For those of you who sincerely believe that the FDA is looking out for the consumer’s best interests – think again. The FDA is nothing more than a bunch of scoundrels closely allied with the big drug companies that keep them in existence.
People taking Armour Thyroid and similar dessicated thyroid hormone prescriptions have been experiencing shortages of for the last year.?? It seems that the manufacturers have been shutting down production in anticipation of rumors that the FDA was about to ban the drug and require them to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and delay many years to go through a new drug application (NDA).
A few months ago, Time-Caps lab, a huge manufacturer of generic Armour thyroid, received a ban letter from the FDA telling them that their drug needed an NDA and that they??must “cease and desist” production.?? They have posted the letter on the internet for the world to see and the wording also indicates the strategy of the FDA to shut down ALL similar thyroid hormone products (Armour, Nature-Throid, Wes-Throid).
Armour thyroid has been around since around 1890 and everyone thought it was “grandfathered” in prior to the passage of the FDA Act in 1934.?? In 2000, however, the FDA had a change of direction and decided that they would require every drug in America to have an NDA.?? It took a number of years to get around to Armour but the Gestapo has arrived in full force.
Regardless of the politics and big money involved, about a million people take Armour thyroid or similar brands in America.?? Millions more take Synthroid and other similar synthetic brands. Synthroid is a lousy drug and barely helps people with thyroid deficiencies.?? Armour thyroid works like a champ.
So what does this have to do with migraine headaches??? Most people with migraines, in my observation, have symptoms consistent with thyroid deficiencies.?? Many of my customers need to take either iodine or thyroid or both, as a result.?? My book that you can download off this website gives directions in detail on how to manage your migraines in the face of low thyroid.
Now that the FDA has disrupted supply of a great drug that benefitted a million people, we are in a bind. My first reaction is to tell people to storm and pillage the FDA, but that is not going to happen anytime soon.??
The easiest alternative is to take iodine in sufficient doses – as long as your Armour dose was a haf-grain or less (30mg).?? For higher doses of Armour, there is a dietary supplement called Raw Thyroid that, albeit weaker than Armour, does more or less the same thing as Armour.
You can access Raw Thyroid here:
http://doctor.rejuvenation-science.com/andrewjones1/
For many people, they will need a combination of iodine and Raw Thyroidl.
In the meantime, if you can locate any kind of Armour, order as much as you can, stock up and begin hoarding. The street value of Armour thyroid will be our next black market – thanks to our thoughtful and people-loving FDA.
A good reference on how to manage iodine for low thyroid conditions is www.1-Thyroid.com .
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Andrew Jones, M.D.
Women’s Health Insitute of Texas
www.migraine-headaches-information.com