I often get comments and emails from people asking me which thyroid hormone I think is best. My answer is always the same: "It depends." As much as some practitioners would like to make us believe, there is simply no "one size fits all" approach to thyroid hormone replacement.
Statements like "Synthroid is best" or "I prefer to use synthetic T4 with my patients" or "I only use bio-identical hormones" demonstrate a lack ...
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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you might be surprised by the title of this post. I've been critical of pharmaceutical approaches in the past, and in general, I recommend avoiding the use of medication whenever possible.
However, I have no problem with pharmaceuticals if:
they work,
they do more good than harm, and;
there are no non-drug alternatives with the same effect.
It turns out that thyroid medication meets these criteria in cases of hypothyroidism with ...
In the last post I explained that, for the vast majority of patients, hypothyroidism is an autoimmune disease. This isn't just an academic distinction. It's the reason both conventional and alternative treatments are so often ineffective.
In this post I'm going to show you why taking replacement thyroid hormones without addressing the underlying immune imbalance is doomed to fail.
The ultimate effect of hypothyroidism, whether it's caused by iodine deficiency or autoimmunity, is to decrease the ...
I just came across a recently published study which revealed that SSRIs (the most popular class of antidepressants) can cause gastrointestinal bleeding. The first thing I always do when reading a study is check to see who the authors are, where they receive funding from and who the sponsor is.
So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that this study, which casts antidepressants in an unfavorable light, was sponsored by a large pharmaceutical ...
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