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And you are series talking about Hashimoto’s. We’re, going to be more based this month on questions that seem to be more fine-tuned than maybe maybe all the ones that we were doing last the last month.
So and today the question was what are triggers of Hashimoto’s. I’m, pretty sure that I covered this in one of the presentations we did last month and B since we did 30 presentations. I don’t, remember which one it was so we’ll.
Do it again so triggers versus causes. I think I’ll just cover all of that, so triggers classic triggers so Hashimoto ‘ S is not a being problem. Okay, if this first time you’re. Seeing this then Hashimoto ‘
S is an autoimmune problem more than it is a hypothyroid problem, even though it’s both, but what gets triggered that ultimately creates the immune attack against the thyroid. That beats it up and causes it to be.
Hypothyroid is the immune system. So what we want to know is what is triggering the immune system, so the immune system is that classically. The person already has some sort of a propensity to have Hashimoto’s.
Maybe they have what’s called silent. Hashimoto’s, you actually are getting your thyroid attacked, but it’s on such a low level that you don’t even know you have it or maybe you’re getting some of the symptoms, but you’re kind of blowing it off as as other things, and then you go and as you’re going and traveling through this great journey of life, things happen, and so one of the things that can happen is pregnancy.
Women get pregnant. I’ve, had literally hundreds of when we come in here ago I was going along fine, you know I felt good and then I had my you know. I got pregnant and I felt great and then I had my baby and it was like the end of my life.
Everything fell apart, and that was and that’s when everything began and it’s been getting worse ever since so so. Pregnancy can create an inflammatory response, believe it or not, and it can also cause antibodies shifts.
In other words, when you’re, when you’re, giving your antibodies as a woman over to the child, they can create an antibody shift, and then, if the person has the propensity to develop Hashimoto’s, genetically that shift Causes a lot more, a lot more antibodies to be flying around that person’s body than than normal, because they’re, giving those extra antibodies to the kid and the next thing you know you got Hashimoto’s; anything That causes a significant increase in inflammation, and so stress does that so you could have a big stress thing happen.
You know it could be a tradition, it could be. A trauma could be an emotional trauma. It could be. You know lots of women in here who’ve been sexually verbally, physically abused and boom next happen are there.
They were taking care of a loved one and that loved one was dying slowly under their tutelage and care at home and or they lost the or is it or is a divisive divorce? These things create stress, hormones, stress hormone, the big stress hormone that most people are familiar with today’s.
Cortisol cortisol is actually a good hormone to have because it creates a mild inflammatory response in the body when you’re attacked by anything viruses, cuts, bruises bacteria and then that mild response tells your immune system to come to attack that area or heal.
That area, but when you get stressed that cortisol goes way up, it creates an inflammatory response. The person is already compromised person already, has parents have Hashimoto’s or autoimmune disease, etc? Then they have the genetic ability to be attacked and so that inflammation causes the immune response, immune response attacks, your thyroid thyroid.
The number one thing gets attacked across the board because it’s. Just so sentient metabolically, sensitive surgeries surgeries can do that surgery. You’re on the surgery, let’s. Say you’re out. You know you’re under anesthetic.
You’re out. You’re like you’re, like you know. This close to being dead when you’re, they bring your or all of your vitals down, but what happens is when you’re under when you are under under the knife, as they say your body? No, you said your nervous system knows that, even though you’re consciously under anesthesia your nervous system, that was that and your nervous system is going like.
Ah, I’m being attacked. What’s going on here, like I’m, not supposed to be being attacked, nobody supposed to be cutting me open and your immune system. Will your cortisol levels will go up? I’ve, seen estimates of 2 to 3 to 4 to 500 times 100 times, and so in that cortisol goes up that much then that’ll set off of me responses and that’s.
A common thing I heard here at all time I had that I was doing fine. I had hip surgery and all sudden, like you know, I’m. Putting on weight. My hair was falling out. My gods, bad and and I’m fatigued and and and then they go ask their doctor and if the hip surgery could have had anything to do it, then the doctor always says no and if doctor, probably legitimately, doesn’t think There’s, anything that it could have been put so that’s, another one that’s, another one and so, and injuries injuries to see a lot of people.
Kind of car accidents hurt. My back, you know! No! I’m just talking to a gentleman this morning. He was playing football and and then took a particular head, got a concussion next thing you know boom, so it could be an injury whiplash.
It could be that you hurt herself that way. So those are the biggies injuries stress. Surgeries, overwhelming infection would be the last big one overwhelming infection. For me I got into this was even never seen me before.
I got into this because I have a lot of this stuff and I do have Hashimoto’s and, and it was it was. I was under a lot of stress at the time and then I got pneumonia and boom. That was it off to the races I had.
You know I started getting the I started getting a lot of symptoms of Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism, and then that morphed into a little bit of kind of like a like a fibromyalgia, peripherally type of thing.
So so I had two triggers right there, but overwhelming infections obviously flare-up immune responses in an effort to dampen those, in fact to kill the infections and then, in the meantime again you always hear me say if the.
If the person has genetic like propensity, they’ve, the genes that say it’s. Okay, to attack me because I have family members have autoimmunity, then those are the people that get it now. Those are triggers.
Those are not causes. Now, when we get in the causes, now you’re, talking the different viruses and the bacterias and things that make us susceptible like immune barrier stuff. Another words like you got those types of things.
Food sensitivities are not causes. Some. They’re, not they’re, certainly not triggers food sensitivities can be, can can take that back. Food senses can trigger autoimmunity, but usually that that doesn’t happen until one of these other things has set off an overall general response, and then you eat the food sensitivity and it flares you up.
You don’t, eat the food and you’re kind of fine, so so those are a little bit more. They’re a little different than what I think this question is asking for. I think this question was like. I was walking along everything was fine one day and then all the sudden it wasn’t, and now I have all these all these hash marks enzymes and how did that happen? So I think I’ve answered that question and if I haven’t you let me know, but I think that I think that is probably it so.
Okay see you with another one. In a couple of days, you
