Peter Attia· MD
T4 has a very long Half-Life it's a matter of days and for that reason a patient shouldn't Panic if they miss a day of T4 so if they forget their dose of T4 it's okay just take it the next day and don't double up
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
T4 has a very long Half-Life it's a matter of days and for that reason a patient shouldn't Panic if they miss a day of T4 so if they forget their dose of T4 it's okay just take it the next day and don't double up
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Whereas to your point T4 has a very long halflife. That's correct. So it's actually a very easy drug to take once a day and frankly even if you skip a day it doesn't really tend to matter that much. If you skip a day, you take two the next day or you can even take three if you skip two days. So it's a very convenient drug from that point of view.