Thyroid hormones affect many metabolic processes such as:
- Body growth
- Body weight
- Skin and hair
- Musculature
- Nervous system
- Endocrine system
Thyroid diseases are very common and occur not only clustered in old age, but also in childhood and adolescence.
Germany is an iodine deficiency area.
Every third citizen lives with pathological changes in the thyroid gland.
