Why Most Doctors Get Thyroid Treatment Wrong
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2018-09-20

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Thyroid replacement is a difficult process primarily because doctors have been trained for decades to make a decision about thyroid replacement by looking at just one lab, TSH.   TSH is the thyroid-stimulating hormone that stimulates the thyroid to make T3 and T4.  TSH is from the pituitary and is not a measurement of the REAL thyroid hormone, but the hormone that stimulates the thyroid, not the thyroid hormone itself!  Doctors were taught this method of thyroid replacement, that a high TSH means low thyroid and a low TSH means a high thyroid activity, but that is rarely a dependable way to measure true thyroid activity.  Most doctors don’t question this method and keep making the same mistake, by following the advice of their older peers.

Doctors who know that thyroid testing has become more accurate and repeatable in the last 40-50 years should question why we still use an undependable method of judging the health one of the most important hormones to human endocrine activity.  Doctors should therefore discard the archaic method of diagnosing thyroid hormone dysfunction and order blood levels of the actual thyroid hormones T3 and T4 in addition to the TSH.  Mystifyingly the practice of Endocrinology has clung to the wrong test to measure whether a patient needs thyroid hormone replacement for decades without even questioning the outdated practice!

Let me compare the way we diagnose Thyroid deficiency with Testosterone deficiency.  Earlier in this book we described how doctors diagnose testosterone deficiency by measuring the hormone in question, testosterone, and the active portion of that hormone (free testosterone).  By testing these two tests of the actual hormone doctors make a decision about whether a man needs testosterone replacement, based on whether the actual hormone in question is high/low, or normal compared to young healthy adults.   If we were to measure a man’s need for testosterone by only measuring the stimulating hormone, LH, we would be wrong more times than we are right.