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Breaking Down Graves' Disease Treatment Options

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6 days ago

You might not spend that much time thinking about your thyroid, but it’s doing an awful lot for you. The small butterfly-shaped gland in your neck helps regulate things like your body temperature, heart rate and metabolism.When you have Graves’ disease, an autoimmune condition that affects five times as many women as men, the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks itself.Certain autoimmune disorders like Graves’ are caused by harmful immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies. In Graves’ disease, these harmful autoantibodies attack the thyroid and cause it to make more hormones than the body needs...