The Butterfly Effect
Think of the thyroid as your body’s equivalent of that friend who loves nothing more than to be up in everyone’s business. It produces hormones that regulate metabolism, heart rate and body temperature, and has a hand in bone health, GI function, mood, fertility and more. So if the gland goes rogue? It’s less than ideal.
These days, it seems like everyone’s self-diagnosing a thyroid issue – likely because these disorders have vague symptoms, at-home test kits make it easy to gather data on your own and there’s growing social media dialogue about hormone health. The result?
