Stress and Hashimoto’s

Komodos I think was the question that I am kind of going with today the stress effect Hashimoto's
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does it cause Hashimoto's no it triggers Hashimoto's it's it creates stress creates an inflammatory process I stress
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does a zillion bad things to us and it all starts with the adrenal glands the adrenal glands are our stress management
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glands when you go into a fight flight response a stress response a lot of things happen in that adrenal gland to
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offset physiology it slows down your gut it's it causes you to have constipation so you're not detoxifying the increase
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in in cortisol wind wind stress occurs there's a there's a hormone called cortisol and it goes up and it goes up a
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lot and and so it's it goes up to make stress hormones or it is it goes up because it's the stress hormone being
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made instead of making something else and cortisol has a has a bad effect on on on blood sugar control it has a but
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it hasn't worse fact on inflammation corta too much cortisol will cause inflammation inflammatory responses will
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then in turn cause an immune inflammatory response against your thyroid so that's like so that's one of
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the direct pathways when your thyroid works specifically in tandem with your adrenals and that's really the core of
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how stress affects your thyroid when you're when your adrenals have been under stress a long time your metabolism
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goes down and when your metabolism goes down everything goes down we just didn't we just did one on on female hormones
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and we talked about when metabolism goes down everything goes down your estrogen goes down your estrogen goes down then
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you can't make babies it's so so stress has a big big effect on on that and then that in turn has an effect on your
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thyroid thyroid and female hormone and since I male hormones have a actually what they
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call it crosstalk with each other stress causes so what stress causes under conversion of t4 to t3 so what
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that means is your thyroid makes a hormone called t4 mostly 93 to 97 percent of the harmone that you make in
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your thyroid is t4 it's not active until it gets somewhere like the liver or the intestines or the cell sites and and and
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and so for for it to get there certain parameters have to be met and and if there's inflammatory responses going on
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from stress these proteins that carry the the thyroid hormone from the thyroid to where it needs to get can't do that
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and so you may have perfectly normal thyroid hormone numbers but you might be stressed and and that might cause you to
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not be able to convert it's called under conversion your t4 to t3 and so basically what happens is
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you're not getting active stuff into your active thyroid hormone into your into your cells and and and and you're
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tired so the stress indirectly affects thyroid hormone as opposed to just directing directly hitting the thyroid
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and the and the cortisol that we talked about that high levels of cortisol so when cortisol goes up one of the many
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things it does is it dumps blood sugar out from your liver it's primarily designed to do that in the middle of the
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night when you're on a fast and you're like sleeping and you're not eating anything for 8 9 10 11 12 hours and your
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blood sugar keeps going down because you're not eating anything and so your brain needs blood sugar so your adrenals
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kind of kick out some cortisol about every two and a half hours to to get to get that Fletcher to run to your head
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and what happens is when you're in stress that cortisol just goes up and it stays up
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and when it stays up it causes insulin resistance and when it causes insulin resistance than the TSH levels the
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thyroid stimulating hormone levels in the bloodstream particularly from your pituitary gland to your to your thyroid
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but in the but the entire blood stream go down so now your TSH is low TSH meets thyroid stimulating hormone so your
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thigh rates not getting stimulated because you're stressed and and so and another thing that happens is and and
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this is kind of goes with the last one that I just talked about is chronic stress can can cause an inflammatory
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response against your pituitary gland and then your pituitary gland may just not make thyroid stimulating hormone and
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the next thing you know your thyroid it's not getting any thyroid stimulating hormone and it's not making any thyroid
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hormones so stress has a huge effect on Hashimoto's it's it's it's and I go back to the first thing I said it's a major
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trigger a triggers for Hashimoto's or multitude you know surgeries can do it an accidents can do it emotional traumas
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can do it overwhelming infections can do it but I would say sitting here listening for years and years and years
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to who's touching motors patients that the number one thing that seems to have set off the problem is usually an
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emotional trauma of some sort so that stress and thyroid in a nutshell and so I can take the weekend off here and
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hopefully we'll have another interesting topic for you on Ashima dose on Monday you