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This level of thyroxin necessary to affect the cells is based on a very
delicate balance, to avoid the possible consequences if the amount of thy-
roxin acting on the cells increases or decreases beyond the level of 4 in
10,000. Inevitably, therefore, we should ask the following questions: By
what mechanism are these trillions of molecules counted? How was it de-
termined that a proportion of only 4 molecules in 10,000 is ideally suited to
human health? How was it cal-
Thyrotropin
releaser hormone culated that the remaining 9,996
molecules need to remain in a
Hypothalamus
bonded, inactive state? How
Pituitary gland
can the body determine that
Thyroid-releasing
hormone those four thyroxin molecules
circulating in the blood vessels
Thyroid hormone
have declined in number and
that other molecules need to be
Reduced TRH secretion
released to replace them?
How have these extraordi-
Reduced TSH secretion
nary mathematical calcula-
Negative reaction
tions—and the system based on
those calculations—functioned
Excess thyroid hormone
to perfection for thousands of
years in all the human beings
Increased TRH hormone
who have ever lived?
This example is without
Increased TRH
hormone doubt just one of the countless
Weakened reaction proofs that Almighty God rules
all worlds, whether visible to
Low level of our eyes or not, and enfolds all
thyroid hormone
things:
... He encompasses what is in
When the need arises for the hormone
their hands and has counted the
thyroxin, the hypothalamus sends an in-
struction to the gland. Realizing that the exact number of everything.
thyroid has to be activated, the pituitary (Surat al-Jinn, 28)
gland immediately sends a command to
the thyroid, which produces the hormone
thyroxin and distributes it throughout the
body.

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