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

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 “”
More about DCM
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”
2021-11-25
The page on ALLOPREGNANOLONE has been updated today, to include developments re. BREXANOLONE, ZURANOLONE, treatment of Allopregnanolone-deficiency depression and ideas regarding treatment of the Post-Finasteride Syndrome. wordpress.com/page/hormonetherapyexplained.wordpress.com/87
24 Nov. 2021
“Thyroid” page updated:Page renamed “the thyroid hormone”,FreeT3/rT3 calculation table added, for your interest and convenience.
REGARDING the POST-FINASTERIDE SYNDROME
PFS is due to 5-alpha reductase blockade, producing Allopregnanolone deficiency.
22 November, 2021
There were some inaccuracies in the page re. THYROID and I have redone the page (QV).
2021-11-05
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.
THYROID TESTS
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”
HIGHER PREVALENCE OF “LOW T3 SYNDROME” IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY
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 haveContinue reading “HIGHER PREVALENCE OF “LOW T3 SYNDROME” IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY”