Latest Update: June 9, 2010

by Mary Shomon

Almost every conventional discussion of thyroid disease focuses on the use of the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) as the diagnostic "gold standard" for thyroid disease. The TSH is used almost exclusively by most conventional physicians as the means of diagnosing thyroid disease, irrespective of symptoms. Typically, if the TSH level is above the normal range, a patient is diagnosed as hypothyroid, and TSH levels below normal range are interpreted as hyperthyroidism. But is the TSH test and the reference "normal range" accurate? Should thyroid disease diagnosis be based primarily on this one test? Some experts say no.

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