I think it’s important to have a more global vision of the problem.
Knowing what the situation is in different countries could be a start.
Post it as replies to this comment, with the country you live in, and the situation there (the best would be to ask one or more doctors about it, in order to be sure we can trust it).
Personally, I live in France. Here, desiccated thyroid isn’t sold anymore to everybody. According to two doctors I know, it’s because bad things used to happen back in the days where it was completely accessible (in the 60′ I believe). I am still researching informations about the hypothesis itself in my country, I’ll post it if I learn anything.
Thank you for your replies by advance!
That’s interesting. In England and America I think that it would be illegal to sell desiccated thyroid as a prescription drug without a prescription. But it’s perfectly legal to sell it as a food supplement. It’s just dried bacon, after all.
It’s quite difficult to find (people with TSH-detectable hypothyroidism get treated by their doctors with thyroxine, and for most people (~90%??) that seems to work perfectly), but it can be found.
I expect some fascist bastards will get round to outlawing that sooner or later. Before they do, we ought to find out whether it will cure CFS etc. After all, once it’s illegal people will have to buy it from criminals, and I don’t trust their quality control. Also it might put the price up slightly.
I’m interested in what the bad things that happened in France were. Obviously this is quite a potent drug, and so if it’s for sale to the general public it is certain to cause harm from people taking far too much and overdosing.
But at the moment I think it’s fairly safe in small doses for trial periods. And I’d very much like to know if that’s not true.
Well quite. In America I think there have been episodes of ‘hamburger thyrotoxicosis’, so putting thyroids in food is now illegal, which is good. I’m not sure what the European situation is.
Tsk, summoning the mind-killer in broad daylight. This is supposed to be a family-friendly discussion of taking mad drugs off of the internet for made-up diseases in futile defiance of medical advice. Let us not side-track onto the emotive issue of banana curvature, which is very difficult and sensitive for the English people (sniff).
Downvote me back, will you? Tit-for-tat is the whole of the law.
I think it’s important to have a more global vision of the problem. Knowing what the situation is in different countries could be a start. Post it as replies to this comment, with the country you live in, and the situation there (the best would be to ask one or more doctors about it, in order to be sure we can trust it). Personally, I live in France. Here, desiccated thyroid isn’t sold anymore to everybody. According to two doctors I know, it’s because bad things used to happen back in the days where it was completely accessible (in the 60′ I believe). I am still researching informations about the hypothesis itself in my country, I’ll post it if I learn anything. Thank you for your replies by advance!
That’s interesting. In England and America I think that it would be illegal to sell desiccated thyroid as a prescription drug without a prescription. But it’s perfectly legal to sell it as a food supplement. It’s just dried bacon, after all.
It’s quite difficult to find (people with TSH-detectable hypothyroidism get treated by their doctors with thyroxine, and for most people (~90%??) that seems to work perfectly), but it can be found.
I expect some fascist bastards will get round to outlawing that sooner or later. Before they do, we ought to find out whether it will cure CFS etc. After all, once it’s illegal people will have to buy it from criminals, and I don’t trust their quality control. Also it might put the price up slightly.
I’m interested in what the bad things that happened in France were. Obviously this is quite a potent drug, and so if it’s for sale to the general public it is certain to cause harm from people taking far too much and overdosing.
But at the moment I think it’s fairly safe in small doses for trial periods. And I’d very much like to know if that’s not true.
Just buy a whole pig and eat it snout to tail :-)
Well quite. In America I think there have been episodes of ‘hamburger thyrotoxicosis’, so putting thyroids in food is now illegal, which is good. I’m not sure what the European situation is.
What, you doubt Brussels which already saved the Europeans from the horrors of mis-curved bananas? X-0
Tsk, summoning the mind-killer in broad daylight. This is supposed to be a family-friendly discussion of taking mad drugs off of the internet for made-up diseases in futile defiance of medical advice. Let us not side-track onto the emotive issue of banana curvature, which is very difficult and sensitive for the English people (sniff).
Downvote me back, will you? Tit-for-tat is the whole of the law.