A press release just came out stating that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has “unveiled the first phase of its Transparency Initiative which is designed to explain agency operations, how it makes decisions, and the drug approval process.”
Of course, this doesn’t mean thyroid patients can stop what seems like an inane decision to require makers of desiccated thyroid to “prove” , via expensive clinical trials, that it’s a safe and effective medication. RLC Labs, for example, the makers of Naturethroid and Westhroid, will be affected. Over 110 years of patient use, with 70 years by RLC, certainly reveal it’s a safe and effective treatment. But at least this transparency initiative will “potentially” give us better information about the process. We’ll see.
About the upcoming Part 2 with Dr. Lowe (see the blog post right below this): Some folks were booted off last Thursday and had to quickly get back on. The problem is when you get back on, you may lose your ability to chat. i.e. the system stops the chat ability once there are 300 individuals already on the chat. You can listen, but you can’t chat after 300 are on.
So there are three things you can do to prevent being booted off and having to get back on: first, make sure you have closed anything else on your computer – i.e only Talkshoe should be up. Second, make sure no other programs are running in the background, or will come on, like your anti-virus, and 3) ahead of time, download Live Pro from Talkshoe and use that. It’s more stable.
I, in turn, will be doing a strategy to strengthen this call from boots. Additionally, if necessary, some who aren’t chatting out of the first 300 will have their option changed to no-chat to allow those who came in latter to do it. It’s not personal because I don’t know who a lot of you are. It’s just spreading the ability into the call.
Do you take regular aspirin? Just as we warn about swallowing your meds when you have just eaten anything with calcium, iron or estrogen (they bind the thyroid hormones), you need to be aware that aspirin can have a negative affect on your thyroid levels, as well. i.e. though it may help lower high thyroid levels, it’s not good for your thyroid treatment if you regularly take it.
How did we get to where we are with the FDA’s actions towards desiccated thyroid today? Go here.
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