Thyroid: Popular disease of popular celebrities

Thyroid: Popular disease of popular celebrities

Talking about thyroid disease, it may sound familiar to you. People, nowadays, have a thyroid problem and do not know it, so they do not treat it immediately. Moreover, it is one of the top diseases of many stars. You may wonder why some thyroid patients are fat, but some are thin. How does the thyroid actually affect to your body? What is a thyroid gland? Where is it located? And, which symptoms indicate that you have a thyroid problem. Therefore, you can undergo appropriate treatment in time.

What is Thyroid?

The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland located low in the front of your neck. It produces three thyroid hormones including:

1. Triiodothyronine (T3) is a hormone involving to cell metabolism, bone growth, heart function, muscular function, and gut function.
2. Thyroxine (T4) is a hormone stimulating cell metabolism and tissues. It works with growth hormones to enhance growth by stimulating protein synthesis. Moreover, it controls cell development, especially neuron cells.
3. Calcitonin is a hormone controlling calcium and phosphorus metabolisms – calcium relates to the balance of cells and bone tissues.
   

The Role of Thyroid Gland

Thyroid hormone is very important since it associates with the metabolism of food, and oxygen, as well as our body. Here is the reason why thyroid patients are fat or thin.

• If the thyroid gland overproduces hormones (hyperthyroidism), your body will have more metabolism causing hyperhidrosis, palpitation, and fat loss. Therefore, patients will become thin.
• If the thyroid gland underproduces hormones (hypothyroidism), your body will have less metabolism affecting chemical reaction balance. There will be more fat accumulating in your body, so patients will become fat.

What is going wrong if thyroid gland has problems?

If there is a thyroid problem, many systems will change including metabolism and nervous systems. Patients will have many symptoms such as slow thinking, slow speaking, poor recognition, and some may have muscle pain. In severe thyroid patients, they are at risk of cardiovascular diseases and have eye problems such as exophthalmos, lagophthalmos, or swollen conjunctiva. Some may have thyrotoxicosis which affects liver and kidney abnormalities, jaundice, and prone to have diabetes.

Thyroid patients have different problems such as thyroid swollen, malignant thyroid tumors, and goiter. Some patients have autoimmune thyroiditis causing inflamed thyroid gland, abnormal thyroid function, and autoimmune symptoms which cause diabetes, thrombocytopenia, rheumatoid arthritis, and vitiligo.

Our daily life is one of the causes of thyroid problems due to toxins from food, air, stress, lack of sleep, and genetic diseases. If you feel fatigued and rapidly gain or lose weight, you should consult a doctor.

Thyroid Disease Treatments

1. Blood test highlights testing of thyroid functions and its metabolisms such as thyroid hormone level, pituitary functions, and thyroid antibodies level.
2. Total Bio Scan is a thorough testing of each cell function that can find abnormalities and degeneration in our body.
3. X-ray is used for finding thyroid gland abnormalities such as tumors or cancers. CT scan will be used in case patients are suspected of toxic goiter caused by abnormal hormone secretion from the pituitary gland.
4. Radioactive Iodine Uptake (RAIU) test uses a radioactive to find thyroid functions, so doctors are able to know whether the thyroid is overactive or not.

If there are any thyroid problems, the physician will select the best treatment method depending on severity such as synthetic thyroid hormone, hormone supplements, radiation therapy, iodine intake, or radioactive iodine therapy. All treatment should be under the physician’s recommendations.

The most important thing is prevention. You should take care of yourself and keep your body balanced by exercising and getting enough sleep in order to repair cell functions and maintain the vascular system. Food control can also reduce inflammation and maintain an autoimmune system to avoid autoimmune thyroiditis.