Thyroids and Butterflies
Print this entryWhat Is Your Thyroid? To understand your thyroid, take a look at a butterfly. Beautiful butterflies begin their lives as caterpillars. These wriggly, crawly, worm-like creatures spend most of their existence doing nothing but eating. Then one day, because of a special signal received in the caterpillar’s brain, it stops eating altogether. It finds a leaf or twig, crawls up to it, hangs itself upside down and begins to spin a silky, encompassing cocoon. A metamorphosis begins which,…