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did you realize that the great majority

of hypothyroid cases like 90 percent up

to 95% as hashimoto’s that’s interesting

let’s talk about first what Hashimoto’s

is and then then we’ll talk about the

why you have the hypothalamus up here in

the brain that’s the master gland that

then talks to the pituitary which is

like the middleman and down to the

thyroid so we have this communication

network it’s a feedback loop so you have

the pituitary that releases thyroid

stimulating hormone okay and that has

two purposes one is to tell the thyroid

to release more hormone and to increase

the growth of the thyroid itself so

what’s happening is either there is a

low t3 or t4 going on somewhere in the

body that is failing to send back

signals to the pituitary and

hypothalamus causing these two to tell

the thyroid to make more hormone okay

and get bigger or there’s an immune

problem which is creating inflammation

which is interfering in this feedback

loop coming from antibodies that are

actually attacking the thyroid itself so

Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune condition

which means that there are cells that

are attacking the thyroid and that keeps

the thyroid inflamed so Hashimoto’s is

more of an immune problem than a thyroid

problem and the best way to test for it

is to get a test that’s called thyroid

peroxidase antibodies TPO a B or T G a B

so you can actually have these tested

and if it shows positive then chances

are you have a Hashimoto’s problem now

the three symptoms for this are stressed

anxiety depression but you could pretty

much have any thyroid symptom but what’s

weird is when you have Hashimoto’s you

can also have symptoms of

hyperthyroidism and some people that

have Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism don’t

really present with those symptoms that

you normally see in hypothyroidism maybe

they’re really really thin they don’t

have problems with their hair but they

may have these symptoms right here now

sometimes this condition takes a long

time to

you may show positive for these but not

have any symptoms for 10-15 years so it

takes a while to develop but really it’s

an immune problem so the big question is

what is causing this okay what’s behind

this well there’s a couple interesting

things number one there’s a high

percentage of people with Hashimoto’s

that develop it three to eight months

postpartum okay and there are five to

eight times more women than have this

condition then men so what does this

tell us this tells us that there’s a

problem with estrogen okay now what is

it about estrogen that’s related to this

estrogen is a very very powerful

antioxidant this is one of the reasons

why women live longer than men because

this acts as an antioxidant and they

have less free radicals in their body

and many times postpartum which is after

pregnancy she’s going to have lower

amounts of estrogen and that could

create a weakness and set her up for

getting this autoimmune condition

another reason why you may develop an

autoimmune condition even to the thyroid

which involves gluten because gluten

tears up the colon lining and it allows

for a leaky gut and allows for proteins

to get into the immune system and create

a reaction and you can actually develop

an autoimmune just from that a couple

other things that contribute to this

problem a zinc deficiency zinc is one of

the most important trace minerals for

the immune system to protect the person

from all sorts of immune problems if

you’re deficient in zinc your risk of

getting sick the way up your chances of

having viruses come out of our mission

go up as well also low vitamin D vitamin

D is involved in the immune system so if

you’re low in vitamin D you’re more at

risk for Hashimoto’s so we have a

combination of potentially low estrogen

which means low antioxidants and low

nutrients and maybe something that

triggered it here but the last and most

important piece of this puzzle is

selenium selenium has a tendency to

reduce these antibodies it also is a

very

powerful antioxidant and it helps a

conversion from t4 to t3 the active form

of thyroid hormones so it can really

benefit someone’s with Hashimoto’s and I

would recommend taking right around 300

micrograms per day of selenium for sure

now you don’t necessarily need iodine

unless you’re deficient okay so get a

test for that because if you take too

much iodine that I could aggravate

things this is not really an iodine

deficiency problem the other thing

that’s really really important to do is

of course how thick Ito and especially

intermittent fasting why because when

you do in a minute fasting and you lower

your carbs you drop inflammation but if

you can get rid of the inflammatory

response from Hashimoto’s you get rid of

the complications from Hashimoto’s and

you can actually feel much much better

all right so go ahead and try these

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