Thyroid

What is the thyroid?
The thyroid is an endoctrine gland.

The thyroid gland is shaped
a little like a butterfly, and is locted in the lower
part of the neck, in front of the windpipe.
Think of it as sitting behind the adam's apple.

T3
triiodothyronine

T4
thyroxine

A healthy, functioning thyroid produces
about 80 percent T4 and 20 percent T3,
concidered the biologically active hormone and is
several times stronger than T4.

There is not a single cell in the body
that doesn't depend on thyroid hormone
for regulation and for energy in some form.

thyroid gland
an essential organ, goerning basic aspects of nearly
every facet of a body's health. a body cannot live without
the hormones produced by the body's thyroid.
Those hormones regulate the body's use of energy,
essential function to life and health.


Source(s)
thyroid
overactive thyroid

"Living Well With Hypothyroidism"
By Mary J. Shomon

"Solved: The Riddle of Illness"
by Stephen E. Langer, M.D. and James F. Scheer

Gods Herbs


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