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Thyroid Nodule Ablation

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New topic today uh thyroid nodule ablation so this is a new one never heard of it before until yesterday so took some time to check into it uh last night and um i just might thought i’d put this out there just based on our experience so ablation means that you’re going to go in there and you’re going to blate these nodules you’re going to um get rid of them uh and by using a radio frequency and then and blasting these nodules to get rid of them i heard of it just yesterday from a patient on the east coast who is going to try to put i think 8 500 dollars together to go get her nodules ablated to which my reply was why would you do that it’s like what in the thyroid nodule needs to be ablated we have palpated thousands of thyroid nodules over a period of time sometimes some people have multiple some people have one some people have three some people have seven and the thyroid nodules are biopsy before that before they’re ablated their biopsy to find out whether they’re cancerous if you are real diagnostician you will palpate the thyroid nodules and those thyroid nodules are going to feel hard and and that’s fine if if you get to one that’s kind of tender one solitary nodule that’s tender that kind of raises an eyebrow that’s when you really want to get diagnostic um uh ultrasound on and you want to do a biopsy on and if you do the biopsy then they’ll determine whether you have um cancer or they’ll usually see abnormal cells in their normal cells abnormal cells or cancer normal cells are normal abnormal cells today they’re they’re pretty much saying um a large amount of time that it’s actually hashimoto’s and inflammatory responses from that there’s some ideas that it’s the part of the increased thyroid stimulating hormone that takes place from exacerbations of the thyroid particularly in hashimoto’s and uh and the last thing would be on the somewhat infrequent chance that it’s cancer and if it’s cancer i’ve talked about that not a big one for taking like your whole thyroid out or like even half of your thyroid it’s like removed that cancerous part uh in defense of the doctors none of them wanna get sued so if they just take a little part out the cancer comes back they don’t wanna deal with it so they a lot of times they just take like the whole thing out but back to nodules so i’m trying to figure out where in the flow ablating a nodule there would be of any value because if you haven’t if if you have a nodule that’s just there because you have too much thyroid stimulating hormones inflammation it it just stays there most people don’t even know they have them they wouldn’t know to feel that they’re there they don’t really alter your physiology at all unless they’re cancerous if they’re cancerous you take it out so i’m trying to understand what uh what would be the what would be and and i looked at it as much as i could last night to try to get a real good feel for like what what’s what’s the actual rationale for for taking them out and i i didn’t really to me it didn’t really raise to that level of um i think it’s like not covered by insurance so it didn’t really raise the level of me of a diagnostic or i guess even a better term would be like a clinically therapeutic procedure so i i’m open to i’m open to anybody giving me more information on that um i’m not even here to debate it i’m just saying that i can see this i can see this being part of something i’m going to have to start answering to be because yesterday was the first time i’ve heard of it and uh and so for me when i’m working with patients i like to keep things as basic and as streamlined as possible and if i get a if i get to wait until they you know take eight months to figure out what their thyroid hormone is or if i get away from they go get an ablation well if that’s fine if they have cancer i get away from the go get can’t get rid of cancer i’m okay with that you know but so so the the smoother a case can go the more likely a person’s going to follow through not to get discouraged but if they got to go here there do this i’m not i’m not right i’m not on board with the ablation thing at this point in time uh and and we’ll see where that goes if if anybody brings me some good data that changes my mind i’m kind of open to that but right now i would say think twice before somebody starts you know offering you the service of 8 500 not not covered by insurance to get rid of your blade to ablate your your non-cancerous thyroid nodules – Okay, totally new topic today thyroid nodule ablation.

So this is a new one never heard of it before until yesterday. (laughs) So it took some time to check into it last night. And I just, I thought I’d put this out there just based on our experience.

So ablation ba- means that you’re going to go in there and you’re going to ablate these nodules, you’re going to get rid of them. And by using a radio frequency and then, and then blasting these nodules to get rid of them.

I heard of it just yesterday from a patient on the East coast, who is Try to put, I think $8,500 together to go get her nodules ablated to which my reply was, why would you do that? It’s like, what, what in the thyroid nodule needs to be ablated.

We have palpated thousands of thyroid nodules over a period of time. Some time, some people have multiple some people have one, some people have three some people have seven, and the thyroid nodules are biopsy before that before they’re ablated.

Their biopsy to find out whether they’re cancerous. If you are real diagnostician you will palpate the thyroid nodules. And those thyroid nodules are going to feel hard. And, and that’s fine. If, if you get to one that’s kind of tender, one solitary nodule that’s tender that kind of raises an eyebrow.

That’s when you really want to get diagnostic ultrasound on and you want to do a biopsy on, and if you do the biopsy then they’ll determine whether you have um, cancer or there they’ll usually see abnormal cells in there, normal cells, abnormal cells, or cancer.

Normal cells are normal. Abnormal cells today, they’re pretty much saying a large amount of time that its actually Hashimoto’s and inflammatory responses from that. There’s some ideas that it’s part of the increased thyroid stimulating hormone that takes place from exacerbations of the thyroid, is particularly in Hashimoto’s and and then last thing would be on the in somewhat infrequent chance that it’s cancer.

And if it’s cancer, I talked about that. I’m not a big one for taking like your whole thyroid out or like even half your thyroid. It’s like remove the cancerous part. In defense of the doctors, none of them want to get sued so if they just take it a little part out and the cancer comes back, they don’t want to deal with it so they, a lot of times they just take like the whole thing out.

But back to nodules. So I’m trying to figure out where in the flow ablating a nodule there would be of any value because if you have an, if, if you have a nodule that’s just there because you have too much thyroid stimulating hormone it’s inflammation it’s, it, it just stays there.

Most people don’t even know they have them. They wouldn’t know to feel that they’re there. They don’t really alter your physiology at all. Unless they’re cancerous. If they’re cancerous you should take it out.

So I’m trying to understand what what would be the, what would be, and I, and I, and I looked at it as much as I could last night to try to get a real good feel for like what what’s what’s the actual rationale for, for taking them out.

And I didn’t really, to me it didn’t really raise to that level of, I I think it’s like not covered by insurance. So it didn’t really raise to the level of me, of diagnostic or I guess even a better term would be like a clinically therapeutic um, procedure.

So I, I’m, I’m, I’m open to I’m open to anybody giving me more information on that. I’m not, I’m not even here to debate it. I’m just saying that I can see this. I can see this being part of (laughs) something I’m going to have to start answering to.

Because yesterday was the first time I’ve heard of it. And, and so for me, when I’m working with patients I like to keep things as basic and as streamlined as possible. And if I get a, if I got to wait until they, you know take eight months to figure out what their thyroid hormone is, or if I get away from to go get an ablation.

Well that’s fine, if they have cancer I could wait for them to go-get, get rid of cancer. I’m okay with that, you know? But so, so the smoother a case can go the more likely a person’s going to follow through not to get discouraged through it but if they got to go here, there do this.

I’m not, I’m not right. I’m not on board with the ablation thing at this point in time. And, and we’ll see where that goes. If, if you if anybody brings me some good data that changes my mind I’m kind of open to that.

But right now I would say think twice before somebody starts, you know offering you the service of $8,500, not not covered by insurance to get rid of your- to ablate your your non-cancerous thyroid nodules.

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Thyroid Nodule Ablation

#Power Health Talk With Dr. Martin Rutherford #Thyroid Nodule Ablation

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oscarhgreene · 4 years ago

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Importance of the Microbiome

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As we talked about earlier in several of our presentations is we’re diversifying this year remember that term we’re going to use it a lot here in the next 10 minutes and we’re diversifying i mean from presenting a lot of information on hashimoto’s and we’re going to kind of morph out into um weight loss and um we’re crossing swords with with weight loss as far as talking a lot about blood sugar i and as i talked about i think in a previous presentation uh blood sugar is massively underappreciated in this country as being a problem you don’t have diabetes no worries we’re good wow that leaves about 50 to 60 or 70 people out there have blood sugar problems that are screwing up their weight and screwing up their mic about today that uh or or research to see what was going on in the microbiome for those of you who’ve been in the auto immune world or those of you who’ve been in the mystery disease world and you’ve been exposed to gi panels that told you about this particular bacteria and that particular bacteria and this particular bacteria and you should take something for that you should take some of it that model is gone although i see a lot of people still coming in here with tests for that um and some people even go i took i took what the person told me and i felt better for a little bit that model is gone the microbiome is where it’s at the whole enchilada the whole three to five pounds of of um of bacteria that’s in your gut that is now being considered uh as another organ system it’s literally being considered as an organ system what might you hurt have and and here’s the thing about the microbiome let’s start off with it’s not all good bacteria it’s a balance okay it’s it’s interesting but there needs to be a balance in the microbiome of like 80 good bacteria and like 20 bad bacteria it’s uh uh it’s it’s interesting because obviously we all think oh good good good and then you take a probiotic we blow up if you’re one of those people you either have like small intestinal bacterial overgrowth meaning you have a lot of bad bacteria and it’s taking those good bacteria from your probiotics and it’s turning them rapidly into bad bacteria right in front of your very nose if you will because that usually produces a lot of not very pleasant smelling gas so um so basically the microbiome is being is still in the process of being researched but you may have heard it about it uh relative to weight loss okay so and and in that presentation that i attended this was several years ago it um they talked about this was the presentation of they took feces out of a obese rat and put it into a skinny rat didn’t change anything else and the rat got big okay and then they took the microbiome feces out of a skinny rat and put it into a heavy rat and you got it the heavy rat got skinny this was the beginning of it all it goes way beyond that way beyond that but they now have they actually have actually have inhumans fecal implants and i’m not sure they find people with the proper microbiome or how they do it but they take the proper microbiome out of there they put it in people who are overweight and they’ll lose weight it’s expensive i think it’s like 25 grand i don’t think insurance pays for it and all that type of stuff but that’s not the point the point is this is your bacteria then and so they have proven that in that huge mass of bacteria there are certain bacteria that cause insulin to not work properly and spike insulin and the next next thing you know you’re spiking your blood sugar you’re in and next thing you know you’re getting insulin resistance the next thing you know insulin resistance leads to to fat gain and it only sees fat gain but it leaves fat gain that doesn’t want to go away so i mean that’s so that’s just like one teeny part of the microbiome in that study it was it was insane there was one study there where they took they have their certain rats that can go through a mole uh through a maze like crazy like no problem then the other one’s like you know and it’s like literally that’s it it’s done okay same thing took the microbiome out of the one who could get through the maze gave it to the one who couldn’t the one who couldn’t took theirs put it in here boom you know which way do i go which way do i go you know it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s it’s like amazing the doctor was presenting this went through this for like 20 like three hours and went over 25 different examples the microbiome affects everything we don’t even know all the things that affect you but it affects your hormones it affects your ability to to heal your leaky gut it affects your immune system it will dampen immune inflammation and autoimmunity if you get your microbiome under control it’s um it’s uh it’s it’s oh my goodness it’s uh so it has to do with weight loss it can um it it has to do with appetite it has to do a brain oh my god it has to do with brain function well we just talked about the rats right that’s brain function but way more than that way more than that as far as anxiety and depression and and maybe even dizziness and balance and vertigo if you have certain different types of problems with your cerebellum which is part of the brain that works with your ear to create your good balance uh it edge i just go go on and on okay so that’s the microbiome kind of in the cliff cliff cliff cliff cliff notes form okay but here’s the deal it’s not that it to fix it is is is is is somewhat straightforward it’s about diversity of fiber vegetables really it’s about diversity of fashion what’s this and what this pro what this um the microbiome project with this project this research project told us was they had researched every microbiome of everybody of every single country on planet earth literally every country and in many countries different parts of the country like the united states is like five different countries right the north the south the west that type of thing and then they went and they took the microbiome of like these indigenous crowds uh all um indigenous tribes okay and these tribes um some of them were like very very nomadic one particular one and i can’t think of the name of it now starts with an age but it they ate like 600 vegetables a year because they were nomadic that’s what they did they got up they ate this area until they couldn’t eat any more and then they moved on they had the best microbiome on planet earth now how they measure again i’m back to how do they measure what’s good and bad i i don’t exactly know i just know that they had the best and the united states of america had the worst the worst that’s not that’s not like an exaggeration it’s like we were like the worst like 149th or whatever the last place was so it’s about diversity it’s not it’s not even it’s not really even about amount of uh it’s about diversity of vegeta and they found like you know somewhere between 10 and 20 vegetables a day is is is is what’s needed to create the type of a diversity that you saw in those people with the nomadic tribe that was eating like 600 vegetables a year that may sound crazy but there’s ways to do it and then we we’ve we’ve um we’ve experimented with different ways of of having our patients do that but this has been a game changer for us as far as working with patients you’ve heard me talk about what a game changer blood sugar can be and how many people don’t even know that they have blood sugar problems and they think they’re fine and they tell they tell me oh i went to the doctor i just want you to say i went to a doctor this lady’s like this is like 275 pounds and she’s about five foot five she’s got a blood sugar problem trust me it’s like it’s impossible for her not to have a blood sugar problem but her numbers were normal and everything was fine she certainly had a microbiome problem based on her symptoms and and the microbiome massively affects blood sugar so so this is one of the reasons why in the hierarchy of things this is one reason why somebody might be told they have blood sugar problems be taking the metformin but it’s not working because this microbiome might be causing all kinds of problems with your insulin your blood sugar spikes blood sugar drops those types of things and a million other things this is huge i i would argue that you’re never going to get leaky gut healed if your microbiome isn’t right at least that’s what i’m kind of seeing right at this point in time so anyway so microbiome you know you can look it up it’s it’s it’s kind of out there now um but it’s just not out there i don’t when i when i talk to people every day i talk to people every day so i kind of get a feel for like what’s out there what’s what hasn’t gotten into the lexicon yet and all that type of stuff i’m not here no nobody’s coming here talking about the microbiome none of my patients are coming in here going they’re coming here going i’ve tried every diet in the man they’re coming here now lists of like 36 supplements that haven’t worked and all this type of stuff but nobody’s coming in here going i fixed my microbiome and i don’t feel any better that’s not happening i’m not i don’t hear the term microbiome so that’s kind of why i’m putting it out there direct your attention to maybe investigate it a little bit more and i think you’ll find that and and don’t be uh don’t don’t don’t look at it and go i’m gonna like i’d want i probably shouldn’t say this but i’m gonna say it i had one like um dietitian clinical nutritionist that i was uh going to treat she goes i’m a dietitian clinically you think you’re going to fix me by just changing my vegetable diversity and i was like no maybe i’m not it’s like it’s like the idea is too simple and and and and just trust me this is not a small thing this is this is this is a this is something that will i don’t care who you are if you look at this and you even you don’t have to get up to like 10 to 20 vegetables a day if you just change your diet towards more towards more uh diversity you’ll see a difference you’ll see there fiber is king i’ll go into that on another on another day so microbiome that’s where it’s at you’re going to hear about it in the future you have to hear about in the future it is huge in in fixing the gut it’s huge in fixing oral tolerance problems those of you have like 96 food sensitivities it it it’s just it’s a big deal so i would i would i would uh spend some time looking into that a little farther okay that’s it for today all right bye – Okay, Dr.

Rutherford here. And as we talked about earlier in several of our presentations is we’re diversifying this year. Remember that term. We’re gonna use it a lot here in the next 10 minutes. And we’re diversifying, and what I mean, from presenting a lot of information on Hashimoto’s and we’re gonna kind of morph out into weight loss and we’re crossing swords with weight loss, as far as talking a lot about blood sugar.

And as I talked about, I think in a previous presentation, blood sugar is massively under appreciated in this country as being a problem. You don’t have diabetes. No worries! We’re good! Wow! That leaves about 50 to 60 or 70% of people out there who have blood sugar problems.

They’re screwing up their weight and screwing up they’re (mumbles) about today. That, or research to see what was going on in the microbiome. For those of you who’ve been in the autoimmune world or those of you who’ve been in the mystery disease world and you’ve been exposed to GI panels.

They’ve told you about this particular bacteria and that particular bacteria and this particular bacteria and you should take something for that. You should take something for that. That model is gone.

Although I see a lot of people still coming in here with tests for that. And some people even go, I took what the person told me and I felt better for a little bit. That model is gone. The microbiome is where it’s at.

The whole enchilada, the whole three to five pounds of, bacteria that’s in your gut. That is now being considered as another organ system. It’s literally being considered as an organ system. What might you heard of like? And here’s the thing about the microbiome.

Let’s start off with, it’s not all good bacteria (chuckles). It’s a balance. Okay? It’s interesting. But there needs to be a balance in the microbiome of like 80% good bacteria and like 20% bad bacteria.

It’s interesting because obviously we all think, oh, good, good, good and then you take a probiotic and we blow up. If you’re one of those people you either have like small intestinal bacterial overgrowth meaning you have a lot of bad bacteria and it’s taking those good bacteria from your probiotics and it’s turning them rapidly (chuckles) into bad bacteria.

Right in front of your very nose, if you will. Because that usually produces a lot of not very pleasant smelling gas. So, so basically the microbiome is being, is still in the process of being researched but you may have heard it, about it at relative to weight loss.

Okay? So, and in that presentation that I attended, this was several years ago, it, they talked about, this was the presentation of, they took feces out of a obese rat and put it into a skinny rat. Didn’t change anything else, and the rat got big.

Okay? And then they took the microbiome feces out of a skinny rat and put it into a heavy rat. And you got it, the heavy rat got skinny. This was the beginning of it all. It goes way beyond that, way beyond that.

But they now have, they actual have, actually have in-humans fecal implants. And I’m not sure where they find people with the proper microbiome (chuckles) or how they do it. But they take the proper microbiome out of there and they put it in people who are overweight and they’ll lose weight.

It’s expensive. I think it’s like 25 grand and I don’t think insurance pays for it and all that type of stuff. But that’s not the point. The point is, this is your bacteria and so they have proven that, in that huge mass of bacteria, there are certain bacteria that cause insulin to not work properly and spike insulin.

And the next thing you know, you’re spiking your blood sugar, you’re, and the next thing you know, you’re getting insulin resistance. The next thing you know, insulin resistance leads to fat gain.

And it not only leads in fat gain, but its leads to fat gain that doesn’t wanna go away. So, I mean, so that’s just like one teeny part of the microbiome. In that study it was insane. There was one study there where they took, there are certain rats that can go through a mall, through a maze, like crazy.

Like (vocalizing) no problem. Then the other ones like, (vocalizing) (loud pounding), you know and it’s like, literally that’s it. It’s done. Okay? Same thing, took microbiome out of the one who could get through the maze and gave it to the one who couldn’t.

The one who couldn’t, (vocalizing). Took theirs, put it in here, boom! You know, which way do I go? Which way do I go? You know, it’s like amazing. They were, the doctor who was presenting this went through this for like three hours and went over 25 different examples.

The microbiome affects everything. We don’t even know all the things that affect yet but it affects your hormones, it affects your ability to heal your leaky gut. It affects your immune system. It will dampen immune inflammation and autoimmunity if you get your microbiome under control.

It’s, oh, my goodness! It, so it has to do with weight loss. It can, it has to do with appetite. It has to do brain, oh my God! It has to do with brain function while we just talked about the rats, right? That’s brain function.

But it way more than that. Way more than that as far as anxiety and depression and maybe even dizziness and balance or vertigo. If you have certain different types of problems with your cerebellum which is a part of the brain that works with your ear to create your good balance.

It, I can just go on and on. Okay, so that’s the microbiome kind of in the Cliff, Cliff, Cliff, Cliff, Cliff Notes form. Okay, here’s the deal. It’s not that, to fix it, is, somewhat straight forward.

It’s about diversity of fiber. Vegetables really. It’s about diversity of vegetables. What this, and what this pro.. what this, the microbiome project. What this project, this research project told us was, they had researched every microbiome of everybody, of every single country on planet earth.

Literally every country. And in many countries, different parts of the country. Like the United States, there are like five different countries, right? The North, the South, the West, that type of thing.

And then they went and they took the microbiome of like these indigenous crowds. Indigenous tribes. Okay? And these tribes, some of them were like very, very nomadic. One particular one and I can’t think of the name of it now, starts with a, h.

But they ate like 600 vegetables a year because they were nomadic (chuckles). They did! They got up, they ate this area until they couldn’t eat anymore and then they moved on. They had the best microbiome on planet earth.

Now how they’d measure? Again, I’m back to how do they measure what’s good and bad? I don’t exactly know. I just know that they had the best and the United States of America had the worst.

The worst! That’s not like an exaggeration. It’s like, we were like the worst, like 140 ninth or whatever, the last place. So it’s about diversity. It’s not really even about amount of, it’s about diversity of vegetable.

And they found like, you know, somewhere between 10 or 20 vegetables a day, is what’s needed to create the type of diversity that you saw in those people with the nomadic tribes that was eating like 600 vegetables a year.

That may sound crazy but there’s ways to do it. And we’ve, experimented with different ways of having our patients do that. But this has been a game changer for us as far as working with patients.

You’ve heard me talk about what a game changer blood sugar can be. And how many people don’t even know that they have blood sugar problems and they think they’re fine. And they tell me, oh, but I went to the doctor.

I just don’t want you to say I went to the doctor. Let’s say, she’s like 275 pounds and she’s about five foot five. She’s got a blood sugar problem. Trust me! (chuckles). It’s like, it’s impossible for her not to have a blood sugar problem but her numbers were normal and everything was fine.

She certainly had microbiome problems based on her symptoms and the microbiome massively affects blood sugar. So this is one of the reasons why in the hierarchy of things, is one reason why somebody might be told they have blood sugar problems, be taking the Metformin but it’s not working.

Because this microbiome might be causing all kinds of problems with your insulin, your blood sugar spikes, blood sugar drops, those types of things. And a million other things. This is huge. I would argue that you’re never gonna get leaky gut healed if your microbiome isn’t right.

At least that’s what I’m kinda seeing right at this point in time. So anyway, so microbiome, you know, you can look it up. It’s kinda out there now but it’s just not out there. When I talk to people every day, I talk to people every day.

So I kinda get a feel for like, what’s out there. What’s hasn’t gotten into the lexicon yet and all that type of stuff. (mumbles) Nobody’s coming in here and talking about the microbiome.

None of my patients are coming in here and going, they’re coming here and going, I tried every diet known to man. They’re coming here with now lists of like 36 supplements that haven’t worked and all this type of stuff.

But nobody’s coming in here and going, “I fixed my microbiome and I don’t feel any better.” That’s not happening. I’m not, I don’t hear the term microbiome. So that’s kinda why I’m putting it out there.

Direct your attention to maybe investigate it a little bit more. And I think you’ll find that. And don’t be, don’t look at it and go, oh, I’m gonna, like, I want (chuckles). I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m gonna say it.

I had one like dietician clinical nutritionist that I was going to treat (chuckles), until she goes, “I’m a dietician clinical nutritionist, you think you’re gonna fix me by just changing my vegetable diversity?” And I was like, “No, maybe I’m not.

” (laughing loudly) It’s like the idea is too simple. And, just trust me, this is not a small thing. This is something that will, I don’t care who you are. If you look at this and you even, you don’t even have to get up to like 10 to 20 vegetables a day.

If you just change your diet towards more diversity, you’ll see a difference. You’ll see that fiber is king. I’ll go into that on another day. So microbiome, that’s where it’s at. You’re gonna hear about it in the future.

You have to hear about it in the future. It is huge in fixing the gut. It’s huge in fixing oral tolerance problems for those of you have like 96 food sensitivities. It’s just, it’s a big deal.

So I would spend some time looking into that a little farther. Okay? That’s it for tonight. All right, bye.

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Importance of the Microbiome

#Power Health Talk With Dr. Martin Rutherford #Importance of the Microbiome

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oscarhgreene · 4 years ago

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Stop Chasing Symptoms!

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Hey Dr. Rutherford here today and I’m going to be a little jacked up because this is going to be a little bit of a venting for me so the title today is stop chasing symptoms now a lot of you have probably figured that out at least you think um a while ago i mean that’s that’s that’s been the whole medical world for as long as i could remember and and and frankly i’ve been thinking about this a lot in the medical world was correct for a long period of time when i look at things now and i look i i sat there last night and i was looking through google i was looking through functional medicine i was looking through thyroid i was looking through leaky gut and i’m looking at stuff and i’m going this is not for today’s present population of chronic condition patients what do you mean dr rutherford i mean i mean you know i mean you know you’ve been talking about leaky gut since the day you were functional medicine practitioner i mean what do you mean about that what do you mean sibo you’ve talked about sibo i do but i talk about it in a certain context of an entire frame of reference that’s called functional medicine and functional medicine is no longer about chasing symptoms and that’s what the medical profession has been about and then you know to their defense they were about fixing broken legs and then having heroic surgeries and heart transplants and then making drugs that got rid of symptoms because nobody knew any different but when you really look at it the healthcare system the alternative healthcare system has as a lot of it has followed that model when i look online and i look at certain well-known websites which i was looking at last night it’s like magnesium here’s the 12 things you can do for me that magnesium does and the next thing you do is you can take that magnesium it’s going to work and it does for most people for just a short period of time and when i say most people i’m talking about the patients who walk in here and i’m talking about the patients who are looking online today because those patients are like they’re they’re the chronic mystery patients there i i looked at three histories this morning i uh something happened and i put on i put on what was 80 pounds in three months how do you put on 80 pounds in three months i know okay and it ain’t gonna and and just like and the doctors told me it’s my thyroid not to worry about it they told me not to worry about it because it’s easy to take care of so they’re taking the medication it’s not working they’re taking the pills it’s not working it’s not gonna work so a new model was made it’s called functional medicine which is another whole thing because not everybody out there is pregnant a classic functional medicine model everybody’s got their own take on it because it’s not a regulated discipline and so you know you can go down the street somebody can rub your knees somebody can rub your back and give you a couple of pills and go i’m a functional medicine practitioner literally you can do that in in like most of the states so this is what i have to deal with so people coming in and they have like fibromyalgia peripherally chronic fatigue they got a bad gut they they can’t they either can’t get away from the bathroom you know for more than an hour or they can’t go for a week and and all this type of stuff and and they come in with bags of supplements okay and and and they push those bags at me and i look at them and i go don’t you shop to me don’t even come to me because that’s not the model the model that was uh produced was based on the fact that we have a new patient population i go back that you’re looking at google you’re look to me 80 of stuff i looked at last night online is not relevant to the present patient population and why is that because auto immunity has changed the rules of the game big time the the the doctors don’t know what to do with it yet the medical doctors don’t know what to do with that because their model which was appropriate at a time before autoimmunity when the person would come in with a flu or a cold or a stomachache or or an earache or you know they were chickenpox or something like that that was their world that’s how it developed but that world’s past them now this is now i’m not saying i’m not saying medicine’s not relevant i’m just saying for the chronic condition patient that is not that is not the the the best model and substituting a supplement for a pill for a symptom okay is not the right model it can give you temporary lease yes am i okay with that of course who doesn’t want temporary relief but when you come to me i’m into more than temporary relief look it’s genetics it’s it’s it’s the person living an unhealthy lifestyle whether they knew it or not do i drink coffee do i not drink coffee do i take salt away not take salt sugar batter sugar not that and i i is is out oh i drink one alcohol a day it’s good too alcohol bad no three alcohol i mean like it’s confusing so you could be uh following an unhealthy lifestyle not even knowing it and and either way it’s an unhealthy lifestyle the next thing you know your systems start breaking down and now the way it’s happening is once that gut breaks down the next thing you know you start getting you can start getting chemical sensitivities the next thing you know you are now open to getting autoimmunity the next thing you know you have a stress has anybody here been stressed in the last year i get a little stress you get a little like maybe get an argument and your stress is already up because your presidential guy lost their one or whatever or you’re or we got coveted you’ve been sitting in your house for six months which is not natural for us as human beings to have to do that type of stuff i don’t think that’s like like a controversial thing and so the next thing you know you have a trigger um you have an overwhelming infection you get copied i think a lot of these coveted people are getting it and they have these mystery symptoms later i think you’re going to find out those mystery symptoms are they had a genetic propensity develop autoimmunity and now here it is this is a new development in our society and frankly i treat people from all over the country and all over the world it’s everywhere it’s not just here okay so now this person comes to us and we have spent years years and years just trying to figure out how do we get that under control and i think we’ve got a pretty good model going and the model is not based on on symptoms the understanding of the case is based on symptoms i give out a close to 300 question questionnaire to my patients to fill out by the time that question is filled out a pretty good idea what’s going wrong with them and it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s and it’s all symptoms however those symptoms lead us to understand what systems have collapsed because these systems these these autoimmune problems they are not going away they’re getting more i’m seeing them in three and four and five-year-olds now you can’t cure at least not right now nobody’s come up with a cure now and um and and so basically you have to dampen it you have to get you have to do your best to get that person out of a uh out of a flare um some people have been on a flare for like 10 years okay and you have to get them out of that you have to get them in you have to try to get them in remission and show them how to stay that way we have we have done that we do that pretty well not everybody’s a candidate i’d say 80 people who call here are candidates and i’d say 20 for a variety of about 20 reasons just are not going to respond to this model of care now i said all that to say this so we get into the model we start treating people and and the person starts getting better and then maybe we switch into so basically the way it works is you’ve heard me say this if you watch this for a long time there’s a hierarchy to treatment we figure out what systems there are how do we get the immune system under control dampen the most it’s going to be lifestyle changes it’s going to be nutraceuticals it’s going to be it’s going to be a chemical toxicities it’s going to be triggers that we have to get rid of dietary changes with the uh that are going to help to get rid of strains and we have a very organized way of going about it and we do it in stages and you maybe maybe you know maybe you could do first stage one and also versus doing a lot better and then and then maybe in stage two i’m talking about not standard stages i’m talking about in that person’s particular case and now maybe you find that there’s a liver that’s not you know playing ball with us so maybe we have to go in there a little harder next thing you know you give a person an extra set of vitamins i’m not going to talk to them again for two or three weeks the next thing you know they’re not feeling good for three or four or five or six or seven days so what do they do they go back to dr google they go back to the model that’s failed they go back to the model of i’m going to go home and i’m going to go and i’m going to take this because this has helped me in the past in the context of what i do that’s not a good thing because what we’re doing is is changing physiology and physiology is very very uh communicative to the person who is doing classic functional medicine and if that’s and and it might be that that physiology is good because finally that organ is starting to like be demanded upon to get better and and and and so in the end that that person just kind of has to let me know send me an email do something say you know what i’ve had i’ve had some discomfort for the last three days and um i think i’m gonna take you know these five pills because they’ve helped me in the past and uh what do you think about that and then i would look at the five pills and go probably not a good idea you know or i might say you know one of those might be a good idea that might be the next thing but why don’t we wait a week why don’t we let because the whole idea is to get your physiology working as much as possible online now i have adopted an approach of more supplements in the beginning and tapering them down and tapering them down tapering down as the body heals but see people come in here you got they got like problems for 10 or 20 years you think it and and and we’re trained i take the drug and it either makes me feel better or makes me feel yucky and i tell the doctor he’s an idiot okay so but so so we have that model so so it’s we’re so like about the symptom and and and we’re so like to put band-aids on thing but in the framework of unraveling your physiology of getting these these multiple vicious cycles under control to start synchronizing tierra i mean you know i might have a patient who has doesn’t have constipation develop constipation that tells me something i might have a patient who has alternating constipation diarrhea go away like in a day it might take three weeks it depends on that case as to what’s normal for that and and so i i just there’s there’s a couple of things that really really make it difficult when you’re dealing with a functional medicine practitioner so i’m so i’m kind of like this is like my my my anthem for you for all of the functional medicine practitioners who are actually practicing functional medicine you give them if give them uh you know give them all the data that you can but don’t switch from one model to the next model in the middle don’t go from fixing systems getting your whole body to start working in sync again getting your gut under control and all of a sudden the endotoxins go away and next thing you know your joint pain goes away but now you’re going to the next step and the next step starts getting toxins out of your fat cells and now your joint pain comes back so now you go back to taking your your your magic you know whatever urban botanical gets rid of the joint thing which is fine but it takes away the markers that the functional medicine person needs to know what is the next something what is the next what is the next step so i mean in the end it’s it’s it’s you have to i mean like you have to when you go into functional medicine if you go to a practitioner that you feel confident in that has a plan that is an organization that talks the way we talk that then then you have to work with their model you can’t and again the people who have a lot of knowledge of um of what’s on the internet and and and and people who maybe don’t know how to read maybe maybe think they know how to read blood panels but they don’t i’m thinking largely of like one particular patient who has massive blood sugar problems but her blood tests are normal and then and i’m hearing like no i don’t have a blood sugar problem well we can’t go forward with this you can have you can have pre-diabetes for 10 years before it shows up on the blood pound you have to trust your doctor on that that’s what functional medicine is about it’s about catching all of these cycles and all of these systems that aren’t functioning properly before they get to the point where they show up on the blood test to where your f where your doctor when you read your blood test and he goes like that he goes oh yeah your a1c is up so we need to give you metformin we need to fix that long before that happens and your symptoms are telling us about that we understand that so when we say look i know your glucose is normal and i know your hba1c is normal for those of you are not aware those are two common but not always comprehensive blood markers um if they can be totally normal on your test and you can have you can have high or low blood sugar okay and and and you’re gonna allow your doctor to go with that so i mean this is a new world and it’s and and the thing is that you can’t you can’t chase you cannot chase symptoms and you cannot strictly chase blood markers and you have to and and and if my when my patients are you know what drives me crazy is is is i’ll be treating and and the person will be getting better then all sudden i’ll get an assessment form and it’s totally off the off the charts um then you know i’ll be waiting for the next time that i talk to them and then i understand and then they start telling me about about well you know i had this so i went back and i took this this uh this particular product because that made me move my boss three years ago but it’s not making me move my bowels now and or or i took i took a product and i felt good for like three days i started sleep again everything was wonderful now i’m doing it and and and now i’m back to where i was and and and i’ve stopped that product but it hasn’t changed anything that’s what functional medicine spent years years and some some of those brilliant people on this planet who had the courage to go ahead years and light years ahead of time getting their teeth kicked in getting getting criticized getting uh getting getting told that they were doctor wannabes and believe me being on this side at that point in time is not fun but they need to get that patient and what do they do they they call you and they say like it’s not working no no it it is working you’re not working your your decision to go back to another model is not working and so you have so either like decide to do your functional medicine practitioner do what they tell you to do or don’t do it is like is like my it’s like my advice i definitely am on a rant right now and so uh but but i’m i’m you know what i want my patients to get better oh and the other thing is they’ll go like i’m not i’m not i’m not uh i’m not getting better i have to go through their whole file make sure i’m not missing anything make sure i’m not losing my mind and then i’ll schedule an appointment to uh to to discuss the whole thing with them and say look here you know like what i’m telling you right now so maybe i’ll be able to use this and just tell them look on youtube for my rant and uh and and then have that conversation then they’re upset because i charge you for a console you know it’s like well i wouldn’t have to charge for the console if you just did what i tell you to do what i asked you to do because i’m going to ask you to do something it’s going to go better or it’s going to go worse if it goes worse that tells us something that is diagnostic that is functional medicine if you and it’s either a supplement or you got off of your diet or you were stressed that day which one was it oh it could be all of those things yes it could be all of those things a lot of times when people call me after they’ve been out of here for just that one last night and the young man was just phenomenal when he left and all of a sudden he’s starting to have symptoms again we talked for like 15 minutes he was stressed he was stressed at work that was it stress through off his blood sugar blood sugar thrown off his sleep what is he doing he’s taking supplements for each one of those things okay this is what i’m talking about all right and he’s delightful just in case you’re watching you know who you are he’s absolutely delightful and and and truly it was it was it was a cool thing because he he did call and he grasped it right away okay and he kind of felt sheepish because i had already given him what to do if something like that happened he goes oh i should have done this i go it’s okay next time do that you won’t have to call me and pay me for a consul and then yell at me because you’re paying me for a console so that’s my rant for today i don’t even remember what the name of the topic was it was but that’s my rant for today look this is a new world if you have these chronic conditions you’ve been to the doctor they don’t know what’s going on with you you’re taking the medications it’s not working you’re coming in here to me with three bags of supplements that’s not working you don’t want to go back to those two models when we’re in the middle of doing what we’re doing when any functional medicine practitioner you know oh the functional medicine practitioner well you know there’s good and bad functional medicine practitioners like everything else on planet earth okay it still gives them the best shot of helping you if you don’t if you resist the temptation to go back to that model and honestly if if if it’s going to be we have signs around this office it says we didn’t say it was going to be easy we said it was going to be worth it i mean because we know there’s going to be tough days when people are getting through that we tell them that in the beginning but that seems to like be forgotten sometimes you know so i’m not talking the vast majority of my patients but i’m talking to a percentage and i don’t like when my patients don’t get better because they’re shooting themselves in the foot and then they shoot themselves on the foot and maybe they even blame me but either way i don’t like that i don’t like that they’re not getting better because they could be getting better if they weren’t continuing going back to that model so so it’s not about it’s not about symptoms it’s about correcting the system it’s about correcting the vicious cycles it’s about correcting the inner twining as my mentor would say intertwining webs of of of conditions that that all come together to create these these chronic symptoms and and it’s it’s a whole different animal and it’s and it’s a whole different model so that’s my rant i’ll be interested to hear what anybody thinks about this one and i’ll be okay with whatever you throw at me and uh and so i’ll be with you again next time with uh uh hopefully is equally illuminating but maybe less controversial subject you – Hey, Dr.

Rutherford here today. And I’m gonna be a little jacked up, because this is gonna be a little bit of a venting (laughs) for me. So, the title today is “Stop Chasing Symptoms.” Now, a lot of you have probably figured that out, at least you think (laughs) a while ago.

I mean, that’s been the whole medical world for as long as I can remember. And frankly, I’ve been thinking about this a lot, the medical world was correct, for a long period of time. But when I look at things now, and I look at.

.. I sat there last night, and I was looking through Google, I was looking through functional medicine, I was looking through thyroid, I was looking through leaky gut, and I’m looking at stuff and I’m going, “This is not for today’s present population of chronic condition patients.

” Well, what do you mean Dr. Rutherford? I mean, you know…. I mean, you know, you’ve been talking about leaky gut since the day you were functional medicine practitioner. I mean, what do you mean about that? What do you mean CBO? You’ve talked about CBO.

I do, but I talk about it in a certain context of an entire frame of reference that’s called functional medicine. And functional medicine is no longer about chasing symptoms, and that’s what the medical profession has been about.

And then, you know, to their defense, they were about fixing broken legs, and then having heroic surgeries, and heart transplants, and then making drugs that got rid of symptoms, just because nobody knew any different.

But when you really look at it, the healthcare system, the alternative healthcare system, a lot of it has followed that model. When I look online and I look at certain well-known websites, which I was looking at last night, it’s like magnesium.

“Here’s the 12 things you can do for that… Magnesium does.” And then next thing you knew, is you can take that magnesium, it’s gonna work. And it does, for most people, for just a short period of time.

And when I say most people, I’m talking about the patients who walk in here, and I’m talking about the patients who are looking online today, because those patients are like, they’re the chronic mystery patients.

I looked at three histories this morning. Something happened and I put on, I put on, what was it? 80 pounds in three months. How do you put on 80 pounds at three months? I know. Okay. And it ain’t gonna.

.. And she’s like, “And the doctors told me is my thyroid not to worry about it. They told me not to worry about it because it’s easy to take care of.” So, they’re taking a medication, it’s not working, they’re taking the pills, it’s not working, it’s not gonna work.

So, a new model was made, it’s called functional medicine, which is another whole thing, because not everybody out there is a practitioner, and got a classic functional medicine model. Everybody’s got their own take on it because it’s not a regulated discipline.

And so, now you can go down the street, somebody can rub your knees, somebody can rub your back and give you a couple of pills and go, “I’m a functional medicine practitioner.” Literally, you can do that in like most of the States.

So, this is what I have to deal with. (laughs) So, people are coming in, and they have like fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, chronic fatigue, they got a bad gut. They either can’t get away from the bathroom, you know, for more than an hour, or they can’t go for a week, and all this type of stuff.

And they come in with bags of supplements. Okay? And they push those bags at me, and I look at ’em and I go, “Don’t you show ’em to me. Don’t you show ’em to me because that’s not the model.

” The model that was produced, was based on the fact that we have a new patient population. I go back to you’re looking at Google, you’re looking… To me, 80% of stuff I looked at last night, online, is not relevant to present patient population.

And why is that? Because auto immunity has changed the rules of the game, big time. The doctors don’t know what to do with it yet, the medical doctors don’t know what to do with it, ’cause their model, which was appropriate at a time before auto-immunity, when the person would come in with a flu, or a cold, or a stomach ache, or an earache, or, you know, we got the chickenpox or something like that, that was their world, that’s how it developed, but that world’s past them now.

This is now, I’m not saying medicine’s not relevant, I’m just saying for the chronic condition patient, that is not the best model. And substituting a supplement for a pill for a symptom, okay, is not the right model.

That, it kinda gives you a temporary relief. Yes. Am I okay with that? Of course, who doesn’t want it temporarily relief. But when you come to me, (laughs) I’m into more than temporary relief.

Look, it’s genetics, it’s the person living an unhealthy lifestyle, whether they knew it or not. Do I drink coffee? Do we not drink coffee? Do I take salt, do I not take salt? Is sugar bad, is sugar not bad? Is alcohol.

I drink one alcohol a day, it’s good, two alcohol bad, or three alcohol? I mean, like it’s confusing. So, you could be falling in an unhealthy lifestyle not even knowing it. And either way, it’s an unhealthy lifestyle.

And next thing you know, your system started breaking down, and now the way it’s happening, is once I got breaks down, the next thing you know, You can start getting chemical sensitivities, the next thing you know, you are now open to getting auto-immunity, the next thing you know, you have a stress.

Has anybody here had been stressed in the last year or so? A little stress, a little… Maybe you get in an argument and your stress is already up because you’re presidential guy lost or won, or whatever, or we got COVID, and you’ve been sitting in your house for six months, which is not natural for us as human beings, to have to do that type of stuff.

I don’t think that’s like a controversial thing. And so, the next thing you know, you have a trigger, you have an overwhelming infection, you get COVID, I think a lot of these COVID people are getting it, and they have these mystery symptoms later.

I think they’re gonna find out those mystery symptoms are, they had a genetic propensity develop auto-immunity, and now it is. This is a new development in our society. And frankly, I treat people from all over the country and all over the world, it’s everywhere, it’s not just here, okay? So, now this person comes to us and we have spent years, years, and years, just trying to figure out how do we get that under control? And I think we’ve got a pretty good model going.

And the model is not based on symptoms. (chuckles) The understanding of the case is based on symptoms. I give out at close to 300 question, questionnaire to my patients to fill out. And by the time that question is filled out, I’ve pretty good idea what’s going wrong with them, and it’s all symptoms.

However, those symptoms lead us to understand what systems have collapsed, because these systems, these auto-immune problems, they’re not going away, they’re getting more, I’m seeing them in three, and four, and five-year-olds now.

You can’t cure, at least not right now, nobody’s come up with a cure now. And so, basically, you have to dampen it, you have to get… You have to do your best to get that person out of a flare.

Some people have been on a flare for like 10 years. Okay. And you have to get them out of that, you have to get them… You have to try to get them into remission, and show ’em how they can stay that way.

We have done that, we do that pretty well. Not everybody’s a candidate, I’d say 80% of people who call here are candidates. And I’d say 20% for a variety of about 20 reasons, just are not gonna respond to this model of cure.

Now, I said all that to say this. (laughs) So, we get into the model, we start treating people, and the person starts getting better, and then, maybe we switch ’em to… So, basically, the way it works, is you’ve heard me say this, if you watch this for a long time, there’s a hierarchy to treatment, we figure out what systems they are.

How do we get the immune system under control, dampen the most, it’s gonna be lifestyle changes, it’s gonna be nutraceuticals, it’s gonna be a chemical toxicities, it’s gonna be triggers that we have to get rid of, dietary changes that are gonna help to get rid of, treat.

And we have a very organized way of going about it, and we do it in stages. Maybe you could do first stage one, and all of a sudden the person’s doing a lot better. And then maybe you get to stage two.

I’m talking about not standard stages, I’m talking about in that person’s particular case. And now, maybe you find that there’s a liver that’s not, you know, playing ball with this.

So, maybe we have to go in there a little harder, the next thing you know, you give a person the XR starter vitamins. I’m not gonna talk to them again for two or three weeks, the next thing you know, they’re not feeling good for three or four, or five, or six, or seven days.

So, what do they do? They go back to Dr. Google, they go back to the model that’s failed, they go back to the model of I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna go, and I’m gonna take this, because this has helped me in the past.

In the context of what I do, that’s not a good thing, because what we’re doing is changing physiology. And physiology is very, very communicative to the person who is doing classic functional medicine.

And it might be that, that physiology is good, because finally, that organ is starting to like be demanded upon to get better, and so, in the end, that person just kinda has to let me know. (laughs) Send me an email, do something, say, “You know what? I’ve had some discomfort for the last three days, And I think I’m gonna take, you know, these five pills because they’ve helped me in the past.

And what do you think about that?” And then, I would look at the five pills and go, “Probably, not a good idea.” You know? Or I might say, “You know, one of those might be a good idea.

That might be the next thing, but why don’t we wait a week?” Why don’t we let? ‘Cause the whole idea is to get your physiology working as much as possible online. Now, I have adopted an approach of more supplements in the beginning, and tapering them down, and tapering them down, and tapering down as the body heals.

But see people come in here, they got the problems for 10 or 20 years, and we’re trained. I take the drug and it either makes me feel better, or it makes me feel yucky, and I tell the doctor he’s an idiot.

Okay? So we have that model. So, we’re so like about the symptom, and we’re so like put the band-aids on things, but in the framework of unraveling your physiology of getting these multiple vicious cycles under control to start synchronizing to you.

I mean, you know, I might have a patient who doesn’t have constipation, develop constipation, that tells me something. I might have a patient who has alternating constipation, diarrhea go away (snaps) like in a day, it might take three weeks.

It depends on that case as to what’s normal for that. And so, there’s a couple of things that really, really make it difficult when you’re dealing with a functional medicine practitioner. So, I’m kinda like, this like my anthem for you, for all of the functional medicine practitioners, who are actually practicing functional medicine.

You know give them all the data that you can, but don’t switch from one model to the next model in the middle. Don’t go from fixing systems, getting your whole body to start working in-sync again, getting your gut under control, and all of a sudden, the endotoxins go away, and the next thing you know, your joint pain goes away.

But now, you go onto the next step, and the next step starts getting toxins out of your fat cells, and now, your joint pain comes back, so now, you go back to taking your magic, you know, whatever urban botanical gets rid of the joint thing.

Which is fine, but it takes away the markers that the functional medicine person needs to know, what is the next step? So, I mean, in the end, it’s, you have to… I mean, like you have the… When you go in the functional medicine, if you go to a practitioner that you feel confident in, that has a plan, that as an organization, that talks the way we talk, then you have to work with their model.

You can’t… And again, the people who have a lot of knowledge of what’s on the internet, and people who maybe don’t know how to read, maybe think they know how to read blood panels but they don’t.

I’m thinking largely of like one particular patient who has massive blood sugar problems but their blood tests are normal. And I’m hearing like, “No, I don’t have a blood sugar problem.

” We can’t go forward with this. You can have pre-diabetes for 10 years before it shows up on the blood panel, you have to trust your doctor on that, that’s what functional medicine is about.

It’s about catching all of these cycles and all of these systems that aren’t functioning properly, before they get to the point where they show up on the blood test, to where your doctor, when he reads your blood test, and he goes like that, and goes, “Yeah, your A1C is up, so we need to give you Metformin.

” We need to fix that long before that happens. And your symptoms are telling us about that, we understand that. So, when we say, “Look, I know your glucose is normal, and I know your HbA1C is normal.

” For those of you aren’t aware, those are two common, but not always comprehensive blood markers. They can be totally normal on your test and you’re gonna have high or low blood sugar. Okay? And you’re gonna allow your doctor to go with that.

So, I mean, this is a new world and it’s, and the thing is that you can’t chase, you cannot chase symptoms, and you cannot strictly chase blood markers, and you have to… When my patients are, you know, what drives me crazy, is I’ll be treating, and the person will be getting better.

And then all of a sudden, I’ll get an assessment for ’em, and it’s totally off the charts. Then, you know, I’ll be waiting for the next time that I talked to them, and then I understand, and then they start telling me about, “Well, you know, I had this, so I went back and I took this particular product because that made me move my bowels three years ago but it’s not making me move my bowels now.

” Or, “I took a product and I felt good for like three days. I started sleeping again, everything was wonderful, but now I’m doing it, and now I’m back to where I was. and I stopped that product but it hasn’t changed anything.

” That’s what functional medicine spent years, years. And some of those brilliant people on this planet who had the courage to go ahead years, and light years ahead of time, getting their teeth kicked in, getting criticized, getting told that they were Dr.

Wannabes. And believe me, being on this side, at that point in time, is not fun. But they gonna get that patient, and what do they do? They call you and they say like, it’s not working. (laughs) No, no, it is working, (chuckles) you’re not working.

Your decision to go back to another model is not working. And so, you ha… So, either like decide that your functional medicine practitioner do what they tell you to do, or don’t do it. Is like my (laughs) advice.

I definitely, am on a ramp right now. And so… You know what? I want my patients to get better. And the other thing is they’ll go like, “I’m not getting better.” I have to go through their whole file, make sure I’m not missing anything, make sure I’m not losing my mind.

And then I’ll schedule an appointment to discuss the whole thing with them and say, “Look, here, you know, like what I’m telling you right now.” So, maybe I’ll be able to use this and just tell them, look on YouTube for my rant.

And then have that conversation, and then they’re upset because I charged them for a consult. You know, it’s like, why wouldn’t I have to charge you for the consult? If you just did what I tell you to do, what I asked you to do, because I’m gonna ask you to do something, it’s gonna go better, or it’s gonna go worse.

If it goes worse that tells us something, that is diagnostic, that is functional medicine. And it’s either a supplement, or you got off of your diet, or you were stressed that day, which one was it? It could be all of those things.

Yes, it could be all of those things. A lot of times when people call me after they’ve been out of here for… I just had one last night. And the young man who was just phenomenal when he left, and all of a sudden, he’s starting to have symptoms again, we talked for like 15 minutes.

He was stressed, he was stressed at work. That was it, stress threw off his blood sugar, blood, sugar throwing off his sleep. What is he doing? He’s taking supplements for each one of those things.

Okay. This is what I’m talking about. All right. And he’s delightful, just in case you’re watching, you know who you are. (laughs) He’s absolutely delightful. And truly, it was a cool thing, because he did call, and he grasped it right away.

Okay. And he kinda felt sheepish, because I had already given him what to do. If something like that happened, he goes, “I should’ve done this.” I go, “It’s okay, next time do that.

You’ll have to call me and pay me for a consult, and then yell at me because you pay me for or consult.” So, that’s my rant for today. I don’t even remember what the name of the topic was, it was.

(laughs) But that’s my rant for today. Look, this is a new world. If you have these chronic conditions, you’ve been to the doctor, they don’t know what’s going on with you. You’re taking the medications, it’s not working.

You’re coming in here to me with three bags of supplements, that’s not working, you don’t wanna go back to those two models, when we’re in the middle of doing what we’re doing. When any functional medicine practice.

.. (mumbles) “You know, it was a functional medicine practitioner,” they went, “Well, you know, there’s good and bad functional medicine practitioners like everything else on planet earth, okay?” It still gives them the best shot of helping you, if you don’t, if you resist the temptation to go back to that model.

And honestly, if it’s gonna be, we have signs around this office, it says, “We didn’t say it was gonna be easy, we said it was gonna be worth it.” I mean, ’cause we know there’s gonna be tough days when people are getting through that.

And we tell ’em that in the beginning, but that seems to like be forgotten sometimes. You know? So, I’m not talking to the vast majority my patients, but I’m talking to a percentage, and I don’t like when my patients don’t get better, because they’re shooting themselves in the foot.

And then they shoot themselves in the foot, and maybe they even blame me. But either way, I don’t like that. I don’t like that they’re not getting better, because they could be getting better if they weren’t continuing going back to that model.

So, it’s not about symptoms, it’s about correcting the system. It’s about correcting the vicious cycles, it’s about correcting the inner twining. As my mentor would say, “Intertwining webs of conditions that all come together to create these chronic symptoms.

” And it’s a whole different animal, and it’s a whole different model. So, that’s my rant. I’ll be interested to hear what anybody thinks about this one, and I’ll be okay with whatever you throw at me.

And so, I’ll be with you again next time with… hopefully, as equally illuminating, (laughs) but maybe less controversial subject.

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Hashimoto’s and Hoarse Voice

Hashimoto's and Hoarse Voice

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Okay the question of the day is can hashimoto’s give you a hoarse voice and the answer is yes and uh and and frankly it’s it’s it’s kind of a it’s kind of a gauge to help the clinician to maybe understand what kind of hashimoto’s case he’s he’s working with as well as um maybe where to start care with with that type of patient so hashimoto’s in horse voice it’s it’s it’s pretty much this is the more unstable hashimoto’s patient so if you have a horse voice you reach up here and your thyroid maybe swells a little bit and it goes away and swells a little bit maybe it’s tender maybe you don’t have any of the tenderness or swelling maybe you just have the hoarseness in the voice itself you are uh and it’s and it’s and it’s affecting your throat usually it’s because the thyroid is getting attacked the the hoarseness of the voice is usually because it is affecting your thyroid maybe not to the degree where you’re able to perceive that the thyroid is enlarging a little bit because because when i palpate people’s thyroids i would say more than half are shocked when i say you have an enlarged thyroid and then i have a and that food starts to react and their immune system starts to flare up they’ll they’ll get an inflammatory response either against their thyroid against their thyrocytes their their their thyrocytes are thyroid cells against their thyroid cells and then that’ll create an inflammatory response maybe you get a little bit of enlargement in there um and and then you have that hoarseness and then you have and it comes and it goes for no reason at all you might have swelling with it you may not have swelling with it and that’s that’s kind of how it goes if a person comes in here and they’re that significant that’s acute to me that’s like a right now thing let’s get that under control right now because if you get that under control right now a lot of the patients symptoms feel better the the problem i have with that is then that the patient thinks they’re better because then they go like well i’m done but at that point we usually need to find the rest of their triggers and and and a lot of times they’re like so happy because they’re feeling so much better that that they don’t follow through with that but that’s another story so this is so this is um so this is yeah this is significant you can get this it’s a sign that you’re either in an acute response or that if you’re like me and i’m not in acute situations anymore i mean i have my hashimoto’s like largely under control uh but if but for me it’s it’s kind of a sign of like okay there’s a trigger somewhere then i that i didn’t miss something happened to me today something because basically in hashimoto’s look you’re looking to get the person to stop the downward progress you’re looking to get them out of remission and then you’re looking to have them have enough awareness to know that you have to manage this thing you have to look for future triggers did i get stressed today did i not get enough sleep last night for me it could be some of those things and so i just go like okay i got to get a good night’s sleep tonight or or you know maybe i ate too much salt so i didn’t i need to take some potassium that’s that can be a bellwether for a lot of you even even after you’re really really really feeling good that could be a bellwether for some of you so don’t think oh my god i’m not cured yet or everything because you don’t cure hashimoto’s but it can be that so so the answer the short answer was yes it can cause yes yes it can cause you to have hoarseness and the long answer is everything else i just got done telling you so yeah so hashimoto’s and hoarseness i think that’s a good topic – Okay.

The question of the day is, can Hashimoto’s give you a hoarse voice? And the answer is yes. And frankly it’s kind of a gauge to help the clinician to maybe understand what kind of Hashimoto’s case he’s working with as well as maybe where to start care with, with that type of patient.

So Hashimoto’s and hoarse voice. It’s, it’s, it’s pretty much this is the more unstable Hashimoto’s patient. So if you have a hoarse voice, you reach up here and your thyroid’s maybe swells a little bit and then goes away and swells a little bit.

Maybe it’s tender, maybe you don’t have any of the tenderness or swelling, maybe you just have the hoarseness in the voice itself. You are, and, and it’s, and it’s affecting your throat.

Usually it’s because the thyroid is getting attacked. The hoarseness of the voice is usually because it is affecting your thyroid, maybe not to the degree where you’re able to perceive that the thyroid is enlarging a little bit, because when I palpated people’s thyroids, I would say more than half are shocked.

When I say you have an enlarged thyroid and then I have a, an, and that food starts to react. And our immune system starts to flare up. They’ll, they’ll get an inflammatory response either against their thyroid against their thyroid sites, their, their their thyroid sites or thyroid cells against their thyroid cells.

And then that’ll create an inflammatory response. Maybe you get a little bit of enlargement in there and and then you have that hoarseness, and then you have and then it comes and it goes for no reason at all.

You might have swelling with it. You may not have swelling with it. And that’s, that’s kinda how it goes. If a person comes in here and there that’s significant that’s acute to me, that’s like a right now thing.

Let’s get that under control right now. Because if you get that under control right now a lot of the patient’s symptoms feel better then the problem I have with that is then that the patient thinks they’re better because then they go like, well, I’m done.

But at that point we usually need to find the rest of their triggers. And, and, and a lot of times they’re like so happy because they’re feeling so much better than that. They don’t follow through with that.

But that’s another story. So this is, so this is so this is, yeah, this is significant. You can get, this is a sign that you’re either in an acute response or that if you’re like me and I’m not in acute situations anymore.

I mean, I have my Hashimoto’s like largely under control, but, but for me it, it’s it’s kind of a sign of like, okay, there’s a trigger somewhere then I, that I didn’t miss something happened to me today.

Something, because basically in Hashimoto’s look, you’re looking to get the person to stop the downward progress. You’re looking to get them out of remission. And then you’re looking to have them have enough awareness to know that you have to manage this thing.

You have to look for future trigger. Do I, did I get stressed today? Did I get enough sleep last night? For me, it could be some of those things. And so I just go like, okay I got to get a good night’s sleep tonight.

Or, or, you know, maybe I eat too much salt. So I didn’t, I need to take some potassium or that ,that can be a bellwether for a lot of you, even if even after you’re really, really, really feeling good.

That could be a bellwether for some of you. So don’t think, Oh my God, I’m not sure yet, or everything. Cause you don’t cure a Hashimoto’s, but it can be that. So, so the answer the short answer was yes, it can cause yes, yes.

It can cause you to have hoarseness. And the long answer is everything else. I just got that it’s honey. So yeah. So Hashimoto’s and hoarseness, I think that’s a good topic.

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You Need to Manage Your Blood Sugar!

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So today, we’re gonna talk about something that isn’t gonna sound very sexy but you need to manage your blood sugar, period. I’m morphing more into doing a little bit more education on blood sugar because over this past year so many of the cases that came in here were their success just hung on the ability of us to get their blood sugar correct.

And people would commonly say, “Well, I don’t have a blood sugar problem” (laughs) I’ll say, Well you filled out my assessment form and there’s 16 symptoms on there that would indicate that you have a blood sugar problem if you mark them down and you have all of them.

So then the next retort from the patient is usually, but my blood tests are normal kinda like the Hashimoto’s thing. And I’m telling you that is so common. I found that when I get patients from other practitioners, alternative practitioners and functional medicine practitioners, the first thing I look at now is the blood sugar because it’s just not really emphasized the way that it should be.

Why is it important? First of all, blood sugar is used by every single every single cell in your body. We did a back to basics of functional medicine I did do a segment on blood sugar. I think this one’s gonna sound a little different than that one, but in the end in that segment we talked about how blood sugar is foundational to everything.

Every cell in your body needs proper balance of blood sugar every single cell in your body has insulin receptors so that sugar can get in there. And sugar works with your, the mitochondria these little energy mechanisms in your cells to create energy.

Okay, too much blood sugar is not good too little blood sugar is not good. Hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia. Well I don’t have hypoglycemia. The vast majority of patients who come in here have hypoglycemia.

But their numbers are normal. If you look at that… And so this goes back to the functional medicine model has different ranges but even within the functional medicine ranges A lot of times the lab tests are normal while this person is sitting there if I don’t eat, I get irritable, shaky, I wanna choke my wife or my husband, I get agitated, I get anxiety, I crave sweets, and you cannot even begin to go into all of the things that physiologically are affected by that.

For example, your thyroid hormones can’t convert properly into active thyroid hormones in other words you’ve got a perfectly normal thyroid and yet if your blood sugar’s off, your thyroid hormones may not be converting into the proper form to actually activate your energy in your cells.

If your blood sugar’s fluctuating all over the place, you may not be able to make the proper neurons in your brain to be happy, to be motivated. If you don’t have them, you may be you may have anxiety, you may have a.

.. even as much as panic attacks So the blood sugar is incredibly important. I think the thing that I’m wanting to say today is most of you have normal blood sugar tests. People come in here I mean like 70% of people come in here that blood sugar abnormality is a big part of their symptom picture that they’re coming in here for.

Whether it’s Hashimoto’s or another autoimmune disease or gut problem and no one’s even talked to them about it. Because the blood tests were normal. And so the thing is there’s like seven different levels of blood sugar abnormalities, for a medical doctor to tell you that you have hypoglycemia, low blood sugar I mean you have you be practically dead.

I mean, you’re supposed to be like it’s supposed to be the numbers less than 60 or 50 depending on who you’re looking at. By that time, your blood sugars are so low. Your brain is not getting any oxygen from your blood sugar.

I’m sorry, your brain’s not getting your blood sugar your muscles aren’t getting any blood sugar and your cells aren’t getting any blood sugar and you’re passing out and you’re getting lightheaded and you don’t feel good and all that Kind of like a diabetic, who hasn’t taken her insulin.

And so that’s hypoglycemia They’ll diagnose you with low blood sugar if you come in like that. But the vast majority of you, it’s not like that. The vast majority of you it’s again, if I eat, I feel better.

Cause my lecturer comes out. If I don’t eat for long periods of time, I get irritable I get shaky, I get nasty, I get tremors Maybe I get blurred vision (laughs) There’s a number of things that happen when you’ve got low blood sugar that you’d never connect to your blood sugar.

And so and the doctors, maybe they run a blood sugar Maybe they don’t. If they run a blood sugar, they go it’s normal. Well, here’s the problem. You may not have as much damage to the receptor sites in your cells to be able to register as low blood sugar on your test.

And that’s not a theory. I mean, that’s a fact. Some of the things that I’ve read have said that it may take as much as seven years for you to show up for low blood sugar and or the next sugar problem up the line which is insulin resistance.

And here, just to drive you crazy If you have insulin resistance, which you might call pre-diabetes, insulin resistance If you have some other things you might call it metabolic syndrome. It’ll take even longer for the damage to be done for that to show up.

So now you have metabolic syndrome You’re overweight your blood pressure’s high, you eat and you fall asleep afterwards. You just crave sugar all the time. You can’t lose weight. You’re urinating all the time and when they do your blood sugar, you’re fine.

Or even better they might say, well your diabetes you’re not diabetic type 2 yet. So we’ll just wait until you get to be diabetic. And then we’ll take care of it. In the meantime, you’re having all this damage from being either pre-diabetic or low blood sugar which we call functional hypoglycemia.

You’re not dying because you’re below 60 but you have low blood sugar. And every time you don’t eat for hours or you don’t feel like eating first thing in the morning ’cause your blood sugar is in the toilet and it’s setting off as stress response and it makes you nauseous This is damaging tissues.

For those of you who watch my Hashimoto’s stuff this is creating inflammatory responses against your thyroid. So the blood sugar is huge. And to make it even better (laughs) if you have low blood sugar and if you have high blood sugar not metabolic syndrome, not diabetes type 2, pre-diabetes, low blood sugar, pre-diabetes they bang back and forth.

So then you get symptoms of both. You get symptoms of, I eat, I don’t eat and I get irritable and shaky I eat and then I fall asleep right afterwards. You get a lot of symptoms of… That are very confusing.

And so you can have all of those blood sugar symptoms take the test and not have it show up. Now, there is a test that you can run. It’s a three hour test and you take a person’s blood sugar levels and insulin levels over a period of three hours.

And usually at the end of two or three hours that person whose lab tests were normal but has all the symptoms will show up. Whether it’s higher or it’s low is that helpful? Yeah, It’s very helpful to me because it helps me to lean my supplementation or my recommendations or my dietary lifestyle recommendations to one or the other.

And so, but I cannot emphasize blood sugar enough like you have to follow the fuel. If the person doesn’t have oxygen getting to their cells if a person doesn’t have blood sugar getting in their cells, getting to their cells, you’re gonna have a hard time for that person to get well of anything because they’re not getting enough energy in their cells to really create enough of a response to a healing response so that they can respond to whatever dietary changes or supplementation or lifestyle changes or any of those types of things.

So I could go on for blood sugar for a long time. It is so huge. And yet most people have no idea that some of these profound symptoms that they’re experiencing, inability to lose weight. Yeah, it could be thyroid but let me tell you a lot of times it’s that pre-diabetic who’s been told you’re okay.

Or you don’t have pre-diabetes or you got pre-diabetes let’s wait until you’re diabetic. We’ll wait for that. That will stop you. That will stop you from losing weight. And there’s so many of those instances so managing your blood sugar is huge.

There’s a lot of good stuff online as far as general general things to do for it. But really at some point you need to figure out either symptom-wise or by testing Do I have low blood sugar? Do I have functional hypoglycemia? Do I have insulin resistance? Pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, diabetes type 2 or diabetes type 1.

That’s blood sugar. It’s a blood sugar. It’s not just like, no I don’t have diabetes. My blood sugar is okay (laughs) It’s way more than that. And believe me in dealing with autoimmunity Hashimoto’s, all the things weight loss all these types of things You better know your blood sugar and you better be addressing if it’s not right.

Or a lot of things you’re trying are going to fail.

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Can Hashimoto’s Cause Hyperthyroidism?

Can Hashimoto's Cause Hyperthyroidism?

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Today we’re asked answering the question of can hashimoto’s cause hyperthyroidism again this is a lengthy kind of explanation we’re trying to keep these two to smaller chunks and segments that don’t take up part of your day whole part of your day and this is one i’ve been seeing a lot more of it lately and um it’s and it seems to be very confusing in a sense that it used to be you had hypothyroidism or you had graves disease and nobody even really looked for hashimoto’s and then hashimoto’s came in just so i could screw up the whole picture because hashimoto’s is like hypothyroid they call it hashima motors hypo thyroiditis if it’s inflamed or hashimoto’s hypothyroid if it’s not anyway so it’s hypothyroid so you get the hypothyroid stuff and then and then and then when you get the hyper thyroid symptoms especially if you’re the unusual hashimoto’s patient that is thin that has all hyperthyroid symptoms and has no hypothyroid symptoms now it gets confusing so the the first go-to is does this person have graves disease there are different antibodies that you check for that it’s called thyroid stimulating antibodies and and if you have those you have gracies but if you have those you could also have positive antibodies for Hashimoto’s so uh so but graves disease if that one marker comes up you opt for graves disease and then it’s and then that’s a medication to stop the too much hormone from going on or are they radiated or you take it out now there’s this big gray wasteland of of hyperthyroidism i’m here in the diagnosis more and more basically what caught what what what is in the literature that causes hyperthyroidism are a few things okay graves being one of them toxic nodule now so nodules so you get nodules and and then you you test the person and you feel for the nodules and if you got one nodule or if you’ve got multi-nodules you know if you’re if you’re if it’s tender for sure you want to go get a check to see if it’s a cancerous proposition most of the time it’s not thyroid cancer isn’t that common but it happens people to get people get it but these nodules are understanding my understanding so far so far and here’s where i say this i mean you have to understand that we are in the evolution of understanding all of this stuff that’s why i do these things everybody comes in and they think like oh well you should you know you should know all about the whole thing well nobody knows all about the whole thing at this point in time so and toxic nodules are right up there nodules are right up there in the area of nobody knows everything about them right now so so what it appears right now is that you get a nodule whether it’s a toxic one nodule or whether it’s a toxic multi-nodular you know many nodules today what what’s happening mostly is we’re getting them ultrasounded and then they go oh you know that you know okay that’s a nodule let’s let’s do a biopsy on it and then and then we do the biopsy and look at them and like 99 and 9 10 of the time the biopsy comes up with abnormal cells but not cancer and so so what seems to happen most of the time is that the doctors kind of want to hedge their bets that those abnormal cells don’t become cancer and then usually advise you to take it out or radiate it and and so the but the but the reality is is is that at least this is what we think the reality is this point in time is is they’re now moving towards the fact that most nodules and most of those abnormal tissues are secondary to hashimoto’s and then so so so that so they come toxic because they’re you know they’re growing they’re getting inflamed chemicals will set them off food sensitivities we’ll set them off viral infections will set them off which i’m going to get to in a second and so the next thing you got a toxic goiter or a toxic nodule and um and and and you’re and you’re getting hyperthyroid symptoms every time you eat the food or you know when you start getting heart palpitations anxiety you start getting things of that nature um i just mentioned um viral infections so there’s a cross here viral infections of the thyroid themselves can cause hyper symptoms viral infections in and of themselves can cause hyperthyroid symptoms and and and a viral infection in and of itself it can cause certain when you go through certain aspects of the viral cycle can cause that thyroidis type of thing but but viruses can cause an infection in the thyroid and indeed this goes to the big it was it’s all epstein-barr virus thing which it’s not for those of you watching you’ll know epstein-barr virus is one of 39 different um different triggers for the uh for for thyroid and when you get that when you get that when it gets tender when it gets when it gets like that it stays like that and your doctor maybe still isn’t quite up on hashimoto’s you go you get changed you get the heart palpitations you get anxiety the night sweats the you know the the insomnia the the word trembling all of these things and they don’t check you for a thyroid so they don’t realize that you might have hashimoto’s and that could be an infection and a viral infection they pick up the viral infection but they don’t realize that the viral infection has gotten in your thyroid is now perpetuating a hyperthyroid hashimoto’s type of a situation another one with hashimoto’s is over medicating it over medicating the thyroid can push it can can actually push it down into a very very hyper thyroid area obviously like duh i’m over medicating it and so it’ll there’ll be too much thyroid medication in there and um and and mostly that’s a hyper thyroid state i don’t know that’s not exactly what i’m sure the patient or the person who is um asking this question is asking about how excuse me however that is one thing that causes hyperthyroid another one is excuse me and another one is too much ingestion of iodine and i we’ve talked about iodine not being a proper supplementation for the hashimoto’s patient if you are one of those unusual straight hypothyroid patients iodine good if you’re a hashimoto’s patient iodine bad so just in case the person asking the question is suffering from hyperthyroidism as a diagnosis from the doctor all the testing is normal if you have hashimoto’s let’s say you have a multivitamin it’s got iodine in it or if someone or you went to an alternative practitioner who’s still in the 1960s and 70s and 80s and night or whatever early 90s maybe and they’re still going ooh it’s all about iodine and now it’s iodine for the thyroid and it’s not iodine for the thyroid if you have if you have hashimoto’s so if you’re doing that on a regular basis you’re not aware of it and you have hashimoto’s and and and maybe you’re not even aware you have hashimoto’s maybe you haven’t been diagnosed yet and you’re walking around with hyperthyroid state and nobody can figure out why then there’s a good chance that it’s the iodine that you’re ingesting and if that and if that strikes you who are listening this um like wow i take iodine but i’m not hashimoto’s my answer to you is is go check yourself rashimotos those are things that cause hyperthyroidism that are um that are not graves disease and that are either directly related to hashimoto’s or via the iodine and the virus is indirectly related to that to the hyperthyroid diagnosis you – Today we’re answering the question of, can Hashimoto’s cause hyperthyroidism? Again, this is a lengthy kind of explanation, we’re trying to keep these to smaller chunks and segments that don’t take up part of your day, whole part of your day.

And this is what I’ve been seeing a lot more of lately, and it seems to be very confusing, in a sense that it used to be you had hypothyroidism, or you had Graves’ disease. And nobody even really looked for Hashimoto’s.

And then Hashimoto’s came in, just so it could screw up the whole picture. Because Hashimoto’s is like hypothyroid. They call it Hashimoto’s hypothyroiditis, if it’s inflamed, or Hashimoto’s hyperthyroid if it’s not.

Anyway, so it’s hypothyroid. So you get the hypothyroid stuff. And then when you get the hyperthyroid symptoms, especially if you’re the unusual Hashimoto’s patient, that is thin, that has all hyperthyroid symptoms, and there’s no hypothyroid symptoms.

Now it gets confusing. So the first go-to is, does this person have Graves’ disease? There are different antibodies that you check for that is called thyroid stimulating antibodies. And if you have those, you have Graves’ disease.

But if you have those, you could also have positive antibodies for Hashimoto’s. So, but Graves’ disease, if that one marker comes up, you opt for Graves’ disease. And then that’s a medication to stop the too much hormone from going on, or they radiate it or they take it out.

Now, there’s this big gray wasteland of hyperthyroidism, I’m hearing the diagnosis more and more. Basically, what is in the literature that causes hyperthyroidism are a few things. Okay, Graves’ being one of them.

Toxic nodule. Now, so nodules, so you get nodules, and then you test the person, and you feel for the nodules. And if you’ve got one nodule, or if you’ve got multi nodules. If it’s tender, for sure you want to go get a check to see if it’s a cancerous proposition.

Most of the time it’s not. Thyroid cancer isn’t that common, but it happens. People get it. But these nodules, my understanding so far. And here’s where I say this. I mean you have to understand that we are in the evolution of understanding all of this stuff.

That’s why I do these things. Everybody comes in and they think like, “Oh well, you should know all of that, the whole thing.” Nobody knows all about the whole thing at this point in time so.

And toxic nodules are right up there. Nodules are right up there in the area of nobody knows everything about them right now. So what it appears right now is that you get a nodule, whether it’s a toxic one nodule, or whether it’s a toxic multinodular, many nodules.

Today what’s happening mostly is we’re getting them ultrasounded, and then they go, “Oh.” If it’s a nodule, let’s do a biopsy on it. And then we do the biopsy and look at them.

And like 99 and nine tenths percents of the time the biopsy comes up with abnormal cells, but not cancer. And so what seems to happen most of the time is that the doctors kind of want to hedge their bets that those abnormal cells don’t become cancer.

And then usually advise you to take it out or radiate it. And so, but the reality is, is that at least, this is what we think the reality is in this point in time is, is they’re now moving towards the fact that most nodules and most of those abnormal tissues are secondary to Hashimoto’s.

So they become toxic because they’re growing, they’re getting inflamed. Chemicals will set them off. Food sensitivities will set them off. Viral infections will set them off, which I’m going to get to in a second.

And so the next thing you’ve got a toxic goiter, or a toxic nodule. And you’re getting hyperthyroid symptoms. Every time you eat the food, you start getting heart palpitations, anxiety, start getting things of that nature.

I just mentioned viral infections. So there’s a cross here. Viral infections of the thyroid themselves can cause hyper symptoms. Viral infections in and of themselves can cause hyperthyroid symptoms.

And a viral infection in and of itself, it can cause, when you go through certain aspects of the virus cycle can cause that thyroidish type of thing. But viruses can cause an infection in the thyroid indeed.

This goes to it being, it’s all Epstein-Barr virus thing, which it’s not. For those of you who watch me, you’ll know Epstein-Barr virus is one of 39 different triggers for thyroid. And when you get that, when it gets tender, when it gets like that and it stays like that, and your doctor maybe still isn’t quite up on Hashimoto’s.

You go, you get changed, you get the heart palpitations, you get anxiety, the night sweats, the insomnia. Then we’re trembling all of these things. And they don’t check you for a thyroid, so they don’t realize that you may have Hashimoto’s and that could be an infection and a viral infection.

They pick up the viral infection, but they don’t realize that the viral infection has gotten in your thyroid and is now perpetuating a hyperthyroid Hashimoto’s type of a situation. Another one with Hashimoto’s is over-medicating it, over-medicating the thyroid can actually push it down into a very, very hyperthyroid area obviously.

Like duh, I’m over-medicating it. And so there’ll be too much thyroid medication in there. And mostly that’s a hyperthyroid state. I don’t know, that’s not exactly what, or the person who is asking this question is asking about.

Excuse me. However, that is one thing that causes hyperthyroid. And another one is. Excuse me. And another one is too much ingestion of iodine. And I know we’ve talked about iodine not being a proper supplementation for the Hashimoto’s patient.

If you are one of those unusual straight hypothyroid patients, iodine good. If you are a Hashimoto’s patient, iodine bad. So just in case the person asking the question is suffering from hyperthyroidism as a diagnosis from the doctor, all the testing is normal.

If you have Hashimoto’s, let’s say of a multivitamin, it’s got iodine in it. Or you went to an alternative practitioner who’s still in the 1960s and seventies and eighties or whatever, early nineties maybe.

And they’re still going, “Oh, it’s all about iodine. “And now it’s iodine for the thyroid.” It’s not iodine for the thyroid if you have Hashimoto’s. So if you’re doing that on a regular basis, you’re not aware of it.

And you have Hashimoto’s, and maybe you’re not even aware you have Hashimoto’s. Maybe you haven’t been diagnosed yet. And you’re walking around in a hyperthyroid state and nobody can figure out why, then there’s a good chance that it’s the iodine that you’re ingesting.

And if that strikes you who are listening to this. Like, “Wow, I take iodine but I’m not Hashimoto’s.” My answer to you is go check yourself for Hashimoto’s. Those are the things that cause hyperthyroidism that are not Graves’ disease.

And that are either directly related to Hashimoto’s or via the iodine and the viruses indirectly related to that hyperthyroid diagnosis.

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Can Hashimoto’s Go Away?

Can Hashimoto's Go Away?

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So the question today is can Hashimoto’s be cured, or can Hashimoto’s go away? The answer is no. And again, I think if some of you have not seen me before, you’ve know that I have Hashimoto’s, have had it probably since I was like 21.

So, no, because what happens is, you know, when I first got into this there wasn’t a whole lot of understanding how to figure out whether personally even Hashimoto’s or not, the lab ranges were all over the place, there was no genetic testing, there was nothing like that.

And now you can test for genes, we have testing, we know what the lab, we’re getting closer and closer to knowing what the lab ranges are, to be able to definitively tell somebody they got Hashimoto’s.

And the reason is this, that is these, some of these tests can now tell us look, you have a genetic problem. You have a genetic problem, and at some point in time a polymorphism in your gene was turned on that says, It’s okay for my immune system to attack me.

So your immune system is an amazing, it’s like, the more I read about it, it’s like insanely crazy. It’s supposed to take care of toxins, it’s supposed to take care of, it’s supposed to make sure all your food is like processed properly.

It’s supposed to take care of bacteria’s, viruses. It’s supposed to take care of your candidiases, it’s supposed to kill everything, but it’s not supposed, and it’s supposed to do all that without attacking you.

If you really think about that it’s pretty wild, okay. And so there’s a fail-safe mechanism that allows the immune system to do that. Then there’s not. So what happens? I don’t think that the answer to what happens is actually completely known yet just taking, I probably take 60 hours of classes a year on this type of stuff.

And so I’m just saying that there’s an evolving understanding as to why it happens. What I think is known now is those of you who have developed Hashimoto’s usually there’s a familial connection.

My mother had thyroid, this was before anybody was talking about Hashimoto’s. She had her thyroid taken out. My aunt had her thyroid taken out. My grandmother had a goiter. I had an uncle who had Parkinson’s disease, and another uncle has MSM.

I mean, so it was all through my mother’s side of the family. So, we started to notice that earlier on that there was a genetic component, so we never knew that absolutely, for sure. And what happens is when you have that vulnerability, that genetic vulnerability, as you go through life and you get these triggers, surgeries, having a baby, overwhelming infections, injuries, severe injuries, several things of that nature, they all trigger an immune response.

And if you have the vulnerability and maybe you’re not taking care of yourself, then you’re leading a sedentary lifestyle, and you eat like crap, all these things add up to, at some point you get one of those triggers and it’s enough to change that fail-safe mechanism because you have the genetic propensity to develop an autoimmune problem, or specifically Hashimoto’s.

Once that gene is turned off to my understanding nobody has figured out how to turn that off. And so now that amazing immune system says, It’s okay to attack Dr. Rutherford, at least his thyroid and a few other things.

But, that’s how it works. So it is an as far as we know it right now, it’s an incurable disease. When everybody comes in here, if they decide to start care, my very first lecture is we have an autoimmune problem.

It’s not gonna be cured, we’re not trying to cure it, okay. What we’re trying to do, is to do like, you would know other autoimmune conditions to be treated like multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, we’re trying to put you in remission with lifestyle nutraceutical dietary life, you know, changes that will overcome, reduce, in some cases eliminate triggers that continue to exacerbate your immune system and attack your thyroid.

But, you’re always going to have to manage the case. And I mean, I’m there, you know, I mean, I have to manage my life very carefully, so I can come in here and do my job, really, mainly. And so I can feel good, but I have to watch what I eat and I have to not over exercise, and I believe I get a lot of sleep.

And I do relaxation exercises, and just, you know, I don’t over exercise, think I just said that, there’s just a lot of things that you have to do, because to my knowledge, it’s not going away.

Well, is that gonna be permanent? Is somebody never gonna figure it out? I don’t know. I think probably somebody is gonna figure it out at some point in time. I don’t know if that’s gonna happen in my lifetime, but for right now, the answer to that is no.

It cannot be cured. Yes. It will always be there. So, that’s the answer to that question.

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Can Hashimoto’s Cause Dizziness?

Can Hashimoto's Cause Dizziness?

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Can hashimoto’s cause dizziness? Oh yeah Hashimoto’s can cause dizziness it is extremely common for hashimoto’s to cause dizziness and on so many levels um so okay so again hashimoto’s thyroid controls your metabolism a big part of it is uh there’s two there’s two mechanisms we’re going to talk about here we’re going to talk about the hypothyroid mechanism and the hypothyroid aspect of your mechanism is this a lot of people come in here they’re hypothyroid so they’re overweight and they can’t lose weight and they’re constipated and they get swelling in their ankles and and um and so um that’s the hypothyroid symptoms and hypothyroids also goes towards it can actually alter blood sugar mechanisms hypothyroidism despite the fact that you put on weight can actually cause low blood pressure hypothyroid can actually cause low adrenal function when you have low blood pressure of low journal function you may be the person who goes from laying down to sitting or from sitting to standing and you like get a little woozy almost want to pass out a smaller manifestation after someone whose adrenals aren’t as bad whose blood pressure isn’t as bad would be dizziness i get lightheaded and dizzy this is a tough explanation for patients patients have a tough time describing dizziness so sometimes it’s light-headedness and sometimes it’s dizzy what the one i usually cognite on more when some one comes in here and says I’ve got dizziness and it’s usually dizziness and a lot of times it’s dizziness and nauseous sometimes it’s dizziness and balance sometimes it’s actually dizziness and vertigo is that your thyroid has an interesting relationship to your cerebellum which is a part of your brain that is down here and uh yeah i can even i’m gonna i got a little i got a little brain that i have right on my desk here for patients okay so this is the brain this is the cerebellum okay down here so this guy there you go so this guy right here is your cerebellum it’s like it’s called the little brain and your thyroid has a direct relationship to this cerebellum and here’s how it works when your thyroid gets attacked there are meta by your immune system because you’ve triggered it some way there’s a direct relationship in the sense that there are metabolites in this cerebellum that look exactly like metabolites um in your in your thyroid and so it’s and this is something called molecular mimicry and so when that get when your thyroid gets attacked in a substantial portion of patients um the the cerebellum gets attacked i i have one right now and she’s just she like she can’t take five steps without being woozy because the cerebellum can cause dizziness vertigo balance stiff necks it can cause you to have anxiety but those are all different aspects of the cerebellum the part that causes dizziness and balance and wooziness and vertigo is the cerebellum has projections into your spinal cord that causes like stiffness in the neck it’ll cause stiffness in your whole back and it has project projections into your cortex it actually can cause blurred vision but it also from from controlling nerves that are around your eyes and if their nerves aren’t working right you’ll get blurred vision um and and a bunch of other things but the projection there’s another projection from that cerebellum that goes into your inner ear so what happens when you start getting dizziness or you start getting balanced or you start vertigo you start you start going to the doctor and then they go well we don’t know so they send you the to the ear nose and throat doctor and then they look in your ear and they go everything’s normal there’s no infections or anything like that you’re going like you know dude i mean like every now and then i want to puke it and and then i you know feel very good and then my balance goes off and everything’s normal i do an mri they do a cat scan everything’s normal 99 percent of time if you have hashimoto’s it’s because of the hashimoto’s it’s because when the hashimoto’s has developed you now develop this molecular mimicry to the cerebellum so you eat let’s just stay classic here you piece of gluten that is closely related was one of the first triggers that were was recognized to set off a hashimoto’s response that gluten look also gluten also has molecular mimicry by the way with the cerebellum so you eat the gluten sets off the thyroid and the cerebellum next thing you know you have all the all the thyroid symptoms and maybe you have dizziness and along with that maybe you have nausea maybe you have balance issues um and and then i mean it could even get into migraines and vertigo and it can blur vision stiff neck and all those types of things so it’s really part of a picture it doesn’t usually just cause vertigo was why i went into that explanation if it it or i’m sorry dizziness it doesn’t usually just cost specifically dizziness okay it usually is part of a constellation of symptoms and that is indicated indicating that that projection from the cerebellum into the inner ear vestibular mechanism is being affected it is common it it is i i can’t even tell you how common it is i can’t give you a virgin if i gave you a projection i would probably say 70 percent of the time if persons hashimoto’s they’re going to have some aspect to this so yeah it’s very very common to have dizziness along with uh experiencing hashimoto’s – So topic of the day is, can Hashimoto’s caused dizziness? Oh yeah.

Hashimoto’s can cause dizziness. It is extremely common for Hashimoto’s to cause dizziness and on so many levels. So, okay. So, again Hashimoto’s. Thyroid controls your metabolism. A big part of it is there’s two, there’s two mechanisms we’re gonna talk about here.

We’re gonna talk about the hypothyroid mechanism. And the hypothyroid aspect of your mechanism is this. A lot of people come in here, they’re hypothyroid, so they’re overweight. And they can’t lose weight.

And they’re constipated. And they get swelling in their ankles. And um, And so that’s the hypothyroid symptoms. And hypothyroid also goes towards it can actually alter blood sugar mechanisms. Hypothyroidism, despite the fact that you put on weight, can actually cause low blood pressure.

Hypothyroid can actually cause low adrenal function. When you have low blood pressure, you have low adrenal function, you may be the person who goes from laying down to sitting or from sitting to standing and you like get a little woozy, almost want to pass out.

A smaller manifestation now for someone whose adrenals aren’t as bad, whose blood pressure isn’t as bad, would be dizziness. I get lightheaded and dizzy. Dizzy’s a tough explanation for patients.

Patients have a tough time describing dizziness. So sometimes it’s lightheadedness. And sometimes it’s dizzy. The one, I usually cognate on more when someone comes in here and says, I’ve got dizziness.

” And it’s usually dizziness. And a lot of times it’s dizziness and nausea. Sometimes it’s dizziness and balance. Sometimes it’s actually dizziness and vertigo. Is that, your thyroid has an interesting relationship to your cerebellum, which is a part of your brain that is down here.

And I can even, I gotta, I got a little I got a little brain that I have right on my desk here for patients. Okay. So this is the brain. This is the cerebellum. Okay, down here. So this guy There you go.

So this guy right here is your cerebellum. It’s called the little brain. And your thyroid has a direct relationship to the cerebellum. And here’s how it works. When your thyroid gets attacked There are, by your immune system because you triggered it some way.

There’s a direct relationship in the sense that there are metabolites in this cerebellum that look exactly like metabolites in your thyroid. And so, and it’s something called molecular mimicry.

And so when that gets, when your thyroid gets attacked, in a substantial portion of patients, the cerebellum gets attacked. I have one right now and she just, she like, she can’t take five steps without being woozy because the cerebellum can cause dizziness, vertigo, balance, stiff necks.

It can cause you to have anxiety. But those are all different aspects of the cerebellum. The part that causes dizziness and imbalance and wooziness and vertigo is the cerebellum has projections into your spinal cord that causes like stiffness in the neck.

It’ll cause stiffness in your whole back. And it has projections into your cortex. It actually can cause blurred vision. But it also, From controlling nerves that are around your eyes. And if the nerves aren’t working right, you’ll get blurred vision and a bunch of other things.

But the projection, there’s another projection from that cerebellum that goes into your inner ear. So what happens when you start getting dizziness or you start getting imbalance or you start vertigo? You start, you start going to the doctor.

And then they go, “Well, we don’t know.” So they send you to the ear, nose, and throat doctor. And then they look in your ear And they go, “Everything is normal. There’s no infections or anything like that.

” And you’re going to like, “You know, dude. I mean, like every now and then I wanna puke. And then I don’t feel very good. And then my balance goes off and everything’s normal.” I do an MRI, they do a CAT scan everything’s normal.

99% of the time if you have Hashimoto’s, it’s because of the Hashimoto’s. It’s because when the Hashimoto’s has developed you now develop this molecular mimicry to the cerebellum. So you eat, let’s just stay classic here, You eat a piece of gluten.

That is closely related. It was one of the first triggers that was recognized to set off a Hashimoto’s response. That gluten, also gluten also has molecular mimicry, by the way, with the cerebellum.

So eat the gluten, sets off the thyroid and the cerebellum. Next thing you know, you have all the thyroid symptoms and maybe you have dizziness. And along with that, maybe you have nausea. Maybe you have balance issues.

And then, I mean, it could even get into migraines and vertigo. And it gets blurred vision, stiff neck, and all those types of things. So it’s really part of a picture. It doesn’t usually just cause vertigo was why I went into that explanation.

Or, I’m sorry, dizziness. It doesn’t usually just cause specifically dizziness, okay? It usually is part of a constellation of symptoms. And that is indicated, indicating that that projection from the cerebellum into the inner ear vestibular mechanism is being affected.

It is common. It is. I can’t even tell you how common it is. I can’t give you a, If I gave you a projection, I would probably say 70% of the time, if a person’s going to Hashimoto’s, they’re going to have some aspect of this.

So yeah, it’s very, very common to have dizziness along with experiencing Hashimoto’s.

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Hashimoto’s vs Hypothyroidism Symptoms

Hashimoto's vs Hypothyroidism Symptoms

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So today we’re going to talk about the question is what are hashimoto’s versus hypothyroid symptoms so this is a person who apparently hasn’t been watching my stuff for very long so we’ll go through it so okay so so hashimoto’s is an autoimmune attack on your thyroid all right so your immune system attacks your thyroid and then it starts creating damage to the ability to make thyroid properly and usually when you get the attack it makes a lot of thyroid hormone makes a lot more thyroid hormone if you’re attacking an enzyme called a thyroid peroxidase enzyme that enzyme works with hydrogen peroxide and it pulls iodine in the system it makes thyroid hormones and when it gets attacked it starts getting crazy and making way more hormone that causes hyper symptoms we’ll talk about that in a second you can also attack the thyroid tissue itself not the enzyme just damage the tissue that just starts as you’ve heard me say a million times vomiting out it just seems like the right word for that just vomiting out a lot of t4 and t3 those are the hormones you get hyper stuff okay but hashimoto’s usually i’d say 85 percent of time or more usually is first a hypothyroid so here’s how it goes you have a thyroid you have a thyroid problem you have a thyroid that’s working normally and then somewhere along the line we get an attack on our thyroid and um and that attack just starts to just starts to attack the thyroid whether it attacks the tissue or whether it attacks the enzyme and it can be very very low-grade attack in the beginning and often is i just i just heard something i think i was listening to a lecture which was citing research that said it takes about seven years for the attack on on the thyroid to start creating um a and a full-blown hashimoto’s symptomatic picture so in other words you can have the attack for like seven years not even though you have it maybe maybe even longer but let’s just use the seven years so now it’s going like this okay and and and so it’s kind of subtly beating up your thyroid if you will okay and and eventually you start getting tissue damage and it’s subtle tissue damage and and you start going into hypothyroid usually first usually go on the hypothyroid sometimes this will all happen at once but you but let’s just keep it simple first you do hypothyroid in other words your thyroid is getting beat up it’s not operating well enough it’s not making enough hormone and you’re tired and your hair is falling out these are hypothyroid symptoms hair falling out tired think slow everything slows down you start getting acid indigestion because your stomach’s not making enough hydrochloric acid because the mechanism has slowed it down that alters your entire digestive system the next thing you have constipation because you have poor chemistry constipation thyroid slows down the the enteric nervous system so that’s the nervous system that makes sure that makes your uh bowels move okay next thing you know you have constipation it creates uh you know creates an inability of your gallbladder to work so all of a sudden maybe you start getting problems of digesting fatty foods maybe that adds to your constipation but now you’re not digesting your fats so now you start getting dry skin because you’re not getting those fats broken down they’re not getting absorbed you can get a slow heartbeat and um and let’s see you know and start putting on weight your metabolism goes down you start putting on weight you can get edema around your ankles so you can get swelling around your ankles because maybe your heart’s not pumping enough maybe your liver is not working well enough and so you can get so everything slows down so you can’t get the liquids back up from your feet all the way up and and these are many of the hypothyroid symptoms now hashimoto’s when you advance the hashimoto’s it’s because there’s a part of reason is the damage now starts to become a lot and you still retain the hypothyroid symptoms but intermittently now when the attack when the attack becomes reaches a threshold i think would be the best way of putting it now all of a sudden you start you start vom again vomiting out a lot of thyroid hormone from the damaged tissue or making too much hormone from damaging this from exacerbating this enzyme that now starts making more hormone now you start to add to the hypothyroid symptoms you start to add heart palpitations because of too much thyroid hormone inward tremors you start to add night sweats because it can affect the hormonal system thyroid has a very direct effect on your hormonal system you start to add insomnia um just because it starts to it fire up your your um starts to fire up your your adrenals that affects your blood sugar so these things start to cause insomnia night sweats inward tremors irritable and there’s a small group of hashimoto’s patients that are hyperthyroid they’re they’re actually more hyper than they are hypo they’re a small group they actually will lose weight and not be able to put it on most hashimoto’s patients will actually put on weight so the bottom line is is that the hypothyroid the diagnosis for hashimoto’s for let’s say you were going to an endocrinologist and and they were going to use a diagnostic code to get paid by the insurance companies for for what they do um then one of the codes is hashimoto’s hypothyroid ditis so it’s it’s you have the immune attack hashimoto’s you have the hypothyroid the slow stuff and then itis means you have an inflammatory issue to the tissues of the of the thyroid itself so you have both so hypothy and and there are people who have hypothyroid without hashimoto’s i keep reading different figures on it the one i read last night was ninety percent of people who have um hypothyroid actually or hashimoto’s which would leave 10 percent who are actually hypothyroid and you’re just gonna have you’re just gonna have the slow the fatigue the hair falling out hair falling out how could i forget that one the hair falling out is a hypothyroid one the weight gain is a hypothyroid one and so that’s so i guess that’s the delineation if there is a delineation it’s more of a it’s more of a spectrum of damage over a period of time and an advancement of damage that then ultimately causes you to go from just hypo into hypo and hyper symptoms and a rare rare occasion just hyper symptoms so it gets it gets it’s it’s that’s i hope that i mean i can see where the confusion comes in for sure and wanting to know what is what and and and that’s why what i just explained is why the confusion comes in so i hope that helps to answer that question you – So today we’re gonna talk about, the question is what are Hashimoto’s versus hypothyroid symptoms? So this is a person who apparently hasn’t been watching my stuff for very long.

(laughs) We’ll go through it. So, okay. So Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune attack on your thyroid. So your immune system attacks your thyroid and then it starts creating damage to the ability to make thyroid properly.

And usually when you get the attack it makes a lot of thyroid hormone. It makes a lot more thyroid hormone if you’re attacking an enzyme called a thyroid peroxidase enzyme. That enzyme works with hydrogen peroxide and it pulls iodine into the system.

It makes thyroid hormones. And when it gets attacked, it starts getting crazy and making way more hormone that causes hyper symptoms. We’ll talk about that in a second. You can also attack the thyroid tissue itself not the enzyme, just damage the tissue.

That just starts as you’ve heard me say a million times, vomiting out, just seems like the right word for that. Just vomiting out a lot of T4 and T3. Those are the hormones you’ll get hyper stuff.

But Hashimoto’s usually, I’d say 85% time or more, usually is first a hypothyroid. So here’s how it goes. You have a thyroid, you have a thyroid problem. You have a thyroid that’s working normally.

And then somewhere along the line, we get an attack on our thyroid, and that attack just starts to attack the thyroid, whether it attacks the tissue or whether it attacks the enzyme. And it can be very, very low grade attack in the beginning, and often is.

I just heard something, I think I was listening to a lecture which was citing research that said, “It’s takes about seven years “for the attack on the thyroid to start creating a full-blown Hashimoto symptomatic picture.

So in other words, you can have the attack for like seven years, not even know you have it. Maybe even longer, but let’s just use the seven years. So now it’s going like this. And so it’s kind of subtly beating up your thyroid if you will.

And eventually, you start getting tissue damage and it’s settled tissue damage, and you start going into hypothyroid. Usually first, usually go on a hypothyroid. Sometimes this will all happen at once but let’s just keep it simple first to do hypothyroid.

In other words, your thyroid is getting beat up. It’s not operating well enough. It’s not making enough hormone. You’re tired and your hair is falling out. These are the hypothyroid symptoms.

Hair falling out, tired, somethings slow. Everything slows down. You start getting acid in digestion because your stomach’s not making enough hydrochloric acid, because the mechanism has slowed down.

That alters your entire digestive system. The next thing you have, constipation because you have poor chemistry, constipation. Thyroids slows down the enteric nervous system. So that’s the nervous system that makes your bowels move.

Next thing you know, you have constipation. It creates an inability of your gallbladder to work. So all of a sudden, maybe you start getting problems of digesting fatty foods. Maybe that adds to your constipation but now you’re not digesting your fats.

So now you start getting dry skin because you’re not getting those fats broken down. They’re not getting absorbed. You can get a slow heartbeat and let’s see, and start putting on weight. Your metabolism goes down, you start putting on weight.

You can get edema around your ankles. So you can get swelling around your ankles because maybe your heart’s not pumping enough. Maybe your liver’s not working well enough. So everything slows down.

So you can’t get the liquids back up from your feet all the way up. And these are many of the hypothyroid symptoms. Now Hashimoto’s, when you advance the Hashimoto’s, it’s because there’s a part, there’s the damage now, starts to become a lot.

And you still retain the hypothyroid symptoms but intermittently now, when the attack reaches a threshold, I think it would be the best way of putting it. Now, all of a sudden, you start (vocalizes). You start vomiting out a lot of thyroid hormone from the damaged tissue, or making too much hormone from exacerbating this enzyme, that now starts making more hormone.

Now you start to add to the hypothyroid symptoms. You start to add heart palpitations because it’s too much thyroid hormone, inward tremors. You start to add night sweats because again it affect the hormonal system.

Thyroid has a very direct effect on your hormonal system. You start to add insomnia just because it starts to fire up your adrenals that affects your blood sugar. So these things start to cause insomnia and night sweats and work tremors are irritable.

And there’s a small group of Hashimoto’s patients that are hyperthyroid. They’re actually more hyper than they are hypo. They’re a small group. They actually will lose weight and not be able to put it on.

Most Hashimoto’s patients will actually put on weight. So the bottom line is, is that the hypothyroid… The diagnosis for Hashimoto’s, for let’s say, you are going to an endocrinologist and they were gonna use a diagnostic code to get paid by the insurance companies for what they do.

Then one of the codes is, Hashimoto’s, hypothyroiditis. So you have the immune attack, Hashimoto’s. You have the hypothyroid, the slow stuff. And then itis means you have an inflammatory issue to the tissues of the thyroid itself.

So you have both. And there’re people who have hyperthyroid without Hashimoto’s. I keep reading different figures on it. The one I read last night was 90% of people have hypothyroid actually Hashimoto’s which would leave 10% who were actually hypothyroid.

And you’re just gonna have the slow, the fatigue, the hair falling out. How could I forget that one. Their hair falling out is a hypothyroid one. The weight gain is a hypothyroid one. And so I guess that’s the delineation.

If there is a delineation, it’s more of a spectrum of damage over a period of time, and an advancement of damage that then ultimately causes you to go from just hypo into hypo and hyper symptoms and a rare, rare occasion, just hyper symptoms.

I can see where the confusion comes in for sure. And wanting to know what is what, and that’s why, what I just explained is why the confusion comes in. So I hope that helps to answer that question.

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Can Hashimoto’s Cause Pain?

Can Hashimoto's Cause Pain?

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We’re gonna do, most of what I’m doing lately is questions that I’m getting, ’cause I think we pretty well covered Hashimoto’s from top to bottom over the last year or whatever it is.

But, so the specific question that I got that I’m going over today is, “Can Hashimoto’s cause pain?” And that one’s kind of an interesting one because that brings me back to when I first started doing functional medicine and functional medicine really evolved relative to addressing chronic pain.

I think it’s fair to say specifically chronic fatigue, immunodeficiency disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, just that pain, that like peripheral neuropathies, and those conditions. (chuckles) And I was working with a gentleman who was close to my mentor, Dr.

Kharrazian. And every time I would have a hard case ’cause I was just starting out, I would call, and I would say, “What do I do on this case?” And he would always say, “Test the thyroid.

” (chuckling) So finally, you know, he said, “Are you not testing the thyroid?” And at that time I was trying to save people money, still trying to save people money. But at that time I was trying to save people money because the testing we were doing was so crazy.

It was thousands and thousands of dollars out of pocket ’cause we didn’t know what to do. So I wouldn’t run a one thyroid lab marker. And, so I called him and he said, “Dr. Kharrazian has a message for you.

” He says, “If you don’t test the thyroid “on every chronic pain patient that comes in the door, “he’s not talking to you anymore.” (chuckling) “He’s not going to communicate with you anymore.

” And I was like, “Ugh.” So, of course I tested the next 10 people who had chronic pain for Hashimoto’s and seven of them tested positive. And that was with the parameters that we were using back then which were much wider than the parameters that I use.

So I suspect that could have been even more but that kind of opened my eyes. So the answer is, “Yes.” And the reasons are so many it would take me easy an hour to go over them but I’ll just kind of give you the concept, the idea, and a few specifics.

So I mean certainly when Hashimoto’s starts to flare up, when you get a Hashimoto’s flare particularly, or maybe you just have a low grade irritation to your thyroid, because there’s variations from one to 10 as far as how severe your flares could be, you are creating inflammation.

You’re, also creating in many cases, but not all, you’re also creating damage to the thyroid. Those of you have to keep raising your thyroid medication or it’s all over the place, your thyroid’s being damaged.

And then when that happens, it’s vomiting out hormones. I mean, you damage the cell that has T4 and T3 in it. They go into the system and then you have too much thyroid hormone in your system. And then that can create an inflammatory response.

And then if you have vulnerabilities throughout your system because Hashimoto’s patients don’t come in here with Hashimoto’s, they come in here with Hashimoto’s and gut problems, Hashimoto’s and celiac, and Hashimoto’s and gad antibodies through cerebellum.

They don’t come in here with like one thing. So then all of those things will flare up and that is a source of a connection of pain. Gosh! Hashimoto’s also flares up several of your hormones. But I think the biggest thing is it creates these swellings.

For example, one of the things that was interesting to me as someone who practiced chiropractic for a long time is Hashimoto’s can actually cause swelling in certain areas of your system that will cause pain that will mimic of like a pinched nerve.

So a lot of people will get swelling in this area from the Hashimoto’s and then that’ll cause a pinched nerve that will maybe lead your chiropractor to believe they have a pinched nerve in your neck because it’s here.

And the same thing will happen in the groin, and so you can get a sciatica-type pain from it. So that’s another source of pain. Then you get into the fact that Hashimoto’s is maddening, it’s hypothyroidism, largely, and then it intermittently more synced to a hyperthyroid response.

When you have the hypo-thyroid aspect of it it slows everything down. If it alters your blood sugar, what a lot of you may not realize is, you know, blood sugar, or it goes to your brain, blood sugar, blood sugar is necessary in your brain, your muscles, your red blood cells.

But if you’re, altering blood sugar physiology to your muscles you’re gonna get pains. You’re gonna get achy muscles. You’re gonna have muscles, that just. Oh, I remember what I used to say.

Well, like, “I ache all over. “I feel like every fiber of my body is like aching.” You’ll get, and then it certainly drops your blood sugar to your brain. Yeah, it’s definitely one of the causes of migraines.

So it’s a mechanism where Hashimoto’s control, your thyroid essentially controls your metabolism. And when your metabolism goes down the ability of yourself to make energy is limited. And then all of those metabolic processes whether it’s blood sugar, whether it’s processing your B vitamins, your liver goes down.

So now your liver is not processing your fats, right? Your B vitamins. You go to the doctor. Now, you got high cholesterol and high LDLs because your liver is not processing properly because you have a hyperthyroid.

So they put you on a statin drug which screws up all your co Q 10 and all your muscles. And then you get pain from that. (chuckles) That was a shot across the bow there. So, yeah, so I mean, it’s connected to chronic pain consistently across the board.

If I learned a lesson back then it was if a patient comes in here, this was the lesson. If the patient comes in here and they’re in chronic pain and or they have the mystery disease and the mystery disease is, “I’m hurting everywhere.

“I got every symptom known in existence to, “you know, man and woman, and all of my tests are normal.” Then I check them for OSH, check the antibodies for Hashimoto’s. That was a clinical pearl that we had long time ago, a long time ago.

And I think it still holds true. So yeah. So Hashimoto’s can absolutely cause or perpetuate a lot of mechanisms in your body that create chronic pain and yeah I’ll just leave it there because that’ll keep going on for a long time.

So the answer is yes, Hashimoto’s can cause chronic pain.

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Hi Dr Rutherford today we’re going to talk about how to treat hashimoto’s we have about a few hundred hours online on this but still we get an awful lot of people that says well how do you treat hashimoto’s so let me see if i can answer that question like in a succinct manner and this has been a question literally that we have struggled with since the day we started treating hashimoto’s which was a long time ago we were probably one of the first ones in the pool doing it as far as functional medicine went and people would come in back then and they’d say you know i have hashimoto’s and i’m taking this test and and i’m not sorry taking these medications and and nothing’s happening and so i would start to explain to them about their gut and nurse diet and all these types of things and they were i mean they’re starting that is like 20 years ago or 12 years ago or 14.

it was a long time ago people start glazing over their eyes are glazing over and they’d go i just want to know if you had like an urban botanical to treat hashimoto’s and that would be totally crushed like okay they don’t get it and and it was pretty um understanding at that point in time that people didn’t get that and the problem is we have this model okay and it’s a pathological model and the model is is i have lupus and they give me immunosuppressants i have a bacterial infection and they give me antibiotics i have a heart problem and they do a heart bypass on me so we have this very linear one-to-one idea of treatment which is a big part of the reason that we’re in the predicament that we’re in in this country right now with frankly an explosion of sick people and this video for future posterity of people who are watching this is being done at the time of covid19 and i don’t think it’s understating the stress that also comes from that plus where it’ll be interesting to see in the future what this what what happens with this but there’s a hugely divisive presidential election going on you put those two things together there’s a lot of stress out there um and so these things are along with so many other things that the food supplies and and and right now we’re in the process of of this humongous um fires in california and we in reno haven’t seen this you know blue sky like in weeks actually we saw it this morning but it’s supposed to be gone by this afternoon and there’s chemicals in there so so we’re we’re in a position where we’re literally our physiology is being overwhelmed with toxins and food dyes and and all this type of stuff we have a new patient population and that patient population is not well it is declining it is declining in health more drugs more sickness more autoimmunity more chronic disease and more hashimoto’s okay and that’s kind of my lead-in to how do you treat hashimoto’s it’s it’s it’s look you’re looking for the cliff notes how do i treat hashimoto’s whether you realize it or not that’s what you’re looking for and you’re looking for the the the abrogated version of it because as i’ve talked about many times there there’s a hierarchy to how you treat it there there’s in the past year or two i’ve been talking about the fact that there’s 39 triggers hashimoto’s is an autoimmune problem so it is it is a problem where your immune system is flaring up and to varying degrees depending on the person is attacking either the enzymes that are making your thyroid hormone or the actual tissues of the thyroid or both and so but in the end the battle is calm down the immune system calm down the immune system and put it into remission for autoimmunity in and of itself to evaluate an autoimmune case from a non-pathological non-medical perspective you are looking for all of the aspects of that person’s life that is triggering inflammatory responses in their system and that goes from poor sleep i mean we’re always looking for the exotic uh it’s all epstein-barr virus it’s not all obstinate virus it’s not even close to all epstein-barr virus okay but epstein-barr virus is one of 39 triggers for hashimoto’s hashimoto’s is a subset of autoimmunity there’s even more triggers for general autoimmunity uh and and and to go over them all it would be very difficult but uh so so the bottom line is is you have to look at all these triggers and they’re not all exotic they’re not all like epstein-barr virus or heavy metals or it’s all parasites which it’s not all parasites it’s like sleep it’s like exercise are you getting enough are you getting too much if you’re are you doing too much exercise and it’s and it’s crushing it down stress stress huge stress where do you live what are your genetics then you get into food sensitivities and that is a whole can of worms it’s like it’s made to be like oh just check your food in fact most people still don’t know that food sensitivities are a big problem they know their food allergies but they don’t know food sensitivities then you got then you can get into chemicals and there’s and there’s a zillion chemicals out there but there’s about 25 that are specific to flaring up autoimmune problems and then there’s the pathogens and there’s all kinds of pathogens and and in the urine from the lyme disease which supposedly causes everything which doesn’t um to the epstein-barr viruses to the cytomegaloviruses to the straps to the to the molds and and all of these things can play into exacerbating your immune system and thus exacerbating the response against your thyroid so from that perspective the global picture is this you need to have a screening process that allows you to figure out which of all of the the potential triggers that can be there are there for you no small task i mean this for a long time and and and we have questionnaires that have been developed um you have to use labs and and and and you have to use a lot of different a lot of different tools a lot of them you can’t you may use a lot of different labs you may use a couple of different labs but you need to use the tools that are indicated in that person’s case by their history to try to figure out before you start to try to figure out okay which of the which of the triggers are here for this particular patient and then you know to take it one step further there’s actually a hierarchy to care um for a long time it was the gut for a long time it was like you know treat the gut and you’ll fix everything yeah it’s leaky gut fix the leaky gut and you’ll fix everything now that kind of defined functional medicine but it’s way more than that it’s way more than that is that part of it yes is that high on the hierarchy yes are there things higher on the hierarchy as far as what to start with than that yes so you got to know what they are so so so you have to evaluate all that and then you have to treat it now treatment maybe those some of you who are asking how do you treat it or maybe you’re like my patients you know 15 years ago or whatever it was is a maybe you’re looking for an herb or a botanical okay that that fixes it there is not one but there is the medical approach for hashimoto’s is to monitor your tsh your thyroid stimulating hormone because most hashimoto’s patients but not all have hypothyroid so most patients have hashimoto’s hypothyroidis itis means inflammation but not all of you have inflammation yet and so there’s that aspect to it and so the medical community will give you a thyroid medication for your hypothyroid symptoms your hypothyroid numbers your tsh to get your tsh normal and that may or may not help a little bit a lot not at all and then their approach is to give you a drug for all every other symptom that come that hashimoto’s patients come in here with which is constipation diarrhea they can’t sleep um your cold heart arrhythmias insomnia and so the person comes in here frequently with a thyroid hormone and a drug for every one of those symptoms that’s one way you treat it from an alternative perspective the way you treat it is you do the assessment that i talked about and believe me it’s lifestyle it’s diet it’s nutrition and it’s and it’s understanding um which of those and this is where you start and this understanding which of those are there in that particular case and maybe you have to retrain somebody on maybe they got like this poor circadian rhythm where they go to bed at one o’clock at night and they get up at like you know 11 o’clock in the morning that’s not good okay you need a proper circadian rhythm has a lot to do with your brain affects blood sugar affects stress hormones affects your gut effects everything that might be one thing that you actually have to do to get that person’s uh inflammatory responses under control and that’s just one of like a hundred things i can talk about all right so you have to look at all their lifestyles uh potential triggers you have to look at stress you have to look at their relationships either with their family or with their boss you have to look at all those things and see what are the things that are flaring up then comes the diet the blood sugar then comes the diet then comes the the glutens and the lectins and which ones are for you and which ones are not for you then after all of that generally unless now i just had a case where the gentleman’s been exposed to a lot of chemicals uh he’s he’s worked in a field where he’s been exposed to a lot of chemicals and and uh and so uh and he has symptoms that would indicate that those chemicals might be involved so in addition to all that you’re certainly going to look to detox him of chemicals but it’s chemical threat on everybody no it’s not and and then and then after that you start looking at all the pathogens i mean because everybody’s looking at the pathogens first not everybody but but if there was a point where everybody was looking for it was heavy metals it was parasites those types of things that’s what it is it’s lyme disease that’s what it is well it’s proven to be false but each of those can be involved in specific cases and so you know you usually don’t see those right up front those are usually not as not as involved so so i mean it’s a lot of data about how you treat it as you find out is the person over exercising you got to stop exercising too much as a person you know having a a knock down drag out fight with their spouse over the potential of a divorce that’s gonna be a hard case to take care of because their stress responses are so high if they’re not on a medication or if they’re not on some sort of natural supplements to get that stress under control you’re not going to get their immune system under control no matter what else you do then you look at all these other issues and and and and this person has food sensitivities that are mild this person has food sensitivities that are medium and this person has certain sensitivities that are insane i just looked at at a lab where the person has like 200 food sensitivities how do you handle that i’m not going to tell you right now but but this is what you’re looking at okay so there’s no simple answer it’s it’s a con and and as as a as as a conversation i had right before i came in here with uh with with with the producer kevin sitting on the other side of this thing as he said you don’t really treat hot thyroid do you and the answer is is you do maybe but you treat all of these other things first and frequently the thyroid just starts functioning so i have a friend who’s been a functional medicine practitioner down in san diego and does nothing but hashimoto’s for like the last 20 years and he he says i almost never treat a thyroid now uh i i have a hard time believing that but i get what he’s saying i get what he’s saying as far as as as um as a fact that so many times once you get all the other inflammatory processes under control you get the pressure off the thyroid the thyroid just you know the thyroid starts working again i find for me i find most of my patients um i’d say a good percentage of my patients need some thyroid support but we don’t know how much or what you don’t even know and i’m not a medical doctor you don’t even know what drug to use until you start getting all this stuff under control because different drugs as many of you know you’ve taken drugs many of you have taken drugs and gotten a lot worse there’s a lot of reasons for that that reduces as time goes on and so will you usually want to treat everything else first now some of you have watched my video that says see if you can get your tsh to normal with some medication in the beginning and and that’s actually fine if if you want to do that but it it it’s a real crap shoot at that point because it’s a matter of trial and error if you luck out and you take the right drug first and and and and your tsh gets normal and and you don’t have any side effects from the from the drug that actually helps me out the problem i run into is it might take a year or two for that person and her doctor to figure out what the right medication is for him because of a variety of different things so but but i say that not to not the muddy the water but show you that is hashimoto’s thyroiditis treatment it is kind of a muddy water that you have to clear up by doing really a thorough history and and a thorough evaluation and and in the proper testing and make a game plan and then you intervene by doing what i just said you intervene by figuring out what are all the triggers for that person comes down to that so it comes down to what are all triggers by that person what order you attack them in and then you attack and do you and and can i do it always with with dietary and lifestyle changes and and herbs and botanicals and nutraceuticals no sometimes people do need uh certain medications if they’ve had a you know if they’ve had it a long time if certain organs are broke down if they’re a person that comes out in here and their tonsils are gone or appendix is gone and their uterus is gone their gallbladder is gone that’s gonna be a little tougher case they might need some they might need some help because some of their organs some of their um metabolic pathways may not re-establish themselves duh you know so so it’s common so it’s it’s complex it’s really one of the reason it’s really one of the reasons it’s most of what i do because it’s it’s it’s enough to do that if you did nothing else we do more than hashimoto’s here but but um but in the end the hashimoto’s would be enough to do because it takes some time to work these cases up because you you’re you’re looking for all that data and then you put it together and then you execute and the time it takes to put it together is worth it because then that’s going to make the whole case smooth along the way but what most people are doing here is the linear stuff well i’m on dr google and i did the sibo thing and it worked for two weeks but now it’s not working uh and i had fry you know oh yeah i got automated gastritis and i took the i took the antacids and that made me worse and you know it it’s not like that but that’s but that’s what most of you are exposed to whether using drugs or whether you use nerves and botanicals so i mean there’s not really a cool satisfactory succinct answer to that question but yeah we get that question an awful lot so i so for those of you who are looking for like can you tell me are you holding back on me you’re not telling me what you’re you’re not telling me like how i treat it just tell me how i treat it so i can just do it at home and i don’t have to talk to you or anybody else it doesn’t exist unless you have a huge background believe me it has taken a long time to learn all this stuff and and a lot of experience and a lot of getting kicked in the teeth by cases that that maybe didn’t go as well as you wanted them to go and then you learn stuff for the next one it’s it’s it’s just hard to do if you if you don’t have that type of a background so that’s why that’s another reason it’s such a health problem because first place you go is your doctor and your doctor is going to give you thyroid hormone which frequently doesn’t do anything for hashimoto’s and sometimes it does and then they’re going to give you drugs for all the for all the other symptoms so it’s a it’s a problem it’s it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a big big uh difficult condition for most people and and so i go for hours on this okay but i think that kind of gets the point across that i’m trying to get across is that there’s no easy solution there’s that easy case that comes in like once a year but for the most part there’s a lot of investigation goes into it there’s a lot of moving pieces to it there’s a lot of triggers and so that’s why you can’t get that answer off of the internet from the um well or anybody else anybody else who tells you they got the cure for hashimoto’s online don’t do it don’t do it it’s going to waste your money it’s going to be wasted your time so that’s the answer to how do i treat hashimoto’s probably answer is you probably don’t but that’s the answer you Hi Dr.

Rutherford, today we’re gonna talk about, “How to treat Hashimoto’s.” (chuckles) There’re about a few hundred hours online on this, but still we get an awful lot of people that says, “Well, how do you treat Hashimoto’s?” (laughs) So, let me see if I can answer that question, like in a succinct manner.

And this has been a question literally that we have struggled with since the day we started treating Hashimoto’s which was a long time ago. We were probably one of the first ones in the pool doing it as far as functional medicine went.

And people would come in back then and they say, “Hi, you know, I have Hashimoto’s and I’m taking these tests,” oh no sorry, “Taking these medications and nothing is happening.” And so I would start to explain to them about the gut and there’s the diet and all these types of things.

I mean, that is like 20 years ago or 12 years ago or 14. It was a long time ago. People started glazing over their eyes and glazing over and they’d go, “I just wanna know if you are like an ABBA botanical who treat Hashimoto’s.

” (laughs) And they would be totally crushed. Like, okay, they don’t get it. And it was pretty understanding at that point in time that people didn’t get that. And the problem is, we have this model, okay? And it’s a pathological model.

And the model is, I have lupus and they give me, you know, suppressants. I have a bacteria infection and they give me antibiotics. I have a heart problem and they do a heart bypass on me. So we have this very linear one-to-one idea of treatment, which is a big part of the reason that we’re in the predicament that we’re in, in this country right now.

With frankly, an explosion of sick people. And this video for future posterity of people who are watching this is being done at the time of COVID-19. And I don’t think it’s understating the stress that also comes from that, plus it’ll be interesting to see in the future what happens with this but there’s a hugely divisive presidential election going on.

You put those two things together and there’s a lot of stress out there. And so, these things are along with so many other things, the food supplies and right now we’re in the process of this humongous fires in California.

Where we know, haven’t seen this you know, blue sky like in weeks, actually we saw it this morning but it’s supposed to be gone by this afternoon. And there’s chemicals in there. So we’re in a position where literally our physiology is being overwhelmed with toxins and food diets and all this type of stuff.

We have a new patient population and that patient population is not well, it is declining. It is declining in health, more drugs, more sickness, more autoimmunity more chronic disease and more Hashimoto’s (laughs) Okay? And that’s kind of my lead in, how do you treat Hashimoto’s? Look, you’re looking for the Cliff Notes, how do I treat Hashimoto’s? Whether you realize it or not that’s what you’re looking for.

You’re looking for the aggregated version of it. Because, as I’ve talked about many times there’s a hierarchy to how you treat it, in the past year or two I’ve been talking about, the fact that there’s 39 triggers.

Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune problem. So it is a problem where your immune system is flaring off and to varying degrees, depending on the person, is attacking either the enzymes that are making your thyroid hormone or the actual tissues of the thyroid or both.

And so in the end, the battle is, calm down the immune system, calm down the immune system and put it into remission. For autoimmunity in and of itself, to evaluate an autoimmune case from a non-pathological, non-medical perspective.

You are looking for all of the aspects of that person’s life that is triggering inflammatory responses in their system. And that goes from poor sleep. I mean, we’re always looking for the exotic, oh, it’s Epstein-Barr virus, it’s not all Epstein-Barr virus.

It’s not even close to Epstein- Barr virus. Okay? But Epstein-Barr virus is one of 39 triggers for Hashimoto’s. Hashimoto’s is a subset of autoimmunity. There’s even more triggers for general autoimmunity and to go over ’em all, it would be very difficult.

So the bottom line is, is you have to look at all those triggers and they’re not all exotic, they’re not all like Epstein-Barr virus or heavy metals or it’s all parasites, which it’s not all parasites.

It’s like sleep, it’s like exercise. Are you getting enough or are you getting too much? Are you doing too much exercise and it’s crushing it down? Stress, stress, huge stress. Where do you live? What are your genetics? Then you get into food sensitivities and that is a whole can of worms.

It’s like, it’s made to be like, oh, just check your food. But in fact, most people still don’t know that food sensitivities are a big problem. They know their food allergies but they don’t know food sensitivities.

Then you can get into chemicals and there’s a zillion chemicals out there but there’s about 25 that are specific to flaring up autoimmune problems. And then there’s the pathogens, and there’s all kinds of pathogens and they rank from the Lyme disease which supposedly causes everything, which doesn’t.

To the Epstein-Barr viruses, to the Cytomegalovirus to the scrubs, to the molds. And all of these things can play into exacerbating your immune system and thus exacerbating the response against your thyroid.

So from that perspective, the global picture is you need to have a screening process that allows you to figure out which of all of the potential triggers that can be there, are there for you. No small task.

I’ve used those for there for a long time and we have questionnaires that have been developed, you have to use labs and you have to use a lot of different, a lot of different tools. Either you may use a lot of different labs, you may use a couple of different labs but you need to use the tools that are indicated in that person’s case by their history to try to figure out before you start, to try to figure out, okay, which of the triggers are here for this particular patient? And then, you know, to take it one step further, there’s actually a hierarchy to care.

For a long time it was the gut, for a long time it was like you know, treat the gut and you’ll fix everything. Leaky gut, fix the leaky gut and you’ll fix everything. That kind of defined functional medicine.

But it’s way more than that. It’s way more than that. Is that part of it? Yes. Is that high on the hierarchy? Yes. Are there things higher on the hierarchy as far as what to start with? Then that yes (laughs) So you gotta know what they are.

So you have to evaluate all that and then you have to treat it. Now treatment, maybe there’s some of you who are asking, “How do you treat it?” Oh, maybe you’re like my patients, you know, 15 years ago or whatever it was, maybe you’re looking for an ABBA botanical, okay? That fixes it, there is not one.

But the medical approach for Hashimoto’s is to monitor your TSH, your Thyroid Stimulating Hormone because most Hashimoto’s patients, but not all (laughs) have hypothyroid. So most patients have Hashimoto’s hypothyroiditis, “itis” means inflammation, but not all of you have inflammation yet.

And so there’s that aspect to it. And so the medical community will give you a thyroid medication for your hypothyroid symptoms, your hypothyroid numbers, your TSH, to get your TSH normal. And that may or may not help, a little bit, a lot, not at all.

And then their approach is to give you a drug for all every other symptom that Hashimoto’s patients come in here with, which is constipation, diarrhea, they can’t sleep, you’re cold, heart arrhythmias, insomnia, and so the person comes in here frequently with a thyroid hormone and a drug for every one of those symptoms.

That’s one way you treat it (laughs) From an alternative perspective, the way you treat it is you do the assessment that I talked about, and believe me, it’s lifestyle, it’s diet, it’s nutrition.

And it’s understanding, which of those and this is where you start, in this understanding which of those are there in that particular case. And maybe you have to retrain somebody, or maybe they got like this poor circadian rhythm where they go to bed at one o’clock at night and they get up at like 11 o’clock in the morning.

That’s not good. Okay? You need a proper circadian rhythm, has a lot to do with your brain, it affects blood sugar, affects stress hormones, affects your gut, affects everything. That might be one thing that you actually have to do to get that person’s inflammatory responses under control.

And that’s just one of like a hundred things I can talk about. Alright? So you have to look at all the lifestyle potential triggers. You have to look at stress, you have to look at their relationships either with their family or with their boss.

You have to look at all those things and see what are the things that are flaring up. Then comes the diet, the blood sugar then comes the diet, then comes the glutens and all like things. Which ones are for you? Which ones are not for you? Then after all of that, generally last night I just had a case where the gentleman’s been exposed to a lot of chemicals.

He’s worked in the field where he’s been exposed to a lot of chemicals and so, he has symptoms that would indicate that those chemicals might be involved. So in addition to all that, you’re certainly gonna look to detox him of chemicals, but is chemicals on everybody? No, it’s not.

And then after that, you start looking at all the pathogens. I mean, cause everybody’s looking at the pathogens first, not everybody but there was a point where everybody was looking for, it was heavy metals, it was parasites, those types of things.

That’s what it is, it’s Lyme disease. That’s what it is. Well, that’s proven to be false, but each of those can be involved in specific cases. And so, you know, I usually don’t see those right up front.

Those are usually not as involved. So I mean, it’s a lot of data about how you treat it, is you find out, is the person over exercising? You’re gonna have to stop exercising too much (chuckles) Is the person, you know, having a knockdown drag out fight with their spouse over a potential divorce? That’s gonna be a hard case to take care of because their stress responses are so high.

If they’re not on a medication or if they’re not on some sort of natural supplements to get that stress under control, you’re not gonna get their immune system under control, no matter what else you do.

Then you look at all these other issues. And this person has food sensitivities that are mild, this person has food sensitivities that are medium, and this person has three sensitivities that are insane.

I just looked at a lab where the person has like 200 food sensitivities. How do you handle that? I’m not gonna tell you right now (laughs) But this is what you’re looking at, okay? So there’s no simple answer.

And as a conversation I had right before I came in here with the producer Kevin, sitting on the other side of this thing. As he said, “You don’t really treat the thyroid, do you?” And the answer is, you do, maybe.

But you treat all of these other things first and frequently the thyroid just starts functioning. So I have a friend who’s been a functional medicine practitioner down in San Diego and does nothing but Hashimoto’s, for like the last 20 years.

And he says, “I almost never treated thyroid.” Now, I have hard time believing that but I get what he’s saying. I get what he’s saying as far as the fact that, so many times once you get all the other inflammatory processes under control, you get the pressure off the thyroid, the thyroid just you know, the thyroid starts working again.

I find for me, I find most of my patients, I’d say a good percentage of my patients need some thyroid support but we don’t know how much or what, you don’t even know and I’m a medical doctor.

You didn’t even know what drug to use until you start getting all this stuff under control, cause different drugs, as many of you know, you’ve taken drugs, many of you have taken drugs and gotten a lot worse.

There’s a lot of reasons for that. That reduces as time goes on. And so you usually wanna treat everything else first. Now, some of you have watched my video that says, see if you can get your TSH to normal with some medication in the beginning and that’s actually fine if you wanna do that.

But it’s a real crapshoot at that point, because it’s a matter of trial and error. If you’re lucky out and you take the right drug first and your TSH gets normal and you don’t have any side effects from the drug, that actually helps me out.

The problem I run into is it might take a year or two for that person and their doctor to figure out (laughs) what the right medication is for them, because of variety of different things, so. But I say that not to muddy the water, but show you that is Hashimoto’s thyroiditis treatment.

It is kind of a muddy water that you have to clear up by doing really a thorough history and a thorough evaluation and the proper testing and make a game plan. And then you intervene by doing what I just said.

You intervene by figuring out, what are all the triggers for that person? Comes down to that, so it comes down to, what are all triggers for that person? What order are you attacking ’em in? And then you attack.

And can I do it always with dietary and lifestyle changes and herbs and botanicals and nutraceuticals? No. Sometimes people do need certain medications. If they’ve had it, you know, they’ve had it a long time, where certain organs have broke down.

If they’re a person that comes out in here, their tonsils are gone, or appendix is gone and her uterus is gone, the gallbladder is gone. That’s gonna be a little tougher case. They might need some help because some of their organs, some of their metabolic pathways may not reestablish themselves.

Duh, you know? So it’s complex. It’s really one of the reasons, it’s most of what I do because it’s enough to do that. If you did nothing else, we do more than Hashimoto’s here, but in the end the Hashimoto’s would be enough to do because it takes some time to work these cases up because you’re looking for all that data and then you put it together and then you execute.

The time it takes to put it together is worth it because then that’s gonna make the whole case smooth along the way. But what most people are doing here is the linear stuff. Well, I’m on Dr. Google and I did the (indistinct) thing and it worked for two weeks, but now it’s not working.

And I had, you know, oh yeah, I got autoimmune gastritis and I took the antacids and that made me worse. And you know, it’s not like that, but that’s what most of you are exposed to, whether using drugs or whether using some botanicals.

So I mean ,there’s not really a cool, satisfactory, succinct answer to that question. But yet we get that question an awful lot. So for those of you who are looking for, like, can you tell me, are you holding back on me? You’re not telling me like how I treat it.

Just tell me how I treat it so I can just do it at home and I don’t have to talk to you or anybody else. It doesn’t exist. Unless you have a huge background, believe me, it has taken a long time to learn all this stuff.

And a lot of experience and a lot of getting kicked in the teeth by cases that maybe didn’t go as well as you wanted them to go and then you learn stuff for the next one. It’s just hard to do it, if you don’t have that type of a background.

So that’s why, that’s another reason it’s such a health problem. Because first place you go is your doctor and your doctor is gonna give you thyroid hormone which frequently doesn’t do anything for Hashimoto’s and sometimes it does.

And then they’re gonna give you drugs for all the other symptoms. So it’s a problem. It’s a big, big, difficult condition for most people. And so I can offer hours on this, okay? But I think that kinda gets the point across that I’m trying to get across, is that there’s no easy solution.

There’s that easy case that comes in like once a year. But for the most part, there’s a lot of investigation goes into it, there’s a lot of moving pieces to it, there’s a lot of triggers and so that’s why you can’t get that answer off of the internet from me.

Well or anybody else. Anybody else who tells you they got the cure for Hashimoto’s online, don’t do it (laughs) Don’t do it. It’s gonna be a waste of your money. It’s gonna be a waste of your time.

So that’s the answer to, “How do I treat Hashimoto’s?” And probably the answer is you probably don’t, but that’s the answer.

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Hashimoto’s and Red Face

Hashimoto's and Red Face

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So the question today is can Hashimoto’s cause a red face? So this is kind of interesting, well, it’s funny, I was just going through last night, some of the updated materials that I just recently received on all of the more or less known direct symptoms of Hashimoto’s, red face was not on there.

However, I do get a lot of people come in here with red faces. And so, it’s, I would say indirectly, the question might be more, or the answer might be more indirectly, one of the things that will cause, and I, it just said red face, all right? So I have a number of different ideas in my head of what a red face means to that particular person who asked this question.

The most common thing I see is actually a rosacea, so I don’t know if this person actually has rosacea, which is a butterfly rash across your face. And it mostly comes with the fact that Hashimoto’s can be connected to a lot of other autoimmune problems.

And so, one of the problems it can be connected to is lupus, and so the lupus patients will get that red face. A lot of people come in, and understand, they don’t know whether they have lupus or not.

They don’t even, some don’t even know, most know that they have Hashimoto’s now, but I still get a lot of patients who don’t know if they have it or not, they just suspect it. Well, they certainly are not suspecting that they might have Hashimoto’s, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, antibodies to myelin in their brain.

So, I mean, there’s all these possibilities. Once you have one, once you have one autoimmune problem, you may not have any other ones, but you may, and then you may get mixed up with some of the symptoms because you’re looking up Hashimoto’s and there’s a whole mess of symptoms that aren’t there, but you actually have another autoimmune problem.

That’s one reason that people will get a red face. Another piece of it is just high blood pressure, person’s coming in, maybe they got normal blood pressure, and then they get a, they get exposure to a trigger.

The trigger creates an immune inflammatory response, that creates an inflammation of the thyroid. The thyroid either starts making more thyroid hormone or the thyroid tissue starts getting damaged. When a tissue, when a cell, when a cell, just one thyroid cell gets damaged, that cell contains thyroid hormone.

So it contains the magical T3 that goes into your cells and it gives you energy. But if it’s getting damaged and it’s just spewing out a lot of dead cells with a lot of T3, then you’re going to get hyper symptoms, and one of the hyper symptoms you’re gonna get is gonna be a little high blood pressure and that can cause a red face.

The other one I see is unknown food sensitivities. Again, a food sensitivity is something that people say, “Well, I don’t have any food allergies,” and food sensitivity is different. Food allergy is like, “I ate the tomato, all of a sudden my face was red and itchy,” or whatever.

And a food sensitivity is, “I ate the tomato for dinner in that pasta dinner that I had on Monday night, and, oh boy, was it yummy.” And then you’re, but you’re, asking me about the red face that you got on Wednesday afternoon.

So it could be a secondary response to your sensitivity. So those are probably the three main reasons that a person would get a red face. I can’t think of any other ones. Bacterial infections, not so much, chemical sensitivities, maybe, you know, maybe, not so much.

Chemical sensitivities don’t usually… A poor, well, poor gallbladder function, no, that’s more redness kind of on the palms. So I would say those are the three that I see, again, it’s not really a, it’s not really a cardinal sign of Hashimoto’s, having a red face.

It’s more a cardinal sign that the Hashimoto’s is probably involved with other aspects of your physiology, and that you don’t have just one problem, you probably have some other things going on.

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Hashimoto’s Chest Pain

Hashimoto's Chest Pain

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Hey Dr. Rutherford here today. So today the topic and we get most of these topics by the way from requests. So if you have any requests, keep it coming, makes it easier on me to try to figure out what to talk about.

So this one today is Hashimoto’s and chest pain. And again, I refer to these questions relative to what I experienced in practice, cause I’ve been in practice long enough that I think I’ve seen most of the trends and what occurs in my patient population.

Which is auto immunity, which is Hashimoto’s, chronic fatigue, different types of neuropathies, gut problems, food stuff, that type of thing. So, chest pain. So, the most common reason present comes in here with chest pain from Hashimoto’s is usually, it’s a combination or a division between stress and Hashimoto’s inflammatory attacks.

So let me explain that. So, I’m gonna take this to an extreme, I have a group of patients. I literally, I have talked to a few hundred patients who have ended up in the hospital, their heart pounding out of their chest.

This is not exactly the question. But their heart pounding out of their chest and they go to the hospital and they get the EKG and they get all the Echo grams and they get everything taken, all the studies taken.

And they get their bloods taken, and then they’re told right! Everything’s normal. Go home, you need some electrolytes you’re just distressed. So to a certain degree, there’s truth to that.

But that person, that person who shows up in the hospital is usually kind of more of a more extreme example of what this question is asking. So, I get a lot of people come in and say, “My chest is tight.

” Normally that tightness in the chest. And again, these people have usually already been checked. They were well, their heart’s fine and everything. Usually it’s stress. Usually it’s stress.

Now, most of the people I see, it’s very rare that I see a person that comes in here. Isn’t in some sort of a chronic stress cycle. Stress is one of the triggers and exacerbators of Hashimoto’s immune inflammatory attacks.

So it’s not surprising that that’s part of their picture. And then that tightness is normally from the stress component. And so, now you can then add to it that if one of those triggers, if the person has a blood sugar drop, or if the person has some sort of a food sensitivity or any of these triggers, some sort of a chronic infection that’s been activated, let’s say it’s a low level, and it starts exacerbating.

And either starts damaging thyroid tissue, which starts vomiting out T3 and T for that the T3 and T four thyroid hormones. That on a low level can create a tightness in the chest. As you move up the scale, then it can actually cause a little bit of a chest pain.

As you move up the scale, then you’ll usually gonna start experiencing maybe your heart palpitating a little bit. But by observation, that doesn’t happen. That doesn’t happen in the, I wouldn’t say rare, but this semi-annual patient that comes in here, who’s not in some sort of a chronic stress response.

Those folks generally are just gonna get heart Palpitations are not gonna get that. They’re not gonna get that chest tightness. They’re not gonna get that chest pain and understand your ribs, the sternum, you have these ribs that are attached to your spine, they come all the way around.

They attach to your cartilage actually. And then that has to start. If you start getting a lot of T3, if you start getting like a hyper attack, but maybe it’s at a low level, it’s going to increase the physiological activity of every single aspect of your body, including the muscle.

So if those muscles start to tighten up, they’re gonna put a barrier on to put a push on those ribs or a tight, the ribs, the muscles are gonna shorten. There’s gonna be less movement in here.

You’re not gonna be able to breathe as much and you’re gonna get some tightness in that chest. So, it’s good that people go and get it checked out. Once they get it checked out, and it’s not some sort of a pathology in their heart, it’s just something to know It’s part of your whole clinical picture.

It’s not something to get more worried about then, your fatigue or your diarrhea or anything like that. It’s just part of the whole clinical picture. So, that’s Hashimoto’s and chest pain.

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Symptoms of a Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Flare Up

Symptoms of a Hashimoto's Thyroiditis Flare Up

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What are symptoms of a Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis flare-up so there’s the so there’s the common symptoms I’m assuming the person asking this and the person tuning into this is interest already knows something about hashimoto’s so hashimoto’s flares up many things can flare it up i mean we’ve talked about that they’re lifestyle things that can flare it up there’s lack of sleep there’s over exercise there’s poor relationships there’s blood sugar problems can can do it and and and and then there’s food sensitivities and chemicals and viruses and pathogens and molds and on and on there’s like again the third famous 39 triggers that can that can flare it up there’s the the the symptomatic overactive thyroid symptoms are pretty much anxiety we can flare up anxiety it can i think like the cardinal sign to me is heart palpitations for no reason at all heart palpitations that come and go for no reason at all something goes something triggers your thyroid the thyroid starts vomiting out thyroid hormone more than it should it increases your metabolism and your heart has a gazillion thyroid receptors on it more than any place else in your body and so the thyroid hits your heart and you start getting heart palpitations for no reason inward trembling which comes directly from that increased thyroid um shakiness like if you if you some for not everybody but for some people start to get shakiness or some people will start to get worse balance problems because their cerebellum is being attacked by the thyroid insomnia the insomnia fires up the system starts screwing up your blood sugar blood sugar is the biggest cause of waking up in the middle night not being able to go back to sleep but but it can be secondary to the thyroid um so let’s see thyroid let’s see and we’re trembling and some the night sweats night sweats it uh it has a profound the thyroid when it when it uh it’s its major function its main function it has a profound effect on um on estrogen and testosterone and progesterone and so it can it can affect your your hormones and cause night sweats in men as well as women by the way i think some of the more outward visual signs that are more obvious that that tend to really really get people’s attention is their thyroid if their thyroid starts swelling and then it goes down and it swells and then it goes down those are signs of of of a hyperthyroid hashimoto’s flare-up and and and that’s we actually that’s actually a an acute unstable hashimoto’s thyroiditis and when when one of those cases comes in here one of my decisions is do i just go after that first and throw a bunch of stuff there that’s going to get that down so the patient can be a little calmer and not be so worried and or or do you go after all all of the things and that are causing those triggers and and just wait on on giving the person a bunch of supplements to calm down the information so but either way it that’s a that is an acute inflammatory response and the same thing would be if you are if you’re let’s say you have a propensity to develop um like like swelling swollen glands swollen lymph nodes and they come and they go for no reason at all or let’s say you have a propensity to develop joint pain and and joint pain can be a hashimoto’s symptom are any of the pains that you might get along with this and and any of the symptoms that you might get along with this and what are those symptoms there are symptoms that come and go there’s symptoms that like you say oh man i woke up today and i feel like i feel great oh my god i’m better you know i’m hopefully better then you go out and do all the things that you weren’t able to do for the last week and then you crash again and then all those pains come back that’s a hashimoto’s flare-up when you when you have all of the symptoms that are it might be your gut it might be gas it might be bloating it might be brain fog’s a big one i mean the big ones are fatigue brain fog depression joint pain those are biggies those are biggies for those of you who have fibromyalgia sensitivities um that you know that would be a flare-up of that type of a pain that is caused by uh hashimoto’s flare-ups so i mean that hashimoto’s flare-up potentially can affect every cell of the trillions of cells that in your body it’s in your body it doesn’t but it could because it has a receptor site in every single cell so think exacerbations or remissions specifically think of of like swelling my my my my gorter swells up and then it goes away and it swells up and then it goes away and i think uh um heart palpitations to me that’s like number one if if you have intermittent heart palpitations for no reason at all um you’re you’re even if you’re stressed it’s going to be heart palpitations for no reason at all then your hashimoto’s until proven innocent in my world and so hashimoto’s yeah insomnia inward trembling night sweats um those are the things that you’ll kind of look at and go maybe i should get my thyroid check or ooh my hashimoto’s is flaring up what did i do could i connect it to anything so yeah so that’s the symptoms of a hashimoto’s flare-up you And that we’re gonna be answering today is again we seem to be answering questions now.

The question is what are symptoms of a Hashimoto’s thyroiditis flare up. So there’s the common symptoms. I’m assuming the person asking this and the person tuning into this as interest already know something about Hashimoto’s.

So Hashimoto’s flares up. Many things can flare it up. I mean we’ve talked about that. They’re lifestyle things that can flare it up. There’s lack of sleep. There’s over-exercise, there’s poor relationships.

There’s blood sugar problems can do it. And then there’s food sensitivities and chemicals and viruses and pathogens and moles, and on and on. There’s like, again, the third famous 39 triggers that can flare it up.

There’s the symptomatic overactive thyroid symptoms are pretty much anxiety. It can flare up anxiety. It can I think like the cardinal sign to me is heart palpitations for no reason at all. Heart palpitation that come and go for no reason at all.

Something goes, something triggers your thyroid. The thyroid starts vomiting out thyroid hormone, more than it should. It increases your metabolism and your heart has a gazillion thyroid receptors on it, more than any place else in your body.

And so the thyroid hit your arm and you start getting heart palpitations for no reason. Inward trembling, which comes directly from that increased thyroid. Shakiness, like if you some for not everybody but for some people start to get shakiness or some people will start to get worse balance problems because their cerebellum is being attacked by the thyroid.

Insomnia, the insomnia fires up the system. Starts screwing up your blood sugar. Blood sugar is the biggest cause of waking up in the middle of night and not being able to go back to sleep but it can be secondary to the thyroid.

So let’s see thyroid let’s see. Inward trembling, insomnia, night sweats. It has a profound thyroid when its major function, its main function. It has a profound effect on estrogen and testosterone and progesterone.

And so it can affect your hormones and cause night’s sweats in men as well as women by the way. I think some of the more outward visual signs that are more obvious that tend to really really get people’s attention is their thyroid.

If their thyroid starts swelling and then it goes down it swells and then it goes down. Those are signs of a hyperthyroid Hashimoto’s flare up. And that’s actually an acute unstable Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

And when one of those cases comes in here, one of my decisions is do I just go after that first and throw a bunch of stuff there, that’s gonna get that down. So the patient can be a little calmer and not be so worried or do you go after all of the things that are causing those triggers and just wait on giving the person a bunch of supplements that calm down the inflammation.

So, but either way, if that is an acute inflammatory response. And the same thing would be if you are, let’s say you have a propensity to develop like swollen glands, swollen lymph nodes and they come and they go for no reason at all.

Or let’s say you have a propensity to develop joint pain. And joint pain can be a Hashimoto’s symptom. Are any of the pains that you might get along with this And any of the symptoms that you might get along with this and what are those symptoms? There are symptoms that come and go.

There’s symptoms that let you say, oh man, I woke up today and I feel like, I feel great. Oh my God I’m better. I’m hopefully I’m better and then you go out and do all the things that you weren’t able to do for the last week and then you crash again.

And then all those pains come back. That’s a Hashimoto’s flare up. When you have all of the symptoms that are, it might be your gut. It might be gas it might be bloating. It might be brain fog is a big one.

I mean the big ones are fatigue brain fog, depression, joint pain. Those are biggies. For those of you have fibromyalgia sensitivities that would be a flare up of that type of a pain that is caused by a Hashimoto’s flare up.

So I mean that Hashimoto’s flare up potentially can affect every cell of the trillions of cells that in your body is in your body doesn’t, but it could because it has a receptor site in every single cell.

So think exacerbations or remissions. Specifically think of like swelling. My gut my goiter swells up and then it goes away and then it swells up and then it goes away. And I think heart palpitations to me, that’s like number one.

If you have intermittent heart palpitations for no reason at all. Even if you’re stressed it’s gonna be hard palpitations for no reason at all. Then your Hashimoto’s until proven innocent in my world.

And so Hashimoto’s yeah. Insomnia, inward trembling, night sweats. Those are the things that you all kind of look at and go, maybe I should get my thyroid checked or ooh, my Hashimoto’s is flaring up.

What did I do? Could I connect it to anything? So yeah, so that’s the symptoms of a Hashimoto’s flare up.

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Exercise and Hashimoto’s

Exercise and Hashimoto's

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Dr. Martin Rutherford here today and today we’re going to talk about exercise now i full disclosure i’m sure i’ve talked about this at some point in time because it’s such a significant part of exercise relative to hashimoto’s relative to immunological aspects of disease in general so in other words i get a lot of people to come in here with autoimmunities of all kinds and this ongoing series that we’re doing right now is is all about hashimoto’s and and and and we usually pick these topics according to what people are asking for but also according to what i’m seeing and i see a lot of trends i see a lot of new patients i interview a lot of people i’ve seen a lot of new patients and that and the latest trend i’m seeing is people taking more responsibility for themselves at least the ones that are calling here and they’re taking they’re doing that they’re trying the different diets they’re off the gluten they’re taking the they’re taking their seleniums and they’re taking a methionine and they’re taking the zinc and they’re taking the magnesiums and everything and and they’ve probably gotten some improvement um but obviously they’re not getting what they want out of it so they call so they call someone like me and and and so um one of the big things i’ve seen lately is people going okay i gotta exercise exercises exercise is good and i probably have done something like this online already and uh but and and if i did what i said was yeah but too much exercise is not good so i wanted to go over a little um a little study that was just done and it was a study out of europe and it was just last year and the study was on the immunological aspects of exercise in chronic disease and interestingly enough they specifically talked about hashimoto’s thyroiditis in this study understand all you hashimoto’s sufferers you have the you now have officially had the number one autoimmune condition in the entire world talking to people from australia talking to people from the united arabs emirates i’ve talked to people all over and it is it’s there and their doctors don’t know what to do with it either so there’s a lot of different things relative to fixing or putting these problems in the remission keeping in the remission and really what i do is lifestyle right it’s lifestyle it’s it’s it’s nutrients nutraceuticals and its diet and better but within the framework of that there’s about 40 different things you need to look at exercise is a big one because here’s the deal what they found is that a certain level of exercise is really really excellent for autoimmune disease in general we i we may have always kind of intuitively known it’s good for your immune system and balancing out your immune system in general but this this uh study took a number of people and i i think it was like 180 people and measured outcomes measured lifestyle outcomes um but also measured specific uh chemistry relative to immune function and this particular some of this particular chemistry um was relative to hashimoto’s now what they found some of it’s not going to surprise you first of all they found that it keeps your your your immune system and your metabolic system in balance when you do enough exercise but not too much exercise we’ll get into the too much later but if you do enough and you don’t exceed your metabolic capacity which i’ll tell you what that means in a minute then it shows that it improves physiological outcomes in other words in other words you’re able to function better during the day you’re able to you’re able to think better you’re able to move better you’re able to do those types of things more importantly it improves psychological outcomes they did psychological testing on uh on these participants relative to anxiety relative to depression relative to um uh panic attacks and things of that nature and they found and they found that these outcome measures improved by um 25 35 45 and and i must tell you they they were not you know they were not the the lifestyle changes were relative to um um just exercise just exercise in in and and a person doing maybe maybe 20 or 30 minutes worth of walking a day because that was pretty much what they asked people to do so um they they also i know now i’m not sure how they came to this conclusion and i read the whole article and it’s like several pages long but they did come to the conclusion that it’s cancer preventative and that if you have cancer that it improves the recurrence rates of cancer by you doing exercises well makes sense if they’re saying that all of these markers that are inflammatory markers immune exacerbating markers in the blood are all improving then it would make sense that it could um give you a a better shot of of not getting cancer even if you have genetically you know proven cancer lines in your family obviously you probably have to do a little bit more than exercise but really they isolated that out and and the only factor that they evaluated in this in this study was was exercise okay and then the biggest thing that caught my eye that made me want to do this was um it it just decreased immune inflammation it decreased inflammatory markers across the board some of you may be familiar with markers of like called c-reactive protein so that’s a big marker today especially in the cardiac world it’s a marker that means you’re getting an inflammatory response and if you’re getting an inflammatory response of so such and such a severity then it increases your risk for getting heart disease by uh like a ton like 40 50 or something like that and the way it works is is there’s these in this inflammation takes place the inflammation starts damaging the inside arteries of your heart and in this particular study they study the heart but it can also be stroke and and um that it can make you more susceptible to and that showed that a moderate amount of exercise decreased your ability to decrease your or increase your ability to decrease your c-reactive protein which goes through heart disease but it also goes to not flaring up autoimmunity particularly autoimmunity particularly we’re talking about hashimoto’s right now but specific to hashimoto’s tnf alpha went down il-6 went down and about six other markers that are all inflammatory markers okay when you when you when you get those antibody tests back they tell you that you have hashimoto’s your thyroid peroxidase antibodies particularly and your anti-thyroglobulin antibodies what their antibodies they’re not destroying your thyroid they’re telling these guys to destroy your thyroid the tnf alphas the il-6s and those types of things these are white blood cells that are good until they’re out of control and when they get out of control they cause inflammation so the so proper exercise dampen them dampens them i go back to the reason i’m doing this one is because suddenly i’m treating people who are triathletes i’m treating people who want to who are who are cross-country marathon runners i’m just treating people that are going to the gym and doing high-intensity exercises and and all of those well not all of us though those are extreme okay that particularly like the triathletes and the and the bicyclists who bicycle hundreds of miles and um i mean i i’m at the foot of the sierras here so so a lot of people train here olympians train here and i’m getting a lot of these folks who have hashimoto’s and who have other other neuroinflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases and it’s kind of hard to say you know what that’s a little too much and when you interview that person they they all say the same thing they say i want you to help me to be able to better do this without crashing well i’m not sure that’s going to happen in those cases because what the study showed was that if you over exercise you crash and all these things flare up when they flare up it’s heart palpitations anxiety panic attacks depression it’s joint pain it’s it’s it’s but it’s fatigue oh my god it’s fatigue they’re down for days and then you know and so it’s that mindset of mores better than i’m trying to break here now so exercise is good up to a certain point and you have to find out what that point of duration and intensity is and the way you find out is you pick it pick it pick an exercise let’s say it’s walking and let’s say you actually have time on your hands enough to walk for let’s say an hour okay pick an exercise and walk for an hour you don’t crash if you don’t go home if you’re if you’re not like oh my god i can’t do anything else for two or three days then you have not exceeded your capacity and you can do an hour if you’re so inclined to do more do more until you get that reaction and then you’re going to know that that’s too much exercise and you have to back down all right i mean in general 20 30 minutes of exercise is good enough for my patients but again i’m running into a lot of people who are now they’re in the gym they’re doing circuit training they’re doing all kinds of things and it’s and and it’s flaring them up then when i do the lifestyle aspect of my recommendations to them um many are relieved that they don’t have to go out and kill themselves and and unfortunately the ones who are not relieved are really not relieved they’re just kind of like no you know that’s like what makes me happy except for the three days that they’re laying in bed with all these symptoms and fatigue and can’t do anything so that’s um the immunological aspects of exercising basically in chronic disease and chronic inflammatory diseases but it’s very specific to hashimoto’s it’s a it’s a topic i cover with like all my hashimoto’s patients and and they get it you know especially once they start to implement it they start to get how much that is one piece of their puzzle for sure so that is exercise and hashimoto’s uh and that’s kind of like the updated uh official actually research done type of type of a data that i think a lot of the people out there that are watching a lot of you out there watching would like to have all right you – Rutherford here today.

And today we’re going to talk about exercise. Now I, full disclosure, I’m sure I’ve talked about this at some point in time. Cause it’s such a significant part of exercise relative to Hashimoto’s, relative to immunological aspects of disease in general.

So in other words, I get a lot of people that come in here, with auto immunities of all kinds. And this ongoing series that we’re doing right now, is all about Hashimoto’s. And, we usually pick these topics, according to what people are asking for but also according to what I’m seeing.

And I see a lot of trends, I see a lot of new patients. I interview a lot of people. I’ve seen a lot of new patients. And the latest trends I’m seeing, is people taking more responsibility for themselves.

At least the ones that are calling here. And they’re doing it. They’re trying the different diets. They’re off the gluten. They’re taking the seleniums and they’re taking the Methanone and they’re taking the zinc.

And they’re taking the magnesiums and everything. And, they probably gotten some improvement but obviously they’re not getting what they want out of it. So they call, someone like me. And, so one of the things I’ve seen lately is, people going, “Okay I got to exercise.

” Exercise is good. And I probably have done something like this online already. And, if I did what I said was, yeah but too much exercise is not good. So I wanted to go over a little study that was just done.

And it was a study out of Europe, and, it was just last year. And the study was on the immunological aspects, of exercise in chronic disease. And interestingly enough, they specifically talked about Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in this study.

Understand, all you Hashimoto’s sufferers. You have the… You now have, officially have, the number one, autoimmune condition in the entire world. Talking to people from Australia, talking to people from the United Arab Emirates, I’ve talked to.

.. We were all over and it is, it’s there. And their doctors don’t know what to do with it either. So there’s a lot of different things, relative to fixing or putting these problems in the remission, keeping into remission.

And really what I do is lifestyle, right? It’s lifestyle. It’s, nutrients, nutraceuticals and it’s diet and but within the framework of that there’s about, 40 different things you need to look at.

Exercise is a big one, because here’s the deal. What they found is that a certain level of exercise, is really excellent for autoimmune disease in general. We may have always kind of intuitively known, it’s good for your immune system and balancing out your immune system in general.

But this, study took a number of people. And I think it was like 180 people and measured outcomes, measured lifestyle outcomes but also measured specific chemistry relative to immune function. And this.

.. Some of this particular chemistry, was relative to, Hashimoto’s. Now what they found, some of it’s not going to surprise you. First of all, they found that it keeps your immune system and your metabolic system in balance.

When you do enough exercise but not too much exercise. We’ll get into the too much later. But if you do enough and you don’t exceed, your metabolic capacity. Which I’ll tell you what that means in a minute.

Then it shows that it improves physiological outcomes. In other words, you’re able to function better, during the day. You’re able to think better. You’re able to move better. You’re able to do those types of things.

More importantly, it improves psychological outcomes. They did psychological testing on these participants, relative to anxiety, relative to depression, relative to Panic attacks and things of that nature.

And they found that these outcome measures improved by 25, 35, 45%. And, I must tell you, they were not… The lifestyle changes were relative to, just exercise. And a person doing maybe maybe 20 or 30 minutes, worth of walking a day.

Because that was pretty much what they asked people to do. So, they also … Now, I’m not sure how they came to this conclusion. And I read the whole article and it’s like several pages long, but they did come to the conclusion that it’s cancer preventative, and that if you’ve had cancer, that it improves the recurrence rates of cancer by you doing exercises.

Well, it makes sense if they’re saying that, all of these markers that are inflammatory markers, immune exacerbating markers in the blood are all improving, then it would make sense that it could give you a better shot of not getting cancer.

Even if you have genetically, proven cancer lines in your family, obviously you probably have to do a little bit more than exercise, but really they isolated that out. And the only factor that they evaluated, in this study was exercise, okay? And then the biggest thing that caught my eye, that made me want to do this was it just decreased immune inflammation.

It decreases inflammatory markers across the board. Some of you may be familiar with ,markers , called C reactive protein. So that’s a big market today especially in the cardiac world. It’s a marker.

That means you’re getting an inflammatory response. (engine revving) And if you’re getting any inflammatory responses, such as severity , then it increases your risk for getting heart disease by like a ton.

Like 40, 50% or something like that. And the way it works is, there’s this information takes place. The information starts damaging the inside arteries of your heart. And in this particular study, they studied the heart but it can also be stroke.

And, that can make you more susceptible to. And that showed that a moderate amount of exercise, decreased your ability to decrease your… Increase your ability (chuckles) to decrease your C-reactive protein.

Which goes through heart disease, but it also goes to not flaring up auto-immunity. Particularly auto-immunity, particularly we’re talking about Hashimoto’s right now but specific the Hashimoto’s TNF alpha went down, IL6 went down and about six other markers.

They’re all inflammatory markers, okay? When you, get those antibody test back, they tell you that you have Hashimoto’s, your thyroid peroxidase antibodies, particularly and your antithyroglobulin antibodies.

What, their antibodies, they’re not destroying your thyroid. They’re telling these guys, (laughs) to destroy your thyroid. The TNF, alphas, the IL6es and those types of things. These are white blood cells that are good, until they’re out of control.

And when they get out of control, they cause inflammation. So, proper exercise, dampens them. I go back to the reason I’m doing this one is because, suddenly I’m treating people who are triathletes.

I’m treating people who want to, who are, cross-country marathon runners. I’m just treating people that are going to the gym and doing high intensity exercises. And, all of those, well, not all those.

Those are extreme, okay? Particularly like the triathletes and the bicyclists who bicycle hundreds of miles. And I mean, I’m at the foot of the Sierras here. So, a lot of people train here, Olympians train here and I’m getting a lot of these folks, who have Hashimoto’s and who have other other neuro-inflammatory diseases and autoimmune diseases and (exhales sharply).

It’s kind of hard to say, you know what? That’s a little too much. And when you interview that person, they all say the same thing. They say, I want you to help me to be able to better do this without crashing.

Well, I’m not sure it’s going to happen in those cases because what the study showed was that if you overexercise you crash. And all these things (whistles) flare up. When they flare up, it’s heart palpitations, anxiety, panic attacks, depression.

It’s joint pain, it’s fatigue. Oh my God, it’s fatigue. They’re down for days. And then… And, and so it’s that mindset of more’s better, than I’m trying to break here. Now, so exercise is good, up to a certain point and you have to find out what that point of, duration and intensity is.

And the way you find out, is you pick an exercise, let’s say it’s walking. And let’s say, you actually have time on your hands, enough to walk for, let’s say an hour, okay? Pick an exercise and walk for an hour.

You don’t crash, if you don’t go home, if you’re not like, “Oh my God, I can’t do anything else for two or three days.” Then you have not exceeded your capacity. You can do an hour.

If you’re so inclined to do more, do more, until you get that reaction. And then you’re going to know that that’s too much exercise and you have to back down. All right, I mean, in general, 20, 30 minutes of exercise, is good enough for my patients.

But again, I’m running into a lot of people, who are now, they’re in the gym, they’re doing circuit training, they’re doing all kinds of things and it’s flaring them up. Then when I get to do the lifestyle aspect of my recommendations to them, many are relieved (laughs) that they don’t have to go out and kill themselves.

And, unfortunately the ones we’re not relieved, are really not relieved. They’re just kinda like, “No, you know, that’s like what makes me happy.” Except for the three days that they’re laying in bed, with all these symptoms of fatigue and can’t do anything.

So that’s the immunological aspects of, exercising, basically, a chronic disease and chronic inflammatory diseases. But it’s very specific to Hashimoto’s. It’s a topic I cover with like, all my Hashimoto’s patients and they get it.

Especially once they start to implement it, they start to get how much that is one piece, of their puzzle, for sure. So that is exercise and Hashimoto’s, and, that’s kind of like the updated official, actually, research done type of data that I think, a lot of the people out there that are watching, a lot of you out there watching would like to have.

All right.

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