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Your thyroid quietly clocks out, and takes your energy, mood, and metabolism with it.
means A condition where the thyroid gland doesn't produce enough thyroid hormone, slowing down the body's metabolism.
from Built from Greek parts: 'hypo-' meaning under or beneath, 'thyreos' meaning shield (the ancient Greeks thought the gland's shape resembled an oblong shield), and '-osis' indicating a condition or abnormal state. The thyroid itself was named in the 1600s for its shield-like shape sitting at the front of the neck; 'hypothyroidism' as a medical term describing its under-functioning came later, once 19th-century physicians connected the gland to the symptoms of sluggishness and swelling they were seeing in patients.
- global prevalence
- affects about 5% of adults worldwide
- usual culprit
- often caused by autoimmune attack, Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- sneaky symptoms
- fatigue and weight gain get blamed on everything else
- simple fix
- one daily pill often restores normal function entirely