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- Challenges: Testing, part 1
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- Challenges: Therapy, Part 1
- Challenges: Therapy, part 2
- Rationale: Autoimmunity
- Rationale: Definitions
- Rationale: Dose and therapy adjustments
- Rationale: Free T3 testing
- Rationale: L-T3 dosing effects
- Rationale: L-T3 monotherapies
- Rationale: L-T3-T4 combination therapies
- Rationale: Low T3 Syndrome, part 1
- Rationale: Low T3 syndrome, part 2
- Rationale: Low TSH vs. thyrotoxicosis
- Rationale: Reference ranges
- Rationale: Signs of hypothyroidism
- Rationale: The T3:T4 ratio
- Rationale: Thyroid ultrasound
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- Category: About Us
- Welcome to our new Support Group
- Our new name: Thyroid Patients Canada
- Want to help? Join a Thyroid Patients Campaign Working Group
- Category: Our advocacy
- Thyroid disease news broadcast, Omni TV Italian Edition, Canada
- Focusing on T3: The T3 hormone or the LT3 pharmaceutical?
- Thyroid Patients Canada: Looking back on 2020, entering 2021
- Healthier thyroid warriors: Our fight is not over.
- Evidence-based thyroid advocacy
- Letter on diagnosis published on British Medical Journal website
- Meet our campaign’s main writer, Tania Sona Smith
- Not a conspiracy theory: Our campaign tactics
- Thyroid warriors: We speak of years lost
- Campaign wish list, February 2019
- TSH silences thyroid patients
- Why thyroid science is important to a thyroid patients campaign
- A short poem on our campaign in 2018
- In 2019, Together we can turn the tide
- Coming soon: Jan. 28, 2019 petition reading in the House of Commons
- Thyroid patients call the bluff
- Give therapy options to thyroid patients
- Renew the paradigm of thyroid therapy
- IMAGE: Thyroid patients on L-T4 therapy
- Category: Our team
- Category: Patients' stories
- Category: Petitions
- Category: Support group
- Category: Health care system
- 5 steps to individually-optimized thyroid therapy
- New Zealand thyroid patients’ petition milestones achieved
- How can we prepare for restrictions on thyroid health care?
- Evidence-based thyroid therapy
- Pharma prejudice refuses a paradigm shift in thyroid therapy
- Category: American Thyroid Association
- Discordance in thyroid symptoms reported by patients and their doctors
- Thyroid patient blaming and shaming, part 3: Advocacy and Science
- 2019 ATA article engages in patient-blaming and doctor-shaming
- 2012 ATA thyroid guidelines ask for clinicians’ independent judgment
- 2014 ATA therapy guidelines: 5. Research
- 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 4. Using Synthetic T3
- 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid
- 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics
- 2014 ATA thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine
- Pharmaceutical prejudice can lead to a thyroid therapy dystopia
- Thyroid pharmaceutical prejudice: How it works
- Biondi and Wartofsky’s 2014 dismissal of desiccated thyroid
- VIDEO: What’s wrong with therapy for hypothyroidism?
- The ATA is worried about doctors prescribing T3/T4 combo therapy
- Why T4 monotherapy has dominated
- Category: Choosing Wisely Canada
- Forbidding FT3 and FT4 in British Columbia as of late 2018
- Choosing Wisely chooses not to hear thyroid patient’s research presentation
- MEMES: Against Table 2 in the “Choosing Wisely Canada” T3 & T4 toolkit
- Our response to Choosing Wisely’s harmful Table 2
- Muddled logic in a 2016 Choosing Wisely article against T3 testing
- Choosing Wisely: False reassurance to thyroid patients
- Choose Evidence. Choose Free T3.
- Say no to “Choosing Wisely Canada”
- Category: Doctors
- Thyroid patient blaming and shaming, part 2: True barriers
- How thyroid guidelines are being used to punish doctors
- Digby Thyroid Clinic patients plan a meeting to be held May 9th
- Gisele’s thyroid therapy journey
- Thyroid science naivety and quackery: Definitions
- Dr. Ron Matsusaki’s license to treat thyroid suspended April 17, 2019
- Asleep at the wheel of thyroid therapy
- College of Physicians attacks Digby Thyroid Clinic. Fight back.
- Dear Doctors (who treat hypothyroidism)…
- Category: Endocrinologists / CSEM
- Category: Health Canada
- Hypothyroidism is not a chronic disease in Canada. Why not?
- Canadian government responds to Thyroid Petition e-1819
- MP Diane Finley presents Canadian Thyroid Patients’ petition
- Our Canadian Thyroid Petition reading in Parliament January 28, 2019
- Thyroid petition closes with 5,681 signatures
- Canadian Thyroid Patients’ Federal Petition
- Category: Medical organizations
- Category: Public Health
- Category: UK
- Category: Health conditions
- Category: Aging
- Category: Bones
- Category: Brain
- Category: Cancers
- Category: Cardiovascular
- Prevalence rates for 10 chronic disorders at various FT4, TSH and FT3 levels
- Anderson, 2020: Thyroid hormones and atrial fibrillation
- The impact of thyroid hormone dysfunction on ischemic heart disease, and how T3 therapy may help
- REVIEW: T3-T4 ratio in myocardial infarction
- Cardiovascular disease research should focus more on patients’ T3 levels than TSH
- Low T3 effects on the cardiovascular system
- Category: Chronic diseases
- Category: Coronavirus
- Category: Liver
- Category: Low T3 Syndrome / NTIS
- Think twice about cancelling patient-pay Reverse T3 tests
- Low T3 syndrome in thyroid therapy: THREE studies
- Ataoglu: Low T3 in critical illness is deadly, and adding high T4 is worse.
- The Low T3 Syndrome in memes
- REVIEW: Non-thyroidal influences on thyroid hormones
- Thyroid patients excluded from research
- Category: Pregnancy
- Category: Sleep
- Category: Health factors
- Category: Diet & Nutrition
- Category: endocrine disruptors
- Category: Genetics
- Category: HPT axis
- Infographic: Thyroid hormone journey
- Summary: T3 secretion and T4-T3 conversion
- How TSH ultrashort feedback works, and antibody interference
- Category: Central hypo
- 23 years of misdiagnosed central hypothyroidism with a normal TSH: Case study
- Screening for central hypothyroidism during thyroid therapy
- Why is central hypothyroidism so difficult to diagnose?
- LifeLabs BC handout reveals thyroid testing policy failure
- Thyrotoxicosis? Many factors can lower TSH
- Analyze thyroid lab results using SPINA-Thyr
- CSEM attempts to dialogue with thyroid patients, April 8, 2019
- CSEM’s edit to FT3 and FT4 testing prohibitions, April 8, 2019
- Category: Healthy thyroid axis
- Meet a person with the perfect T3:T4 thyroid secretion ratio
- The significance of the TSH-FT3 circadian rhythm
- Circadian rhythms of TSH, Free T4 and Free T3 in thyroid health
- Visual bias: The pituitary gland in HPT axis diagrams
- Thyroid T3 secretion compensates for peripheral T4-T3 conversion
- Relational Stability, part 3: Shifting TSH-T4-T3 relationships
- Relational stability among thyroid hormones and TSH, part 1
- In Winter, everyone gains T3 except thyroidless patients on LT4 therapy
- Pregnancy thyrotoxicosis vs just a low TSH due to hCG hormone
- Question Pilo’s Study: Thyroid Hormone Reductionism
- Question Pilo’s study: The wide range of thyroid hormone adaptation
- Question Pilo’s study: Iodine dosing biases T4:T3 secretion
- The two T4-T3 ratios that confine thyroid therapy
- REVIEW: TSH does not enhance T3 levels in age
- Recovery from T3 depletion
- Category: Hypothalamus
- Category: Pituitary gland
- Category: TSH hormone
- Category: Scientific research analysis
- A Dialogue with Utiger: T3-based thyroid therapy over-suppresses TSH
- Overreliance on TSH is a thyroid therapy policy that fails to detect its own failure
- Targeting TSH? It’s not as specific or as sensitive as people claim.
- Category: Biomarkers
- The loss of thyroid clinical knowledge from Werner & Ingbar’s The Thyroid
- Simpson’s paradox: Hoermann et al explain why T4-T3 therapy trials are faulty
- 2017 study of T2 hormones, blood glucose and other metabolic markers
- Fear of Low TSH causing osteoporosis
- When is Low TSH not hyperthyroidism?
- REVIEW: DIO1 gene affects T3:T4 ratio
- Category: Clinical trials
- New clinical trial of Armour Thyroid is recruiting U.S. patients
- The mini-T3-mono-combination therapy model vs NDT and others
- Thyroid patients are routinely excluded from low T3 syndrome (NTIS) research
- Study the patients who need T3 and are harmed by its withdrawal
- REVIEW: Genes MCT10 and DIO2 and combination therapy
- Category: Prevalence rates
- Category: Reference lists
- Category: Research Reviews
- Ingbar and Braverman’s historic study of LT4 monotherapy
- Japanese thyroid scientists examine symptoms in relation to FT3 and TSH
- Relational Stability, part 4: The new thyroid paradigm
- Thyrotoxicosis vs. Low TSH
- Question Pilo’s 1990 study. It can be misused to limit your T3 supply.
- Low T3 thyroid hormone, insomnia, and sleep apnea
- REVIEW: Ineffectiveness of L-T4 monotherapy in subclinical hypothyroidism
- REVIEW: 2018 study of hormone status on L-T4 monotherapy
- HISTORY: Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, the co-discoverer of T3 hormone
- Category: Thyroid science history
- Category: Thyroid Autoimmunity
- The TSAb stimulating antibody can lower TSH despite euthyroid status.
- Overlooked: How many Hashimoto’s patients with TSH-Receptor antibodies?
- Remissions and fluctuations in autoimmune thyroid disease: TRAb
- Category: Atrophic Thyroiditis
- Category: Graves' Disease
- Category: Hashimoto's
- Category: TG-Antibody
- Category: TPO-Antibody
- Category: TSHR-Antibody
- Category: Thyroid gland
- Category: Thyroid hormone conversion
- The leaky buckets analogy of thyroid hormone metabolism
- GRAPHIC: 10 Thyroid Hormone Actions
- Category: Deiodinase Type 2
- RT3 inhibits T4-T3 conversion. How worried should we be?
- Visualizing thyroid hormone activity in cells: T3 and RT3 in context
- The basics of thyroid hormone action, transport and conversion
- Ubiquitination: The glass ceiling of T4 monotherapy
- How the three deiodinases regulate T3
- GRAPHIC and discussion: T3 Depletion
- Category: Deiodinase Type 3
- Category: Deiodinases
- A complete pathway map of T4 and T3 metabolism and clearance
- Meet deiodinase type 1 (D1): The philanthropist enzyme
- The 7 lessons of the thyroid hormone deiodinases
- Thyroid hormone journey: Metabolism
- Tissue RNA expression of DIO1, DIO2, and DIO3
- Principles and Practical tips for Reverse T3, FT3, FT4
- The TSH-T3 disjoint in thyroid therapy
- TSH “can be very misleading” during thyroid therapy, say researchers
- No, T4 does not always convert to enough T3.
- Thyroid hormone conversion
- Bianco interview on T3 combination therapy, May 2018
- Infographic: The dangers of Low T3 Syndrome
- REVIEW: Dr. Antonio Bianco’s 2016 interview on hypothyroidism
- GRAPHIC: Genes and thyroid hormones
- Category: Thyroid hormone effects
- Category: Symptoms
- Category: T3 sufficiency
- Category: TH Receptors
- Category: Thyrotoxicosis
- Category: Tissue hypothyroidism
- Category: Transporters
- Category: Thyroid Hormones
- Category: RT3 - Reverse T3
- Category: T2 hormone
- Category: T3 hormone
- Category: T4 hormone
- Category: Triac & other metabolites
- Category: Thyroid Testing
- Infographic: Tests to optimize thyroid therapy
- Developing infographics for thyroid testing
- Category: Antibody tests
- Category: Diagnosis
- BBC UK TV segment on hypothyroidism is re-broadcast by TVO in Canada
- Pediatric and teenage TSH, FT4, and FT3 levels
- Can a normal TSH rule out thyroid disease?
- What’s wrong with calling TSH, FT3 and FT4 “thyroid function tests”?
- Are normal thyroid reference ranges risk-free zones?
- Cognitive barriers to analyzing “normal” thyroid lab results
- Reverse T3 in the context of health status, dosages, and thyroid levels
- Infographic: Screening for hypo
- Relational Stability, Part 2: Normality of TSH and thyroid hormones
- CBC opinion article draft on subclinical hypothyroidism and its therapy
- Subclinical hypothyroidism guidelines delay (in)effective therapy
- Part 3: Distinguish between temporary and permanent hypothyroidism
- Free T3 testing reveals autoimmune thyroid damage
- Infographic: Myxedema Coma
- Category: Free T3 test
- Article on hypothyroidism features Thyroid Patients Canada’s Tania Smith
- The myths that idolize TSH and denigrate FT3
- Gullo: LT4 monotherapy and thyroid loss invert FT3 and FT4 per unit of TSH
- Free T3 peaks and valleys in T3 and NDT therapy
- Caution: Doctors perform T3-ectomies without our consent
- Individual thyroid ranges are far narrower than lab ranges
- The Abbott Free T3 test kit recall of 2018-2019
- Thyroid therapy paradigm shift: T3 hormone testing is a battleground.
- If you truly care to help, optimize my Free T3. Listen to the research.
- The blindness of TSH to the most powerful thyroid hormone.
- 2018 study shows T3 in upper half of reference range relieves hypothyroid symptoms
- Abbott Laboratories’ reference range normalizes lower Free T3
- Why the Free T3 test matters so much
- Thyroid hormone economics 101: Less FT3 per unit of TSH
- Defend our plasma T3. Today.
- REVIEW: In illness, T3 testing is more reliable than TSH
- Are you a poor T4 converter? How low is your Free T3?
- Interpreting Free T3 and Free T4 in therapy
- Why has TSH testing replaced thyroid hormone testing?
- Category: Free T4 test
- Category: FT3:FT4 ratio
- Category: Reference ranges
- Category: Subclinical thyroid status
- Category: Test quality control
- Category: Testing policy
- How can clinical biochemists help or harm thyroid patients?
- Survey: Canadian Thyroid Testing Tips & Challenges
- Inventor of thyroid hormone tests speaks out against TSH monotesting (2017 Video)
- They sought ONE lab test to rule them ALL
- Dosing by TSH results in FT3 inequity and health discrimination
- Dosing by the TSH can cause Low T3
- TSH untrustworthy in thyroid therapy
- Asking my TSH … The Pituitary Fable
- Category: TSH test
- Category: Thyroid therapy
- Q&A. Dosing T3 in light of circadian rhythm
- Category: NDT / Desiccated thyroid
- RLC Labs issues Nature-Throid and WP-thyroid recall for subpotency
- Acella NP Thyroid recall: maternal risk inflated
- Acella NP Thyroid recall: Ethical yet low-risk
- Review: Hoang’s 2013 study of LT4 and desiccated thyroid
- Thyroid pharma: Bioidentical yet harmful?
- Annotated bibliography of desiccated thyroid therapy articles
- 1965: Thyroid therapy of Christmas past
- Trials of T3, desiccated thyroid and thyroxine in 1958
- History of the three thyroid medications
- All thyroid therapy is artificial
- Category: T3-monotherapy
- Finkler, 1959: Liothyronine as a replacement for thyroid therapy
- LT3 monotherapy withdrawal: Clearance and effects
- How to calculate LT3 vs. LT4 substitution: New thyroid science
- How to calculate LT3 vs. LT4 substitution: History had it right
- Dirty Money “Drug Short” episode and thyroid T3 Liothyronine
- HISTORY: L-T3 monotherapy in 1957
- Category: T3-T4 combo-therapy
- Category: T4-monotherapy
- Category: Therapy guidelines
- Category: Therapy paradigms
- Category: Thyroid disabilities
- Category: Thyroid pharma
- Category: Uncategorized