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Your thyroid is one of the most important glands in your body. It's small and usually described as "butterfly-shaped", located at the base of your neck. It's one of the regulators of the endocrine system and is responsible for manufacturing hormones that control your metabolism. As with many bodily systems, there are generally two ways it can cease working normally; becoming too active, or becoming underactive. These, identified by the prefixes hyper or hypo respectively, lead to a variety of different systemic diseases. Hyperthyroidism In hyperthyroidism, your thyroid gland is making too much of the hormone it produces. As your...

The two main reasons people choose to fast are for religious purposes and for cleansing and weight loss purposes. However, any time you're making a large-scale change to your lifestyle, your body is impacted in uncountable ways. Besides just maintaining a caloric deficit, fasting may impact your immune system. The question is, how? How The Immune System Works Your immune system is a complex combination of cells and organs in your body that is working 24/7 to prevent external infection, keep internal bacteria in check, and keep you healthy. There's no one single "immune organ", though the closest you might...

Anxiety is one of the most common disorders in the United States and around the world. Estimates show that as many as 18% of the population of the USA suffers from some level of anxiety, from low-level general anxiety to panic attack disorders and everything in between. Anxiety is highly treatable, but it requires mental health treatment, which is chronically under-funded and stigmatized. It's no wonder that you might start looking for methods other than expensive therapy or numbing medications to treat it. As with most alternative treatment plans, one of the first places you should look is your diet....

Meal replacement shakes are growing more and more popular among certain types of people all around the world. There are, however, different kinds of these shakes, and they have different levels of nutrients, different instructions, and different restrictions. So here's the question: how long should you use meal replacement shakes?  Types of Shakes Before we dig into recommendations and data, first we should talk about the different kinds of meal replacement shakes you might find out there. There are quite a few of them, so we have a bit to go through here. First up, you have the old-school meal...