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.