The Swinging Pendulum in Treatment for Hypothyroidism: From (and Toward?) Combination Therapy
Elizabeth A. McAninch and Antonio C. Bianco
It iis downloadable. Bianco has worked very hard indeed in avoiding any meaningful reference to any of our work. There is an agenda here, which isn't in the realm of scientific honesty, but more in the business of trying to create a monopoly of thinking to a person's own benefit. He is determined that he will get the primary credit for any changes in diagnosis/therapy and the US researchers and commentators will back him.
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I certainly do better on T4 + T3 than T4 alone and can imagine that I'm not the only one.
I don't understand why the NHS is so fixated on Levothyroxine only, and not allowing anything else - they've got a 'thing' about the thyroid. For other conditions it's different, e.g for high blood pressure they offer a wide variety of medicines.
I wonder what their view of prescribing T3 would be if there were more men with hypothyroidism than women...
This has been documented in the medical literature, particularly in the treatment of heart disease. You will find a great deal of work on this topic and I look forward to reading what you will post. All the best and good luck with your project - and your health first and foremost.
I remember reading a few years ago that there were 85 drugs listed in the British National Formulary for the treatment of some facet of diabetes of various types. The 85 figure is out of date now - it's a bit lower - but over the last few years the number of treatments for hypothyroidism hasn't changed. There are two treatments, theoretically, but only one that most people can actually access via the NHS.
I suspect the fact that diabetes sufferers are 50/50 men and women whereas hypothyroidism affects mostly women has a lot to do with it.
I note your comment Diogenes...in totally different academic branch (history) I knew of a number of researchers in same field who deliberately ‘hijacked’ or ignored work to get credit for new thinking! It’s a pig. Just hope that T3 and T4 combo if suits patients gets better trialled and adopted.
One of my colleagues (won't say who) made the following comment on Bianco's deliberate omission of any of our work:
For me, this isn’t astonishing. Both Antonio Bianco and Elizabeth McAninch are repeatedly hostile to us. I don’t know why, because we didn’t do them any evil, and our research even confirms their findings (and vice versa). It must have to do with their personalities, not ours.
This hypothyroid rat (n=1) doesn't get palpitations or anxiety or any issues from only taking short acting T3. I hope LT3 will be useful to some and I hope they don't take away my T3 if LT3 doesn't work for me and yet again we are all forced to fit a particular hypothyroidism model.
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Survey by Dr Antonio Bianco and colleagues
Debate Continues on Combination Therapy for Hypothyroidism
