On the other hand you may have some awareness that when the thyroid gland is not working properly, we can suffer an increase in body weight.
People who have a hard time losing weight are apt to suspect that they are suffering from hypothyroidism, in which the thyroid hormones T3 and T4( which play a big part in controlling the overall rate at which food is burned to produce energy) are not produced in the quantities needed to stimulate sufficient energy production. So the net effect is your body stores more fat than it burns off.
The functioning of your thyroid can be hampered by various factors, such as genetic disposition and response to other diseases, including auto-immune dysfunctions. In addition to affecting only a very small percentage of the population, none of these factors you have much control over, so it is best to seek the advice of a medical practitioner when it comes to diagnosis of thyroid problems and the treatment of them.
But besides the level of thyroid hormones in your body, there are other hormones that also play an important part in the determination of your metabolic rate. These other hormones, which respond to diet and exercise, are much more under your direct control, and can result in weight gain when they become unbalanced in your body, even when your thyroid levels are perfectly in-line.
It is these other hormones that I want to tell you about now, since if they are out of whack in your body they must be rebalanced to burn fat rather than store it.
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