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The Role of the Parathyroid in Weight Gain
The thyroid to my knowledge is the only gland or organ rather that stores hormones. So you have you make 85 micrograms of T4 per day, but you store 5000. That's over 50 days of reserve that just hang out in the thyroid. You'll actually see in research that females will increase thyroid production by 10 to 20% after birth control,. But the adaptation takes a while.