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Show ImmmammmimmilMIMmmmmMm The "House" You Live In I BY DR. GEORGE A. COLE " imuuuiiuiiiiiiiuiuiiuiuiuuiiwiKJiiwiiiumiiuiuuiuiiiuiuuuiuiiiiiujiuuiii THE THYROID GLAND If you stand before a mirror with your fingers on your throat just below be-low your larynx or Adam's apple and take a swallow, you will observe some of the throat tissue go up and down with your fingers. This tissue is your thyroid gland. The thyroid gland plays an important im-portant part in the process of converting con-verting your food into energy. It helps the carbon and the oxygen to get together. For this reason a person with an active thyroid is ordinarily lean and spare and has abundant energy for working day and night without giving out And for this same reason fat-reducing fat-reducing compounds contain thyroid extract A person with a poor thyroid cannot can-not burn up enough food to supply him with energy, and so he Btores the unused food as fat here and there over his body. He tires easily. People Peo-ple who do not understand may call him lazy. The thyroid gland burns poisonous waste matter as well as food, and so helps to keep up free from hurtful germs by destroying at least a large part of the food they live on. In this connection the effect of thyroid action is particularly noticeable notice-able in the intestines. Let this gland i once go out of commission and the in-1 testinal germs move right in and settle down. A good thyroid activity makes for youthfulness. It makes your skin pink and warm and moist, your hair thick and glossy, your eyes bright and your body resistant to cold. Poor thyroid activity gives symptoms symp-toms of old age. These symptoms develop de-velop in a young person upon the destruction of the thyroid gland. In slavery 'days it was common for a buyer to test the physical condition of a slave by pulling the skin on the back of his hand and then suddenly letting it go. If it went back with a snap the slave was considered young in his body regardless of his age. Nowadays it is commonly said that a person is as old as his arteries. So far as these tests go a person is as old as his thyroid gland, for it determines de-termines the elasticity of his skin and his arteries. Extract of thyroid taken from animals ani-mals hastens bodily development When it is fed to tadpoles, even the littlest of them, they cease to grow and turn at once into pygmy frogs. Chickens fed this extract out of moulting season will begin to moult In a week and will grow a new covering cover-ing of feathers in two or three weeks. If you have not already deadened your thyroid gland with coffee, you can get an idea of what it does for you under stress if you will drink some very strong coffee and watch the effect The resulting stimulation comes from the action of tthe beverage bev-erage on the thyroid gland. There is a satisfaction in feeling of your thyroid gland, and in knowing where it is and what it does for you, particularly if you have a good one. Though very little is known today about specific methods of developing a good thyroid, yet it is certain that a normal style of living will add to its efficiency and prolong its activity. |