(This post was updated in 2015. Enjoy!) In a recent article by thyroid patient Mary Shomon, there was mention of an interesting article by Dr. Wilmar Wiersinga that came out this year in the journal Nature Reviews Endocrinology titled "Paradigm shifts in thyroid hormone replacement therapies for hypothyroidism." And I find this article fascinating. I'm going…
Patients have known by their experiences the past 110 years that natural desiccated thyroid (NDT) was safe and effective. Yet it took a recent study at Walter Reed Military Medical Center, and lead by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, to proclaim what patients already knew: Desiccated thyroid extract a safe alternative to levothyroxine in…
The clueless Cuckoo's Nest of Endocrinology just goes on and on, according to repeated negative comments by thyroid patients in groups after they have visited with an Endocrinologist. i.e. you will be put on T4-only and dosed by the TSH, then told you are just fine and only need an antidepressant or statin or BP…
(Though this post was written in 2010, it's been updated to the present day and time where needed. Enjoy!) CANADA I recently attended a lecture at a restorative medicine conference (kinda snuck in), and had a wonderful chat with a surgical nurse from Canada who is on Armour and didn't even know about Erfa--the Canadian…
(Though this post was first written in 2010, it still works for today and is very pertinent!) I am amazed. The Society for Endocrinology in the UK reported that taking higher doses of thyroxine (which will lower the TSH lab result) may be safer than has been purported for decades. And how low a TSH…