Hashimoto’s and Low Dose Naltrexone

And Hashimoto's thyroid disease so this is kind of an interesting topic to me and and so low dose naltrexone is now
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being used by mostly alternative medical doctors for Hashimoto's and the reason it's interesting to me is because
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Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease so so having been in the Hashimoto's pool probably since the inception of people
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realizing that Hashimoto's was an actual cause of their hypothyroidism I've watched the medical community struggle
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with this because they're kind of boxed in too it's a thyroid problem when it's
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actually an autoimmune problem and they were and they were totally boxed into that for probably the first 10 or 11 or
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12 years that I was aware of Hashimoto's so you would go to the doctor they would they would look at you they'd say your
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thyroid is normal and they would and then all of the symptoms that you got a Hashimoto's they would treat with a
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different medication so if you had constipation they'd give you something for that and if you had pain they give
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you something for that and if you had you know migraines or if you had or if you're overweight they they would try to
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give you something for that so so that's kind of how it was the the fact that that it was an autoimmune problem was
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was not even like considered and then later on they started getting a little bit more than the medical communicate
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you started getting a little bit more like okay this is this is an automated problem but we're still just gonna give
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me the SH and we're still just gonna give you like all these drugs for all the different symptoms that the
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Hashimoto's is actually the time and then and then just in the last couple of years now Moreno Nevada and this this
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has been a kind of I know people think of Reno Nevada they probably think more like casinos and divorce and and and and
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things that we've been to gambling you know and and and things that we've been famous for prostitution then we were
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famous for forever right they probably don't think that we're an alternative Mecca
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mekka of the country for years in the 70s early 80s because if we had all those other things then why not have
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alternative medicine right when alternative medicine wasn't very popular in any of the other states so we
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have a lot of alternative medical practitioners here and and and they're kind of forward-thinking so this group
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seemed stuff started thinking you know this is an autoimmune problem so maybe we should treat the autoimmunity so a
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number I saw I have number of colleagues that will try hydrocortisone which is an autoimmune which is a anti-inflammatory
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steroids medication why because that dampens autoimmune responses that's pretty aggressive and and and a lot of
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the doctors the one that used to work here as a matter of fact I had a I've had I've had pleasure working with a
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couple of Osteopathy here over the years and and one of them really turned me on to the low dose naltrexone so basically
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low dose naltrexone was another acknowledgment that it's not it's the thyroid being attacked it's not
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particularly the thyroid that is that is the main problem initially ultimately it becomes the problem because so much
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destruction but we have to get inflammation down and low dose naltrexone is the medication that Wow
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what it does is it creates endorphins you know endorphins the feel-good hormone and if you're a runner
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you know what endorphins are you're a runner you know like the first five or six or seven eight minutes those are
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grind and then after that all the sudden you start getting this like ahhh and then you go into euphoria and so
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endorphins are what makes us feel good when we feel good we're expressing endorphins and when you feel good those
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endorphins will dampen I mean inflammation and then so it's kind of it's not like a heavy duty like approach
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like steroids okay but it's it it does help certain people to dampen the symptoms it frequently comes with and
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I've tried it okay it frequently comes with nightmares and I've heard that a lot from from a lot of patients I just
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have wanted a couple of days ago those'll trike stone and I was feeling better but oh my god the knight was
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acting like I was wake up and I was just like worn out and all that time was that that's like the main negative side
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effect of it I'm not a medical doctor by the way just for the record I'm not prescribing year to go tell you low dose
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naltrexone but that's but that's what it does and it can be an adjunct what it is is though it is a band-aid okay it is it
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is a band-aid it is not fixing anything it's not getting to the you know you're not
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you're not digging into what the what the root causes are all of the triggers that are causing the inflammation that
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is is that's gonna that's affecting your thyroid you know I mean as I'm sitting here yapping away my brains going you
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know CBD oil is probably superior to that if you're receiving the oil fan because CBD oil also dampens
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inflammation and and and that can help too but neither one of those is like I don't even use CBD oil and I don't use
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and then I don't refer for the low dose no objection because and it's it's not that it's not in my arsenal it's that if
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you follow the proper procedures to go after your thyroid and and you find out what the triggers are and and you get
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your things like your blood sugar under control and certain lifestyle changes and if you have toxins or don't have a
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you get those under control then that actually is more dampening the root causes and and controlling the immune
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response and putting that person into remission as opposed to just dampening it with with with those types of things
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but but it's a you know it's a legitimate tool in the toolbox for somebody who may be stuck when they're
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treating a patient and they want to give the patient some dampening of the immune inflammatory response which will can
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dampen a lot of symptoms as you and and and again the the main problem with it is in nightmares it's not something that
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just happens occasionally I have talked to scores of people have taken who've who've gotten nightmares
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that's kind of what I know about it that's kind of what I've experienced with it from treating treating
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fibromyalgia patients and and Hashimoto's patients in particular hope that's helpful and that yeah I think
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that's all I have on it so okay take care you