| The newest discovery in the treatment of | | | | was added to the regular medication patients showed |
| hypothyroidism, the under active thyroid gland, seems | | | | immediate improvements in the general estate. |
| to be seen as a miracle therapy. The use of the | | | | The new combination of both triiodothyronine and |
| combination between the thyroid hormones T3 and T4 | | | | thyroxine seemed to release hypothyroidism |
| is believed to be the most promising way of therapy | | | | symptoms like depression, fatigue and brain fog. A |
| ever found for cases of hypothyroidism condition. But | | | | new clinical study was made upon the T3-T4 |
| treated patients don't always know the risks they | | | | medication to see its long-term effects. A number of |
| confront during therapy as they are in most cases | | | | 33 hypothyroid patients with severe underactivity of |
| poorly informed by their curing physician. | | | | the thyroid gland were firstly treated with a high |
| In the introduction of the new treatment's study a few | | | | concentrated dose of thyroxine and then with a |
| basic information about the thyroid are required. The | | | | combination of a lower amount of T4 and also T3. |
| thyroid gland secretes and releases into the | | | | The conclusions were a certain success in the |
| bloodstream two different hormones; T3 called | | | | combined medication with great improvement in the |
| triiodothyronine contains a chain of three Iodine atoms | | | | quality of life. |
| and is the 90% amount of the secretion, it is the active | | | | This study has also proven why the alternative |
| thyroid hormone. The second secreted substance is | | | | medicine treatments have shown so many benefic |
| T4 called thyroxin with four Iodine atoms; it can | | | | result while administering the hypothyroid patients the |
| activate and turn into T3 by a chemical reaction of | | | | Armour thyroid, a natural thyroid extract contained in |
| reduction of an Iodine atom. T3 is eight times more | | | | drugs like Westhroid and Naturethroid. Both the |
| powerful than the other hormone but in crisis situations | | | | products as well as the synthetic drug Thyrolar contain |
| when the body urgently needs more triiodothyronine | | | | a moderate combination of both basic thyroid |
| T4 will rapidly turn into T3. | | | | hormones. The standard medication with concentrated |
| During the hormone replacement treatment many | | | | T4 can now be easily completed by administering the |
| patients have complained of a strange unwell | | | | additional pill Cytomel containing pure T3 extract. |
| sensation; the pills simply seemed to harm them in | | | | The new medication has highly improved the life and |
| some way even though the thyroid hormones level in | | | | the symptomathology of severe hypothyroidism |
| the blood was perfectly normal. In normal | | | | patients. Some however still complain of persisting |
| circumstances, the standard method of replacing the | | | | symptoms like depression, muscle aches or lethargy, |
| thyroid secretion was the administration of a pill | | | | signs that we cannot replace nature as hard as we |
| containing thyroxin only. When a doses of T3 hormone | | | | try to. |