Further to discussions on Acella Desiccated Thyroid

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Janie from STTM sent me the following which

I am passing on to all members here.

Luv - Sheila

April 13, 2011

Yesterday, I had a friendly and informative conversation with Philip

Vogt, the President of Acella Pharmaceuticals, and Ellen Gettenberg, Director

of Marketing. Acella is the company which brought out a generic form of desiccated

thyroid, and which first caught the eye of thyroid patients in November, 2009.

And I want to pass onto you what I learned:

Acella is different: Acella

Pharmaceutical is not like the gigantic pharms we often hear about.

Instead, they attempt to target the under-served markets, producing medications

for particular niches of treatment, or those which are low-profile

medications. They also seek to produce lowered priced versions of certain

medications while keeping the quality. Being lower-priced is why this

form of desiccated thyroid is called “generic”.

How they make their version of desiccated thyroid: When it specifically comes to its desiccated thyroid, they go by

older version “recipes” – using more dextrose (sugar) and

less methylcellulose. But in their case, the tablets are stated to

contain NO cellulose. That is actually good. Their tablets are also

not as hard-pressed as Armour seems to be now. I’d love to hear from

folks who’ve been on Acella if they have tried to it sublingually, and

what the results were.

The ingredients: Acella

does a 65 mg tablet. The desiccated thyroid comes from the same

manufactured source as do Armour and Naturethroid. Each 65 mg grain contains 38

mg T4 and 9 mcg T3 (plus unmeasured amounts of T2, T1 and calcitonin). The

inactive ingredients are calcium stearate, dextrose monohydrate, maltodextrin

and mineral oil.