03/29/09 When to Treat a Sluggish Thyroid
The symptoms are a laundry list of vague, common and easily overlooked complaints: tiredness, weight gain, ice-cold hands, thinning hair, constipation, depression and forgetfulness, to name a few. But for more than 10 million Americans, more often women than men, such woes are signs of something seriously wrong — a full-blown case of hypothyroidism, in which an underactive thyroid gland fails to crank out enough hormones.
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