The connection between stress and health issues is perhaps the best kept “public secret”. As the saying goes, the only people who do not believe in the pathology of stress are doctors…and the dead. I would add to this category the profession of statisticians who publish studies like the one below. Despite demonstrating “dose-dependent” relationship between the amount of hours people work per week and the severity of the resulting hypothyroidism, the authors of the study still refuse to suggest a cause-and-effect between stress from long work and the onset of hypothyroidism. If a rational argument can be made for the opposite hypothesis – i.e. people with hypothyroidism tend to work longer hours – then I am all ears. But the few doctors I contacted in regards to this study were at a loss of suggesting an alternative explanation and also think that long work hours (stress) are indeed a likely cause of hypothyroidism.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.liebertpub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1089\/thy.2019.0709<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-8171691\/Working-long-hours-cause-underactive-thyroid.html<\/a><\/p>\n Long Work Hours Linked to Greater Risk for Hypothyroidism<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n