Thyroid
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About 50 percent of men in their 50s and 60s have microscopic prostate cancers, and virtually 100 percent of us, by the time we reach our 70s, will have microscopic cancers growing in our
thyroid
.
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Take, for instance, the
thyroid
and the two hormones it produces, triiodothyronine and thyroxine.
And hypo- and hyperthyroidism occur when the
thyroid
gland makes too little or too much
thyroid
hormone.
When there’s too little
thyroid
hormone, that results in a slowed heart rate, fatigue, and depression, and when there’s too much
thyroid
hormone, weight loss, sleeplessness, and irritability.
Strung between the
thyroid
and arytenoid cartilages, these two muscles form an elastic curtain that opens and shuts across the trachea, the tube that carries air through the throat.
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