Where exactly is it located, the thyroid? If it is not abnormally enlarged, you first have to learn how to feel it – like these medical students.
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The thyroid is one of the most important human endocrine glands: Whether it produces too much or too little hormones has a significant impact on our well-being. How to deal with thyroid changes?
IIn this podcast episode, Lucia Schmidt talks to Prof. Dagmar Führer-Sakel from the Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism at the University Hospital Essen about the task of this gland, which weighs only around 50 grams, how it works – and what it does with T4 and T3 himself.
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