Here’s a question I received from a reader:
Hi,
I appreciate your newsletter and am on the WT3 protocol. Would you kindly comment on how people who have had their thyroid removed respond to the WT3 protocol. Are there any differences in treatment????
Thanks,
Mo B.
Yes, people who have had their thyroid glands removed often do very well on T3 therapy. How well people feel on thyroid medicine has everything to do with how well that thyroid medicine is helping them maintain a normal and steady body temperature. The body temperature depends on how well T3 is stimulating the metabolism inside the cells of the body. In patients with a thyroid gland, the T3 inside the cells comes from conversion of the T4 produced in the thyroid gland into T3 so that it will be available inside the cells. In patients without a thyroid gland, the T3 can be supplied directly with T3 given by mouth. Once in the cell, the T3 binds to thyroid hormone receptors. The T3/Thyroid receptor complex is then transported into the nucleus where it can affect the transcription of the DNA to determine the body temperature.
So we see, whether the T3 comes from T4 made by the thyroid gland or whether it is delivered by the bloodstream from a medicine taken by mouth, the result is very much the same. In some ways, it’s easier to treat a patient who has had the thyroid gland removed. In such a case, the patient’s body is not making any thyroid hormone on its own. Therefore, any thyroid hormone in the patient’s body is from medicine the patient is taking. This gives the doctor complete control over the thyroid hormone levels.
Patients with thyroidectomies typically respond very well to the WT3 protocol. There are some differences in treating patients without thyroid function, but those differences are explained in Chapter 12 of the Doctor’s Manual.
Good luck,
Denis Wilson, MD
Hi Denis…how do I get one of your thermometers???????????
Hola, quisiera saber si el tratamiento con t3 para pacientes con tiroidectomia total debe realizarse de por vida, o debe hacerse por solo unos meses. Gracias! Saludos desde Colombia.
Hola :) En pacientes tiroidectomía T3 se puede utilizar durante un período de meses o de por vida, ya sea uno. Por lo general, la idea es que la gente esté en el T3 de unos meses para despejar sus vías de hormona tiroidea para que sus sistemas pueden funcionar bien en la medicina que contiene T4 regular. Sin embargo, si los pacientes están tolerando bien y lo prefieren, la T3 puede tomarse de por vida.