According to the American Thyroid Association, about 20 million Americans have a thyroid condition—and of those 20 million, a staggering 60 percent aren’t aware of it. The hormones that are produced by your thyroid are responsible for a lot: your metabolism, the health of your skin and bones, your sleep quality, and headache frequency (or infrequency), to name just a few.
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