Category: Hypothyroidism

In France, the Haute Autorité de Santé (synthesis professional recommendations, April 2007) defined subclinical hypothyroidism with a TSH> 4 mIU/L, confirmed by a second dose

The Whickham survey study conducted by Vanderpump and Co. over 20 years on healthy volunteers concludes that: “More than 95% of the euthyroid patients (normal

A study, known as the Colorado Thyroid Disease Prevalence Study, on 25,862 participants, has found that even a slight decrease in thyroid function – referred

Here is what writes Micheline O’Shaughnessy , BA, specialist in hormone researcher, and published in The Emerald Plus, July-August 2005: “It is difficult to explain

Progesterone is the building block for biosynthesis of many major hormones including corticosteroids, which are essential for stress response, electrolyte balance, blood pressure, and survival.

The thyroid follicle (or thyroid vesicle) is the morpho-functional unit of the thyroid gland. The follicle is composed of an uni-stratified epithelium of follicular cells,

What about T2 and T1? These two other thyroid hormones aren’t measured. However, they have been found to have a stimulatory effect on the activity

A question may be raised: “Do doctors know all of this?”. The answer is yes if they don’t rely on what they learnt 20 years

IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE TAKING THYROID HORMONE 1) Most people with an underactive thyroid will need lifelong therapy. 2) For best absorption,

1) TREATMENT – introduction 2) TREATMENT IN ITSELF 3) OPTIMIZATION MEDICATION: slow-released compounded T3 4) TREATMENT OF SPECIAL CASES hypothyroidism TREATMENT – introduction ● New