THYROID WEEK / THYROID PROBLEMS

This is said to be the THYROID WEEK!
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I don’t know if the week is meant to promote the synthetic thyroid hormone.
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Anyway, for those who have developed hypothyroidism, this synthetic thyroxin hormone ‘medicine’ is something like God-given substance.
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It is definitely helpful, beyond any doubt!

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Iodine is present in natural sea salt.
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If a person consumes an adequate quantity of the salt daily, his/her thyroid gland situated at the neck would produce optimum thyroxin hormone.
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In which case, the person would enjoy a perfectly healthy body. This occurs in the Perfect category people.
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Iodine shortage in the body leads to reduced secretion of thyroxin hormone, which gives rise to hypothyroidism.
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Its excess gives rise to hyperthyroidism.
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With hypothyroidism, a person becomes lazy, lethargic and under-active.
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In hyperthyroidism, the person becomes over-active.
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All obese people seem to be taking very little salt. As a result, an iodine shortage occurs in them. This makes them highly susceptible to the development of hypothyroidism.
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Those who are skeletal-looking appear to be consuming excessive salt. As a result, they end up having plenty of iodine, which gives rise to hyperthyroidism, and thereby they become overactive.
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Health experts advise ALL the people to REDUCE salt intake.
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As a result, the Skeletal people’s iodine uptake becomes normal, whereas the obese suffer from its shortage, and the latter group develop hypothyroidism.
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A few governments around the Globe have made it compulsory for all salt manufacturers to enrich all the salt with extra iodine.
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At this, the under-salt consuming obese people’s health gets into a normal state.
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Whereas, the excess salt consuming Skeletal people end up consuming excessive iodine – far too much for the body to tolerate.
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When this happens, the Skeletal people become extremely over-active, crossing the body’s ability to tolerate such an extreme metabolic state.
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This happens because of an excessive production of a hormone in the hypothalamus gland in the brain, called thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).
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This situation must be stopped for a continued survival of the person, lest, he/she may die of a heart disease.
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So, the brain induces the secretion of a special substance called auto-antibodies, which destroy the thyroid gland, and totally stops the production of thyroxin.
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This again, results in a disease called Hashimotos hypothyroiditis.
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This condition is almost the same as that of the hypothyroidism that develops in the obese people because of the iodine shortage.
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From this stage, unless some sort of miraculous healing takes place (IT NEVER SEEMS TO HAPPEN!), the person becomes dependent upon a regular and daily intake of laboratory-created thyroxin hormone for further survival, until his natural death.
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For further information see: Goitre, Hyperactive, Laziness, Palpitation, Hypersex in the book entitled “Human Diseases: How and why do they occur, and how to prevent or cure them?”
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OK, bye,
Dr. Palani
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