Why would you choose a functional medicine approach to autoimmunity? So I think it's a good question. I had a couple of new autoimmune patients in last week. One of them was very aware of functional medicine, but didn't know that I was around so close. And so once someone clued her in, came to the office, we had a great visit. The other patient really didn't know much about functional medicine at all, but a family member had said, please go talk to Dr. Krupka. So we did. So interesting between the two. One, very aware, one unaware. So what is a functional medicine approach to autoimmunity? Well, functional medicine is all about root causes and a lot of other doctors, nurses, people out there, they just say that anything outside of the standard medical approach is just bs. And it's all hype and snake oil and don't listen to it.
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But hear me out, you didn't get your autoimmune disorder randomly. I know sometimes it feels like you did or your doctor told you...
So I know you guys are tired of hearing me go on about pills and shakes every morning while we're going through this cleanse protocol, so I'm going to do something a little different this morning.
I had a patient in for, a new patient, for autoimmune issues yesterday, and she suggested, she had been watching some of these, and she suggested that I talk a little bit about what I explained to her yesterday, so I'm going to do that now.
When we have patients come in with autoimmune issues or inflammatory problems, there's a protocol I have. It's called a fix anything protocol, and it's just an acronym that gives us about 11 different areas of concern that we have to deal with if we're going to get the inflammation and the autoimmune issues under control. I'm not going to go through all 11, but I'm going to go through the heaviest hitters, the ones that we see over and over again, the ones that are highest on th...
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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 thy...
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