What way thyroid is helpful?
Thyroid hormone is one of the life-saving hormones. It has a number of effects on body’s function. The main one being to control the metabolic rate, i.e., the amount of energy used by the body to maintain vital processes such as breathing, circulation and digestion. Too much thyroid hormone makes the body to work too fast, whereas too little allows the body to slow down. Thyroid hormone also has important function of being involved in the maturation of brain and physical growth in babies both before and after birth. Deficiency of thyroid hormone certainly can affect height in the growing children.
