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- Low T3 Syndrome (Parts 1-5)
- Selenium: The Missing Link for Treating Hypothyroidism?
- Iodine for Hypothyroidism: Crucial Nutrient or Harmful Toxin?
- Your Gut Microbes and Your Thyroid: What’s the Connection?
- 4 Little-Known Causes of Restless Legs Syndrome
- 8 Tips for Beating Insomnia and Improving Your Sleep
- How Artificial Light is Wrecking Your Sleep, and What to Do About It
- How Much Sleep Do You Need?
Podcasts
- RHR: Subclinical Hypothyroidism – What You Need To Know
- RHR: Do Raw Vegetables Hurt Your Thyroid Health?
- RHR: Is it Possible to Get Off Thyroid Medication?
- Jimmy Moore—Ask the Low-Carb Experts: Thyroid 101 with Chris Kresser
- RHR: Why Most People Are Sleep-Deprived and What to do About it
- RHR: Yes, You Still Need 7-8 Hours of Sleep—with Dan Pardi
Magnesium Studies
- Suboptimal magnesium status in the United States: are the health consequences underestimated?
- The underestimated problem of using serum magnesium measurements to exclude magnesium deficiency in adults; a health warning is needed for “normal” results
- Essential Nutrient Interactions: Does Low or Suboptimal Magnesium Status Interact with Vitamin D and/or Calcium Status?
- Associations of intakes of magnesium and calcium and survival among women with breast cancer: results from Western New York Exposures and Breast Cancer (WEB) Study
- About the misdiagnosis of magnesium deficiency
- Assessment of magnesium status for diagnosis and therapy
- Serum magnesium and the development of diabetes
- Hypomagnesaemia and risk for metabolic glucose disorders: a 10-year follow-up study
- Dyslipidemia and serum mineral profiles in patients with thyroid disorders
- Serum Levels of Lipids, Calcium and Magnesium in Women with Hypothyroidism and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Bathing in a magnesium-rich Dead Sea salt solution improves skin barrier function, enhances skin hydration, and reduces inflammation in atopic dry skin
Thyroid Hypofunction Studies
- The Normal TSH Reference Range: What Has Changed in the Last Decade?
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-thyroperoxidase antibody relationships demonstrate that TSH upper reference limits may be skewed by occult thyroid dysfunction
- The upper limit of the reference range for thyroid-stimulating hormone should not be confused with a cut-off to define subclinical hypothyroidism
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-thyroperoxidase antibody relationships demonstrate that TSH upper reference limits may be skewed by occult thyroid dysfunction
- Clinical review: A review of the clinical consequences of variation in thyroid function within the reference range
- The clinical significance of subclinical thyroid dysfunction
- Narrow Individual Variations in Serum T4 and T3 in Normal Subjects: A Clue to the Understanding of Subclinical Thyroid Disease
- Nature and functions of autoantibodies
- Regulation of autoreactive antibodies
- Discrepancy in the expression of autoantibodies in healthy aged individuals
- Subclinical hypothyroidism and the risk of coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis
- Subclinical Thyroid Disease Scientific Review and Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management
- Effect of levothyroxine replacement on lipid profile and intima-media thickness in subclinical hypothyroidism: a double-blind, placebo- controlled study
- Thyroid disease in the oldest old: the exception to the rule
- Searching for the autoimmune thyroid disease susceptibility genes: from gene mapping to gene function
- Further evidence for a strong genetic influence on the development of autoimmune thyroid disease: the California twin study
- Hashimoto Thyroiditis: Part 1, Sonographic Analysis of the Nodular Form of Hashimoto Thyroiditis
- “Focal thyroid inferno” on color Doppler ultrasonography: A specific feature of focal Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in Primary Thyroid Lymphoma with Coexisting Lymphocytic Thyroiditis
- Roles of ultrasound and power Doppler ultrasound for diagnosis of Hashimoto thyroiditis in anti-thyroid marker-positive euthyroid subjects
- The value of ultrasonography in predicting autoimmune thyroid disease
- Micronodulation: ultrasonographic sign of Hashimoto thyroiditis
- Thyroidal and peripheral production of 3,5,3′-triiodothyronine in humans by multicompartmental analysis
- Non thyroidal illness: to treat or not to treat?
- Reverse T3 does not reliably differentiate hypothyroid sick syndrome from euthyroid sick syndrome
- Mercury and thyroid autoantibodies in U.S. women, NHANES 2007–2008
- Removal of dental amalgam decreases anti-TPO and anti-Tg autoantibodies in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis
- Relative vitamin D insufficiency in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Risk factors for and prevalence of thyroid disorders in a cross-sectional study among healthy female relatives of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease
- Effects of long-term administration of vitamin D3 analogs to mice
- Regulatory T cells, a potent immunoregulatory target for CAM researchers: the ultimate antagonist (I)
- Role of Vitamin D in Insulin Secretion and Insulin Sensitivity for Glucose Homeostasis
- Celiac autoimmunity in autoimmune thyroid disease is highly prevalent with a questionable impact.
- Autoimmune diseases and celiac disease which came first: genotype or gluten?
- Decreased serum alkaline phosphatase activity in hypothyroidism: possible relationship to low serum zinc and magnesium
- Significance of low serum alkaline phosphatase activity in a predominantly adult male population
- Intestinal alkaline phosphatase detoxifies lipopolysaccharide and prevents inflammation in zebrafish in response to the gut microbiota
- Central hypothyroidism
- Adult hypopituitarism: Are we missing or is it clinical lethargy?
- Prevalence and relative risk of other autoimmune diseases in subjects with autoimmune thyroid disease
- Thyroid hormones and erythrocyte indices in a cohort of euthyroid older subjects
- Erythrocyte abnormalities in thyroid dysfunction
- Comparison of hematological parameters in untreated and treated subclinical hypothyroidism and primary hypothyroidism patients
- Sufficient iodine intake during pregnancy: just do it
- Iodine Status and Thyroid Function of Boston-Area Vegetarians and Vegans
- Iodine status in pregnant women in the National Children’s Study and in U.S. women (15-44 years), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2010
- Marginal Iodine Status and High Rate of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Washington DC Women Planning Conception
- Global iodine nutrition: Where do we stand in 2013?
- Hair Iodine for Human Iodine Status Assessment
- Serum thyroglobulin as a biomarker of iodine deficiency in adult populations
- The relationship between iodine intake and serum thyroglobulin in the general population
- Effect of small doses of iodine on thyroid function in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis residing in an area of mild iodine deficiency
- Drugs and thyroid function
- Supplemental selenium alleviates the toxic effects of excessive iodine on thyroid
- The Effect of Iodine Restriction on Thyroid Function in Patients with Hypothyroidism Due to Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
- Selenium upregulates CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells in iodine-induced autoimmune thyroiditis model of NOD.H-2(h4) mice
- Selenium Supplementation in Patients with Autoimmune Thyroiditis Decreases Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies Concentrations
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and the role of selenium. Current concepts
- Selenium treatment in autoimmune thyroiditis: 9-month follow-up with variable doses
- Trace element risk assessment: essentiality vs. toxicity
- Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development—Iodine Review
- Thyroid disease in hemochromatosis. Increased incidence in homozygous men
Other Links
- Dietary Reference Intakes: Magnesium
- Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center: Magnesium
- Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 10th ed. by Maurice E. Shils, pages 223-247
- Iodine and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Part 2 – PerfectHealthDiet.com
- RT3 Ratio Calculator – Stop the Thyroid Madness