Cow’s Milk- Decreasing your body’s ability to absorb thyroid hormone medication
Are you diagnosed or know someone with an under-active thyroid?
A recent preliminary study finds that ingesting the common oral hormone medication levothyroxine with cow’s milk, can significantly decrease the body’s ability to absorb the drug. The results were presented at ENDO 2017, the Endocrine society’s 99th annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Levothyroxine is prescribed for patients with an underactive thyroid to replace the natural thyroid hormone thyroxine. Primary investigator Deborah Chon, M.D stated that “These findings support previous research that calcium supplements can interfere with levothyroxine absorption. Decreased absorption means that patients may not get the full dose of thyroid hormone that they are prescribed.”
