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Your Thyroid and Weight Loss Concerns

Your Thyroid and Weight Loss Concerns

You found out that you have an underactive thyroid and that is why you were gaining weight. So now what do you do? How do you go about getting your old body back when your metabolism has slowed down dramatically? This article will give you some tips that may help you get started.......[Read More]
Scientists Make Discoveries in the Biology of Lupus

Scientists Make Discoveries in the Biology of Lupus

Researchers think they may have discovered the mechanism that drives the body’s attack on its own cells and tissues in the autoimmune disease lupus.......[Read More]
What Are Some Possible Thyroid Diseases?

What Are Some Possible Thyroid Diseases?

The thyroid can be affected in many different ways. This article discusses some possible thyroid diseases.......[Read More]
Rickets and the Endocrine System - How the Parathyroid Hormone Affects Rickets

Rickets and the Endocrine System - How the Parathyroid Hormone Affects Rickets

Because we only want the best for our children, we try to give them the best we can in everything. How about a little more sunshine and milk, then? Find out why these two are necessary in keeping your children happy and healthy in this article.......[Read More]
Flower Remedies for Chronic Fatigue

Flower Remedies for Chronic Fatigue

The fast pace of modern society can grind people down. Sometimes the result of this fast pace is chronic fatigue. Many of the treatments for chronic fatigue are chemical energy boosters that can cause energy crashes. Natural treatments, such as flowers remedies, offer a good boost of energy without ......[Read More]
The Importance of Dendritic Cells in Asthma

The Importance of Dendritic Cells in Asthma

Learn more about how recruitment and activation of dendritic cells occurs in patients with allergic asthma.......[Read More]
Healing Hashimotos Disease With Tong Ren - From "Incurable Disease" to Invaluable Gift

Healing Hashimotos Disease With Tong Ren - From "Incurable Disease" to Invaluable Gift

How I discovered an alternative method to heal from Hashimoto's Disease. With Tong Ren Healing, the "incurable disease" turned into an invaluable gift - in less than 3 months.......[Read More]
Diet to Improve Immune System

Diet to Improve Immune System

Your immune system is what protects you against disease, viruses and even harmful chemicals that you come in contact with. If your immune system is impaired, you will not be able to fight off infections or cancer, according to Cleveland Clinic. According to Harvard Health Publications, along with ex......[Read More]
Hypothyroidism and Childbirth

Hypothyroidism and Childbirth

Postpartum hypothyroidism is a very common disorder involving women following pregnancy that's brought on by an autoimmune disease known as lymphocytic thyroiditis. It affects close to 5% of females following childbirth and is suspected to be the actual reason behind postpartum depression.......[Read More]
Skin Care Tips for Lupus

Skin Care Tips for Lupus

WebMD has skin care tips to treat and prevent skin problems that affect people with lupus.......[Read More]
Foods That Boost the Immune System in Children

Foods That Boost the Immune System in Children

The human immune system protects the body from microorganism and germ invasions. A compromised immune system leads to ailments and infections. The immune system in children is still developing and vulnerable to infections from the environment and sicknesses when they begin school and are exposed to ......[Read More]
Hypothyroid Disease - Signs and Symptoms

Hypothyroid Disease - Signs and Symptoms

Myxedema coma occurs in approximately 1 in 1000 cases of hypothyroidism.The mortality for this condition can run as high as 80%.......[Read More]
Flesh Eating Bacteria and Lupus

Flesh Eating Bacteria and Lupus

Aimee Copeland, the young Georgia woman battling infection with flesh-eating bacteria, reportedly has lupus. In this expert Q&A, rheumatologist Chaim Putterman discusses lupus and the risk of necrotizing fasciitis.......[Read More]
Hyperthyroidism Symptoms

Hyperthyroidism Symptoms

The symptoms of hyperthyroidism are caused by an overproduction of thyroid hormone. When the amount of this hormone is not regulated normally, every cell in the body including the brain can be affected. It's important for a diagnosis of hyperthyroidism to be made early in the course of treatmen......[Read More]
Dessicated Thyroid and Synthetic Thyroid

Dessicated Thyroid and Synthetic Thyroid

Supporters of dessicated thyroid say this natural thyroid medication is better, because it is natural. Many of these supporters believe that pharmaceutical companies push doctor's into using synthetic thyroid instead of using the natural thyroid.......[Read More]
Normal Thyroid Levels

Normal Thyroid Levels

The thyroid gland, located at the front of the neck, produces thyroid hormone, which is how the body controls its metabolism, or how the body uses energy. As such, the thyroid gland and thyroid hormone are involved in converting food into energy, and are involved with elements of heart, muscle, and ......[Read More]
Eat For a Healthy Thyroid

Eat For a Healthy Thyroid

Many doctors will lead you to believe that regularly monitoring your thyroid hormone levels and making necessary adjustments in the drug dosages is all you need to be concerned about.However, a right combination of eating healthy foods, taking supplements, getting enough exercise and de-stressing yo......[Read More]
Are There Natural Remedies For Thyroid Problems?

Are There Natural Remedies For Thyroid Problems?

Thyroid disease symptoms are most commonly overlooked when the symptoms are first noticed. This is the reason why thyroid dysfunctions are some of the most undiagnosed diseases in the world. Thyroid diseases may be cured with numerous herbs making natural remedies for thyroid disease a world-wide ph......[Read More]
Several Causes of Hypothyroidism

Several Causes of Hypothyroidism

Iodine lack is the leading origin of hypothyroidism. Patients frequently show big goiters. Temporary hypothyroidism may also be an outcome from iodine overload. This situation is called to as the Wolff-Chaikoff effect. A good number of patients ultimately get away this consequence. Great quantities ......[Read More]
Thyroid Disease - Coping With Hypothyroidism

Thyroid Disease - Coping With Hypothyroidism

Learning to cope with thyroid disease is much more than taking a pill every day. You may continue to suffer with symptoms of hypothyroidism even while under a doctor's care, especially at times when you have changes in your body such as during pregnancy or menopause.......[Read More]