Video

Transcript

you know you start having thyroid

symptoms you go to the doctor

they give you a diagnosis you have a

hypothyroid problem okay then you’re put

on

synthroid or some other medication

to give you hormones and then you ask

your doctor what is causing my

hypothyroid problem

and they might tell you

well your thyroid hormones are low

and you go okay all right you go back

home you start taking your thyroid

medication

and about a year later you’re wondering

i don’t really feel any difference my

energy is

still low i still am overweight

what’s going on and then if you ask the

question what causes

a lowered amount of the thyroid hormones

you may get answers like well we don’t

know it might be genetic there’s still

research going on so it can be very very

frustrating because it’s not about

correcting the thyroid it’s about

managing your thyroid levels and if you

treat the thyroid with thyroid hormones

and you don’t see improvements the

question is is that the real problem or

is that just the tip of the iceberg and

what i’m about to talk about is not

meant to replace medical care check with

your doctor before implementing any of

these suggestions

the only thing i’m trying to do is raise

some really important questions

if you really get to the root cause of a

problem then the problem results if you

don’t and you keep managing the symptom

you’re basically spinning the wheels and

potentially creating a future problem

because

one of the side effects of taking

thyroid hormones over a longer period of

time

is

you’re causing your own thyroid

to not have to work anymore and you’re

causing your thyroid to become

lazy and it reduces the thyroid’s

ability to produce on its own so it

becomes very dependent on these thyroid

hormones and then the other question you

have to ask is okay what does the

thyroid produce it produces

t4 t3

as well as another hormone called

calcitonin right

are you ever given that hormone no

you’re not one thing to me that’s very

interesting about the thyroid is that

i think really and this is my own

opinion is that it’s

a symptom of something else it’s rarely

a primary cause there’s so many other

parts of your body that can affect the

thyroid that are really ignored so i’m

gonna increase your awareness of these

other things that could be affecting the

thyroid one thing you need to know about

the thyroid is that t4 okay

the main hormone that the thyroid makes

is not the active form of thyroid

hormone it’s kind of a

precursor to the active form which is t3

and the three and the four really

represent the number of iodine molecules

that are attached to this protein

hormone

so when the body strips off

one iodine it becomes active and 80

of this conversion happens through your

liver so if there’s any problem with the

liver whether you have a fatty liver or

it’s has cirrhosis or it has

inflammation that can affect the

conversions and so here you are treating

the thyroid and ignoring the liver that

could be one mistake the other 20 of the

conversions happen in the kidney so if

there’s any problem with the kidney

especially if you are a diabetic or a

pre-diabetic or have insulin resistance

chances are you have a problem with the

kidney and that can affect the

conversion you also need selenium okay

for this conversion you also need zinc

for this conversion and there’s two

other additional hormones that are very

very powerful

in not only blocking the conversion

but messing with the production of

thyroid hormones and that would be

number one

estrogen this is why you see so many

women start developing a thyroid problem

right after pregnancy both

hypothyroidism as well as hyper okay but

most cases of thyroid are an autoimmune

type problem where it’s not really a

thyroid problem at all it’s an

autoimmune it’s an immune problem that

is developed after either a stress event

or

a spike in estrogen it just so happens

that estrogen does control or help

regulate the t cells and the other

hormone that i want to mention is this

cortisol

if cortisol is too high it basically

paralyzes the immune system and that

alone can set you up for an autoimmune

problem including hashimoto’s which is

basically about 90 of all hypothyroid

type situations now since the great

majority like 90 percent of all

hypothyroid problems are really

hashimoto’s

then we should also talk about the gut

because you have like 80 percent of your

immune system that starts in the gut so

if there’s any type of

permeability issues in the gut like

leaky gut something like that certain

proteins can be leaked into

the tissue right beyond the colon

and create this whole immune problem and

you can start developing antibodies

against certain things there’s a big

link between gluten okay gluten

sensitivity gluten intolerance an

allergy to the gluten and hypothyroid

problems especially hashimoto’s a lot of

people when they get gluten out of the

diet all of a sudden get relief with the

hashimoto’s so that’s a really

important factor i wouldn’t just go

gluten-free i would go

grain free completely so the other thing

involved with autoimmune diseases

especially hashimoto’s is you always

have inflammation and the inflammation

is really what’s creating all the

problem all the damage so if you could

just get rid of that inflammation

regardless of all the other things you

do

you would see dramatic improvement in

body function and one natural and very

powerful

substance you can take is vitamin d

vitamin d is not really even a vitamin

it’s a hormone it acts like cortisol but

without the side effects you usually

have to take vitamin d in higher amounts

like 40 000 ius

to

get rid of the inflammation

part of this autoimmune problem as well

as selenium so those two things are

essential for an autoimmune situation in

general as well as hashimoto’s a

hypothyroidic condition can occur in men

and women but it’s eight times more

common women i really think because of

the estrogen component which i just

talked about estrogen regulates the t

cells and that can set a woman up for an

autoimmune

problem

also like i said before cortisol

paralyzes your t cells so

a really important question is when did

you start noticing

these thyroid symptoms was it after

a stress event or not to rule out this

cortisol situation let’s just go through

the early signs

of hypothyroidism okay number one loss

of the eyebrows specifically the outer

part of your eyebrows okay number two

thinning of your hair

as well as dry hair all right the hair

just completely dries up and it starts

to thin and you start losing your hair

other than that you’re perfectly fine

all right number three you start

developing a cold intolerance you don’t

tolerate going into an ice bath for very

long okay you don’t like the cold

especially in the winter but even in the

summer you have to always wear socks

number four your metabolism is so slow

no matter what you do it just will not

work

fast i would also focus on insulin

resistance okay that’s in another video

but the thyroid can definitely create a

slow

metabolism number five weight gain all

over

the type of fat is not necessarily

adipose tissue it’s called mixed edema

so it’s a different type of fat which

i’m not going to get into in this video

but it’s more like a spongy type

puffy type fat

and number six

tired now if someone’s tired that could

be from so many different causes but the

thyroid will definitely make someone

tired as well as depressed okay so

you’re going to just feel low you’re

going to feel down you’re not going to

have that get up and go

unfortunately because everything is

suppressed with the thyroid now the

question is what

can you do about it

here’s the plan right here

number one

find out the real cause of the problem

so you’re gonna have to do some

investigation yourself

um

the question is do you feel normal when

you’re taking these thyroid hormones

like you went to the doctor you’re

taking centroid

are are your symptoms normalizing if

they’re not then start asking questions

because chances are

it’s not the right solution

now if someone tells you well

you know you’ve been on it for a year

well sometimes it takes several years no

it doesn’t if something is going to fix

the problem it’s going to fix it

relatively

soon it shouldn’t take years and years

and years but

so many people get on these

hormones and they don’t really ever get

better

and yes they might be normalizing your

thyroid levels

but

is the thyroid hormones being converted

properly is the problem really in the

blood or is it another location that’s

the question

all right b you can do an iodine patch

to see if you really have an iodine

deficiency or not you simply take a

cotton ball and you can get some iodine

from the drugstore like two percent and

then you just apply some iodine to the

inside of your arm or your thigh

and you can cover it up with a little

patch okay and then you basically wait

for 24 hours if within 24 hours okay you

see

no more uh yellow patch then you are

deficient okay

if you still see it completely yellow

chances are you have enough iodine okay

so you can kind of look at it and if

it’s fading a little bit maybe you have

a slight deficiency it’s not the

perfect test in the world but it can

give you clues on if you’re deficient in

iodine another test that you can do for

classic hypothyroidism is the achilles

tendon test you can take a little uh

hammer the one that you would check your

uh reflexes with and just tap the your

achilles tendon or get someone to tap it

now normally what happens if you’re

laying down flat and

your foot is hanging down and you tap

this a little achilles tendon here it

should do this right

so what happens with hypothyroidism

is it’ll do this but it won’t come down

that fast so it’s that return

action that’s going to be sluggish and

that would be a good test to determine

if you truly have a primary thyroid

problem another important question is

when did it start

was it right after pregnancy which then

can tell you it’s an estrogen problem

then you can do with that or was it

after a stress event and then you could

manage your adrenals more with that or

let’s say you have a fatty liver well

you might want to then focus on your

liver not the thyroid to get rid of the

primary cause okay

number two the trace minerals are

important not just iodine but selenium

and zinc so take a good trace mineral

product maybe seek help would be good

number three get rid of the gluten in

fact i would get rid of all the grains

that right there

might produce

huge changes and then the vitamin d in

large amounts like 40 000 ius simply

because most thyroid problems are

autoimmune related there’s one more

little secret i’m going to tell you it’s

called thyrotrophin pmg it’s by a

company called standard process

and you have to just seek it out to try

to find it you take one of these before

bed

over a period of three months it seems

to work really good and what happens

when you’re taking this this is actually

extract

like an animal extract of the thyroid

okay

and so you’re taking this before bed

goes into your stomach

and apparently

it’s never been proven but this is the

theory your immune system your

antibodies that are attacking your

thyroid

start attacking that as a decoy

leaving your thyroid alone for a period

of time so your thyroid can kind of come

back it’s a really cool strategy that

may potentially

help you

now if you haven’t seen my video and how

to do the achilles test i put it up

right here check it out

you