Thyroid Gland - Quick Digression

I have just resumed posting on this blog and I the following information I thought to be quite useful so I have posted it now. I will trying and incorporate this into a discussion of Qi and Chakras later on.

Like all high-performance machines, the human body requires a sensitive fuel-management system. The thyroid gland serves us well in its role as a combination throttle and thermostat, varying the rate at which we burn our metabolic fuel in accordance with our needs. The thyroid, located in the front of the neck, manages this delicate control function mainly through the production of several iodine-containing thyroid hormones. When thyroid hormones reach their target tissues throughout the body, they stimulate those tissues to increase their metabolic rate. The thyroid itself is controlled, like most of the endocrine glands, by the “master gland” called the pituitary, itself under the control of the deep brain structure called the hypothalamus.
The combination of hypothalamus, pituitary, and thyroid normally functions flawlessly to maintain metabolism at the required levels, but like all complex control systems, it is subject to failure, especially with increasing age.

1.The most common form of thyroid disease is hypothyroidism, which occurs under any of a number of circumstances when there’s insufficient thyroid hormone activity.2 Symptoms of hypothyroidism include fatigue, muscle weakness, lethargy, weight gain, and a tendency to feel cold even in warm environments.