Hashimoto’s – Should I Take Medication?

Is gonna be Hashimoto's should I take medication and this is this is a kind of a new one for me in a sense that the
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answer previously was different they want to give you today I'll call it kind of encapsulate the entire subject here
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so up until now up until not that long ago first came in here and they weren't on medication and many of you who seek
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alternative cares don't want medication no everyone they can't make it medication is bad and I'm not never been
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entirely in that boat there there are different aspects of being ill there's a very very acute aspect of being ill in
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which you get like a a significant overwhelming infection sometimes maybe it's good to go get a medication and
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knock it out even if it's an antibiotic and then take a bunch of antibiotics and and be done with it in my opinion in my
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opinion having done this I've been there I've tried knocking a lot of infection this is out with with high doses of
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natural antibiotics and Oregano's and and and these types of things and then it doesn't seem optimum it seems like
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when you have an acute acute flare type of an issue it seems to me like it might be better to get the medication out of
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the way clean up the damage and then go on with it in a natural flow and in thyroid no I get the same thing I get a
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lot of people come in I don't want to be on thyroid medication ever I want to be done I don't and that's not always
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possible what I if you've watched previous talks that I've done on this our common procedure was if you are on a
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medication stay on it we will then modulate what we can we'll find your triggers well evaluate your
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case we'll go through all of the things the lifestyle the triggers the diet finding stealth passages whatever we
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have to do to get the immune system under control and then at that point you you could
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determine whether you can do the job with herbs and botanicals because everything's been calmed down or you can
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just stay on the medication because at this point in time at that point in time after everything's been to the degree
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that it can be calmed down put in remission then your doctor can dose you much much better much much better and
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and and it's and it's a it seemed to be advantageous to do it that way in certain patients and I would tell people
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if you were not on medication when you came here sixty is seventy percent of our patients would that were not on
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medication or were on a small amount of medication for less than two years that we could normally 60 70 percent time we
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can get that person off the medication that's kind of changed over the last couple of months there's been a lot and
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this is not going to go across the board in the alternative field okay i'm i've affiliated myself for years with people
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who do research people who are not just doing research but also our clinicians who in other words they do the research
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but they actually treat and they use these protocols and then they bring them to those of us who see their their data
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as valuable and over the last couple months the my mentor who who was a doctor cause ian who is very very well
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known for being the person who wrote the book why do I still have thyroid symptoms in my lab tests are normal has
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come out and and not suggested it's when you're evaluating a a Hashimoto's case the TSH is now more important than we
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thought it was and and so and and that taking a medication to get the TSH under control before you start if at all
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possible helps the alternative practitioner substantially because it turns out that if you get the
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right medication and that is the key that is the key okay if you get the right medication that gets your thyroid
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stimulating hormone down into the the functional range which is one two three it's a narrower range then zhannar your
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labs then that medication acts as an anti-inflammatory and it acts as an antioxidant so the medication itself
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will now start to dampen inflammation it'll now start to create an antioxidant of a stress plus when you're when you're
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hypothyroid is now functioning normally and you're putting out more proper thyroid hormone it's easier to get your
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leaky gut fixed it's hard to get the leaky gut fixed it's harder to get the link he got fixed when your thyroid
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stimulating hormone is off when you're when you're in hypothyroid would be a better way of putting it
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and that goes for a lot of things we've talked a lot about how everything slows down so I've been doing this and it's
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been interesting and I still get the patients they're coming I don't like tired medication so I just let them know
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both sides and I'll do what they want okay I mean I don't push it but I will say that I have seen that the data that
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dr. crossing brought to his last series of seminars on thyroid and autoimmunity appears to be legitimate and useful in
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clinical practice meaning when somebody comes in here they're on the right medication and that
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there's there's there's I don't know ten or more medications that you can be and some of them are synthetic and some of
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them are natural and some of them have just t4 and some we just have teeth read some at both and it's a trick and it's
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and some of them have like sense riod has a ton of ingredients in there that can set off
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hashimoto's like for example gluten and red dye in these things once you find the right one and you get dialed in it
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it is unquestionably quicker to get the person through what's what what needs to be done for that whether it's food
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sensitivities whether it's world tolerance whether it's their SIBO whether it's whatever it is because now
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your entire system you're starting off with your entire system getting the proper thyroid hormone to create the
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proper energy and they're in their mitochondria in their cells to allow their immune system to respond better
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all other organs are functioning that are you still may be fatigued but it's better than if you weren't taking it the
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fatigue doesn't seem to be anywhere near as profound and how that translates is the liver is clearing better you know
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the kidneys are clearing better or the bowels may be moving better the chemistry is better and so so I'm laying
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that choice out to my patients I'm bringing you up to date on the latest data that I'm getting from my colleagues
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and I will tell you I've been around these people for a long time dr. Rossi and dr. Raj Donny several of their
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colleagues and my experience has been that when they bring something new to the world within 3 to 5 years pretty
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much everybody's talking about it or writing books and saying that it's theirs that was their idea and and so so
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I think it's valuable information for you so if you're on a thyroid medication and and your TSH s are off and your
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doctor gets it down to normal and you're still feeling like crap I would still stay on that medication until you got a
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you know an alternative practitioner functional medicine practitioner maybe who who focuses on on Hashimoto's like
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me or one of my colleagues and and knows the steps that walk through and and I
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think at that point getting through those steps you'll find out whether you even needed this the thyroid or not and
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most of the time the answer is going to be you probably will and and and sometimes it'll be that you won't but I
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I really think that this first step of doing the thyroid hormone is is showing results in my practice and makes logical
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sense when you think about the chemistry of it so I'm sure I'm gonna get some comments on this one I welcome that if
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you have questions this is one of the more cornerstone the things that a person comes in with like I want to get
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off my thyroid medication that's what I want to do and you know my world right now it's about getting your immune
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system under control getting it calmed down getting you back to feeling like a normal human being by the way just full
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disclosure I take I take thyroid medication I had been under I had been under care for her oh my god a long time
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and and and I was doing much better as we picked off every little thing got the leaky gut figured out the food sense
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things but I was not thyroid medication I was still profoundly tired and having some other symptoms and there was
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nowhere else to go with what we knew took the medication finally got it dialed in and and it's good so I don't
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take that much medication I take 25 micrograms levothyroxine that doesn't mean that's the right one for you I take
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a little teeny bit of live I or annoying live thyroid the holy grail of the alternative medical practitioners the t3
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and and they take 15 grams of that a day that's what's right for me but I was we were able to figure that out once I got
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everything else under control so that's what I understand right now about thyroid hormone replacement therapy and
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again I will reiterate it seems to be bearing fruit in my practice in people getting better quicker not having the CP
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seen as much not having any as frequently I can't talk about long-term responses yet because I've
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only been doing it for like three or four months but it's it's been noticeable enough for me to want to do
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this okay so any questions on that please shoot him my way I I would be interested to see what your questions
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might be on that topic because it's a relatively new topic for me and I'm always I'm always open to a perspective
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that a patient might have that might bring me a little bit more understanding that's where I'm at on it I think that's
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where you're going to see it's going to be in the alternative world over the next few years and and I hope that's