Health Claims

Propranolol helps calm down an overactive thyroid by slowing your heart and stopping the body from turning one thyroid hormone into a stronger one.

Long-term stress might mess with your body's hormone system, lower key hormones and weaken your gut's immune defenses, which could make thyroid problems worse or even trigger them.

If someone has an overactive thyroid for a long time, their muscles can break down, which means their body makes less creatinine and blood levels go down — this can be a sign they're losing muscle.

When someone has an overactive thyroid, their high alkaline phosphatase levels are usually because of faster bone turnover, not liver problems — thyroid hormones speed up how bones break down and rebuild.

Autoimmune diseases like Graves’ disease happen when your genes, things in your environment (like infections or chemicals), and a 'leaky gut' all work together to accidentally turn your immune system against your body.

In Graves’ disease, the immune system makes faulty antibodies that trick the thyroid into overproducing hormones, causing it to go into overdrive.

When someone has Graves’ disease, their thyroid hormones get too high, which tells the brain to stop making a hormone that stimulates the thyroid — so that hormone ends up being very low or even missing in blood tests.

In Graves' disease, the body's immune system accidentally attacks the thyroid by making antibodies that turn it on too much, causing it to overproduce hormones and leading to a condition called hyperthyroidism.

Working out with weights can help older women build muscle and get stronger, no matter how exactly they do the workouts or which group they're in.

Lifting weights might help older women lose dangerous belly fat and feel healthier overall.

Lifting heavier weights can help postmenopausal women lose belly fat, gain muscle, and get stronger.

Even though brain cancer treatment is tough, most patients who stick with a supervised exercise program during therapy go to almost all of their sessions—on average, 9 out of 10—though some go as low as a third of the time.

For people with a type of brain cancer getting tough treatment, doing guided exercise that mixes different types—like strength and cardio—might help them feel better, stay stronger, sleep better, and keep their quality of life from getting worse.

Doing guided exercise while getting chemo and radiation for brain cancer seems safe—none of the 25 patients in the program had serious problems like seizures from the workouts.

If people with a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma do supervised exercise while getting chemo and radiation, their leg strength and ability to move around likely get better in just six weeks.

About half of brain cancer patients going through chemo and radiation can stick with a supervised exercise program — the other half either say no or drop out early, so it's not easy to roll out for everyone.

If you're a student and dealing with depression or anxiety, you might be more likely to quit group therapy. But if you're taking sleep meds, you're more likely to stick with it.

Adults with depression or anxiety who try group exercise therapy are more likely to quit—over half of them—compared to far fewer who drop out of relaxation groups. This shows that sticking with exercise treatment might be tough for this group.

Adults with depression and anxiety who do group relaxation therapy tend to feel better after about 15 weeks — more than those who do group exercise — and they’re more likely to stick with it and finish the program.

If you're an adult with depression and anxiety, joining a supervised group exercise program might help reduce your symptoms—on average, people who finish the 19-week program feel noticeably better.

For adults with depression or anxiety, going to group exercise or group relaxation sessions helps just about the same in reducing symptoms—neither one seems to work better than the other after 12 weeks.

Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis and obesity stuck to a diet plan to lose 7% of their weight 94% of the time when guided remotely — much better than how often they stick to exercise plans like cardio or strength training.

Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis stuck to daily walking goals better than to harder workouts like aerobics or strength training — even though they still followed those pretty well too.

Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis and obesity were able to hit their daily step goals—averaging more than 7,000 steps—even without extra coaching, whether they got special support or just regular advice.