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Levothyroxine and lung cancer in females: the importance of oxidative stress - 0 views

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    Study links synthetic T4, synthroid, to increased risk of Lung cancer. The authors acknowledge that the limitations of this study are large. Yet, the association is evident. The proposed mechanism is likely the overdosing and the resultant ROS as a result.
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Effects of Thyroxine as Compared with Thyroxine plus Triiodothyronine in Patients with ... - 0 views

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    Armour Thyroid (T4 and T3 combined) provides better symptom control when compared to synthroid alone (T4)
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Levothyroxine therapy and serum free thyroxine and... [J Endocrinol Invest. 2002] - Pub... - 0 views

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    T4 therapy (synthroid) alone does not increase serum free T3 concentrations in many patients
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Informa Healthcare - Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine - 11(3):159 - Su... - 0 views

  • Conclusions: Combined T3 + T4 treatment seems to be more effective than treatment with T4 alone in hypothyroid patients
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    patients on synthroid only improved when switch to combined T4/T3 (armour thyroid)
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Franken-Thyroxine Making Your Thyroid Condition Worse? | GreenMedInfo | Blog entry | Na... - 0 views

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    synthroid is not biodentical Thyroxine (thyroid) hormone
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Metabolic Effects of Liothyronine Therapy in Hypothyroidism: A Randomized, Double-Blind... - 0 views

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    T3 shown increase weight loss, lower LDL, decrease apolipoprotein B, decrease T cholesterol versus T4.  This flies in the face of conventional medical dogma, that T 4 (synthroid, levothyroxine) is the only route of thyroid replacement.  In fact, this suppports the use of armour thyroid, a T4/T3 combination.
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Combination Treatment with T4 and T3: Toward Personalized Replacement Therapy in Hypoth... - 0 views

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    Wow!  JCEM states, "...it may be time to consider a personalized regime of thyroid hormone replacement therapy in hypothyroid patents."  Otherwise stated, combination T4, T3 provides a more customized thyroid replacement therapy than synthroid alone.
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Peripheral metabolism of thyroid hormones: a revie... [Altern Med Rev. 2000] - PubMed r... - 0 views

  • The common feature of these disorders is a low level of circulating T3, with generally normal to slightly elevated blood T4 levels and either normal or slightly suppressed TSH levels. This pattern of altered thyroid hormone levels is generally agreed to be a result of impairment in extra-thyroidal peripheral metabolism
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    thyroid replacement is not just about T4 (synthroid); but about T3, which is 5.4 x more potent
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Hypothyroidism (Feb/March 2007) Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients - 0 views

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    Great discussion of Thyroid therapy
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