Fine Tuning of the Body Carburettor, the Thyroid...

Its that typical time of your life.

The first flush of youth, marriage,family, discovering kids, growing up with them. Very soon they are on their own, irrespective of whether they live with you are not. You are not part of their decision making process anymore. And your overall focus, appears to get a bit hazy, as you look back on the golden anniversary of your birth....

This is the time, the body machine, develops some squeaks. Its not so easy running to catch a train when you are a bit late. Earlier, the train guard , smitten with the vision of a young lady, flying through the platform , her chiffons and stuff trailing behind, would have forgotten to give the driver the departure ring. Today, a mass of stuff, lugging various bags, blubbering through the platform, as if chasing the train, probably frightens the train guard, causing an involuntary ringing of the departure bell.

The knees creak suddenly, and holding the slightly heavy handbag at a weird angle appears to stress the arm muscles in a troublesome way. You sort of "fall" into your seat (we will pretend it was "thudless"), and are suddenly oversome with a sense of fatigue. Its not just the running. Its everything. Why your clothes fit funny, why the food has started digesting with sounds audibke to your neighbor, how you nod of to sleep in the office whenever there is a decent lull in any activity; and why you, who would take the intiative organising weekend dinnes and treks, now have no inclination or energy.....

Our body is like a machine. It needs to be tuned optimally. The carburretor , as such is a small gland called the thyroid. The setting of this gland has to be within a certain range. Just like a car with a faulty setting will accumulate carbon deposits, and give a bad running mileage, if the thyroid setting gets disturbed , health suffers.

Actually, the thyroid hormone is part of an orchestra of hormones, some of which are stress related, some sex related, some fertility related and so on. They all exist in a fine balance with each other. Any disturbance in any one of these, causes compensatory changes in one or more of the others.