March 16, 2009

Right on the heels of the insane recom­men­da­tion by the UK’s Royal College of Phy­si­cians and the Bri­tish Thy­roid Asso­cia­tion (that thy­ro­xine be the ONLY treat­ment for hypothy­roi­dism – see Feb. 14th below) came an EXCELLENT and THOROUGH rebut­tal by Dr. John C. Lowe tit­led Sta­bi­lity, Effec­ti­ve­ness, and Safety of Desic­ca­ted Thy­roid vs Levothy­ro­xine: A Rebut­tal to the Bri­tish Thy­roid Asso­cia­tion. WAY TO GO, John!!

p.s. Also see Sheila’s expe­rience on the Feb. 20th post. Awful

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4 Responses to “Thyroid Tidbit: Sock it to ‘em, Dr. Lowe!!”

  1. Sara said:

    Mar 18, 09 at 2:48 pm

    This is a great article on “zom­bie science”! That is, when terri­ble science sticks around because that’s where the money is. Very appro­priate for thyroid.

    http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Charlton2008.pdf

  2. Dawn said:

    Mar 18, 09 at 4:50 pm

    Wow! Just goes to show how they use things that sway their side of the argu­ment and what they want you to believe. All those stu­dies eh?
    If they don’t take notice of this then we will KNOW they have an agenda!
    BTA what do you say?

    WTG Dr Lowe and thank­you on behalf of peo­ple nee­ding DTH to have any kind of relief from the pains of hypothyroidism

  3. Brent c said:

    Mar 19, 09 at 12:29 pm

    Wow, big thanks to Doc­tor Lowe for calling this one out!

  4. Denise said:

    Jan 02, 10 at 10:05 am

    Hi I felt so ill on T4 alone I was almost sui­ci­dal, I now feel so much bet­ter but I learnt that Armour thy­roid for­mula as chan­ged and not wor­king so well, I have also tried Nature-throid and heard about thy­roid sup­port for­mu­las and thy­roid reha­bi­li­ta­tion and the pos­si­bi­lity of actually get­ting rid of this curse. I am con­fu­sed and not sure what is truth and fic­tion, please can you shed some light, I will never go back to Levo-hell. I am very angry at the way we thy­roid patients are trea­ted here in England. Many thanks Denise

    (From Janie: join the Natu­ral Thy­roid Hor­mo­nes group for feed­back on your con­fu­sion here: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/talk-to-others )

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