Your Parathyroid Glands: Defenders of Calcium

Our parathyroid glands are part of our endocrine system, the overly complicated, under appreciated system that controls all of our health. Chances are you’ve never heard of these glands; who hears about well-behaved glands?

But the parathyroid glands aren’t perfect. And they can be in trouble a long time before anybody notices. Well, you know something’s wrong, but everybody else seems to think you’re imagining things.

So let’s talk parathyroid!

Close by the thyroid lies four similarly named, but pretty much unrelated, endocrine glands, the parathyroids. These tiny glands, each the size of a grain of rice, control our calcium balance.

Calcium keeps our …read more