Is Hashimoto’s Disease Genetic?

Hashimoto's disease genetic and there's been a lot of going back and forth on this ever since Hashimoto's was
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discovered it's essentially an autoimmune disease which means your immune system which has been tasked with
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the almost ridiculously impossible task of killing bacteria is killing viruses detoxing things what protecting your
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tissues from anything that is bad and attacking that without attacking you pretty amazing it's a pretty amazing
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thing and and then as time goes on as time is going on we have had a kind of an evolution of society and you've
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probably heard me talk about this many many times next thing you know we've got you know worse we're staying up late we
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got for work hours we're eating genetically modified foods we're taking tons of drugs that we didn't take before
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a lot of those stuff have chemicals in them we have tons of chemicals all these things flare up immune responses and
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then they can start attacking tissues the thyroid tissue is arguably the most sensitive tissue that there is and so it
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that makes it kind of the most vulnerable tissue so from this perspective a
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you you violate that that immune system you overload it it kind of gets a little confused and that next thing you know it
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actually flares up too much and then it starts hitting vulnerable tissue the thyroid has has a receptor site for its
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hormones in every single cell in your body every single one trillions so it's so it's it's the probably the only thing
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it has that it may be maybe blood sugar has that maybe glucose has that so anyway but so it kind of develops it's
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an autoimmune problem it kind of develops the same way all these autoimmune problems are developing
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having said that I think the question probably comes from the fact that we now are looking at histories for example if
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the mom has it and and and she has a mom who had it and she has our and she has a I'm let's
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start that over again if you have you have a female patient she's got a mom she's got a daughter she's got a sister
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she's got another sister two of them today in today's age are probably going to get it so it's it's it's like a 50/50
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type of a thing and so from that perspective you could argue that it's genetics because now
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once you have turned it on in the first person their DNA has said it's okay to attack me immune system I know you're
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supposed to only attack those viruses and bacterias and yeast and molds and all that type of stuff but I but you can
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attack me now and once your immune system attacks you it it creates what's called a polymorphism in your DNA and
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now you're susceptible to it you can pass that on you can pass that genetic propensity to develop it to your your
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offspring and ultimately we see these pods all the time we see the we see that the mom has it the grandmother has it
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the sister has it the brother may have it occasionally and so there's a developing genetic component to it for
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sure but you know you're going to have the DNA you can have the to to actually get it and not get it so that's one of
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the problems that with a lot of people using genetic testing for these today they'll tell you that you have the
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propensity to get it and people will maybe think that that means you haven't start treating you for it but yeah in
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the end it's developing into its developing a genetic component where we're starting to see it more and more