| Thyroid treatment fell apart in the 1960s. That's when | | | | pose as the real thing. |
| thyroid blood tests and Synthroid first appeared. | | | | And Synthroid doesn't even attempt to do the whole |
| Doctors hailed the blood tests as a means of making | | | | job! Synthroid tries to match only one part of a |
| thyroid treatment scientific. Blood tests eliminated the | | | | five-part hormone. What's that about? How can it |
| need to deal with symptoms, which, as any thyroid | | | | possibly be equivalent to the real thing? |
| patient can tell you, are many. | | | | Doctors prescribed the real thing, Armour Thyroid as |
| The problems with this approach went unmentioned. | | | | one instance, very successfully before Synthroid |
| First, the TSH test has little science behind it and came | | | | arrived. Medicine had no scientific, anecdotal or logical |
| into use based on a vote by endocrinologists. While | | | | reason for changing from natural thyroid to synthetic. |
| docors swear by it, results are unreliable. As are the | | | | It's another follow-the-money story. |
| results of the various T3 and T4 tests. | | | | And that's not all. Back in the day when doctors |
| Synthroid, a synthetic version of one part of thyroid | | | | treated by symptoms, they prescribed twice the |
| hormone, adds to the disaster. First, synthetic versions | | | | dosage that today's doctors prescribe using blood |
| of natural hormones wreak havoc. You may | | | | tests. Prescribing five grains of Armour Thyroid wasn't |
| remember the Women's Health Initiative revelation that | | | | unusual. And patients did a whole lot better than they |
| synthetic estrogen and progesterone, also highly touted | | | | do nowadays. |
| by medical poobahs, cause disease and even kill | | | | To sum up: Unreliable tests, a bad medication and |
| people. | | | | inadequate dosage levels cause the current thyroid |
| Our bodies don't like synthetic medications that try to | | | | treatment problems. |