With hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid, the thyroid gland makes too much thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism have opposite effects. These hormones will replace what your body isn’t producing on its own and help return your body’s functions to normal. Most treatments rely on supplementing your low hormone levels with artificial hormones. If you’ve recently received a hypothyroidism diagnosis, it’s important to know that treatment is considered simple, safe, and effective. Subclinical hypothyroidism is the name given to an early, mild form of the condition.
It may be discovered through a routine blood test or after symptoms begin. Without the right amount of thyroid hormones, your body’s natural functions begin to slow down.Īlso called underactive thyroid, hypothyroidism usually affects people over the age of 60 and is more common in women than men. Thyroid hormones help control functions including how your heart beats and how your digestive system works. It releases hormones that help your body regulate and use energy. The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland that sits in front of your windpipe. Hypothyroidism occurs when your body doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormones. Love doing stuff in your city? Tell us all about it in our annual, global, Time Out Index survey. In addition to these adorable animal statues, New Yorkers get to gaze at a replica of the Statue of Liberty wearing a cartoon mask now on display on the High Line, for example, or revel in a new Rockefeller Plaza artwork that changes based on its surroundings (and is actually a live NFT!). It's clearly a great time to be a fan of outdoor public art. The result is a group of bronze sculptures that combines the gracious and exclusive with the communicative, distorted, and humorous."įolks who wish to do so can also take a close look at smaller editions of Skaarup's works at Cavalier Galleries on West 57th Street by Fifth Avenue. "Each animal is thoroughly culturalized representing human allegories or use manmade tools, all placed in peculiar and surreal encounters between nature and culture. "My animal sculptures are a celebration of life and nature and its many intriguing shapes and creatures," Skaarup said in an official statement. Photograph: Courtesy of Cavalier Galleries The pieces are the work of Danish artist Bjørn Okholm Skaarup and "Hippo Ballerina" in specific is inspired by Edgar Degas' beautiful sculpture "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" and the dancing hippos of Walt Disney's Fantasia. You'll find all three monuments on the west side of Park Avenue between East 41st and East 42nd Streets, right in front of Grand Central Station, through the end of December. The 15-foot-tall and 2.5-ton-heavy tutu-clad bronze sculpture is instantly recognizable and, this time, it will be on display alongside two other statues-"Hippo Ballerina, pirouette" and "Rhino Harlequin, pirouette-"as part of the New York City Department of Transportation's Art Program. After taking up residence at Dante Park by Lincoln Center, the Flatiron South Public Plaza and the Girl Scouts of America Building, the iconic "Hippo Ballerina" statue has dubbed Pershing Square Plaza West its new home.
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