Guide

Leading Personalities
 
Famous People with Thyroid Disorders.
 
Muhammed Ali - "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" is this World Champion heavy weight boxer's motto. It could just as easily be the thyroid's motto as well, as any sufferer of thyroid disease can attest. Muhammed Ali lost a championship fight after being wrongly treated for thyroid disease.
 
Carl Lewis - Olympic Gold Medal Winner. Five months before the 1996 Olympics, Carl was diagnosed to have hypothyroidism. He was successfully treated and able to compete.
 
Gail Devers - Olympic Gold Medal Winner. Her courageous battle to overcome thyroid disease is portrayed in the movie "Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story"
 
 

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