The Garden Route enjoys a Mediterranean climate with warm summers and mild winters. The Garden Route is one of the richest rainfall regions in South Africa. The rain, brought by the humid sea-winds from the Indian Ocean, falls at the weather side of the mountain slopes.etween Heidelberg and Storms River, the Garden Route runs parallel to a coastline featuring lakes, mountains, tall indigenous forests, amber-coloured rivers and golden beaches.
Thyroid gland disorders are connected to a number of health conditions. In the case of migraine patients, a sluggish thyroid gland can exacerbate their incidence of headache episodes, but the link between these two conditions is not as physiological as expected.
Graves' disease. This is an auto-immune condition and is the commonest cause of an overactive thyroid gland. Toxic adenomas. Nodules develop in the thyroid gland and begin to secrete thyroid hormones, upsetting the body's chemical balance. Some goitres may contain several of these nodules. Subacute thyroiditis. This is where inflammation of the thyroid causes the gland to âleakâ excess hormones, resulting in temporary hyperthyroidism.