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Follow on Google News | New Study Shows Natural Thyroid Better than SyntheticNatural Thyroid has been used successfully for more than 100 years, and is superior to T4-only medications such as Levothyroxine. However, Endocrinology Societies have published guidelines advising doctors to stay away from natural thyroid.
By: TrueMedMD Natural Thyroid has been used successfully for more than 100 years (3), and it is blatantly obvious to any experienced clinician that natural desiccated thyroid is superior to T4-only medications such as Synthroid© and Levothyroxine© A New Controlled Trial Comparing Natural Thyroid to Synthroid This has changed, as a new controlled trial was just published in the May 2013 Journal of Endocrinology by endocrinologists at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland (2) Switching OVER to Synthroid When a new patient comes into the Walter Reed Medical Center on natural thyroid, they are immediately switched over to Synthroid (or T4- only meds). Occasionally DID NOT Feel As Well The authors’ usual practice is to switch any new patient over from natural thyroid to Synthroid (T4-only levothyroxine) “Patients on natural thyroid (desiccated thyroid extract ,DTE), after being switched over to levothyroxine (l-T4), occasionally did not feel as well , (despite adequate dosing based on serum TSH levels.) “(2). This is exactly what I have found in actual clinical practice over the years. Patients feel much better on natural thyroid. We use exclusively Nature-throid (http://www.nature- Left Image: Natural Thyroid Derived from pig , photo courtesy of USDA. Comparing Synthroid to Natural Thyroid Their controlled study compared natural thyroid with Synthroid. What they found was that roughly half of the patients (48%) felt better on the natural thyroid, one third had no preference, and one fifth (18.6%) felt better on the Synthroid. Clearly the natural thyroid wins the comparison test (48.6% vs. 18.6%). “At the end of the study, 34 patients (48.6%) preferred Dessicated (Natural Thyroid), 13 (18.6%) preferred Levothyroxine (T4), and 23 (32.9%) had no preference.”( Now that we have a controlled trial showing the natural thyroid is better, maybe the ATA should change its guideline? For Original Article: http://jeffreydachmd.com/ End
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