Hashimoto’s and Stress

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Stress today and who's not stressed today right and it's it is uh
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i think you know people it's funny thing people get that they're stressed and and then they get that it creates a
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physiological response in them and then it makes them want to choke people and kill people and do stuff like that but
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they're also you know it's like my heart's beating and i and and and
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and you know and i'm you know huffing and puffing and i have no energy but there's not a connection a lot of
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times with the fact that the stress is either triggering causing or perpetuating their
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conditions and and not only is there not an exception
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for that with hashimoto's uh thyroiditis or just hashimoto's hypothyroidism
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stress is probably the first thing i look at when a person walks in here and i do do functional
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neurology okay and i am involved in that in functional neurology one of the
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big aspects of it is to assess people's stress responses is how it affects their entire physiology
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and um and and we kind of for those of you who've watched us and maybe you've seen our
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back the basics we kind of have an idea of how to attack autoimmunity and there's
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there's an organization to it you've probably heard me talk about hierarchy probably tired of hearing you talk about
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hierarchy and order and how you attack things stress is right at the top like
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literally right at the top and i'll tell you it's like the three first things i look at
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the five first things i look at is stress sleep relationships blood sugar and
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oxygen i mean i don't even i don't go anywhere else until i look at those
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because if you're deficient on all of that i i i can't help you with your
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relationships and if you have a bad relationship with your husband or your wife or your boss
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or your workers your coworkers or whatever and it's ongoing um that's like something that has to be
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kind of handled before we get into the whole involvement and getting and figure finding out all your triggers um
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because that's like the biggest trigger that there is because it causes stress and so and stress is number one stress
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is number one so it's stress sleeping relationships stress relationships sleep they need to be addressed why
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because stress when you go into stress it alters your entire physiology there's not that many
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things that affect every single one of the trillions of cells in you
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stress happens to be one of them and thyroid happens to be another one of them
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and so so stress will trigger it basically stress does is it it it shuts down
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your your whole gut system and it shuts down your bladder um your your urinary bladder and so
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you you so stress creates a an issue where you're not meant your stomach's not working
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how many people do not know that stress causes ulcers well long before you get ulcers it's all through the physiology
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in your stomach so that you're not digesting food you're not sterilizing food your bowels aren't
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moving stress is probably the number one cause of constipation in this country for all you've taken miralax
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probably taking are like buying you know stock in smooth move tea and uh magnesium supplements and all
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that look and see if you're stressed stress is the number one cause of that stress shuts down your intestines your
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intestines can't work now it's off to the races you can get without getting into it you can get
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small tests on bacteria overgrowth you can get constipation dis imbalance in bacteria you name it it'll
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cause your candida to flare up if you have candida it'll cause your stomach to not be able to kill h pylori
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now you get ulcers you get h pylori you get gerd you get all that stresses like it's like crazy
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when you are under chronic stress your body thinks you're in fight flight thinks you're in danger it shuts down
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your ability to move your bowels and pee because you don't need to be doing either while you're fighting or fleeing
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and and so you're you know your your brain doesn't know that from an intellectual
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point but it knows that from a basic uh chemistry neurological point of like survival
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and so that alters a lot of things and worth 75 of your immune system it's in your gut right everybody knows
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that by now and what else and so and and what are we trying to fix we're trying to dampen
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autoimmunity we can't dampen autoimmunity what is hashimoto's it's an autoimmune problem
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you're trying to dampen an immune attack against your thyroid your chronic stress
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good luck okay i just had one here yesterday you hear me say this almost every time but i
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talk to a lot of people i had one yesterday young man delightful young man this this
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gentleman's had like stress his whole life so he's probably has actually a genetic
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stress factor you you've heard of like uh having uh and the mthfr gene maybe most people
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seem like they watch these things seem to have heard about that he has something else called
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the comt meaning his brain hasn't been able to shut down since day one
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since he was born okay so that's our battle that's our first battle stress also is kind of in a vicious cycle with
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thyroid thyroid also thyroid the second most common cause of constipation
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so so now you have a thyroid that is is is also slowing down a gut that your brain is already telling to not work
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and then it's just a cascade from there it's just insane all the things that take place from
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there that's not even counting your adrenal glands your adrenal glands are putting out lots
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of cortisol when you're stressed it's putting out lots of cortisol cortisol is inflammatory cortisol alters
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your blood sugar so stress can all even alter your blood sugar numbers you're going to the doctor
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for diabetes and it's not diabetes it's that you're stressed out of your mind all of that's
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affecting your thyroid so again hashimoto's in and of itself and frankly all autoimmune problems
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all established confirm autoimmune problems the alternative are maybe i should say the functional
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the classic back to basics functional medicine approach to it
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is is uh you know it's a moving target there are a lot of vicious cycles there are a lot of different organ systems
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that you have to dampen and um and so and and and so they're all in this chronic stress
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effects that organ system the organ system affects that and so it's it but it's it is the number
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one x factor by far you know if someone's coming in here
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and i know a lot of you out there are the never druggers never never never never never
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okay i'm not that's not me i'm not like i'm like let's do everything else first
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but if somebody comes in here and goes man i got on xanax and it changed my life
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you know my bouts got better when i got on xanax because it caught my my down i'm like stay on it
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so that we can now work on your bowels while you're using that now when we try to get that person off of
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that later on that's not my job but if a person desires to do that um they may just be able to get off and
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on on their own in fact a lot of people say i say you know you know you only look at that xanax now you want might
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talk to your doctor about it i stopped that like two months ago so but the point being
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that that xenax was affecting their brain that was dampening their their their their intestinal response
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we were able to work with that that we were able to dampen their hashimoto's now that whole
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loop starts working like about eighty percent of their symptoms go away because that thyroid is dampened now
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it's stamping the some inflammation to the brain it's increased blood supply to the brain
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because hashimoto's decreases blood supply to your brain increases inflammation your brain and next thing
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you know you don't need all those drugs you don't need the drugs for for your brain so
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that's stress and hashimoto's i don't know if i want i like i hope that makes sense because
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it made sense to me but i hope it made sense to you i hope i presented it in an organized fashion
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so that you can understand stress is killer listen whatever you got to do to get that
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stress response under control while you're in conflagration mode you need to do
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whatever it is whether it's meditation whether it's yoga whether it's take a walk whether it's deep breathing whether
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it's you know going on beating a million golf balls whether it's taking medications or
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herbs or botanicals you need to do that you need to do that because
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believe me everything else is here not going to work it's not going to work very well
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or it's not going to work for a very long time so that is stress and hashimoto's