Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy

Hey so here's a bonus Tuesday edition of dr. Rutherford and Hashimoto's so we didn't want to you out of out of a
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presentation because we had a holiday yesterday and so we're gonna do a kind of a kind of an and different subject on
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Hashimoto's is the the question was tell me about Hashimoto's encephalopathy and it's that's interesting because it's
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something in all the years I've been studying things have always kind of just blown off because encephalopathy means
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abnormality of the brain in cephalo means brain appa the– means abnormality brain it I kind of equated to peripheral
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neuropathies in a sense that peripheral neuropathies or abnormal dysfunctions of the peripheral nervous system like the
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hands and the feet but there's a hundred different things that cause peripheral neuropathies Hashimoto's encephalopathy
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has always struck me kind of like that and I never really had my attention directed to it until just kept coming up
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as a question as to what is it so decided to kind of look into it a little bit further especially since I actually
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am going to be studying this specifically in about a week in a class I'm going to and I happen to have data
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on it so I'm actually using notes on this particular subject because I wanted to be very clear on it because it's
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something I've always kind of thought what's an encephalopathy I mean one of the one of my teachers one of the
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teachers that I look to for for good data in addressing brain function as simple Appa thee as a brain abnormality
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would say don't overthink it it's all inflammation all the things that caused the brain to have a problem it's all
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inflammation you just got to dig and find out where the inflammation is that kind of fits Hashimoto's encephalopathy
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let me just read to you what my notes say for the class for the up coming class that I've got here
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Hashimoto's encephalopathy also known as steroid responsive and supple off the inflammation you'd give it a you give
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the person a steroid and all of a sudden their symptoms improve associated with autoimmune thyroiditis is a neurological
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condition characterized by and cephalopoda abnormal function of some different part of the brain thyroid
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autoimmunity so so in this particular diagnosis and they have a million diagnosis is out there now for every
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single symptom that's or is for this particular diagnosis you would have Hashimoto's so you would test positive
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for the antibodies and a good clinical response to the steroid so you would take corticosteroids for these brain
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symptoms and you would feel better and there this is what they call Hashimoto's encephalopathy I got to tell you it's
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almost that's a lot of the Hashimoto's cases that come in here at the further reading it says it's associated with
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Hashimoto's thyroiditis it was first described in 1966 it is sometimes referred to as a neuro endocrine
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disorder something between the brain and the and the hormones the endocrine system hormones blood sugar or thyroid
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adrenals all that although the conditions relationship to the endocrine system is widely disputed it's
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recognized as a rare disease which I did consider a rare disease which is why I never really looked into it and by the
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National Institute of Health's genetic and rare diseases Information the 2005 there almost 200 published cases
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reported of the disease but between 1990 and 2000 43 cases were published suggesting that this rare condition is
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likely to have been significantly under diagnosed in the past I have a personal feeling that hasn't been under diagnosed
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I just think that they don't really know what it is they don't really know what causes it it's so it's basically
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anencephaly the the– with you having Hashimoto's symptoms personality changes do I see
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that in most high most or many automotive basis yeah you know people have mood changes aggression delusional
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behavior if you have a fear of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and it's inflaming your your brain and it happens
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to have a friend city for your left temporal lobe you're gonna get delusional behavior you're gonna start
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hearing voices since thinking people are following up concentration and memory problems who has asha Moto's that's will
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blown that doesn't have concentration of memory problems disorientation headaches so these are all things I see pretty
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much every day with it with an average relatively full-blown Hashimoto's cases and frankly by the time they get here
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they're full-blown because patients usually tried a bunch of other things that hasn't worked in a bunch of places
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hasn't worked by that time time has destroyed a lot of tissue into persons here
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a lot of different other things seizures a lot of patients who had seizures that have gone away once the immune response
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against their thyroid has gone away sleep abnormalities speech problems so these are tremors you know Hashimoto's
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tends to also cause an attack against your your cerebellum and that can cause tremors and that can cause balance
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problems and things of that nature so it's it's really kind of I don't know if so like a real kind of a diagnosis it's
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Alzheimer's differential diagnosis it can be confused with a Alzheimer's strokes epilepsy migraine
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these types of things people could lose their ability to speak I have a patient right now
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he's got Hashimoto they're days she can't speak she literally can't articulate because it's hitting a part
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of her brain called the werner ki speech area and and broke the speech area and and and so so i can't speak and then the
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inflammation goes away and they can't speak so for those who were interested in this you know it's it's really a gray
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area it's really vague it's it's almost to me like a forced diagnosis I don't I don't miss a like an expert but I've
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seen a lot a lot of this stuff and and and and experts are gonna get really bad name right now this is the time for
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those of you are going to see this a year through now this is the coronavirus hi well none
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of us are getting headaches and experts are telling us do one thing one day do one thing the other day this kind of
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happy let's go babe okay it's like they had to put a name on it to me it's it's Hashimoto's causes in cephalo
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encephalopathy type of symptoms all the time Hashimoto's has a propensity to decrease blood supply to your brain and
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increase inflammation well what does the brain need to work right it needs proper blood supply save enough
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oxygen it needs proper blood sugar in these proper essential fatty acid and it needs a lack of information so two of
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those four things are included just in this diagnosis so so now you know as much about Hashimoto's encephalopathy
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apparently as the National Institute of Health's genetic and rare diseases Information Center because they don't
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know what it is either so so I mean but it's good to know somebody's asking that for a reason maybe somebody told
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somebody oh you have it they're thinking oh my god it's a rare disease I'm gonna die or something like that it may be
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that I've had a ton of these cases come through because I'm tons of people have had these symptoms and it may be that my
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mentor is correct my mentor the teacher that I that I like who teaches the courses on that on on brain function and
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and and inflammatory diseases and pathologies and and he says don't overthink it it's it's all inflammation
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and that to a large degree where inflammation hunters and I think he's pretty right on that so hopefully that
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helps whoever are those of you who submitted those questions that question on Hashimoto's encephalopathy