Their purposes are both the same— provide more thyroid hormone that your body desperately needs
Armour Thyroid (desiccated thyroid) is a thyroid hormone medication that treats low thyroid levels in the body (hypothyroidism)
Consider switching from Levothyroxine/Synthroid to Tirosint – Tirosint is a cleaner thyroid medication with only 4 ingredients (3 of which are inactive ingredients)
Prior to the availability of the pure levothyroxine, desiccated animal thyroid extract was the only treatment for hypothyroidism and some individuals still prefer dessicated thyroid extract as a more “natural” thyroid hormone
If you take a combination T3/T4 therapy or desiccated thyroid, it might keep you awake
6% leaned toward clinical significance and trended toward being statistically significant (p value=0
I also want to say that not every study shows these same results
Most people taking thyroid medications need to wait 30-60 minutes after taking their medications to have their morning coffee
Other health conditions that can go hand in hand with hypothyroidism
The majority of my thyroid patients in my Holistic Hormone practice feel better on Armour Thyroid than Levothyroxine
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Armour Thyroid works to replace the thyroid hormone in instances when the body does not produce sufficient amounts of hormones on its own
Synthroid has an average rating of 6
If a patient does not convert T4 into T3 very well, then they will do better by replacing both T4 and T3 by either taking levothyroxine (T4) and liothyronine (T3), or by taking an NDT, such as Armour