Thyroid Extract - with food or away from food?

Rivka

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Hi there, does anyone know the best way to take thyroid extract? With food or away from food or it does not matter either way?

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aguilaroja

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Generally, taking NDT with food tends to slow its absorption, meaning prolong its duration a bit. To contrast, taking NDT between meals may give quicker onset of action.

IMNHO, there is much individual variation, and variation even in the same person at times.

IF thyroid supplementation is indicated, it seems better generally to take it consistently, rather than over-staggering things to assure the timing is "perfect". There are some cases where timing one way or another is important for steady/full dosing. Since the extracts/NDTs had a fixed proportion of T3, a good approach is to divide the amount into several or more times a day to get small amounts of T3 throughout the day. If there is see sawing of T3 effects, then taking with food is often helpful.

My overall experience is that the bio identical T4 & T3 can be more readily fine tuned. However, several of the NDT & extracts serve many people well. And it's certainly understood that for cost and access reasons, NDT etc is the ready option for some.
 

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