Thyroid
Thyroid hormone plays a part key body systems/functions:
- The brain – thought process (depression and brain fog)
- Digestive system – gut (constipation or diarrhea)
- Cardiovascular system – heart (fast or slow heart rate; congestive heart failure)
- Bone metabolism
- Red blood cell metabolism
- Gall bladder & liver function
- Steroid hormone production
- Glucose & protein metabolism
- Body temperature regulation (cold or heat intolerance)
- Lipid and cholesterol metabolism (hyperthyroidism – high circulating levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol)
- Skin – dry or coarse skin; warm moist skin
- Ovarian hormones – changes in menstruation
- Muscles – weakness