Brain-thyroid link

Although the thyroid gland releases the hormones which govern growth and metabolism, the brain (the pituitary and the hypothalamus) manages the release and the balance of the amount of hormones circulated.
Review Date: 04/29/2009
Reviewed By: Deborah Wexler, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School, Endocrinologist, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M.,
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