NDT (and other alternative treatments) in Scandinavia

[Silver_Fairy]

We think it's bad in the UK.....................

thyroidchange.org/our-blog/...

I know we have some Scandinavian members, is this an accurate account?!

[diogenes Remembering]

The basic problem in all these countries with that mind set is that they have made a simple though totally wrong assumption from the outset. That is, that the contribution of T3 directly coming from the thyroid isn't important for anyone. Only the body is important as a T3 source from conversion of T4. Therefore according to this notion, if you give patients just T4 they must be able to handle it because that's what they believe the patient's thyroid was doing in health. This is not true: the thyroid does produce T3 to augment the body's conversion of the T4 producing in total more T3 adequate for the patient's health. If when healthy you had a high-normal FT3, then obviously you needed more T3 to keep healthy than someone with half that amount but still healthy (i.e a good converter/user). For the high-normal FT3s, the thyroid helps out in getting adequate T3 production direct more than in low-normal FT3s. Now if the thyroid is destroyed and only T4 is given, the low-normals can convert enough T4 into T3 suitable for them easily, and probably so can a lot of the average in-betweens, but the high-normals cannot do so on T4 alone: the body's conversion simply isn't strong enough to compensate for the assistance the thyroid was giving in health. Thus T3 is needed as well as T4 to get these patients over the hurdle. And all this has a knockon effect on TSH, making its normal range inappropriate in treatment. That in summary is what we've found. In short the whole present thyroid treatment paradigm is fundamentally wrong with all that follows.