WHAT EXACTLY IS THYROID?
Before you read any further, it is very important that you know what a thyroid gland is. Keep your flat palm over the front of the neck and you’ll feel something wobbly beneath your skin just on the borders of your wind-pipe—that is exactly where a thyroid gland is. (If you are overweight , then no use trying this—you’ll only feel some layers of fat!). The thyroid gland is one of the most beautiful (?) glands shaped like a butterfly enveloping the lower part of your wind-pipe. Now this gland produces a hormone (thyroxine) which is actually a controller of body metabolism. In other words, thyroxine is like a thermostat that calculates and tells the body how much food should be converted to energy, where energy is needed most and where and when new cells have to be built. If this thermostat is fiddled with, the results can be downright hilarious (?) and particularly dangerous (deadly combination, huh?) WHAT IS HYPERTHYROIDISM? Didn’t they say too much of everything is bad? That’s exactly
