Interesting and about time!....

[MiniMum97]

medscape.com/viewarticle/93...

Not sure if this has already been shared but very interesting study saying that FT4 is a better measure to assess thyroid function and has stronger links to other disease than TSH.

[diogenes Remembering]

This article is useful, but it totally ignores the role of FT3 in controlling thyroidal activity. This group has challenged the idea of set points for the individual, that is, something as being somehow a fixed immovable point for each person, rather than a fluctuating system around a centre called the set point, which then acts as an attractor to keep the whole process in balance. At least it shows that TSH is not acceptably useful as the prime controller of diagnosis and treatment, which is a good start. This group is rather at odds with us on this, though it rather gets down to how many angels dance on a pin sort of argument. Once again, like the Bianco group in the US, they still want to cling on to the old discarded paradigm of the FT4/TSH combination being responsible for determining health. Until the key role of the thyroid in producing T3 as well as T4, and the therapeutic consequences of losing the thyroid completely, is not addressed, they and others will get nowhere

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Reading the comments from the doctors to the article ...shows in many cases just how far we still have to go

So many Doctors still believe TSH is GOD