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Finally done!
Based off a chart that I created for my own reference a while ago; I’ve shared this with a number of folks who found it helpful, so I decided to turn it into a kind of infographic.
The more I read about the thyroid, the more amazed I am at how critically it is tied to our overall quality of life, and almost every aspect of our health. I’ve experienced this personally - aside from the standard low energy/cold hands/hairloss elements of hypothyroid, I also found that switching to a natural thyroid medication with both T3 and T4 substantially improved my PCOS symptoms - it brought my Testosterone down by almost 25%, back into a normal range. It also completely corrected muscle pain in my quads, which I had before thought was a bit of tendonitis that wouldn’t heal.
Man I could go on about thyroid for forever but I’d better stop….:)
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DID YOU KNOW that everyone has an Adam’s Apple, regardless of gender?
The thyroid cartilage of the laryngeal skeleton forms a mound under the skin called the laryngeal prominence. In adults, the laminae of the cartilage meets at a 90-degree angle in males and a 120-degree angle in females, causing the prominence to commonly be more pronounced in males.
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This is a vector illustration showing the physiological relationship between the thyroid gland, the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, and the body’s peripheral tissues. I did it for an endocrinology journal around 1995, with a pretty early version of Adobe Illustrator, probably 5.0? (That’s 5.0, not CS5!) This illustration had to be done with a vector application because I used the pieces to animate it later. Today this kind of animation might be done with Flash, but back then I used an application called Director. I remember having to learn Director on the spot when a client before this one asked if I could animate one of my illustrations. I said “Yes!” knowing full well I’d have to learn Director that night. Talk about living by the seat of my pants. Well, it worked. I learned it very quickly (and frantically). I’d like to post my old animations some time, if I can figure out how to get them off the Syquest disks.
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Surgical anatomy pertaining to Halsted’s thyroidectomy procedure by Max Brodel
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A sample of 3D models I did for an anatomical poster discussing thyroid hormone synthesis.
© J. Pasini 2011
