Hypothyroidism and Desiccated Thyroid: Books
Purpose of this compilation
To show via excerpts from books by medical doctors and other qualified writers that:
- Using desiccated thyroid to treat hypothyroidism is necessary for some patients to achieve wellness
- Any negative reputation that desiccated thyroid may have with some doctors stems from false information and is not based on fact
See also the links in the right column, as well as the T3 References: Books and TSH References: Books pages.
A. Medical doctors on the use of desiccated thyroid
B. Medical doctors on the reputation of desiccated thyroid
C. Medical writers on desiccated thyroid
A. Medical doctors on the use of desiccated thyroid
1. Stephen E. Langer, MD, and James F. Scheer: Solved: The Riddle of Illness (2000)
I start all my patients on the equivalent of one-fourth to one-half grain [one grain is 30 mg] of the Armour desiccated thyroid preparation, and increase their dosage in one-fourth to one-half grain increments every seven to ten days until a level that achieves the desired clinical results is obtained.
The dosage I use most commonly in adults is 1 to 2 grains. [p. 221]
Langer SE, Scheer, JF. Solved: The Riddle of Illness, third ed. Los Angeles: Keats Publishing; 2000.
On the back page:
Stephen E. Langer, M.D., received his medical training at New York College of Medicine in Buffalo, New York. He has been president of the American Nutritional Medicine Association since 1982 and has a private practice....
James F. Scheer has authored [and] co-authored fifteen published books, many in nutrition and health. 2. Richard Shames, MD, and Karilee Halo Shames, RN, PhD: Thyroid Power (2001)
Taking desiccated animal thyroid gland (natural thyroid) might also supply a person with useful interediary substances such as T-1 and T-2 thyroid hormone, in addition to the final products called T-3 and T-4. Some patients seem to need the interediary substances; others do not. [p. 99]
Shames RL, Shames KH. Thyroid Power. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.; 2001.
From the inside back cover:
Richard L. Shames, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennyslvania Medical School....
Karilee Halo Shames, R.N., Ph.D., is a clinical specialist in psychiatric nursing and a certified holistic nurse. B. Medical doctors on the reputation of desiccated thyroid
1. Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (1970)
A few years ago [1963], a large batch of material came into the hands of a number of distributors in the United States and Europe and, although of proper iodine content, it later proved not to be thyroid [extract] at all. This episode gave thyroid a bad name because several publications about the unreliability of thyroid appeared before the hoax was uncovered. [p. 1479]
Astwood EB et al. Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, fourth ed. New York: The Macmillan Company; 1970.
2. Stephen E. Langer, MD, and James F. Scheer: Solved: The Riddle of Illness (2000)
A give-and-take relationship apparently exists between the decrease in basal metabolism in thyroid deficiency and the rise in blood cholesterol.
...during the mid-1930s, physicians started patients on too high dosages of thyroid and brought on heart attacks and, in several instances, death...Large to massive dosages were tried — anywhere from 4 to 30 grains daily — causing the heart to race beyond its ability. From this flagrant misuse, thyroid developed a bad name, one it is still having difficulty overcoming. It is perhaps for this reason that a prime way to lower critical blood fats, including cholesterol, is often denied to patients who need it. [p. 120]
Langer SE, Scheer, JF: Solved: The Riddle of Illness, third ed. Keats Publishing, Los Angeles, 2000.
See authors' credentials in Part A (above).
C. Medical writers on desiccated thyroid
Mary J. Shomon: Living Well With Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctors Don't Tell You...That You Need to Know (2000)
Thyroid drugs with T3 are safe, effective, and FDA-approved. In the case of natural thyroid hormone like Armour, we're talking about a product that was used almost exclusively and safely the entire first half of the [1900s] century. Dozens of seniors have contacted me saying that their doctors took them off Armour after twenty or thirty years or more and only then did symptoms begin to plague them after years of good health on Armour. Many of the oldtime doctors still prefer Armour because they simply can't get satisfying results with levothyroxine alone. [p. 262]
Shomon MJ. Living Well With Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctors Don't Tell You...That You Need to Know. New York: Harper Collins Publishers; 2000.
From the inside back cover:
Mary J. Shomon, a thyroid patient herself, writes and manages several professional Web sites on thyroid disease....She is the author of several previous books.
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