Made up of three segments—the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum—the small intestine is the workhorse of digestion. This is where most nutrients are absorbed. It's a long tube loosely coiled in your abdomen (spread out, it would be more than 20 feet long). Peristalsis is also at work here...
Made up of three segments—the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum—the small intestine is the workhorse of digestion. This is where most nutrients are absorbed. It'sa long tube loosely coiled in your abdomen (spread out, it would be more than 20 feet long). Peristalsis is also at work here, ...
HT often requires a lifelong hormone replacement therapy with levothyroxine and GD patients usually need thyreostatic drugs like propylthiouracil and methimazole and often also radioiodine therapy or surgery to control the disease in the long term [12,15]. There is increasing evidence for the ...