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Feel better on T4 than you did on Natural Desiccated Thyroid?

January 3, 2018

By Janie Bowthorpe

Occasionally, hypothyroid patients will exclaim with conviction and truth that they outright feel better on Synthroid or Levothyroxine (T4-only meds) … Continued

If you could turn back the clock, would you have started on NDT instead of T4-only??

May 17, 2013

By Janie Bowthorpe

A new thyroid patient asks others if they could turn back the clock, would they have started on Natural Desiccated Thyroid instead of T4-only. And the vast majority who answered said unequivocally YES!! Read all their replies.

The Good Housekeeping fiasco asks a huge question: when is the media going to catch up with the real world?

July 25, 2011

By Janie Bowthorpe

As informed thyroid patients, we’ve all been talking about it in patient groups, blog posts, and amongst each other. About.com’s … Continued

The shackling and gagging of Dr. Sarah Myhill of the UK

April 29, 2010

By Janie Bowthorpe

(4-30: Paula has informed me that you can download Dr. Myhill’s complete website to your computer via this zip file: … Continued

It ain’t for sissies: getting older and hypothyroidism (plus FDA says it did NOT tell pharms to stop desiccated thyroid)

March 1, 2010

By Janie Bowthorpe

Yup, we’re all heading in the same direction—being just a tad older every single year and getting that first mailing … Continued

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