Posts Tagged ‘hyperthyroidism’
Posted: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Appendixes should never get this big, but we wanted to make one big enough to cuddle. Here’s a sneak peek at the prototype for our new plush appendix, brought to you by popular demand! I guess many of you know people with appendicitis or folks who have had appendectomies. Also, oddly enough, we have had frequent requests for a plushie thyroid, so that little fellow is in the works as well, see below. We should release these sometime in Fall 2011 so stay tuned for these oh-so-soft body parts!
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Posted: Friday, June 25th, 2010
Dear Thyroid guest blogger Dr. Sara Gottfried wrote a fascinating post about the endocrine madness caused by the hormones released by the adrenals, thyroid and sex glands. “Once I got how all these crazy thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones fit together, much of the thyroid chaos fell away, both for my patients and myself.” Dr. Gottfried writes. Read on for some fascinating lessons on this wild hormonal soup that can wreak havoc on your thyroid and how you can balance your system.
Tags: adrenal fatigue, adrenal function, cortisol, estradiol, estrogen, gluten-free diet, goitrogens, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, mood swings, pcos, Polycystic ovaries, Polyendocrinopathy, reproductive hormones, sex hormones, sex-hormone binding globulin, testosterone, thyroid antibodies, thyroid function, thyroid hormones
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Posted: Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Film critic Roger Ebert has been given a new voice after surgery for thyroid cancer went horribly wrong four years ago now that he’s had his voice rebuilt by a robot. For a man who made his career on talking, having his voice back is obviously a big deal, so he connected with Cereproc, a speech synthesis company that is able to rebuild the tone and timber of an individual voice based on recordings. Ebert recently tried out his new pipes on Oprah, to the delight of fans missing his voice. Read more about it in this touching profile in Esquire magazine.
Tags: chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, Graves disease, Hashimoto's disease, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroid, jaw cancer, neutron beam radiation, papillary thyroid cancer, postpartum thyroiditis, radioactive iodine, rai, salivary gland cancer, salivary gland radiation, tc, thyroid cancer, thyroid storm, thyroid surgery, thyroidectomy, thyrotoxic, tracheostomy, underactive thyroid gland
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Posted: Thursday, October 29th, 2009
I don’t know if you’ve ever read the blog Dear Thyroid, but if you haven’t, you’re in for a treat. Example: “I happen to love Halloween. Because I have Graves’ Ophthalmopathy and I’m a sphere on mini-stilts (5’4), I am a walking costume. I can go to parties, if I choose to, as a pissed off Graves’ disease patient.” Hilarious. Anyway, it got us thinking about Graves — a condition related to an overactive thyroid that causes the eyes to bulge from the sockets, used for comedic advantage by the likes of Marty Feldman and Rodney Dangerfield. A UCLA study recently looked into why the condition attacks the eye sockets. Turns out the problem isn’t all the thyroid‘s fault, but trouble also lies with defective infection fighting T-cells (which mature in our good friend the thymus), which attack the eye tissue.
Tags: antibodies, antibody receptors, autoimmune disorders, endocrinology, environmental factors, GD, GO, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, IGF-1, immune system, insulin-like growth factor 1, overactive thyroid, toxins
Posted in anatomy, Body Parts, I Heart Guts | 1 Comment »
Appendixes should never get this big, but we wanted to make one big enough to cuddle. Here’s a sneak peek at the prototype for our new plush appendix, brought to you by popular demand! I guess many of you know people with appendicitis or folks who have had appendectomies. Also, oddly enough, we have had frequent requests for a plushie thyroid, so that little fellow is in the works as well, see below. We should release these sometime in Fall 2011 so stay tuned for these oh-so-soft body parts!
Dear Thyroid guest blogger Dr. Sara Gottfried wrote a fascinating post about the endocrine madness caused by the hormones released by the adrenals, thyroid and sex glands. “Once I got how all these crazy thyroid, adrenal and sex hormones fit together, much of the thyroid chaos fell away, both for my patients and myself.” Dr. Gottfried writes. Read on for some fascinating lessons on this wild hormonal soup that can wreak havoc on your thyroid and how you can balance your system.
