Author Archives: Gervais

As I understand it, “functional medicine” includes:1] EDUCATED PATIENTS: The high school curriculum includes hormonal metabolic and microbiome health as a formal subject, so that all understand health maintainance.2] HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER: The healthcare professional is an MD, trained in the application of the principles of standard medicine and in the art of metabolic andContinue reading “FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE”

“Generally, reverse triiodothyronine tests are not necessary since triiodothyronine should not be ordered in hospitalized or sick patients.”

Cardiomyopathy Hypothyroidism-induced reversible dilated cardiomyopathy; P Rastogi, A Dua, S Attri, and H Sharma, J Postgrad Med. 2018 Jul-Sep; 64(3): 177–179. doi: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_154_17PMCID: PMC6066629PMID: 29992912 , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6066629/ This paper reports on a young female with DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY CAUSED BY HYPOTHYROIDISM and cured with T4. COMMENT: Interestingly, the authors state (I have paraphrased this, for brevity):”The heartContinue reading “”

This new (August, 2021), very well-written paper, entitled “Thyroid Hormones—An Underestimated Player in Dilated Cardiomyopathy?“,comes very close the truth of T3’s influence on heart health and function.The authors have managed to review all the important facts on the subject, up to and including a mention of reverse T3, without coming to the conclusion that fullContinue reading “More about DCM”

“Thyroid” page updated:Page renamed “the thyroid hormone”,FreeT3/rT3 calculation table added, for your interest and convenience.

There were some inaccuracies in the page re. THYROID and I have redone the page (QV).

I just deleted the old infopaper about thyroid tests and redid the whole thing: the previous one was clunky, hard to read an confusing. The new paper is much better.

SHOULD OUR THYROID HORMONAL ASSESSMENT BE REVIEWED? Currently, our “system” says that to figure out whether a person’s thyroid balance is satisfactory in terms of keeping our cells working at maximum efficiency, all we need to check is the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. However TSH is a signal sent by the Pituitary gland, to tell theContinue reading “THYROID TESTS”