Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
Research analysis led by Kamal Patel.
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Summary of Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
Primary Information, Benefits, Effects, and Important Facts
Scientific Information on Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
Human Effect Matrix
The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect thyroid-stimulating hormone
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Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials |
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Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled |
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Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies |
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Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence
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The amount of high quality evidence. The more
evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Outcome |
Magnitude of effect
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The direction and size of the supplement's impact on
each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results
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Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or
VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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Notes |
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Iodine |
Minor
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High See all 3 studies |
An increase in Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) occurs both at the doses that suppress T3 and T4 and sometimes at lower doses where thyroid function is not impaired
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Trimethylglycine | - | - See study |
No significant influence of betaine on circulating TSH concentrations in serum.
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Tetradecyl Thioacetic Acid | - | - See study |
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