TSH: Forget It, Fret it, What? Looking at thyroid health and evaluation from BOTH sides of the clinical coin.

Thyroid health and the tests and symptoms to test, track and treat are a polemic world.

TSH stands for thyroid stimulating hormone and it’s been the gold standard of testing for thyroid health in classical (allopathic) medicine.

But times they are a changing.

I remember taking a class from one of the truly agile thinkers in our community, Dr. Kent Holtorf.

Dr. Kent, whose office I shadowed for a week in California way back when (we learn so much from seasoned docs), says the science shows that the thyroid receptors on the pituitary are completely different from peripheral receptors.

He doesn’t even run TSH anymore. Dr. Kent focuses on free T3.

You must realize how much controversy there is over evaluation of thyroid disorders.

But the thyroid, according to thyroid scientists like Barbara Demeneix PhD who wrote the Toxic Cocktail, is one of the primary organs attacked by endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in our air, food and water.

I am not that far to the “right” in thyroid politics, yet.

I run an in-depth thyroid panel that includes TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, TBG, and antibody testing.

Let’s get the controversy out in the open.

Let’s get the terms straight.