In addition to providing thyroid supplementation for dogs showing the typical
signs of thyroid disease, we now know that treatment
of dogs showing the early stages
of thyroiditis (based on the testing described above) is necessary and important to correct the underlying thyroid imbalance, reduce the risk
of developing other related immune - mediated disorders, and to control or prevent the process
of thyroiditis from progressing to depletion and
exhaustion of the thyroid gland.