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Thyroid in sentence

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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.
For instance, did you know that taking your temperature can tell you a lot about the condition of your thyroid?
So, your thyroid works a lot like the thermostat in your house.
That's exactly how your thyroid works in your body.
Your thyroid tries to keep an optimal temperature for your body.
If it gets too cold, your thyroid says, "Hey, we need to heat up."
If it gets too hot, your thyroid cools you down.
But what happens when your thyroid is not functioning well?
And so by collecting this data you can find out information about your thyroid.
Now, what is it, if you had a thyroid problem and you went to the doctor, your doctor would actually test the amount of thyroid stimulating hormone in your blood.
So just by collecting your temperature every day, you get information about the condition of your thyroid.
It's called the thyroid.
This high-ranking organ is made up of lobules that each contains smaller cells called follicles, which store the hormones the thyroid sends out into your blood.
This hormonal notification from the thyroid gets the heart pumping more efficiently, and makes our cells break down nutrients faster.
When you need more energy, the thyroid helps by sending out hormones to increase metabolism.
Ultimately, the thyroid allows our cells to use energy, grow and reproduce.
The thyroid is controlled by the pituitary gland, a hormonal gland deep in the brain that oversees the thyroid's tasks, making sure it knows when to send out its messengers.
The pituitary's role is to sense if hormone levels in the blood are too low or too high, in which case it sends out instructions in the form of the thyroid- stimulating hormone.
The opposite problem is hypothyroidism, which happens when the thyroid sends out too few hormones, meaning the body's cells don't have as many messengers to guide them.
Luckily, there are medical treatments that can help trigger the thyroid's activities again, and bring the body back to a steady metabolic rate.
For such a little organ, the thyroid wields an awful lot of power.
But a healthy thyroid manages our cells so effectively that it can keep us running smoothly without us even noticing it's there.
On a more microscale, depression is associated with a few things: the abnormal transmission or depletion of certain neurotransmitters, especially serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, blunted circadian rhythms, or specific changes in the REM and slow-wave parts of your sleep cycle, and hormone abnormalities, such as high cortisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones.
But as I try my best to go an hour showing respect for him, my thyroid is surging, because I think the oddities of his character really are condemnatory and are going to doom him.
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.
Also, Karen was taking pills to increase her thyroid, so she could loss weight, but stop taking them because the psychologist recommended her not too.
And some 5,000 cases of thyroid cancer, attributed to radioactive iodine absorbed through consumption of milk in the weeks immediately following the accident, have been detected among those who were children at the time.