Mayo Clinic Q & amp;A podcast: Overtreating an underactive thyroid

The thyroid gland creates and produces hormones that play a role in many systems throughout the body. When your thyroid makes too much or too little of these important hormones, it ’s called thyroid disease. And thyroid disease is common. "We know that about 10% of people have some degree of thyroid dysfunction," says Dr. Juan Brito Campana, a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist. There are several different types of thyroid disease, including hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid; hypothyroidism…
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