Living during this time of the all-consuming coronavirus is ridiculously stressful. If you had the choice to merely survive this ordeal or actually thrive, which would you pick? Yeah, me too.
Can you believe I’ve been doing this for three years now? Fortunately, I’m particularly susceptible to inertia, which has made it fairly easy to continue doing what I launched back in March 2017. Regular readers will remember the victory lap I took in March 2018 after achieving all the goals I set out in my original mission statement. My two-year update in 2019 was not quite as dramatic, but there was some meaningful stuff in there, including the cliff-hanger about a talk I was asked to give to a national audience of Endocrinologists – so let’s kick off the year-in-review with that!
In assessing whether there is value in monitoring T3 levels and restoring them to normal in hypothyroidism, I think it helps to return to first principles. And no, “more T3 is better” is not a first principle.
In this next post in the T3 Controversies series, we cover whether T3 therapy must be used to account for tissues that can’t make their own T3.
In this first post of my “T3 Controversies” series, I address the claim that there are acquired forms of tissue resistance to thyroid hormone, which can be treated with high-dose T3 therapy.
Since the blog’s inception, my philosophy regarding comments has been to allow anyone to say anything. Unfortunately, my permissive approach has allowed a certain type of comment to flourish – the kind that espouses some of the same non-evidence-based claims that this blog was created to debunk. Well, there’s a new sheriff in town.
Americans considering surgery for Hashimoto’s would require a level of rigorous screening that is found mainly in organ transplant and astronaut-training programs. Without that degree of rigor, it is my opinion that most who go under the knife will come out the other side with the same constellation of nonspecific symptoms they had pre-surgically.
Is it time to throw out your thermometer? Here’s an evidence-based look at why BBT is not helpful for diagnosing/managing hypothyroidism.
There is a recurring thread throughout the comments on some of my posts, with respect to people’s desire to order their own blood work. To…
I give up. Like Danny Glover’s iconic character in Lethal Weapon: via GIPHY You win, alt med – everyone is hypothyroid. Lab testing in the…