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Autoimmune thyroid problems to some degree autoimmune problems in general, but I'm going to kind of try to keep it to Hashimoto's on this video. But how do they develop? What goes wrong? Can you do anything about it other than just replace hormone? Can you reverse it? Can you get back off thyroid hormone once you've been taking it? Let's tackle those issues in today's video. So I did a video previously about Hashimoto's. What is it? How you test for it? What are the criteria for diagnosing it? I'll put a link to that onto this one, but otherwise, just go back through my blog. You'll find it. It should be posted very close to when I'm posting this one. The intention is to post that one in the following week, post this one, so it shouldn't be hard to find, but assuming you remember all that or you took notes or you've just watched it.
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Let's talk about how something like Hashimoto's would develop Hashimoto's. Again, quick reminder, it's antibodies to the...
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Hypothyroidism, TPO antibodies, some lab numbers kind of criteria for diagnosis and the physiology of making thyroid hormone. Let's talk about that today. I've had some questions lately. I realize I haven't done one of these videos in quite a while, so let's knock this out. Hashimoto's is going to be a name used for the condition of having antibodies toward your thyroid. I'm going to get a little more specific with you, but I think in common terms, I think we've come to the point where if you have an autoimmune thyroid condition, they're just going to call it. I think that's probably fine. I don't think getting super specific about that really makes much of a difference. You'll see why I say that in a minute. So if you have an autoimmune attack on your thyroid, it's going to be called Hashimoto's. Now, let's go through how you make thyroid hormone so that we kind of have the same terminology as I talk about testing and diagnosing.
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So you have a gland kind of tucked...
Next on our list of the foundational five is vitamin D. I've done videos on vitamin D in the past. Please go find them. Um, they're gonna have more information than I can put in this video here, but I'm gonna give you kind of a, a, a rapid overview on vitamin D. So, vitamin D, anti-inflammatory, anti autoimmune, immune regulating, anti-cancer, um, not directly, but helps our body do all these things, right? It supports our body's natural mechanisms for doing all these things. Um, so very important to have. It's generally considered the most, if not in the top two. Uh, magnesium being the other, uh, nutritional deficiencies in our bodies. Uh, we make vitamin D from the sun. Sun has to hit our skin, not really showing your skin there and interact with cholesterol. And that makes the first conversion that it has to go to the liver, get converted to the kidneys, get converted, then you finally get active vitamin D.
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So it's a multi-step process. Um, and...
So next on our list of the foundational five, we've already talked about multivitamins, we've talked about fish oil. This video, we're gonna talk about probiotics. And the next couple of videos we'll handle vitamin D and magnesium. So probiotics, those are the good bacteria that are supposed to be in our gut. Now, a couple of misconceptions about probiotics. Many people feel that when you take a probiotic, you are trying to colonize the gut with what you're taking. I mean, it wouldn't be bad if that happened. I think probably a little bit of that happens. But by and large, the reason you take a probiotic is that on its way through your system, while it's temporarily in there, it changes the environment somewhat. Those bacteria that you put in there, and sometimes nutritional yeast that you put in there, they ferment your food on their way through, and the byproducts of that fermentation set up an environment that's advantageous for your normal flora to kind of...
Continuing the foundational five series. The last video I did was on multivitamins. If you didn't catch it, look around wherever you're seeing this video and you'll find it. Today. I'm talking about the second component of the foundational five, and that's ul. So it as a recap, the foundational five generally supplements that I think everybody would benefit from. Same disclaimers I did on the last video. I'm not giving you medical advice. Take notes on what I'm telling you. If some of this is of interest or you think you want to take one of these, if there's any question about whether it's relevant for you or not, or safe for you or not, speak to your functional medicine practitioner, um, your nutritionist, somebody that understands supplementation. Alright? If you ask your regular family doctor about supplements, they may or may not have any knowledge at all about supplements in the information yet may be less relevant than what you're getting here, even though...
To me, there are five main supplements that, that I kind of call my foundational five that almost everybody would benefit from taking. Now I say almost everybody, so understand real quick disclaimer, I'm not giving you medical advice. I don't know your specific situation, so take notes on what I'm gonna say and know that these are generally good for everybody, but there may be some special circumstances for you. So discuss that with your functional medicine doctor or your clinician practitioner who's knowledgeable about nutrition and supplementation. Your regular family practice doctor might not know much of anything about supplementation and they're not always the best, um, resource for whether or not you should or can be taking something, find someone knowledgeable about supplementation. So that being said, the foundational five for me, uh, it's gonna consist of number one, a multivitamin of some sort, fish oil, probiotics, vitamin D, and magnesium.
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I wanted to take a few minutes, it's the end of the day here, and excuse the bare walls behind me, I'm in my new office, and we haven't had time to quite finish settling yet. First video from the new office so I guess that's a milestone.
I've had a couple patients come in the past, probably two weeks, where they've had ... well, the patients haven't necessarily had questions about a full thyroid panel, but their other doctors have had questions about, why are we ordering all this lab work? Why would want all this lab work? What are you trying to prove? What are you looking for? What's the relevance of this?
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