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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
For two decades, we've been in the middle of a heated debate between integrative practitioners and the die-hard endocrinology community about thyroid treatment. Do thyroid patients need T3? Is natural desiccated thyroid safe and effective? Should everyone just take a levothyroxine drug? The controversies rage on.
A well-known thyroid researcher, Dr. Wilmar Wiersinga, has put together a look at what he calls the major "paradigm shifts" in hypothyroidism treatment. It was published in January in a medical journal, and it is fascinating.
Dr. Wiersinga outlines the four major changes -- the paradigm shifts -- in how we treat hypothyroidism, looking back at the past, and forward to the future. Along the way, he looks at levothyroxine-only treatment, T4-T3 combination therapy, and natural desiccated thyroid drugs for hypothyroidism treatment.
http://thyroid.about.com/b/2014/03/17/major-changes-in-hypothyroidism-treatment.htm
A well-known thyroid researcher, Dr. Wilmar Wiersinga, has put together a look at what he calls the major "paradigm shifts" in hypothyroidism treatment. It was published in January in a medical journal, and it is fascinating.
Dr. Wiersinga outlines the four major changes -- the paradigm shifts -- in how we treat hypothyroidism, looking back at the past, and forward to the future. Along the way, he looks at levothyroxine-only treatment, T4-T3 combination therapy, and natural desiccated thyroid drugs for hypothyroidism treatment.
http://thyroid.about.com/b/2014/03/17/major-changes-in-hypothyroidism-treatment.htm