Hashimoto’s Anxiety

Because a lot of people's anxiety are pretty high yeah anxieties are pretty high at this point in time and Ken
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Hashimoto is Hashima is related to anxiety can Hashimoto's caused anxiety yes yes yes yes yes so anxieties what is
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anxiety okay anxiety is in over firing of a certain part of your brain and you have something called the amygdala and
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that migdal eyes the fear center of your brain and when the amygdala has been either programmed in it's in a chronic
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fight/flight response because maybe you're in the middle of the coronavirus the issue or other issues in your life
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then that fear center starts to fire to give us the adrenaline that we need to get through it unfortunately a lot of
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times that fear center stays engaged and anxiety the definition of anxiety is fear of the unknown well there's a lot
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of fear of the unknown right now and there's a lot of fear in the unknown in life I mean you know most of us don't
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even know we're gonna be here tomorrow hello and and so so there's a lot of anxiety so we think of it that way it
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was my whole point of that beginning diet trap we think of it that way we think of as a personality disorder it is
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not a personality disorder period if if I have 10 people come in here with Hashimoto's or chronic fatigue or
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fibromyalgia eight or nine of them have anxiety as prominent symptoms that they want to address so how does the
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Hashimoto's connect so there's a lot of things that contribute to anxiety low blood pressure contributes to anxiety
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low blood sugar contributes to anxiety chemically and and what these things do is is they alter chemistry in your
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frontal lobe in your brain so so if you start to get too much inflammation in your front of hope you start to get a
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lack of oxygen and your frontal lobe you don't have enough essential fatty acids or you get too much inflammation okay
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for those people watch me you probably understand that I say that a lot those four things
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now frontal lobe it's the part of your brain that's supposed to shut down that stress response and shut down the
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anxiety so Asha Moto's kind of attacks from two directions when it comes to anxiety number one it
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creates inflammation in your frontal lobe and some people would say throughout your whole brain but it
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certainly creates inflammatory responses in your frontal lobe and it decreases blood supply to your frontal lobe so
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from a purely functional neurology point of view you have this frontal lobe that's supposed to be shutting down the
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stress response and the anxiety response and and it can't do so because it doesn't have the proper chemistry
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because yeah Bosch emoto's I think more prominently Hashimoto's when when you Sasha my toes hypothyroid okay when
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you're in hypothyroid mode you're you're probably not having anxiety it's when one of the many many many things that
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can trigger and I'm an immune response of food sensitivity and blood sugar swing stress bad bad gut bacteria and on
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and on and on when these things trigger an inflammatory response that ultimately triggers a response against your thyroid
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your thyroid starts vomiting all kinds of thyroid hormones and you have receptor sites all over your body and
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every cell of your body for receptors and when you get too much thyroid hormone going into an area it will
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create an exacerbated response and and and so these thyroid hormones can create a global inflammatory response so you
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you eat a food you eat a food the food is a food sensitivity that you're not aware of you eat it it creates an
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inflammatory response it's a thigh right thyroid flares up you get it you get you start getting anxiety
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and in the next step by the way is panic attacks okay you start getting anxiety and panic attacks out of nowhere and you
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don't realize what happened because it was a food sensitivities from three days before that just hit you now that flared
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this up and flared inflammation up that caused your amygdala and your hippocampus to flare up and the next
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thing you know you have anxiety out of nowhere for no reason at all so yes so anxiety when when that is a prominent
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symptom on the assessment forms that we use I'm always looking i'm always looking at
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it's like a first I just because I see so much Hashimoto's it's always like one of the first things I'm looking for if
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the patient hasn't already come in with that diagnosis oh yeah anxiety Hashimoto's don't you cover it