T4

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 tag will be used when the T4 thyroid hormone is discussed. The tag may apply when the T4 thyroid hormone within the body is discussed. It may also apply when T4 thyroid medication (Levothyroxine or Synthroid) treatment, is being discussed.

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A Small Number of Thyroid Patients Cannot Cope with Any Levothyroxine (T4 medication) or Thyroid-Produced T4 in Their System

This blog came out of a conversation with a thyroid patient who was still having some issues when on mostly ...

New Study Suggests Cancer Risk is Raised in Long-Term Levothyroxine (T4) Use in Thyroid Patients

I would like to urge any reader to read the entire article and the content of the links prior to ...

Pharmaceutical Equivalency of Levothyroxine (T4), Liothyronine (T3) and Natural Desiccated Thyroid (NDT)

I have worked with thousands of thyroid patients over the past fifteen years. In my Recovering with T3 book back ...

We Need a New Paradigm of Thyroid Treatment!

It is desperately clear to thyroid patient support groups and to many well-informed thyroid patients that there is an urgent ...

Cancer: Scientists Point Finger at T4 and rT3 – Research

The more we find out, the more beneficial T3 therapy appears to be. At the end of this blog post, ...

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, ...

Research Shows T4 is Not Needed in The Brain of Adult Thyroid Patients

This is a blog post that finally proves that thyroid patients do NOT need to take some T4 medication in ...

Is it Possible to Predict T3 Dosage When Changing Thyroid Medication to T3?

These type of questions arises frequently. Should T3 and T4 medication be used in a fixed ratio, or use FT4 ...

Some Thyroid Patients Cannot Regain Health with T4 Thyroid Treatment – Research

A new research paper has been published by Hoermann, Midgley et al. It is published in the Clinical Endocrinology Journal.  There ...