Dr Eric interviews Proff Bianco

[Regenallotment]

This was a good listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podca...

I love how Dr Eric questions his guests, he usually knows more than they do, but this time he is ‘really’ asking questions. Fascinating 👏

[Delgor]

Thank you Reggie - it looks interesting and I will listen to it later👍

[humanbean]

I've never heard of Dr Eric. Do you have any info on him or links to his website / youtube channel?

[Regenallotment in reply to humanbean]

yes of course 😊 his podcast is Thyroid Answers, that’s the link in the first post.

here is his blog thyroidproblemsdoctor.com/

He has Hashimoto’s so is generally ’on message’ . He interviews interesting people, some of them get a real grilling which exposes sometimes. 😬 he is different with Bianco, he’s genuinely asking questions which I really liked. 🌱

[arTistapple]

Well that was very interesting for a good number of reasons. At first I was a bit put off by some of his use of language. Some of it was not as decisive as I would have liked but eventually he gave explanations which answered my “Why is he saying that in that way?”

Well guess what, so much of what he says/thinks is (very) educated guesswork, by his own admission. I felt I understood his position on TSH in a way I definitely did not before. Honestly a breath of fresh air compared to endocrinology and those imposing the guidelines here in the UK. No arrogance in his explanations. None of the over defensiveness we are used to here in the UK. I very much felt his business was to push against the barriers.

Our diogenes was very much in my mind here and I had a feeling that some of what Bianco thought was educated guesses, he could have looked towards diogenes and his work.

Anyway what we are usually left with - the fact that further trials have to be done!! He also gave some interesting history about how levo became the drug of choice, which itself has never passed any FDA overview because this decision was made before the FDA. It was Grandfathered in. Some very big holes in that decision since it was agreed.

Interestingly he indicated the cost of necessary trials.

Cost he quoted 20 million dollars for the overdue research. In USA where he works that is 2 million patients not doing well on levo only and because this proportion is seen as small, it seems like that is a ‘good enough’ reason for the companies or possibly government to NOT to cough up that money.

This is my simple view of the USA calculation. It seems like a tiny amount of money to me per head.

We are not worth 10 dollars a head (unless my maths are defunct). So that is what we are up against. A view that we are not worth 10 dollars a head. Our lives. Our families lives. Our contribution to society. Our contribution to GDP. It’s considered better that we foul up GP surgeries, A&E, fill Intensive Care Units, sent off to seek out alternative illnesses (comorbidities), expensive investigations, take any number of costly unnecessary medications. All most likely caused by the hypothyroidism itself in the first place. It’s not a separate illness. It’s likely the same blooming illness causing the bulk of these situations (My View).

That 10 dollars a head is soon swallowed up.

However apparently hypothyroidism remains easy to treat.

[Regenallotment in reply to arTistapple]

well said 😊

[Delgor in reply to Regenallotment]

arTistapple - Ditto