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habosh
I'll rep anybody who get me info's about the hormone thyroxine and what will happen if it was less than normal and stuff and dont puyt it in the study forum because it's about health not about school work
first one will get the rep :biggrin:


Not really sure what you are after,

How about this?
Reply 2
If you have an underactive thyroid gland they give you thyroxine to boost the ammount of thyroid normal in your body to make it "normal". It is given to people with an underactive thyroid as levothyroxine sodium or atleast thats what it says on the box. The thyroid gland is like the conductor of the orchestra of your body so if it aint funtioning properly it can cause other things to go wrong too.
google.com?
Reply 4
chandni
If you have an underactive thyroid gland they give you thyroxine to boost the ammount of thyroid normal in your body to make it "normal". It is given to people with an underactive thyroid as levothyroxine sodium or atleast thats what it says on the box. The thyroid gland is like the conductor of the orchestra of your body so if it aint funtioning properly it can cause other things to go wrong too.


Hehe, actually it's the pituitary that is the "conductor of the endocrine orchestra" - legendary exam question. :wink: But yes, thyroxine is involved in metabolism and I can't be bothered to look up any more than that.
Reply 5
^^ hell i don't have a clue about anything even remotely scientific just repeating what the useless doctors told me when they were trying to soften the blow that I had an underactive thyroid