Curious - if taking a dessicated thyroid in the morning, I've always thought you needed to test early afternoon so the test isn't inflated from the dessicated thyroid. You say test around 9 in the morning - is that still true if taking HRT or would you recommend another time of day?
Very interesting article! How would you say that these patterns differ in countries with different typical light levels? For example, in a region which is generally cloudy, even without artificial light taken into account, would there be a considerable difference in baseline thyroxine levels?
Curious - if taking a dessicated thyroid in the morning, I've always thought you needed to test early afternoon so the test isn't inflated from the dessicated thyroid. You say test around 9 in the morning - is that still true if taking HRT or would you recommend another time of day?
I prefer to check thyroid with fasting morning labs. I tell patients to take their thyroid hormone at the same time regardless.
Very interesting article! How would you say that these patterns differ in countries with different typical light levels? For example, in a region which is generally cloudy, even without artificial light taken into account, would there be a considerable difference in baseline thyroxine levels?
Hi!
Don't you think that "iodine" would be helpful to the thyroid?
Dr. Brownstein as well as others have written a book on this and more.
Thank you!
Lise from Maine (former licensed clinician)
Here’s a recent post about exactly that! https://open.substack.com/pub/stillmanmd/p/quantum-iodine?r=bz03m&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Yes! that's why I wrote about it in my last thyroid blog post!