Thyroid Hormones & Treatment

Paul is an active advocate for thyroid patients through his regular blog posts, which offer a wealth of information that both relate to his books as well as current news and insights.

Posts on thyroid hormones and how they function within the body will be in this category. As will the relationship to other hormones like cortisol. This category will cover the proper testing and treatment of thyroid hormones using all the thyroid treatments.

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More T4 or T3 Thyroid Medication May Not Always Raise Patients’ FT3 Levels in Thyroid Hormone Treatment

This article may well be one of the most important ones that I have ever written. It is especially important ...

Many Hashimoto’s Patients Do Not Get Properly Treated Due to a Lack of Understanding of TSH-Receptor Antibodies

This is an excellent blog post from Dr. Tania S. Smith of Thyroid Patient's Canada. Dr. Smith explains the TSH-Receptor ...

Symptoms of Hypothyroidism

I thought I would put this simple blog post on my website. It goes a long way to explain why ...

Principles and Practical Tips for FT4, FT3 and Reverse T3

This is from a post by Tania S. Smith on her website for Canadian thyroid patients. I have never been ...

Thyroid Hormones and Deiodinase Enzymes

Here are two more good articles from Dr. Tania Smith of the Canadian Thyroid Patients group.  I recommend these articles ...

The Thyroid System- What You Need to Know (& what your doctor may not know) – YouTube Video Blog 

My name is Paul Robinson. I am the author of three books on recovering from hypothyroidism: The Thyroid Patient's Manual, ...

Everything Changes When You Have a Thyroid Gland Issue – Review of The Research

Here is a great new blog post from Professor Tania Sona Smith. It refers to important research that I have ...

The Power of The T3 Thyroid Hormone

T3 is the only true biologically active thyroid hormone. This always needs to be remembered during thyroid hormone assessment and ...

Tracking Thyroid Symptoms and Signs (Vitals)

When using T3-Only or T3-Mostly,  it is not possible to use thyroid blood tests to manage the T3 dosing, i.e. ...

DIO1 and DIO2 Gene Defects and Testing Them for Thyroid Patients with Suspected T4 to T3 Conversion Issues

The D1 and D2 deiodinase enzymes are produced in our cells to enable the conversion of FT4 to FT3 to ...