Thyroid Hormone Therapy: Cutting the Gordian Knot Supplement to The Art of Getting Well “Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment – The Arthritis Trust of America Thyroid: Master Gland & Regulator The human body, from one perspective, is [...]
by Raymond F. Peat, Ph.D. Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician, or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment. (Formerly published in The Journal of the Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, Volume 1, Number 1), The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Since I am trying to discuss a complex matter in a single article, I have separately outlined the essential technical points of the argument in a section at the beginning, then I explain how my ideas on the subject developed, and finally there is a glossary. If you start with “Short-day [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Since I am trying to discuss a complex matter in a single article, I have separately outlined the essential technical points of the argument in a section at the beginning, then I explain how my ideas on the subject developed, and finally there is a glossary. If you start with “Short-day [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD A review of the use of estrogens reported in J.A.M.A. (only up to 1987) found nearly 200 different “indications for its use. (Palmlund, 1996.) Using the conservative language of that journal, such use could be said to constitute wildly irresponsible “empirical” medical practice. More appropriate language could be used. Pollution of [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD When I started graduate school in biology at the University of Oregon, cell “membrane” research was a thriving business, almost as lucrative as genetics. Years earlier, I had been intrigued by Linus Pauling’s suggestion that anesthetics might act by “structuring” the water in nerve cells, and in trying to understand the [...]
R231C mutation in KCNQ1 causes long QT syndrome type 1 and familial atrial fibrillation. Bartos DC, Duchatelet S, Burgess DE, Klug D, Denjoy I, Peat R, Lupoglazoff JM, Fressart V, Berthet M, Ackerman MJ, January CT, Guicheney P, Delisle BP. Heart Rhythm. 2011 Jan;8(1):48-55. Epub 2010 Sep 17. Zoledronic acid improves femoral head sphericity in [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Several years ago, George Crile, of the Cleveland Clinic, observed that his clinic had removed only 11 thyroids that year, and that they had done more than 5000 thyroidectomies annually in the 1920s. The reason for the change was that they found that there was rarely any reason to remove the [...]
Is iodine supplementation safe and, if not, is there a safe amount of supplemental iodine? Dr. Peat: “A dosage of 150 mcg (micrograms, not milligrams, e.g., ug not mg) is a safe amount of iodine. There are excellent references describing the effect of a moderate iodine excess (even below a milligram per day) on the [...]
Steve Jobs had a liver transplant and died from complications due to pancreatic cancer. I don’t point this out this case to be condescending in any way, but if you don’t learn from the experience of others you are bound to repeat the same. -FPS Brian Caulfield, 07.24.08, 6:00 AM ET BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Is [...]
