Do-It-Yourself Home Test for Hypothyroidism (Low Thyroid) ｜ DrEricBergDC

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let’s talk about the number one best

home test

to determine

if you may have a hypothyroid condition

or not now the problem with

hypothyroidism

is that it’s very very difficult

sometimes to figure out if you have a

hypothyroid problem because

let’s say for example you have many of

the common symptoms but then you go get

a test it all comes out normal

like how can that happen

or let’s say for example your test does

come out abnormal

let’s say they say you have low thyroid

hormones you have a hypothyroid

condition yet you don’t have very many

symptoms you’re not overweight you don’t

have this you don’t have that so it can

be very very confusing so i want to

share with you

some very interesting things about the

thyroid that you probably have never

heard of

and what i’m doing is i’m summarizing

all of this great knowledge that i’ve

accumulated in working with tens of

thousands of people and that’s one of

the advantages that i have

i was had a chance to spend 30 years in

practice to work with real live people

or as compared to other experts who

don’t have the experience they basically

graduate and then they start teaching or

they start doing research

unfortunately right now it is difficult

to find

good

knowledge because when you do searches

on youtube or google

many times this great knowledge is

buried it’s suppressed it’s very

difficult to find

for example they have google health

right now which google owns youtube

and google health has recently partnered

with

various groups that consider

credible

health information

what most the experts agree on so their

definition of quality information is a

lot different than my definition of

quality information

so if at some point in the future you

cannot find

any of dr berg’s information

realize i have an app all the videos

that are on youtube

are also on that app

okay so

so just remember that all right let me

get back on track number one

hashimoto’s is behind 90

of all of the cases when you’re talking

about a hypothyroid situation i mean

that’s fascinating only 10

are caused by something else so this

autoimmune disorder hashimoto’s is

extremely common and an autoimmune

condition is a condition where you have

antibodies that are attacking your own

thyroid and so one thing you really need

to know about and this is the most

important thing is that gluten okay

that’s a protein in certain grains

especially wheat can mimic

certain things in your thyroid gland now

what does that mean what’s the

significance of that that means if you

develop an allergy to gluten you will

also develop an allergy to your own

thyroid gland okay and this can set you

up for a

chronic inflammatory condition

of your thyroid gland and so if you have

a thyroid problem

you should completely and utterly avoid

gluten at all costs and just that right

there might give you a tremendous amount

of relief

with your thyroid condition the other

thing you need to know about hashimoto’s

is that

a big problem of that is the conversion

from t4 to t3 now t4 is the inactive

version

of the thyroid hormone t3 is the active

version

and so

when we talk about three and four we’re

talking about the number of iodine

molecules that are attached to that

thyroid gland so when you strip off an

iodine molecule it becomes activated and

everyone’s talking about iodine for the

thyroid but for the conversion you need

selenium that’s another trace mineral

selenium if you’re not getting enough

selenium you’re not going to be able to

make this conversion so selenium is a

very important trace mineral for the

thyroid and you can get it from sea calf

which also has iodine and a lot of other

nutrients for the thyroid gland the

other thing that you need to know is 80

of this conversion

happens through the liver and the

gallbladder so if there’s damage with

the liver let’s say you have a fatty

liver or you have hepatitis or you have

cirrhosis or you have your gallbladder

removed or you have a gallbladder

problem

that could be the reason why your

thyroid’s not working so it could be

that you don’t really have a primary

thyroid it’s secondary to this other

problem and so you’re doing all this

treatment you’re on synthroid for years

and you don’t really seem to ever get

better and this is why when sometimes

people take

purified bile salts

um their thyroid starts to work better

so because it’s speeding up this

conversion now i said eighty percent of

the liver the gallbladder but the other

twenty percent occurs in your kidney now

if you’re a diabetic okay

you probably have some weakness within

within the kidney and that could be the

reason why you have a thyroid problem

possibly but the point is that the

kidneys are responsible for 20 of the

conversion and the liver is responsible

for the 80 of the conversion but like i

said before it could also be a lack of

selenium oh and by the way one brazil

nut will give you all the selenium you

need for that day all right here’s some

other things you need to know about the

thyroid and and these things i’m telling

you are the most

important things that you’re probably

not going to find

when you do research you’ll find a lot

of other information but it might not be

the most important information it could

be just

kind of trivial and so not all knowledge

has an equal

importance

some things are way more important

than others what i’m teaching you right

now is the important stuff i would say

probably the majority of hypothyroid

cases

are not primary hypothyroid cases

they’re secondary to these other factors

that i’m talking about now but there’s a

couple other points i want to mention

them about that number one

if your estrogen is too high if you’re

estrogen dominant that could be the

reason why your thyroid is not working

so as estrogen goes up

your thyroid goes

down so that’s another cause and so

women that have heavy periods that have

estrogen dominance

a lot of times have a thyroid problem

and so instead of treating the thyroid

they should be treating the estrogen

dominance or they just won’t see the

results and another thing about the

thyroid if you have thyroid nodules that

is a classic iodine deficiency and

there’s a very simple test to do to see

if you are deficient in iodine and i

will talk about that in a minute and the

classic symptoms of a hypothyroid

situation would be

you’re cold

you’re tired

your cholesterol is higher

you’re depressed you have a puffy face

you have weight gain all over the body

equally

you’re getting constipation

you have hair loss thinning of the hair

loss of eyebrows right here dry skin dry

hair

and you have brain fog other than that

you’re perfectly fine so with all the

confusion how do you really know

you have a true hypothyroid situation

and it’s not secondary to something else

well i’m going to show you a really

really cool test that you probably have

never heard about before but it’s pretty

darn accurate especially if you

correlate it with some of these other

symptoms too which i just mentioned you

know i just released another video on

the

adrenal gland some real simple tests

that you can do to determine if you have

adrenal fatigue so my whole goal

is to give you things that you can do at

home to figure things out to potentially

prevent

the progression

of a certain problem from getting worse

because if you can catch it right in the

very beginning and then you can use

natural remedies

you can save yourself a lot of grief

before i tell you about this test i

wanted to share with you one of my

favorite words okay and that word is

proactive what is the definition of

proactive this is what it means

controlling a situation by causing

something to happen

rather than responding to it after it

has

happened

okay

so you’re being proactive if you’re

doing something to prevent a problem and

this definitely relates to an eating

plan which

i recommend of course the healthy

version of the ketogenic diet within a

minute fasting it’s really wild to me of

some of the responses that

some people will give me when i tell

them to do this

this diet

they might say well

i don’t have a weight problem so i don’t

need to do any diet i don’t need to

change my diet i don’t have a weight

problem not fat

okay well i guess the only reason to

change a diet is because of weight what

about

your health or better yet i had someone

to tell me they can’t do

the ketogenic diet because they’re a

diabetic

and i’m like wow

wow

that is amazing i mean there is no diet

you should be doing other than that one

so anyway if you’ve been watching my

videos my whole goal is to give you the

important

knowledge so you can survive

better now this test that you’re going

to do to determine if you have a

hypothyroid situation is called

waltman’s sign okay it’s an ankle reflex

test so you’re going to be using a

reflex hammer if you don’t have a reflex

hammer you can just use the

end of a butter knife or the end of a

screwdriver

or anything even like this because

you’re going to be tapping

your achilles tendon okay

and there’s a reflex in your achilles

and tendon that should cause you when

you tap it to do this it should kick in

and kick out it should just kind of like

do a little jerk like that just like if

you were to tap any reflex right here

and you would see this

this motion right here so you’re going

to do this with the achilles tendon you

can actually do it with

both ankles okay

now with a true hypothyroid condition

what you’re going to notice

with your foot

it’s going to kick out okay when you tap

the achilles tendon but it’s going to be

very very slow on the return

okay it’s going to be it’s going to

contract fast

but it’s not going to reset fast

okay

very important because the muscles

involved

hypothyroidism

um can’t relax as good

normal muscles even though it’s really

the nervous system that’s affecting the

muscles

the nerves and muscles are slower with a

hypo

thyroid condition

so we’re going to be focusing on

the

reaction

after you tap

and it and it kicks

the the return back to rest or normal

okay that’s what we’re going to be

focusing on if it’s slower than it

should be chances are you could have a

hypothyroid situation so very simply

maybe you kneel on your couch okay

and then you can tap the

achilles tendon

and it will jerk and then watch for the

rebound

if it’s very very sluggish

on both ankles suspect a hypothyroid

situation

that is actually a pretty accurate

method of figuring out a true

hypothyroid situation so if it’s normal

okay

then you need to look at some of these