Re: just curious homemade thyroid

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On 1/25/2011 2:30 PM, tyblossom@... wrote:

> I'm just curious, but before you could go to the store to buy your thyroid

> medication...what did people do or didn't they know about it prior to the

> pills? I just know I remember hearing that they would get it from pigs

> thyroids. So did they actually give people a little of the pig thyroid

> to eat?

The first compounds for treating hypoT were made from dried sheep

thyroids, back in the 1890s. By the time the synthetic formula was

developed in the 1930s, they were using both beef and pork thyroids. The

difficulty in standardizing these preparations was one of the prime

motives for switching to synthetics. Since the dessicated glands had

already been " proven " for many years, the synthetic (Synthroid) was

grandfathered in as a prescription medication. It was never patented.

They have since learned to control the T4 and T3 concentrations in the

dessicated glandular products, but many doctors are still prejudiced

against them because of the earlier problems.

Chuck

[Guest guest]

Well, as far as the diabetes, before they had a repeatable test it wasn't even

called an illness, but rather a syndrome which is a collection of symptoms

for which they don't have a

test.

 

As far back as I can remember my mother was on thyroid medication and it was

Armour. It's the oldest thyroid medication. Synthroid, I believe was started in

the 60s or 70s.

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From: tyblossom@... <tyblossom@...>

Subject: just curious homemade thyroid

hypothyroidism

Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 12:30 PM

I'm just curious, but before you could go to the store to buy your thyroid 

medication...what did people do or didn't they know about it prior to the 

pills? I just know I remember hearing that they would get it from pigs 

thyroids. So did they actually give people a little of the pig thyroid to eat? 

Just curious as I was thinking about that. If that's what they did...how did

they judge how much to give if you couldn't check levels? My friend and I

were  talking about her son with diabetes and how did they used to get

insulin or test  blood etc. So it got me thinking about this. Does anyone know?

I

don't even know  how to look that up online.