@Master Too bad but thanks anyway Master.

@Peatly said in Supplementing T3 not safe afterall?:

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Thanks Peatly.

@Master said in Supplementing T3 not safe afterall?:

As far as I'm aware, Peat, Haidut, and Danny all advocate cycling to some extent.

Do you know exactly how they did the cycling?

@Ecstatic_Hamster Me Neither Ecstatic Hamster, I have no intention of going off my T4 medication.

@Master said in Supplementing T3 not safe afterall?:

The major glaring issue is that they don't distinguish the difference in outcomes in patients that took just T3 and the patients that took T3 & T4. This is pretty significant

Yes it certainly is Master, so I can't imagine that they did not do that. Wish I could read the entire article.

@Kvirion Yes I totally agree Kvirion, I'm going very slowly and I am monitoring the results. You can't be too careful.

@Ecstatic_Hamster Thanks Ecstatic Hamster, I can't see that either but because its about a large number of patients I thought that, taken all together, they might have average health/sickness but that of course would be an assumption.

@Kvirion Thanks Kvirion, so that would mean that my fairly healthy life style and my being a picky eater (meaning a.o. nothing processed and as little pufa as possible) for many years, would keep me safe from possibly harmful effects of T3.

Hi, I'm new here and hoping that maybe I can ask about a study that I stumbled upon but have no acces to. Maybe someone else has.

Recently, after reading a lot about thyroid on another forum, I started to take T3 next to the levothyroxine which I have been taking as long as I remember because of hypothyroidism. It went really well, lot's of new energy and temperature went up so that made me really happy.
Maybe I should have stopped googling and reading about the subject then but I did'nt and so I stumbled upon this study from december 2022:

'Heart Failure and Stroke Risks in Users of Liothyronine With or Without Levothyroxine Compared with Levothyroxine Alone: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis'.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35570696/#:~:text=In addition%2C the risk of,and history of thyroid cancer.

It's about 1434 T3 users (with or without T4) compared to 3908 LT4-only users.
It says that he risk of heart failure and the risk of stroke are considerably higher after T3 therapy.

Can anyone tell how seriously this study should be taken?
I'm a bit worried now...