Seeing things visually might help clarify what thyroid therapy is like. Our thyroid hides in our neck and our hormones hide in every inch of our body. Nobody sees our thyroid gland distort, die, or shrivel. Nobody sees what fatigue feels like. Nobody sees organs suffering from lack of T3. Nobody sees how our pills manipulate our TSH. Nobody sees hormone molecules converting and binding to receptors. Maybe that’s partly why nobody is held accountable for illogical or unjust therapy decisions. Nobody is driven to act to correct it. In a series of posts, a science fiction analogy of an …
Category: Thyroid disabilities
Part 4: Can taking thyroid hormone kill or damage the thyroid gland?
CAN TAKING THYROID HORMONES HARM YOU? In the video analyzed in this series (10), this man generalizes too far about all pharmaceuticals being harmful interventions. He thinks taking thyroid hormones, just because they happen to be a medicine, can actually kill or damage the thyroid gland (14:27 to 15:25). But thyroid hormone medications are not like other man-made chemical pharmaceuticals. You have to understand their structure and function to see this. By examining these medicines and our human responses to them, we can see that ANY prejudice against the pharmaceutical source is illogical and harmful — even prejudice against one …
Part 3: Distinguish between temporary and permanent hypothyroidism
THE SILVER LINING OF TRUTHS All persuasive claims have a silver lining of logic and common sense, or else they would be too impossible for anyone to believe. He discusses adrenaline. He gives the example of the body’s response to an impending car accident. Yes, our body secretes hormones like adrenaline at a very irregular rate and very quickly on demand. Yes, various hormones such as adrenal hormones and sex hormones do interact with each other and thyroid hormones. Yes, thyroid hormones are very sensitive to all sorts of influences. Yes, it is possible to temporarily depress thyroid function or …
The abandoned chronic disease
Hypo, hyper, or well-medicated, millions of Canadians are in the category of those who manage a thyroid hormone imbalance. But instead of being offered the agency to co-manage our condition, we are being managed and manipulated by our medical system and economy. We thyroid patients are a huge amorphous group, way too easy and vulnerable to exploit and profit from. Our numbers are immense, so health care admins can save a lot by limiting our care by a dollar here and there. Meanwhile monopolies can make fortunes from our meds. Our massive spinoff health care spending when we suffer suboptimal …
Diabetes, diabetes, diabetes. Let’s talk about hypothyroid therapy.
Why is diabetes getting all the attention in health care media, and hypothyroidism hardly any? Let’s brainstorm this together. Let’s see possible reasons why. Let’s talk more publicly about what Canadians can do about the health inequity and the truly “epidemic” lack of attention and concern for hypothyroidism. 1. PHARMACEUTICAL ATTENTION Perhaps one reason is the mile-long list of medications for Diabetes. Meanwhile pharma thinks hypothyroidism is entirely fixed by one T4 pill a day. Medications for Hypothyroidism Here is a list of thyroid medications and combinations listed in historical order. They are all basically various ratios of T4 and …