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Why do I not need a prescription for HSF? May 9, 2009

Q: How exciting! I can't wait for additional information on HSF on ThyroidScience.US. I'm hoping you will address a question I have: Why is it necessary to have Armour, Nature-throid etc doctor prescribed, yet that's not the case for HSF? Thanks so much for all your great work! My cousin is going to be over the moon when I tell her about HSF. Her doctor is refusing her any thyroid med in spite of hypothyroid symptoms because she has "normal test results." Ugh! Thanks again!

Dr. Lowe: Thank you for your email. I share your excitement. I do so because HSF (and the HSF-Plus that will soon to be available) represents freedom for patients. I've been cautioned that some patient won't know how to use HSF properly and that only doctors should have the discretion to decide whether patients should use it. And if a patient does use HSF, the advice goes on, a doctor should decide how the patient uses it.

My reply is this: When it comes to hypothyroidism and thyroid hormone resistance, it would be hard indeed for patients to do a worse therapeutic job than doctors have done for the last forty years. Far too long now, the endocrinology specialty has ruined endless patients' lives and brought some to premature death through its often-changing "practice guidelines" (that is, its dictates) for the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism. And for too long, clinicians in other specialties have been duped or intimidated by the specialty into following its dictates—dictates that are clearly harmful for many hypothyroid patients and for virtually all thyroid hormone resistance patients.

I staunchly believe that it's far past time that people deprive the endocrinology specialty of its power to ruin lives through it's commercially-driven dictates. One of my ways to help bring about the dissolution of that  power of the specialty's dictates is to let patients know about HSF. We have in HSF a product that I believe can effectively enable patients to recover their health—thereby liberating them from the slavery of the specialty's dictates.

 
Thyro-GoldTM Each capsule of dietary desiccated thyroid contains 300 mg of thyroid powder from New Zealand pasture-fed cows. Each capsule also contains 25 mg of Coleus forskohlii (10% forskolin).
 
Thyro-GoldTM is available in 90 capsule bottles. Compare this with RLC Labs Hypo Support Formula (HSF). HSF provides 60 capsules per bottle for the same price as 90 capsules of Thyro-GoldTM.
 
Save even more by purchasing bottles Thyro-GoldTM that contain 180 capsules.
 

You asked, "Why is it necessary to have Armour, Nature-Throid, etc. doctor prescribed, yet that's not the case for HSF?"

Nature-Throid and similar products are classified by the FDA as prescription drugs. HSF is an organic food-derived product for which specific drug-like claims aren't made. The product is protected by the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. As such, the FDA cannot regulate it as a drug—that is, as long as we walk a informational and terminological tightrope in informing the public and practitioners about the product. That tightrope walk is the reason you and others may sense some hedging in my communications about HSF. I apologize for the seeming evasiveness, but it's necessity to help keep the product available prescription-free to the public.

Please give your cousin my very best wishes. And I hope both of you, before using HSF, will read the three chapters I've made available from a book I wrote. The chapter downloads are completely free.

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