Elements that Affect Thyroid Weight Gain

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Elements that Affect Thyroid Weight Gain
Thyroid weight gain is essentially the result of the thyroid gland not working properly. It is through this gland that the thyroid hormone is being produced. This hormone acts as the body's counterpart to a vehicle's cruise control. It is the cruise control that enables the vehicle to preserve a continuous speed. And much like a vehicle, it is the thyroid gland that keeps the rest of the body working at continuous speed.

Typical levels of the thyroid hormone make it possible for the different functions of the body to preserve its typical activity. A decrease in the production of the thyroid hormone and the body's level of activity also decreases. Cells in the body seem to work slower. In so doing, the cells need less energy. But when the amount of energy offered in the body stays at the same level, some of this excess energy is being kept by the body for future use. The body does this by turning the excess energy in calories into fat. This in turn becomes extra weight in the body.

When the thyroid gland produces less of the thyroid hormone, numerous other things occur to the body. With the cells utilizing lesser energy due to decreased activity, less heat is produced. With less heat, the sweat glands not have to keep the skin moist as the body also becomes chillier. In this circumstance, the brain also undergoes decreased activity which makes it want to sleep all the time. The same goes with the heart as less activity also enables it to beat slower. With decreased hormone levels in the thyroid gland, everything just slows up.

The opposite is true when the thyroid gland begins to produce the right amount of hormones that the body needs. When the levels of the thyroid hormones increase, the cells in the body also go through an increase in activity. As a result of this, the body requires more energy and so utilizes the fat and protein shops and transform them to energy. As fat and protein cell shops decrease when being utilized, the body goes through weight changes.

But an overactive thyroid gland also is not great. Aside from the above results, an overactive thyroid also allows the body to produce more heat as a by-product of the higher activity. The body then begins to sweat in an effort to cool things down. The brain then begins to work overtime which can result in irritability and often problem in sleeping. The heart also begins to beat quicker as everything in the body tries to accelerate in activity.

In the body, it is the pituitary gland that sets the level of activity in the thyroid gland. Located at the base of the brain right between the temples, the pituitary gland sets the level in which the thyroid gland functions and, in so doing, manages just how much of the thyroid hormone is released into the blood stream.

If there the pituitary gland discovers decreased levels of the thyroid hormone in the bloodstream, it sends out more of the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone or TSH into the thyroid gland by method of the bloodstream to stimulate it to produce more thyroid hormone. Thyroid weight gain occurs if the body has an under active thyroid.

A decrease in thyroid function leads to less energy consumption in the body. This makes the body to keep up excess calories in the body as fat which results in weight gain.


Thyroid weight gain is essentially the result of the thyroid gland not working properly. And just like a vehicle, it is the thyroid gland that keeps the rest of the body working at continuous speed.

A decrease in the production of the thyroid hormone and the body's level of activity also decreases. When the thyroid gland produces less of the thyroid hormone, numerous other things occur to the body. The opposite is true when the thyroid gland begins to produce the right amount of hormones that the body needs.