HIGHER PREVALENCE OF “LOW T3 SYNDROME” IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY

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Begoña Ruiz-Núñez, Rabab Tarasse, Emar F Vogelaar, D A Janneke Dijck-Brouwer, Frits A J Muskiet PMID: 29615976, PMCID: PMC5869352, DOI:10.3389/fendo.2018.00097, Front Endocrinol (Lausanne), 2018 Mar 20;9:97. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00097. 2018.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5869352/

RE. THIS ARTICLE: in my opinion “low T3 syndrome” is a synonym for Functional Hypothyroidism. If I am correct, people with the symptoms of low T3 syndrome should have a “Thyroid Profile” done, with tests for TSH, free T4, free T3 and reverse T3: if the T3/rT3 ratio turns out to be less than 20, they should be treated with T3, using the usual protocol.
If treatment is successful, the functional hypothyroidism will be eliminated, “low thyroid” symptoms will disappear and to all intents and purposes, their CFS will be CURED !
G.A.Harry.

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I am a Toronto-trained Urologist. I practiced in downtown Toronto, from 1977 to 1997, when I went to Saudi Arabia as chief of Urology at the Armed Forces (teaching) hospital in Tabuk. Returning to Toronto in Y2000, I switched to family practice. In 2007, began to prescribe Hormone Restoration Therapy and in 2012, I became a member of the American Academy of Antiaging Medicine [A4M]. I successfully wrote the A4M's written examination in December, 2013 and In May, 2016 I passed the oral examination, for accreditation as a BHRT consultant. In 2014 I began BHRT practice in Collingwood, Ontario and in January, 2017, joined the Stone Tree Naturopathic Clinic. Now I am 85 and retired, but it seems wasteful to jettison my learning and experience: the medical establishment knows nothing of BHRT / Functonal medicine and I feel obliged to offer my knowledge in the interest of those who are willing to think outside the box. QUALIFICATIONS: MB, BS, (UWI), 1964. LMCC 1969. FRCSC (Urology), 1974. ECFMG 1984. Florida license [inactive], ABAARM 2016. Affiliations: CSAMM, OMA, CMA, SUSO, CUA, RCP&S/C. PRACTICE TO DATE: Consultation in Functional Medicine: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Andropause, Menopause, Teenage and Postpartum Depression/Panic Attacks, Thyroid Hormone malfunction, Infertility, Sexual Dysfunction and “the Undiagnosable”. ALL ARE WELCOME to read, comment or question!

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