McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Why One Size Fits All Thyroid Treatment Fails!

4 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short monologue by McCall McPherson arguing that standard levothyroxine-only thyroid treatment fails many patients—especially women—because some patients cannot convert levothyroxine (T4) into active T3 (“poor converters”). McPherson uses a crude-oil-to-gasoline analogy to claim these patients remain symptomatic under a one-size-fits-all approach and are not discussed in formal medical training.

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Your body needs gasoline hormone to function, you need to get to T3. And the incidence of having issues with this one is not even ever talked about in formal medical training, not even addressed, not even spoken about as an option or a barrier to people feeling better. It is simply you. One size fits all. Everyone gets levothyroxine based medication, so if you are what I call a poor converter, you can't take that levothyroxine and activate it, convert it, make it usable, make it into T3. You will never get your life back. I can give someone all the crude oil in the world, but if they cannot convert it to gasoline, they are not going anywhere in their car. And that is what we are doing to millions of women in our country and the world.