Is Your Engine Running Optimally?
When your car’s engine is finely tuned and running optimally; you know it. Likely that is the case with your own body also and when it is out of tune you know that too.
Your thyroid glad is like the engine in a car – when it underactive everything slows down leading to weight gain, fatigue, poor concentration, constipation, infertility, low libido, depression, slow heart rate and low body temperature. When it is over active your metabolism speeds up leading to weight loss, anxiety, insomnia, fast heart beat and loose stool.
The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that sits in your neck region and produces thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormones are the Ultra-metabolism hormones. How well your thyroid is functioning is inter-related with every system in your body and if your thyroid is not running optimally then neither are you.
It’s estimated that half of all people with an underactive thyroid or hypothyroidism are never diagnosed. That means that there are many people with a completely treatable condition that are not being treated.
I believe there are likely two main causes for this under diagnosis and under treatment of this very common condition.
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