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What the recent Medco scandal is actually telling us–i.e. there’s more to this story

August 14, 2009

By Janie Bowthorpe

…pharmaceuticals, especially Knoll Pharmaceuticals who first tableted levothyroxine aka Synthroid in 1955, jumped to promote T4-only as a “new and modern medication”. (See page 41 and 42 in the STTM…

Is there a genetic reason many of us do lousy on T4?

October 28, 2009

By Janie Bowthorpe

…to T3, deiodinase D2 (also called Type 2 Deiodinase, or 5′-Deiodinase), may be responsible for why so many thyroid patients don’t do well on Synthroid, Levoxyl, levothyroxine, etc, and in…

The Agonies of Being Thyroidless–4 reasons it sucks

December 29, 2009

By Janie Bowthorpe

…Synthroid or Levothyroxine–forcing one to rely on conversion alone. Being on T4-only is the number one predictor of having overly stressed adrenals, patients have observed and experienced. See the last…

Thanks to Dr. Lowe for a very valuable call last night

January 8, 2010

By Janie Bowthorpe

…makers of Synthroid, gives one million dollars in an unrestricted educational grant to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist (AACE) i.e. no wonder Endocrinologists have a love affair with Synthroid,…

This and that–an array of interesting info for your thyroid pleasure

February 8, 2010

By Janie Bowthorpe

…this reader, who already stated that Synthroid is not a well-handled treatment, to see if her physician could “alter the Synthroid dosage to find a level”  that could be tolerated….

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