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 and gluten, and that was really one of the first things that we understood as functional medicine practitioners in the early days was a problem. We didn't completely know exactly why at that point in time. This was before anybody heard of gluten. This is when you told somebod...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Can Hashimoto's go into remission? So a lot of people come to me and they come to me with Hashimoto's, maybe they come to me with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, maybe they come to me with bowel issues that and we find out that Hashimoto's is involved. And some obviously come to me with H...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com What's the best diet for Hashimoto's?  So there is and there isn't one. So let me answer that. So it's interesting. I've been around since Hashimoto's more or less began to be taken seriously. And the initial diet that was put together for Hashimoto's was the anti-inflammatory diet....

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com If somebody comes in here and tells me I've got depression and anxiety and panic attacks, I'm looking to see if they got a thyroid problem, if they haven't already been diagnosed. And a thyroid problem is usually going to be Hashimoto's. So there's a lot of chemistry involved in that. De...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Is Hashimoto's related to anxiety? Can Hashimoto's cause anxiety? Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. What is anxiety? Okay. Anxiety is an over-firing of a certain part of your brain, and you have something called the amygdala and that amygdala is the fear center of your brain. And when the amygdal...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Is Hashimoto's related to polycystic ovarian syndrome? The answer is probably. There are different studies out there that suggest that PCOS and Hashimoto's exist together. Some say 40% of the time, some say 30%, some say 50% of the time, some say 60%, but there's definitely a link betwee...

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For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com I think most of you probably know that I have Hashimoto's. And that I was actually one of the early diagnosis of Hashimoto's. Back when the doctor told me I had it, I didn't even... Never even heard of it. And, the doctor said, no, nobody's heard of it, but everybody's got it. That was a...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com We're going to be talking about Hashimoto's and weight loss. A lot of these come from questions that we've gotten. We had a zillion questions. So most of what we're going to be doing over these 30 days is answering those questions and then filling in the blanks for you. And some of you a...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and high cholesterol. The reason I am taking this question and doing it is because it's something I see all the time. And it's like people come in and they have high cholesterol and they have high LDLs, low density lipids. And they go, "Oh my God, my doctor told me I got to g...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Constipation is extremely common with the Hashimoto's condition. So why does... Is it related? Yes. I would say that Hashimoto's is considered probably the number two cause of constipation. Number one cause is chronic stress. And then after that, you can go into all of the things that oc...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Is Hashimoto's disease genetic?  There's been a lot of going back and forth on this ever since Hashimoto's was discovered. It's essentially an autoimmune disease, which means your immune system, which has been tasked with the almost ridiculously impossible task of killing bacterias,...

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For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Can Hashimoto’s cause a positive ANA. This is like, I think one of the most important topics of this whole auto-immune as well as a Hashimoto's topic. This one drives me crazy. So ANA. ANA is a widely accepted test. Most people who do auto-immune testing today, medical doctors, rheumatol...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Why do you still have thyroid symptoms when the doctor is telling you that your thyroid numbers are correct? There's a lot of nuances to that, a lot. Like about 25 different ones. But I'm going to talk about the core here real quickly. So normally when you go to the doctor, in this day a...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Topic today is Hashimoto's versus hypothyroidism. Hashimoto's has a lot of different names to it. One of them is Hashimoto's hypothyroid disease, and so pure hypothyroidism, I'm not even sure if it actually exists because I never see it. The people who come in here have Hashimoto's. They...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Which test do you do to, to figure out whether a person's got Hashimoto's or not. There's a few nuances to this that we may cover later on in some of our other series presentations on this, but the tests themselves, there's two. So when you go to the doctor and they do the TSH, they do y...

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com We're beginning a new topic here in our presentations that we've been putting on for the last seven or eight or nine years. Our new way of presenting data, we're going to start presenting one condition a month and we're going to address that condition every day for that month. We're goin...