Bro, I sense a lot of anger and hate. Although I don't have super intelligent opinions on the cases you presented, we do see good results with peating on hair. I also wouldn't call Hans a non-Peater. Yes, he does few things that are not fully peaty but his general view on health still aligns.

This guy from Hans group showed his results in such a short time with the following routine...

"Gut health - ALA, bone broth, berberine, l-ReuterI
Topical - copper peptide, whipped beef tallow (it’s my moisturiser but used it topically)
Dermaroller - 5 min a day"

Some of your questions remain valid though and I'd like to see things like that in the Peatosphere.

In general in the health and fitness scene, there are always countless ways to reach a goal and goals are reached with differing and opposing methods that do not make sense for dogmatists. In that, I hear you brother. But we have to acknowledge the triple power of placebo, drastic change, and confounding variables. You won't see me embracing PUFAs after seeing guys regrow hair while eating PUFA.

Cheers

@stag

I wonder if their theories can be shown on blood tests.
Although I know how Dr. Peat feels about free T4 and free T3 labs, an rT3 might be good to track in such cases.

My rT3 indeed does go down when I increase my T3 while taking T4/T3.

Thank you for sharing this - I will look into their therapies further.

Although this probably has been discussed before, it might still be helpful for us to discuss what this means for us. Is T3 really unsafe and will increase the risk of heart failure and stroke?

https://www.thyroid.org/patient-thyroid-information/ct-for-patients/december-2022/vol-15-issue-12-p-3-4/#:~:text=Overall%2C L-T3 users had,of anxiety and mood disorders.

I feel good with combo therapy or T3 only therapy, but had an interesting experiment, n=1...

No thyroid therapy: TSH = 6
T4/T3 therapy: TSH = 0.74
T3 only therapy: TSH = 1.7

It seems that combo worked better for me, since Dr. Peat had said that TSH in itself might be destructive. There might have been other factors involved but these tests were taking within a few months of each other.

I am still experimenting....

Thyroid for me is essential but not the 1 pill to cure all my woes.

Without taking thyroid, my pulse dips to 36 bpm and in the 40s - 50s with office work. On thyroid, my daytime resting is around 70 bpm.

I take Cynoplus and Cynomel. I need less in the summer and more in the winter to reach a daytime temperature of 37 C or higher and a reasonable pulse.

I hope that one day I can become metabolically healthy enough to stop needing it, but until then, I still have to source it.