Show 1452: Why Is the FDA Planning to Ban Natural Desiccated Thyroid?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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When the thyroid gland stops working efficiently, the effects resound throughout the entire body. That’s because this little gland controls metabolism in all our tissues. Before there was a treatment, thyroid disease was sometimes deadly. Doctors started prescribing natural desiccated thyroid derived from animals 130 years ago. This worked well. Synthetic levothyroxine (a thyroid hormone) […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	people's pharmacy.com.
0:14.8	The FDA has announced a ban on natural thyroid extracts like armor.
0:19.8	That will impact over a million people.
0:23.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:30.7	Most people with underactive thyroid glands take synthetic levo-thyroxine.
0:39.3	But many patients feel much better if they take a natural desiccated thyroid instead.
0:45.3	How will the FDAs ban affect them?
0:47.3	What could they do if their medicines were pulled off the market?
0:51.3	We speak with an endocrinologist and a patient advocate about the possible
0:55.5	ways people might deal with this situation. Coming up on the people's pharmacy, why is the FDA
1:02.0	planning to ban natural desiccated thyroid? In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, the FDA has just announced a change to prescribing information for hormone replacement therapy.
1:24.4	For many years, this treatment for menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats
1:28.7	has carried a black box warning. This warned women and their doctors that estrogen could
1:34.1	increase the risk for endometrial cancer and could increase the risk for blood clots and cardiovascular
1:40.3	problems. FDA Commissioner Marty McCarrie has expressed his belief that the boxed warning
1:46.4	frightened women away from a treatment that could help them. He thinks that HRT might reduce the risk
1:51.9	of bone fractures, dementia, and even heart disease in women who start taking it at menopause.
1:57.9	According to Dr. McCarrie, with the exception of antibiotics and vaccines, there may be
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