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Studies on Magnesium and Thyroid Health

The Thyroid Pharmacist

It is required for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body, including maintaining nerve and muscle function, supporting a healthy immune system, and keeping the heartbeat steady. Magnesium is a mineral that is essential for human function.

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Pharmacists Should Understand Trauma, the Stress Response to Provide Effective Care

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Cortisol also activates our immune system, causing it to become hypervigilant and ready to work at the slightest suggestion of danger. If any input is a match to a stored memory from past experience, the lower brain reacts as though the past experience is happening now,” explains researcher and author Bruce Perry, MD, PhD.

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How Balancing Iron Levels Can Help Your Thyroid

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Note: a person can be deficient in any of these nutrients and not have anemia, but as a deficiency continues, anemia may develop.) However, you may still be iron deficient if your iron stores are low (ferritin is the iron storage protein that can be tested). 6] Personally, I battled with low ferritin levels for a long time.