Of all the hormonal deficiency disorders, hypothyroidism is the most common and it’s caused by the thyroid’s failure to adequately produce thyroid hormones [R]. The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped organ located in the lower neck region.

It’s pretty much impossible to overestimate the extent to which the liver is responsible for the proper functioning of the body. It acts as a battery, a filter, a warehouse, a processing plant, and a distribution point all at once.

Have you ever wondered why we use sayings like “gut feelings” and “butterflies in our stomach”? When we’re nervous, we have a weird feeling in our gut. When we’re stressed, we may have a hard time using the bathroom. When we fall in love, we feel flutters in our gut.

We’ve all watched a movie with a bucket-of-ice-cream post-break-up scene, right? But it’s not purely fictional, emotional eating is actually a thing and there’s science to back it up.

Did you know that we have about as many bugs in our bodies as we do human cells? Despite our attempts to avoid invasion by harmful microorganisms, our bodies are actually flooded with trillions of microorganisms of thousands of different specifies, including bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses.