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Introduction To Hypothyroidism
The thyroid is a small gland located at the base of your neck and is in the shape of a butterfly. This gland has a
major impact on your health and affects all aspects of the body’s metabolism including the rate at which your heart
beat to the speed at which your body burns calories. When the thyroid releases the right amount of hormones, your
system will function normally, but sometimes the thyroid fails to produce enough hormones, which upsets the normal
chemical balance in your body. This imbalance causes hypothyroidism, or under active thyroid disease.
For some strange reason, women are more susceptible to hypothyroidism than men, especially women older than 50. In
the early stages of hypothyroidism, you will not experience any symptoms so will not even know you have it, but as
the diseases progresses, it can causes a variety of different health problems including but not limited to obesity,
joint pain, infertility, and heart disease. Of course, with modern science, accurate thyroid function tests can
diagnose hypothyroidism accurately and early so that treatment with synthetic thyroid hormones can be started. This
treatment is usually effective and quite simple to administer once you and your doctor are able to establish the
proper dosage.
One of the major issues with hypothyroidism is that quite often it is overlooked even if cases of obesity. Even
when combined with other symptoms, doctors often tend to treat the symptoms as separate parts, or in the case of
obesity, as related symptoms of the obesity rather than the obesity and other symptoms being related symptoms of
hypothyroidism. Many times a patient has to take things into his or her own hands and insist that the doctor pursue
this frequently overlooked avenue as a cause for obesity. That isn’t to say that it is the most common cause of
obesity, however, if a person has tried to lose weight and fails, the possibility of a slow metabolism related to
hypothyroidism is worth investigating.
Treating hypothyroidism is not difficult once it is diagnosed. The key is bringing the condition to the attention
of the doctor and assuring that tests are conducted to either confirm or rule out hypothyroidism before search for
other reasons for the symptoms. Once tests confirm that you suffer from hypothyroidism, your health care provider
can begin the proper regimen of treatment.
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