The thyroid is the engine of your body, says Dr. Jennifer Mammen, an endocrinologist and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. While your fitness won't affect how well that engine is or ...

Michelle Routhenstein, M.S., R.D.N., C.D.E, C.D.N. Cardiovascular Nutrition Michelle is a preventive cardiology nutritionist, registered dietitian nutritionist ...

What does your thyroid do? Your thyroid gland influences almost all metabolic processes in your body through the hormones it makes. Your thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system. When your ...

Let’s get the bad news out of the way. There’s no magical diet that’s going to clear up your hypothyroidism. “I would be the first person to say, ‘Let’s try diet first,'” Bonnie Taub-Dix, a registered ...

What does your thyroid do? Your thyroid gland influences almost all of the metabolic processes in your body through the hormones it produces. Your thyroid gland is part of your endocrine system. When ...

It’s estimated that nearly 5% of Americans above the age of 12 live with hypothyroidism, a condition that occurs when the body experiences a deficit of thyroid hormone. The thyroid gland, located in ...

Around 12% of the United States population will develop some type of thyroid condition in their lifetime. An estimated 20 million Americans are living with some form of thyroid disease. This is an ...

Eun Lee, MD Thyroid blood tests are an important part of diagnosing and treating thyroid disease. Based on how high or low ...

As Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, top medical experts are reminding the public of signs, symptoms and treatment options. So, what is thyroid cancer and who is most at risk? The odds ...

Thyroid cancer is often a highly treatable disease. Most cases are detected in early stages and have excellent outcomes. There are several different types of thyroid cancer, and recent changes in ...