Anyone Knows This Study Ray Mentioned In His Articles?

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On two articles he mention studies where they supplemented 1% armour thyroid to rats and also another study to rabbits.

Anyone know the reference?!


Osteoporosis, aging, tissue renewal, and product science


In the early 1940s, experimental rabbits were fed their standard diet, with the addition of 1% desiccated thyroid gland, which would be equivalent to about 150 grains of Armour thyroid for a person. They became extremely hypermetabolic, and couldn't eat enough to meet their nutritional needs for growth and tissue maintenance. When they died, all of their tissues weighed much less than those of animals that hadn't received the toxic dose of thyroid, except for their bones, which were larger than normal.

Osteoporosis, harmful calcification, and nerve/muscle malfunctions

In an experiment, rats were given a standard diet, to which had been added 1% Armour thyroid, that is, they were made extremely hyperthyroid. Since their diet was inadequate (later experiments showed that this amount of thyroid didn't cause growth retardation when liver was added to the diet) for their high metabolic rate, they died prematurely, in an apparently undernourished state, weighing much less than normal rats. Their bones, however, were larger and heavier than the bones of normal rats.
 
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so increasing your metabolic rate can be harmful ?
In next paragraph in his article he says they lost weight and died because they could not eat enough to support the high metabolism.

However he also mention in one of these articles that feeding them liver corrected the problem.

Anyway there is a threshold for increasing metabolism , obviously the system wrecks at some point if you feed them excess thyroid.

But the part he mentioned their bones was heavier than animals without thyroid supplement, that is interesting for me because if you do a search all of studies report bone loss with hyperthyroidism! Both in animal and human.
 
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In next paragraph in his article he says they lost weight and died because they could not eat enough to support the high metabolism.

However he also mention in one of these articles that feeding them liver corrected the problem.

Anyway there is a threshold for increasing metabolism , obviously the system wrecks at some point if you feed them excess thyroid.

But the part he mentioned their bones was heavier than animals without thyroid supplement, that is interesting for me because if you do a search all of studies report bone loss with hyperthyroidism! Both in animal and human.
That's because their definition of hyperthyroidism (and hypothyroidism) is wrong. The correct definition of hyperthyroidism is adequate T4 and "excessive" T3 production, while that of hypothyroidism is low T3 production. T3 is the only defining hormone of either good (when it's high or adequate) or bad (when it's low) thyroid physiology.
 

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