Re: Thyroplex versus Nutri-Meds Adrenal

March 18, 2005

Each 1-capsule serving has these bovine glandular extracts:

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> Hypothalamus 200 mg

> Adrenal 200 mg

> Pituitary, anterior 150 mg

> Ovary 50 mg

> Thyroid, whole 15 mg

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The problem with products like this is that 200 mg of adrenal does

not translate neccessarily to a certain dose of cortisone. It all

depends on processing methods and how the lab at the manufacturing

plant standardizes the dose in each pill. If they process 200 mg of

adrenal into pills with more heat and less care and include more non

hormone tissue, it could end up having about the same adrenal in it

that the Nutri+meds 15mg pills have or no adrenal hormone at all,

just adrenal proteins and destroyed hormone. Or, it could be

carefully processed and have too much adrenal in it. There is no way

to know.

If you assume a Nutri+meds adrenal has about 4 mg of cortisone in

the 15 mg of extract, then by the same assumption 200 mg of extract

would have 53 mg of cortisone. I do not think this would be true

because 53 mg is more than your own adrenal gland would make. So,

who knows how much adrenal is in this product, though I am sure it

is a good product. If you were seeing a practitioner that prescribed

these, the company may tell him or her what the potency is. But,

they cannot tell the general public or they will loose the

supplement status for the product.

As for the thyroid that is in there, there is also no way to know

how much is in there.

I have used Nutri+meds adrenal and can only guess by the amount I

needed, how much cortisone was in them. They seem to have somewhere

between 4 and 6 mg of cortisone in them. IsoCort, I know has 2-1/2

mg per tablet. I have seen this number many times in the past given

on the web by physicians and practtioners who use it and was told by

one doctor that this is what it contains. I have seen this number

around enough over the years to be fairly confident that this is the

dose for IsoCort. But, I don't know how a person would find out the

dose of other similar medications.

Tish

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