{"id":137825,"date":"2016-12-10T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/gigi-hadid-has-hashimotos-disease-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:18:08","slug":"gigi-hadid-has-hashimotos-disease-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/gigi-hadid-has-hashimotos-disease-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid Has Hashimoto\u2019s Disease\u2014Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Her disease played a role in how she prepared for the Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show<\/a>, which just took place in Paris. \u201cI didn’t want to lose any more weight, she said. \u201cI just want to have muscles in the right place, and if my butt can get a little perkier<\/a>, then that’s good.”<\/p>\n

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According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>, Hashimoto’s disease is about seven times more common in women than in men, and people who are diagnosed typically have family members with thyroid or other autoimmune diseases. It can occur in teens and young women, but shows up more commonly in middle-aged women, the organization says. (That said, Gina Rodriguez<\/a> and Victoria Justice<\/a>\u00a0have also said they suffer from the condition.)<\/p>\n

A person develops Hashimoto\u2019s disease when their body creates antibodies that fight against their thyroid gland, says Melanie Goldfarb, M.D., an endocrine surgeon and director of the endocrine tumor program at John Wayne Cancer Institute<\/a> at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. People may not even notice the symptoms\u2014which include constipation, feeling cold and rundown, and having difficulty concentrating\u2014at first, as they\u2019re not super obvious, says Goldfarb. Eventually, though, your thyroid won\u2019t function as well as it could, and as a result you\u2019ll likely start noticing some seemingly unexplainable weight gain<\/a>, she says.<\/p>\n

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That often brings people into the doctor\u2019s office, where diagnosis happens through a blood test that measures the levels of the thyroid hormone and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in your body, says Supneet Saluja, M.D., an endocrinologist at Baltimore\u2019s Mercy Medical Hospital<\/a>. (Heal your whole body with Rodale’s 12-day power plan for better health<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, doctors take a wait-and-see-approach with Hashimoto\u2019s disease. \u201cHaving the condition itself doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that you\u2019re going to have symptoms or that your thyroid isn\u2019t working,\u201d Goldfarb explains. Doctors will typically give patients a blood test each year to check their thyroid hormone levels and, if they start to drop, they\u2019ll prescribe medication like levothyroxine to help them re-stabilize.<\/p>\n

And yes, experts say it\u2019s totally plausible to have Hashimoto\u2019s disease and still be healthy. \u201cOnce [your body is producing] the right amount of thyroid hormone, [everything] should be back to normal,\u201d says Saluja. Plus, any weight gain that occurred because hormone levels were out of whack should drop off once they\u2019re back in proper working order.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Her disease played a role in how she prepared for the Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show, which just took place in Paris. \u201cI didn’t want to lose any more weight, she said. \u201cI just want to have muscles in the right place, and if my butt can get a little perkier, then that’s good.” RELATED: THE Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}