News broke yesterday that Daisy Ridley, an actor finest recognized for her roles within the latest Star Wars trilogy and this yr’s Younger Lady and the Sea, has Graves’ illness. Ridley was formally identified with the autoimmune situation in September 2023, after seeing an endocrinologist about scorching flashes and fatigue—signs not generally related to an in any other case wholesome, energetic 32-year-old.
In a latest interview with Women’s Health Magazine, Ridley says she initially chalked up her signs to a demanding function in her upcoming movie Magpie, coping with issues like a racing coronary heart, weight reduction, tremors, and fatigue regularly. However all these signs turned out to be early warning signs of the thyroid problem that’s Graves’ illness—a situation that causes your thyroid gland to provide an excessive amount of thyroid hormone, in any other case often called hyperthyroidism, per the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
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Graves’ illness is mostly identified in ladies over 30 and causes a lot of your bodily features to “velocity up.” This consists of issues like a quick, irregular heartbeat, frequent bowel actions, weight reduction, shakiness, sweating, and nervousness, per the NIDDK. When left untreated, it might result in problems like stroke, coronary heart failure, imaginative and prescient adjustments (it typically causes bulging eyes), and infertility.
Different celebrities with the situation embody TV star Wendy Williams and rapper Missy Elliot.
Fortunately, Graves’ illness is extremely treatable with medicine and life-style adjustments, per the NIDDK. Ridley says she’s additionally discovered reduction from a gluten-free diet, cryotherapy, acupuncture, and therapeutic massage. She’s not letting the prognosis (and her different well being points: endometriosis and PCOS) hold her from shining on the silver display.
