دانلود کتاب Thyroid: The Butterfly of Metabolism: How to prevent, take care of oneself, and stay healthy

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Foreword 1
Foreword 2
Foreword 3
Foreword 4
Foreword 5
Foreword 6
Foreword to the English Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Author and Collaborators
About the Author
Collaborators
1: All About Your Thyroid
1.1 Thyroid: Anatomy
1.2 How It Works
1.3 What We Need It For
1.4 Thyroid Best Friends: Iodine and Selenium
If Iodine Is Lacking
A Pinch of Intelligence: Use a Little Bit of Iodized Salt!
Selenium, a Great Ally
The Winning Duo!
1.5 Parathyroids, the Calcium Guardians!
How Do They Work?
And If They Lose Balance?
2: When the Thyroid Gets Sick
2.1 Goiter
What Is a Goiter?
What Can Be Done to Prevent Its Formation?
2.2 If the Thyroid Works Too Much... or Too Little
An Overactive Thyroid
Why Does It Happen?
How Is It Treated?
A Lazy Thyroid
Why Does It Happen?
How Is It Treated?
2.3 Thyroiditis and Autoimmune Diseases
Subacute Thyroiditis
Acute Thyroiditis
Autoimmune Diseases: Hashimoto’s Chronic Thyroiditis
Graves’ Disease
2.4 Nodules
How to Find Them?
What to Do?
3: Thyroid at All Ages
3.1 When the Thyroid Is Young
“I” for Iodine and Stands for Intellect!
What If the Thyroid Gets Sick?
3.2 When the Thyroid Ages
The Grandparents’ Thyroid
Hypothyroidism
Hyperthyroidism, the Subtle Enemy
3.3 When Mum Is Expecting
What Happens During Pregnancy
Mum, Remember the Iodine!
A Great Upheaval
Too Many Hormones in Pregnancy
When Hormones Are Too Little
Hypothyroidism and Miscarriage
The Discovery of a Thyroid Nodule
After Delivery
4: What to Do If the Thyroid Gets Sick
4.1 Blood Tests
4.2 Thyroid Ultrasound
4.3 Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration (FNA)
4.4 Thyroid Scintigraphy
5: How and When to Treat the Thyroid
5.1 Thyroid Medications
5.2 Surgery
5.3 Radioactive Iodine Therapy Based on Iodine-131
5.4 Mini-intervention Techniques Ultrasound-Guided
5.5 Surgery Done by Robots
5.6 Conclusions