Thyroid Radiation and Hashimoto’s

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Something I've been actually studying a little bit more lately it's a topic on which are a lot of different opinions as
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to when you do it and why you do it so to understand that you need to understand Hashimoto's for those who you
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have not seen any of these videos Hashimoto's is an immune attack on your thyroid it's number one cause of
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hypothyroidism and people get hypothyroid symptoms overweight fatigue can't sleep bowels with the backing up
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constipation dry skin on the dry skin usually on the shins you can have puffing in the face
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dry mouth you can have a dry mouth you can have dry eye so it's ten things that you get with the hypothyroid aspect of
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it and then eventually you start to develop hyperthyroidism from the immune system attacking it as immune system
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attacking it you destroy tissue there's the Cliff Notes version use the soy to destroy tissue
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it's vomits out a bunch of thyroid hormone and you can get anxiety and you can get heart palpitations for no reason
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at all in tremors and and night sweats so you a bunch of more hyper symptom so that's kind of you know Hashimoto's and
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so the point is it's it's actually a thyroid problem first and then it's a autoimmune problem actually I would say
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it's actually an autoimmune problem first then I thyroid problems second so basically what happens with that patient
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is they go to the endocrinologist endocrinologist today says yeah I feel my toes
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but it really doesn't change initial treatment most endocrinologist are gonna look at your normal thyroid panel
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thyroid stimulating hormone t3 t4 and and not run a full panel and then they're going to give you tyroid hormone
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and maybe it gives you a little bit of a brief you know break and you feel a little better for a little time but as
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long as this is going on as long as you're getting attacked it's not going to work for a lot of people and so in
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those folks for some it doesn't work there is a there there's a second and a third option and this in a second and or
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depending on who you're talking to is radiation and/or surgery so we're talking about radiation today so
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radiating a thyroid for me would be a third option just for okay but ratings already basically take a pill there's uh
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there's radioactive iodine it something that I really can't imagine I would want in my body but but but that's how you do
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it and then they dosed hopefully they dose up enough to where your thyroid dies okay
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radioactive iodine kills your your your thyroid radiation couch or thyroid so so now we have no thyroid and the question
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usually is alright I don't have a thyroid now there's now they're telling me I'm going to go into a hypothyroid
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period and then they're going to control it with the medication now I've seen a couple I'll probably a few hundred in
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these cases okay and over a period of time I've been doing this so obviously that's not always true I don't know what
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the percentages of people for whom that doesn't work but it's enough to where I've seen several hundred of these
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myself so so what happens a couple of things happen first of all it's a thyroid problem that is being attacked
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by an immune system and you're going to be in problems so now the thyroid is gone so that problem in theory is gone
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and I say in theory because sometimes they don't give you enough iodine and sometimes the thyroid doesn't completely
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die and you may not find that out for months or years later why and you're still having this symptom so that's one
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reason that you're still having the symptoms another reason is because the immune response is still there now let's
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say you have an immune response and they and they measure these immune responses by measuring something called your
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thyroid peroxidase enzymes TPO antibodies if you've been watching this you know what I'm talking about if you
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haven't been watching this then check out one of our videos on Hashimoto's and so so this these antibodies okay that
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may be let's say they're at 500 and they take your thyroid out the antibodies don't just go away these
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antibodies were created to attack thyroid tissue and and so there's a number of things going on there first of
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all that the antibodies might go from 500 to 200 or they might go from 500 to 50 but there are still antibodies
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they're taking taking instructions from your immune system to attack thyroid tissue now if the thyroid tissue hasn't
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completely been hasn't been completely destroyed by the iodine because they didn't use enough you're still going to
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get an attack here over the years I have been told and I've read that on occasion there they don't get the thyroid tissue
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out I've read that that happens on more than just occasion from some sources okay so again if you don't get all the
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thyroid tissue out you still have thyroid antibodies even though they may come down they're still attacking
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they're still attacking they're still attacking and the other uniqueness of Hashimoto's is you motors has a the
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reason you get such a wide variety of symptoms from Hashimoto's says because Hashimoto's has a communication with
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with so many other tissues in your body so if you get an immune attack on your thyroid you might get an immune attack
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on your intestines every time you eat a food sensitivity if you have an attack on your thyroid every time you eat a
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food sensing which flares up which flares up autoimmunity you might get an attack on your cerebellum these are
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called molecular mimicry it's a long that story and I want to keep this too long but the bottom line is that you can
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get your thyroid attacked your intestines attacked and your in your cerebellum attack at the same time high
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rates going on but these aren't so now they're getting attacked still and you're getting the same symptoms yeah I
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got one let's just say you got all your thyroid out you're still getting attacks here you get attack on your and get
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attack on your ovaries you're going to attack on your on your stomach so you get autumn you have stratus symptoms you
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get or you could you could get an attack on your pancreas and you could be getting pleasure or something so that so
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the thyroid comes out all the other ones are still there and and so you're still getting a
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substantial number of these of these symptoms many of which are in the symptoms that I just got done talking
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about and and it's even really more complex than that if you really start digging down into the into the nano
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chemistry of this stuff but but really that more or less covers the the general answer of I got my thyroid out and there
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they said I'm going in the hypothyroid I'm thinking to levothyroxine I'm taking your armor I'm taking whatever I'm
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taking it's not working like I just still have I still have all the symptoms those are the reasons why you still have