Two new papers showing T4+T3 combination therapy may be be more effective than T4 monotherapy. Links to one full paper and one abstract at the end of the article.
Summary:
New insights into hypothyroidism – a condition affecting about 10 million people in the U.S. – have been found by researchers that may lead to new treatment protocols for the disease, particularly among the approximately 15 percent of patients for whom standard treatments are less effective.
Ah, so they are now finding what we have been telling the docs for years is true! not sure it will persuade some doctors though. I have had one tell me that we are not Americans, so he obviously thought the physiology of people from different countries was different. The same doctor also shook his head at experiments tried on animals and assured me that we were not the same as them.
Good find though!
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Galathea, No trouble in believing either of those things, it's not the first time I've heard doctors dismiss research because testing was on rats. My endo found some research "too American" and doubted the robustness of the random controlled trials in some European studies. Parochial or what?
Seems some health professionals are determined to hang on to their antediluvian thinking whatever happens <sigh>
RA, despite his views on *evidence* into the benefits of T4+T3 he did agree I had benefited and agreed to prescribe T3.
Oh that's good. At least he's willing to go along with the 'seeing is believing' approach. Better than many we hear about. 
Of course rats are different to humans! You don't need to be a medic to know that. We even use vitamin D as rat poison. But so, so much research uses rats (and mice) as a step in research, if you are going to dismiss rat research, be prepared to withdraw a huge proportion of medicines, and research papers. And start really scratching your head as to how else we can progress.
They also need to remember that most animals (other than primates and guinea pigs) produce their own vitamin C. (Hence, for those other animals, it is not really a vitamin.) A fundamental difference that is so very often ignored.
Helvella, may as well go back to spotting signs and portents in entrails.
Pulse CPD for GPs into diagnosing hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism.
Hashimotos or secondary hypothyroidism?
New to this forum - sadly not new to Hypothyroidism
Microgynon and Hypothyroidism 
New hypothyroidism diagnosis 
