Thyroid Lab Tests

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.

This category covers thyroid laboratory tests, thyroid lab test results and their interpretation. It covers how they ought to be used and the problems associated with how they are used currently.

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One Reason Why TSH can be Low or Suppressed on Treatment with Higher Levels of T3 (as Liothyronine or NDT)

This article was written by Dr Tania S. Smith of Thyroid Patients Canada. It explains one reason why TSH can ...

Assessing Your T4 to T3 Conversion Capability: Are You A Good Enough Converter of T4? Do you have enough T3?

Dr Tania S. Smith, of Thyroid Patients Canada, wrote an article on assessing conversion ability from T4 to T3 in ...

Can Someone Have Free T4 and Reverse T3 When Taking T3-Only Medication?

From time to time, a thyroid patient asks me the question: how can they have a reasonably high level of ...

Blue Horizon Medicals Have a Covid-19 PCR Test for UK Patients

In partnership with Blue Horizon Medicals, this website is delighted to offer UK thyroid patients a 10% discount on their ...

Using SPINA-Thyr Software for Patients on No Thyroid Treatment or on Levothyroxine (T4) Only

SPINA-Thyr is a free diagnostic application, developed by Dr. Johannes Dietrich. The software application takes thyroid laboratory test values TSH, ...

Can FT3 be Used to Manage Liothyronine (T3) Thyroid Treatment?

Many doctors and thyroid patients think that the FT3 thyroid lab test can be used to assess whether the dosing ...

Thyroid Blood Testing with Blue Horizon Medicals

Home-based thyroid hormone, cortisol and other useful blood tests for UK thyroid patients. In partnership with Blue Horizon Medicals, this ...

Biochemical Bigotry – Enforcing Normalised Thyroid Lab Test Results is Harmful to Health

Here is another great article about the flawed use today of thyroid laboratory tests and lab reference ranges. It talks ...

Using TSH to Manage Thyroid Treatment is a House of Cards Ready to Collapse

I recently put out a blog post that introduced an important new piece of research that shows that a suppressed ...

Cortisol Results Inconsistent Between Saliva Testing and Blood Testing

This post may help to explain why sometimes we might see an inconsistency between the result for an 8:00 am ...