The human intestine is colonized with bacteria. These good bacteria work together to digest foods, create vitamins and nutrients to be absorbable, regulate our immune system and communicate to the liver and the brain the state of health inside the body. These groups of bacteria are called the microbiome. The microbiome creates a unique environment […]
I am sharing current thoughts on how the thyroid and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis can affect fertility and my take on this. You can just read from the key points to the references, and/ or you can read deeper into my blog after the references for more of a sense of the current research. Key points
The deiodinase 2 enzyme (DIO2) in the brain is responsible for converting T4 to T3 in the brain. Sixteen percent of the population carries a variation in the DIO2 gene that may affect how they respond to thyroid therapy after thyroidectomy. These individuals show in genetic testing a “CC” type or rs225014 polymorphism in the DIO2 gene.
New treatment for Graves Opthalmopathy is a game changer and can prevent long standing proptosis and diplopia in patients with Grave disease. Graves eye disease occurs because of autoimmune development of TSH receptor antibodies and IgF I receptor antibodies binding to both TSH receptor and IGF-1 receptors on orbital fibroblast. These orbital fibroblast then
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Dr. Scott Rivkees, Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at U. of Florida, and expert in anti-thyroid medication, discussed at a plenary lecture at American Thyroid Association’s (ATA) meeting why the use of propylthiouracil (PTU) for the treatment of Graves disease is no longer recommended. It has been well documented that children with Graves Disease have
Graves Disease Treatment 2018-19: Methimazole only drug recommended for all. Read More »
I have reported on this issue in prior blogs, but the formal publication of the data obtained from the 2017 online survey of 12,146 hypothyroid respondents was finally published this June in the journal Thyroid by Sarah Peterson et al. Of the 11,166 respondents that made the final cohort 6,949 reported being on levothyroxine alone,
Dissatisfaction of Hypothyroid Patients & Thyroid hormone replacement. Read More »
Physician-scientists from the neuroendocrine unit at Mass General Boston evaluated thyroid function measurements in health records of 239 women undergoing infertility evaluations over 13 years. Infertility is defined by inability to get pregnant after one year of unprotected intercourse and occur in 7-15% of women in the US, The cause of infertility is usually found
Thyroid Function and Infertility: Wanted TSH < 2.5? Read More »
