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Informative Speech On Graves Disease

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My disease that I picked and will be talking about today is, Graves Disease. Graves Disease is when the Thyroid Hormones overproduce. Incase you didn’t know your Thyroid Hormones controls your calories, your heartbeat, body temperature, digestive tract (how fast food digests), muscle strength, and replacing dying cells. Over producing Thyroid Hormones speeds all of these things up. The Thyroid Gland (the gland that makes Thyroid Hormones) is located in the neck, below the Adam’s apple.

Some symptoms for Graves Disease is anxiety, tremors in hands and fingers, heat sensitivity in moist skin/warm skin, weight loss, bowel movements, bulging eyes, fatigue, thick-red skin on feet, and fast heartbeat.

Scientists believe Graves Disease is a
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