Dear Cathy the WT3 protocol has helped many patients who have had partial or total thyroidectomies.

In the case of partial thyroidectomies some patients have been able to recover and wean off T3 completely.

In the case of total thyroidectomies the patients require some form of thyroid hormone supplementation long term. Theoretically, thyroidectomy patients that do well on T3 therapy could stay on T3 therapy, but usually they are weaned off the T3 and put back on T4-containing medicine. The benefit from being on the WT3 protocol (T3), however, is that many thyroidectomy patients do better on less T4-containing medicine than they were doing on more before the WT3 protocol.

Here's an interesting aside. I have heard of some people in Japan who are able to survive without thyroid glands and without thyroid hormone medicine by eating a tremendous amount of seaweed. Not that I'd recommend it but it is very interesing. There is seaweed (Fucus herb) in ThyroCare and Thyroid Px.

Best regards,
Denis Wilson, MD  

Dear Leah,

The supplements do not need to be taken for life but there is nothing wrong with taking them for life. You can think of them as food. People need food. Without food people starve completely. But imagine if a person started eating just marshmallows. Marshmallows are made from just sugar. There are plenty of calories in sugar so a person could ward off starvation by eating marshmallows for quite some time. But how long would it take for someone's health to start failing? What if a person ate no fruits or vegetables or proteins and didn't get vitamins and essential fatty acids in their diets?

Some people would fall ill quite quickly, while others would have more of a health/nutritional reserve and would fare better longer. But eventually, would anyone remain healthy on a diet of just marshmallows and water?

Therefore, when our diets lack a satisfactory combination of foods to keep us healthy then we become less healthy. In our modern world with modern agriculture we are tending to eat more of fewer crops. We grow and eat a lot of corn, broccoli, grean beans, and lettuce (if we're even eating our vegetables :-)), but what about all the herbs our ancestors would have eaten while they were outside that we no longer eat (because they aren't grown commercially and sold in stores)? Our modern world is separating us from a lot of foods that we might otherwise be getting.

Usually, people might take the supplements for 3-6 months and then see how they do without them. Some people like to take the supplements for a month every year thereafter as maintenance. And other people like to stay on them as a healthy dietary habit. Others might fare well off the supplements for a very long time.

Hope that helps,
Denis Wilson, MD  

Dear Joan,

The WT3 protocol is a prescription thyroid treatment that is throughly explained in the Doctor's Manual.
If you need a doctor referral, you can see a list of WTS Physicians online.

If there is no doctor close to you, our Patient Guide is intended to help patients find a doctor willing to work with them.

The CD is the companion to the Guide, and is helpful for patients to give their doctors to listen to at the doctors' convenience.

For other doctors' comments regarding the WT3 protocol, please see Doctor Success.

Your doctor can order the T3 from Medaus Pharmacy in Birmingham, AL. Their number is 800-526-9183.

Hope that helps,
Denis Wilson, MD