Word: thyroidal
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...Bartlett and Britton, S. Dak. (6.7 p.p.m.) are cutting their natural levels down to about 1 p.p.m. A 150-lb. man who drinks 1-p.p.m. fluoridated water would have to drink a bathtubful, or 70 to 100 quarts daily, to get the minimum overdose that seems to affect the thyroid gland. The overdoses needed to damage kidney function or bones are still greater...
...thyroid gland is lax, my metabolism too slow to burn up actually normal rations of food...
This arcane process of "auto-allergy" may be an important factor in many cases of anemia, in rheumatoid arthritis and myasthenia gravis, and in kidney and thyroid diseases. Last week, at the second of two Manhattan conferences on what many doctors prefer to call "autoimmune disease," researchers added impressive evidence on two recent additions to the catalogue of such ills: ulcerative colitis and pernicious anemia...
...exceptional group. Thousands of the body's countless proteins circulate in the blood or are washed by it, but a few are "sequestered": the fluid in the eye's lens, sperm secreted in the testicles, and thyroglobulin (an iodine-containing protein), which usually stays locked in the thyroid gland. If lens fluid leaks into the bloodstream after injury, its proteins start the antibody factory working and the body seeks to destroy the lens proteins...
...attacks the proteins in its lens. Thus injury to one eye may lead to blindness in both. Injury or inflammation of the testicles may force sperm proteins into the bloodstream, which then sets about destroying them-a process that causes temporary or even permanent sterility. If the thyroid gland is damaged or diseased, thyroglobulin may escape from its sequestered state, and a clearly defined form of thyroid disease results...