http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-104a.shtml
An article in the New England Journal of Medicine described a study in which patients with hypothyroidism showed greater improvements in mood and brain function if they received treatment with Armour thyroid rather than Synthroid (thyroxine). The authors also detected biochemical evidence that thyroid hormone action was greater after treatment with Armour thyroid. The patients who were on Armour thyroid had significantly higher serum concentrations of sex hormone-binding globulin; having higher concentrations of sex hormone-binding globulin is not a favorable event (Bunevicius et al. 1999).
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...ch/ai_82881784
For those of you who will look, The University of North Carolina did a large research project comparing natural and synthetic thyroid. They gave concentration and personality tests to all of those who participated in this study. Those patients that were on natural thyroid showed objective improvement in concentration, mood and well-being. They further reported that they preferred this thyroid to the ones they had taken before. This article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, February 1999 (2) (for those scholars who need further proof). I find the. natural thyroid gives an even, smooth ride to the equilibration of the thyroid patient. I find that it is very forgiving, and will often stand 2 or 3 days of forgetting to take the dose.
http://www.drlowe.com/frf/t4replacement/intro.htm
Thyroid hormone treatments other than replacement therapies are in widespread use among hypothyroid patients?mainly those who previously failed to benefit, or benefit enough, from T4-replacement. The therapies are in widespread use for one reason: they work for hypothyroid patients after replacement therapies failed them. The most effective of these therapies involves adjusting patients? dosages of combined T4/T3 or T3 alone according to several indices other than TSH and thyroid hormone levels. Those indices are signs, symptoms, and various objective measures of tissue response to particular dosages. When patients? dosages are titrated according to these indices, dosages that prove safe and effective are typically TSH-suppressive.[44] Evidence is available that this therapeutic approach relieves patients? signs, symptoms, and measurable tissue abnormalities such as low resting metabolic rates (RMR) according to indirect calorimetry.
http://www.uib.no/isf/eyr/2000q1/000405.html
Hvis jeg ikke på forhånd hadde lest utallige innlegg fra
hypotyreose-pasienter som hadde lignende symptomer, på tross av normale
TSH-verdier, så hadde jeg nok resignert og funnet meg i at det ikke er
noe på gjøre med dette.
http://www.uib.no/isf/eyr/2002q1/009210.html
Enda oftere finner jeg, særlig hos unge og middelaldrende kvinner,
symptomer forenlig med lett hypotyreose, men med lab verdier
innenfor referanseområdet. Endel kvinner med vektproblemer som
jeg kjenner godt, som både trimmer, og som jeg vet har struktur på
hverdagen sin har T4-verdier på 10-13, TSH på 2-3. Ofte har de slitt
i årevis uten å få uttelling. Hva er den enkeltes "normalverdi?
Her er noe som jeg håper hjelper deg i gang. jeg har tatt med et sitat fra hver link, for å gi deg et inntrykk av tema.