...a logical treatment strategy is to try to mimic the normal physiological ratio of T4 to T3 of about 14 to 1: “The clinical literature is muddled by the fact that most people who have tried to give T4 and T3 have given way too much T3. ....
“When we give combination therapy, we are actually not normalizing serum T3. We are creating pulses of T3. So during a few hours you have a higher level of T3. Then a few hours later, you have a lower level than what you want. Unless we develop a delivery system to provide a steady level of T3, we are not in a position to answer whether combination therapy is better or worse than monotherapy.”“People have been talking for decades about a time-released T3 medicine,” says Ross. “But that appears to be difficult to make because pharmaceutical companies have not come up with it yet,” despite a potential market of millions of patients. Correct dosing might require taking LT3 several times a day, and for most people compliance would be an issue.