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 disease explained. So for me, who is embedded in Hashimoto's all day long, it's like, wow, people still need that explained. But yeah, they do and I know that from the consultations. I can tell you that most of the Hashimoto's seminars I've gone to have been about 24 hours lo...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Does Hashimoto's go into remission, or Hashimoto's and remission. These are questions that have come in a variety of different forms, and I'll try to cover them all. The answer to does Hashimoto's go into remission is, yes. Yes. It actually is a normal part of it. Autoimmunity in general...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com We’re going to talk about Hashimoto’s and heart problems. This is kind of an interesting one. And I’m going to speak to you strictly from experience on this because a lot of people are looking for, “Oh, it’s causing this exact thing, that to the heart and it’s creating the bundle branch...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com is hashimoto’s an autoimmune disease, so i’ve been in this for so long. I that twists my brain around to think that there’s anybody that doesn’t know that hashimoto’s is an autoimmune disease at this point not to be an insult. I i just i’m living in an alternative world, i’m living in a...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Okay, here we go again hashimoto’s and epstein-barr virus. You know um i’ve been involved in hashimoto’s literally since the beginning, i think, of when nobody even knew what the word hashimoto’s was because uh i studied with uh dr crossy, and if you don’t know who he is, you can get his...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com If you’re a hashimoto's sufferer than in botox and hashimoto’s and so botox is a neurotoxin, most people know what botox is as soon as i mention it to my patients, and I start to tell them what I'm going to tell you about it. They go. I’m not going to do botox, meaning I'm never going to...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com What high or low antibodies mean in terms of Hashimoto thyroid symptoms? This is a great question. It's a question I have gotten a zillion times. It's not actually a, a question I've gotten a zillion times, basically what happens in this person comes in with their, with their labs and, a...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com What causes the swings between hyper and hypothyroid symptoms. We have a long presentation online called the nobs series on <laugh> Hashimotos you should watch that. That would probably be the best answer, but the semi short answer is, is so many things. Okay. So there's 40 differe...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Links between thyroid health and brain health. Wow. That's a big subject. <Laugh> so I'll try to keep it short here. There's a link depending on who you are listening to, they might call it crosstalk between the thyroid and the brain. They might cause it the, the, the, the brain th...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Impact of adrenal exhaustion on Hashimotos bear with me on this one. This one might be a few minutes longer. I'll try not to make it too long. Okay. Because when I first got into functional medicine, it was, you can't fix the adrenals. You can't fix anything. There's a smidge in of truth...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com How do we reduce your reactions to chemicals and we've talked about chemicals. So so what do you do about it? So it's an interesting thing. First, the first thing you do about it is try to get rid is as many of 'em as you can, but the, but the topic is how do I reduce my reactions to it?...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hair dye, hair bleach, and Hashimoto's. So I don't really, you could go on forever if you want to tease out every single chemical that is a trigger. That's a trigger for Hashimo. So Hashimoto's is like, I've said 39. Like I think I'm about the 41 or 42 now, but it's like, it's 40, 41 tri...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Today we're gonna talk about the proinflammatory diet and Hashimoto's. So inflammatory diets are one of the many triggers of Hashimoto's tyroid disease and inflammatory foods are a lot of protein foods, it's meats and, and eggs, and, and just all, a lot of, a lot of things that are hard...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com H. pylori and Hashimotos so H. pylori is a bacteria that gets into your stomach and and when it gets into your stomach, it does bad things. <Laugh> without getting into the entire chemistry of it. It essentially damage the cells in your I'm sorry. I say damages. It essentially will...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Today we're gonna talk about dysglycemia and Hashimoto's. So dysglycemia refers to blood sugar. Disc means it's screwed up. So basically dysglycemia can be high blood sugar, low blood sugar, but it's usually somebody bouncing back and forth between high and low blood sugar. This is one o...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Can you be thin with hypothyroidism so that, you know, none of these direct questions are really all that straightforward. Okay. So hypothyroidism, first of all, the caveat is, is how many people actually have hypothyroidism. And the answer is almost very, very, very, very few. If you ha...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Insomnia and Hashimoto's, and I can't believe I haven't talked about this one yet. Because it's so huge. I mean, really sometimes when people will, you know, they'll say, okay, doc, you know, they know who I am or something like that. I'm talking to people and they're like, oh wow. I can...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com What causes Hashimoto's? I don't feel like maybe I've put out a succinct enough explanation of this. Just based on like, thinking back to some of the presentations I've made and, and, and I wanted to do this to either update or clarify that question for people Hashimoto's patients come i...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Do you have to be gluten free with Hashimoto's? Yes. So yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So, okay. Why? All right. So, you know, it's, it's interesting. Auto-Immunity is becoming now more and more understood and there's mechanisms that cause immune inflammation to spread. One...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com So Hashimoto's and neuropathy is the topic today. The question of the day can they be connected? Yeah.  So yeah, they can be connected note a fairly decent amount of the time. There's a lot of different types of neuropathy. Okay. Right now, I think they've lost count. I think they'r...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Okay. So we're getting questions on selenium suddenly over the recent weeks. And I don't know if a month or two, and I have been seeing selenium show up more and more and more in the vitamin lists of the patients who come in and SU to my office. And so the question is, should I be taking...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Can emotional trauma cause Hashimoto's or other thyroid problems?  Okay. So the answer is yes for that. So that, so the mechanism is this, so Hashimoto's first is a auto-immune problem. So there's a, there's an order of the way you would look at this and you would look at it first t...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Did your doctor miss your Hashimoto's diagnosis?  I'm seeing this a lot lately. I've been seeing a lot for, for ever since I've been doing this for sure. And I'm still surprised at how little, the understanding of Hashimoto's has not trickled. And I use the word trickled, not trickl...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com What is a Hashimoto's flare up? Okay. So the question for the day is what is a Hashimoto's flare up? So Hashimoto's who man Hashimoto's can print that sentence off in so many different ways. It's crazy. And it can have so many different triggers and the numbers can be all over the place....

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Does Hashimoto's cause nodules?   That's kind of a complex kind of vicious cycle type of a situation where the answer is kind of yes and no, it's actually more yes than it is now. So basically nodules are mostly created from intermittent bursts or consistent vers of too much thyroid...