What is Hashimoto's Thyroiditis?

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's is not primarily a thyroid problem. Hashimoto's technically is not a thyroid problem, at least not first. It is a problem of your thyroid secondarily. The initial problem is autoimmunity. This is why when you go to your medical doctors they have nothing for you to offer other...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Are Hashimoto's and other autoimmunes genetic? The answer appears to be yes. It's funny. We just got this and I was just reading about this earlier this week just coincidentally. In a time that the data that I was reading was published there are still a little gray area, I think, going o...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com How often should you test for Hashimoto's? So, that's really an excellent question. So it assumes, I think that the patient already has Hashimoto's, all right. And so if you don't have Hashimoto's and you keep going to your doctor and they keep telling you that you don't have it, but you...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com The subject today is how Hashimoto's disease is being diagnosed and that's so basic to what I do every day for a living and yet when I heard this question, a million things went through my mind and here's why. Hashimoto's is a complex syndrome. It's complex for so many reasons. One reaso...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and lifestyle changes. I like this. I like this topic because it's so underappreciated, it's astonishing. And I think it's because Hashimoto's is still kind of misunderstood. I've been fortunate enough. I think I've been training with doctors from the get-go, from the time I...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and memory problems. It is a rare Hashimoto's patient that comes in here that doesn't write down memory as part of their clinical picture, and Hashimoto's can play a huge part in memory problems. The part of your brain that controls memory is called your hippocampus. This hip...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com So we're going to talk about Hashimoto's and PCOS today. Apparently there's a lot of people who are interested in that topic. And I would say with good reason. I don't think there's a week that goes by that I don't do a consult with a female patient who has polycystic ovarian syndrome an...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com So today, we're going to do There is No Silver Bullet for Hashimoto's and oh, how that I wish there was. Okay, so I don't know, today, there's a lot of marketing going on. There is the internet, which you're watching right now, right? And it's kind of a wild, wild west out there. There's...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com So I've just been told that we haven't done a presentation yet on Hashimoto's and brain fog. I don't know how that's possible because it's literally one of the top three symptoms. It's fatigue and I put on weight and I have brain fog is Hashimoto's. There's 20 symptoms that are really, r...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Okay, so today we're going to talk about the carnivore diet, specifically, and Hashimoto's. So, the carnivore diet. So, background. Okay, I'll tell you what I share with my patients. When we're treating them, it's diet, it's lifestyle changes. There's herbs, there are botanicals. There's...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Food sensitivities and Hashimoto's. Food sensitivities are... I think they're becoming much, much, much more appreciated. I have patients coming in, going, "I want my food sensitivities done. I want my food sensitivities done." So, years of a lot of us talking about food sensitivities is...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com what is the optimal TSH level? I don't think anybody knows. I really don't, but here's the back story on that. When I got into this, so there's a medical lab range and it's better known as a pathological lab range. So most of the medical ranges that you see on your lab test in Labcorp or...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and blood sugar today, because I think this is a really important subject. And I think the main reason it's so important is because somebody just turned it off going, "I don't have a blood sugar problem. I don't have diabetes. And my doctor said, even though I got a little pr...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I assume most of you know that, or probably wouldn't be clicking on Hashimoto's and SIBO. It's one of those very important things to know about. But again, it really needs to be put in context and because, what occurs with these types of condi...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and birth control pills. It could be Hashimoto's sex hormone binding globulin and birth control pills, and you'll see why in a second here. Okay. So birth control pills. I am a big non-fan of birth control pills. I get it. I get it, but birth control pills change a lot of thi...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and fibromyalgia. Again, this is a topic that I'm very familiar with because I started out in functional medicine as one of the earlier functional medicine practitioners back when everybody was coming in at that time, it was chronic fatigue, it was fibromyalgia. Those are the...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and macular degeneration. So I can't say that I've studied this a lot, but you'll see why. You'll understand why here in a second. So I've treated Hashimoto's for a long time. I literally treated a couple of thousand cases or more and so you start to see patterns. People come...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and gluten-free didn't help. So I have probably heard this hundreds of times, and the problem is that gluten is the number-one trigger for autoimmune thyroid disease. In fact, it's not an allergen. It's not a sensitivity. You can have a sensitivity or an allergen to it and ha...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's treatment after thyroidectomy. Like anything else with the human body, nothing is as straightforward as you'd like it to be. So the theory is, and again, it depends on why you had your thyroid taken out. Did you have your thyroid taken out because you have Graves' disease? Di...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Low dose naltrexone, LDN, and Hashimoto's. So I don't use low dose naltrexone for Hashimoto's and one of the main reasons is I'm not a medical doctor. I'm a chiropractor by... That's what I graduated from as my... That's my diplomat or whatever. My doctorate is in chiropractic. I do func...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and chronic fatigue. So years and years and years ago, I was part of a group that was one of the earliest groups in functional medicine and chronic fatigue was the issue. It was chronic fatigue, immunodeficiency disease, and fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue can be caused by a lo...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Follow TSH not TPO. This came up a couple of times in the past couple of weeks when I had patients that I reevaluated their thyroid hormones and they were a little upset because I didn't rerun their thyroid antibodies. So I'm assuming if you're looking at this, you have some idea what TS...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Can child birth cause Hashimoto’s? So the short answer is yes. The longer answer is, here’s how that happens. Okay. So the answer is yes. I would… In my patient population over the years I’ve been in this… In my mind as I look at all the people who come in and I listen to all of the trig...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com So the topic today is the best medications for Hashimoto's. And I'm assuming that the question is relevant to hormone replacement therapy and for thyroid. And this is a great question and I could go on for a long time on this but I won't. But here's the deal, okay. I'm considered an alte...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and low libido, and I'm largely talking to women on this because it's a lot different between women and men. Frankly, 97% of my practice is women and so I'm very much more familiar with that and I try to stick to things that I know. So basically, it's a complex relationship a...