Could a person manufacture their own thyroid hormone medicine in a pinch?

Ive had a thyroidectomy and take Levothyroxine everyday to replace thyoird hormone, which of course I need to continue living, keep my metabolism going and feeling good (without it I would eventually go into a coma and die). I know armour thyroid medicine comes from the thyroids of pigs. If say, the economy and government collapsed and my thryoid medicine was no longer available to buy because the whole system had broken down and the country was in total chaos... Could I make a reasonably decent substitute by taking the thyroid of a pig and either eating it, or drying it, making it into a powder form and putting it in capsules? I know a better option would just be to stockpile the stuff, but I would really like to know if it could possibly be made without any high tech equiptment and chemistry know how.

Mr. Helpful2010-04-03T21:29:27Z

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Actually the answer is yes. You could probably find some reference material regarding the actual concentration of thyroid hormone per gram weight of dessicated (dried) animal raw gland material. I would stay away from bovine (cow) gland because of the risk of mad cow disease. Pigs are much closer to humans genetically and do not carry prion disease as far as I know. Once obtained, you could dry out the gland and simply measure the amount needed on a digital scale.

Anonymous2010-04-03T12:17:18Z

Possibly.

Stockpiling the Armour product in addition to frozen.cow and pig glands may work.

?2016-10-07T07:04:28Z

under no circumstances. you could't get something hormonal exchanged between you and somebody else. that is no longer some thing that is carried or surpassed from one individual to the subsequent. that is all of their physique and in basic terms impacts them. it fairly is like if a woman is pregnant, and her hormone tiers are whacked, you could't get pregnant from kissing her. that is an analogous thought.