Hashimoto’s Food Sensitivities vs Food Allergies

So tonight we're gonna talk about food sensitivities versus food allergies a lot of you out there going like well
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yeah I know all about food sensitivities and food allergies I can't eat gluten I can't eat milk and so that's not exactly
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food sensitivities it's significant in in Hashimoto's alone and Hashimoto's alone there are 39 different known
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triggers and and that's what we know today next year maybe we're going to know even more I have no idea but but 39
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is enough and among the leaders are certain viral infections not many as you might think but certain viral infections
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turned back to infections there's certain chemicals not as many as maybe people might think but their work when
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they're there they're a big issue food sensitivities are significant nutrient deficiencies are significant and then
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there's just a bunch of others okay but those those categories kind of rule and and within each of those categories
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there's a lot of different ones I think food sensitivities I put them as the most important and in some cases you
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could argue they are in some cases you could argue there they're not for but from the perspective that if you're
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eating a food every day that is causing your immune system to flare up and you're trying to figure out what's wrong
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with somebody because your immune system is flaring up and then causing an attack on your thyroid and you're trying to
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figure out whether it's a virus or whether it's a bacteria or whether it's a chemical or whether it's whatever you
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write on the internet yesterday it's difficult to figure out because you're continually altering that baseline of
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understanding what's causing your symptoms and food sensitivities everybody glimpse in and they go oh yeah
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I know what my food senses are I can't eat eggs I can't eat I can't eat gluten maybe I can't eat milk maybe I can't eat
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soy and I know how you know that they go like when I eat it I like it's us up and and I get headaches or my
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diarrhea comes back or something along those lines I say how quickly well usually you know right away usually
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sometimes within minutes sometimes within half an hour 20 minutes something like that that's not a food sensitivity
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which is why I emphasize food sensitivities and so it's a food sensitivities different food food
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allergies are actually created in the shin in the bloodstream food sensitivities are created in the gut and
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there's a number of reasons that they're created but the main reason they're created is because your digestive tract
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breaks down your stomach stops digesting properly you're not making enough hydrochloric acid maybe you're stressed
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maybe got a thyroid problem maybe got an ulcer maybe you got h pylori maybe you got
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parietal cell antibodies meaning you have automated gastritis usually it's one of those things and then that can
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either set off your gallbladder if you still have it or maybe you don't have a gallbladder and then that doesn't break
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down the fats well and then both of those things cause your pancreas that maybe not work as well as it could maybe
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it's not a disease and your pancreas is just not working as well because it's getting this food that's not digested
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and it's harder for it to digest and all of this results in a food particle that is now presented to your to your
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intestines to absorb that is it's it's it's not a proper type of a food particle it hasn't been digested down
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enough it hasn't been digested properly the inside of your intestines sees it as a foreign body kind of like a bad
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bacteria or something like that and it says wait a minute wait a minute I don't think this belongs here and and
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so so it takes that little particle and it presents it to the immune system on the inside of your intestines the 70%
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immune system it's on the inside of your intestines and amuses it goes well we can attack that that that doesn't look
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right I don't know what it is but it doesn't belong here it's not digested properly it's not
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small enough it's not broken up enough it attacks it now you have a food sensitivity that takes a little while
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for that to occur and so food since the hallmark of the food sensitivity is let's say let's say
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your let's say your your classic hashimoto symptom is I get heart palpitations for no reason at all so you
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eat a food maybe it's broccoli you read a food it's not digested down properly it goes through that whole that whole
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chemical pathway that I just got done talking about and the next thing you know you three days later you start
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getting heart palpitations for no reason at all are you going to connect that to the broccoli that you ate for dinner on
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Monday night 99 % answer does no until we talk about this so food sensitivities are huge because those are the things
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we're missing and to make it even more fun okay food sensitivities come and go I mean why not when when we talk about
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making diet a baseline for our patient care everybody goes I already did the SIBO diet I already did the automated
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Valeo diet I already did the oral tolerance side I did the gastrointestinal diet for all or
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whatever because you've already done them now you've come in here you've already done I mean you're sitting here
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with all kinds of god problems then the answer is why this is one of the answers why because you're continually
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stimulating that system with a food sensitivity so when I put food sensitivity testing maybe above power
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power side testing and and and chemical testing these types of things it's simply because you're not eating those
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chemicals every day you may not be if you're getting exposed to chemicals every day maybe I look at that but most
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they're not most they're not getting exposed to like someone who is a hairdresser and is getting exposed to
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chemicals every day and I know you're going to tell me there's stuff in the water and all that type of stuff but we
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we screen that out so so we test this so to me food testing is like top of the list and you have to find a good test
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not easy to do we we parry back and forth between two or three tests depending on how much the patient can
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afford to pay and they take and how much and and and how much data we actually already have
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and how much data we actually need you know depending on that we might use a test that's less expensive but we're
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experienced at this we have done years and years and years of allergy elimination diets okay to figure out
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people's food senses and we haven't do a you know a dietary daily diet dietary type of diary and so you know they'll do
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it and we'll see that they have a reaction on Thursday we'll go back and look at what they ate on Wednesday
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Tuesday and Monday and because we're familiar with it we probably can pull that out you know what it's more likely
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this let's remove this let's try it again and see what happens that's very tedious it's very labor-intensive it's a
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way to do it but if you're not familiar with the more common food sensitivities you're gonna miss them you just saw I
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might I know that from experience not to be insulting just it's hard it's hard for us and we do this every day all day
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long so that's food sensitivities versus food allergies why they're important
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they set the baseline and I'm going to tell you the food sensitivities the next word out persons ballast I eat those all
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the time that's the point and then you stop eating them you start eating a bunch of other foods and the next thing
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you know if you haven't healed your leaky gut yet the next thing you know you've got new food sensitivities that
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you're not aware of so that's a whole nother animal but but the fact that food sensitivities change over a period of
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time they can change over a period of three months six months that's a that's a significant part of the management of
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the inflammatory response against Hashimoto's so most people aren't aware of how frequently to test for food
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sensitivities or how frequently to do or a rotation diet and all those types of things so the diet is critical and and
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frankly beyond taking away gluten or milk or eggs or something or doing the automated Paleo diet and not having it
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works most people have a difficult time figuring out what the proper diet would be food sensitivities are one of the
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biggest reasons I think it covers the the high points the CliffsNotes high points of food
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sensitivities and why they're important and why we do them on pretty much every patient that comes in here as long as
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they can afford to do them and if they can't we do an allergy elimination diet but we do not move on until we're sure
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that we're getting a grip on the food sensitivities all right so that's it for today this is I think this is kind of
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some some are bigger presentations than others some are more significant than others put this tag this on your more
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significant presentation than others all right talk to you again take care