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Paul Robinson now has three thyroid books that fit together as a set:

1. 'Recovering with T3' - for people who want to know how to use T3 therapy safely and effectively. The protocol in 'Recovering with T3' has been tried and tested and thousands of people across the world have got well using it. It remains the 'go-to' book for those people who need to use T3-Only or T3-Mostly treatment, after the other therapies have failed. The Updated Edition 2018 is now available.

There is a new research paper from Hoermann, Midgley, Larisch and Deitrich.

It blows away ALL the research that has ever concluded that T3 has little or no benefit.

It also shows the flaws in trials that support the simplistic  reference range use of TSH or FT4 in a generalised way to manage treatment.

It points to a better way to manage thyroid treatment that is more focused on the patient and on the patient response to treatment.

T3 is the Main Active Tthyroid Hormone

T4 is a prohormone, or storage hormone. T3 is the only truly biologically active thyroid hormone.

However, from time to time someone airs an opinion that everyone needs to take some T4 (Levothyroxine, Synthroid or NDT), i.e. that it is critical to have some T4 medication.

So, in this blog post I want to make it very clear what I mean by 'T3 is the only truly biologically active thyroid hormone'.

Genomic and non-genomic action of thyroid hormones

I wrote a blog post about why I ended up requiring T3-Only to get well a little while ago: http://recoveringwitht3.com/blog/why-paul-needed-t3-only-medication-update

I do find it very interesting that someone with the complete set of deiodinase mutations like I have (DIO1 and DIO2 with both copies of each), can have been so well until my late twenties.