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Long article, but very amusing and totally true... - Thyroid UK
Long article, but very amusing and totally true, you will be nodding your heads in agreement!!
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Very funny indeed! Love this guy too: aye, those Scots are the kind of straightforward that I certainly go for!
One of his books at the right hand side of article: "Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense" is a good read. Medics seem not to have the kind of training that enables them to decipher s*** from clay; even if they have, the constraints placed on them... the system seems to have outgrown itself.
Thank you for posting this
Fabulous to see a questioning, sceptical, informed mind probing the concensus on this.
I especially love this bit: "The lab tests, especially for TSH, are far from 100% reliable, to say the very least. In fact the man who developed the test in the UK, at Amersham International in Wales, has told me that the test is virtually worthless in many cases (especially continuous testing when patients are taking thyroid hormone replacement)."
Those would be the tests we are undergoing, and that the tax payer is funding at huge cost.
LindaC in reply to
The guy in Wales developed those tests for the UK and he says...
Robert D. Utiger, MD, published the landmark article 'Radioimmunoassay of Human Plasma Thyrotropin' in 1965. This study kicked off use of the TSH test as a useful tool to help evaluate thyroid dysfunction. It is one of the most widely ordered tests in all of medicine today.
Dr Utiger also developed the test for T3 and helped discover the importance of T4 to T3 conversion: he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from the American Thyroid Association
With all of his background in research on thyroid hormones and tests, he is said to have claimed that he 'hoped doctors will still practice medicine and treat the patient, not the TSH'. He said that still the best test is evaluating body temperature and heart rate and a therapeutic trial of T3.
Put that together with the Amersham guy and what we have right now is...
I know, ridiculous to see that the man who developed the test in the Uk, is actually admitting that it is worthless in many cases!!!
So I wonder why he developed it in the first place!!!
He could have said, that further deeper testing would also probably be very likely, or maybe he did, and all just ignored him.
Not an unusual thing that. Same thing happened with the scientist whose work seemed to imply that a low fat diet would make people thin. His work was immediately jumped on as the definitive answer to obesity. Not so, as has become obvious over the last 40 years or so!
Yes, our bodies need good fats, no vegetable oils, I have a tbs of Kerrygold only butter, in my morning coffee, only this one, as the cows are non cafo fed. Also lots of virgin coconut oil, I fry anything in it, also goes in my tea. I have found an extremely good and cheap source locally, not Costco!
Our brains and bodies need this fat to survive properly.
People always jump on any band wagon without looking at the consequences, they believe in what they are told.
I have been researching into the toxic fluoride added to our water in Newcastle upon tyne, and last night at the AGM of the FSB, I met a guy who has got connections with the water authorities, at least he can point me in the right direction.
Many counties in the US have lost their battle with people suing them for this, and also in Southern Ireland. Not every county in the UK has this added toxic fluoride, and it has been scientifically proven to have not one benefit, only negative effects on out teeth and what on earth is it doing to our bones, also it is one of the leading reasons why we have thyroid and endocrine problems, it has a very negative effect in our bodies. We pay for our drinking water, therefore, we should either be able to stop paying for it, until they take this out of our water. There is no way that they can prove it is beneficial to us.
Will post later today. Veronica
