About 3 years ago I received a direct message on my personal Instagram account in response to a picture I had just posted from a long time friend of mine. She wrote me to let me know after looking at the photo I had posted she noticed my thyroid looked enlarged. I immediately clicked the post to examine her observation. She was absolutely right, my thyroid was clearly swollen and enlarged. Right then, it was like I had just discovered one of final pieces of a puzzle I had been trying solve for YEARS. As I continued to think through what was going on with my health I began to…