4 combo therapy 2004-2014
A trend in thyroid therapy, sparked by a 1995 rat study, attempted to mimic a narrowly estimated T3:T4 ratio secreted by human thyroid glands. This trend was based on a theory of pharmaceutical mimicry of "the" thyroid gland. Its proponents chose to represent every human being's thyroid gland by the narrow statistical average secretion ratio … Continue reading The foundations of synthetic T3-T4 therapy in the 1990s
We have a definition problem in thyroid science and thyroid therapy. A lot of confusion stems from the many definitions the words "euthyroidism," "hypothyroidism" and "hyperthyroidism." These are terms that can be defined in many ways by doctors, patients, and even by thyroid researchers. Is a person "hypothyroid" when their FT3 falls below their individual … Continue reading Four definitions of thyroid status
Valentine's day is a good day to attempt to promote kindness and tolerance toward people suffering from a rather invisible health condition. Thyroid disease. What better day than today to identify and attempt to remove a medical attitude that is a barrier to effective thyroid therapy ... "biochemical bigotry"? Most doctors take for granted that … Continue reading Biochemical bigotry: Enforcing normalized thyroid lab results
