Botox Injections With Hashimoto’s or Autoimmunity?

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Hi dr rutherford here today and we’re going to talk about a topic that’s been coming up a lot lately
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uh because it’s utilized a lot in society more now than ever before and that’s botox
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botox and autoimmunity if you’re a hashimoto sufferer
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than in botox and hashimoto’s and so botox is a neurotoxin most people know what botox is as soon
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as i mention it to my patients and i start to tell them what i’m going to tell you about it they go
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i’m not going to do botox meaning i’m never going to go get those shots and get
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my nerves totally paralyzed so my wrinkles go away and and actually botox
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has been more popular over a long period of time for um
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neurological problems it’s a neurotoxin it literally paralyzes your nerves and they’re it’s usually administered in
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shots and uh and it’s it’s most common medical use
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is migraines migraine headaches i’ve had a lot of patients that have had
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that have had it performed on them for migraine headaches and then of course
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the now ever popular i have to look younger phase where we are
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getting um botox shots
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to um uh to look younger to get rid of our wrinkles and so on and so forth and you
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can tell i’m not a botox taker so it’s uh so i speak from my heart on this okay
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so basically but i speak more as a clinician who’s trying to help people to stay better and it’s interesting one of
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the things that all hashimoto’s patients for sure and autoimmune patients in general
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should know is that botox flares up immune inflammation
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now particularly studies have been done particularly
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on hashimoto’s but but i’ve talked about other things like
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salt and autoimmunity and stuff like that and these these and i talk them relative to
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hashimoto’s but as time goes on the studies have been done on hashimoto as time goes on
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it turns out that that it turns out that salt is exacerbatory to all autoimmunity well botox is kind
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of the same yeah in my observation but for sure
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for sure uh for hashimoto’s so basically what happens is when you
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inject this into your system it increases immune inflammatory mechanisms considerably
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for hashimoto’s for uh for thyroid problems it it the uh the largest study that was done
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indicated that if you have antibodies attacking your thyroid a shot of botox will increase them by
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as much as 72 and uh and across the board it’s been shown that
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different other studies have um have said that autoimmunity in
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general is flared up once that’s 35 percent one says 52 and stuff like that but the bottom line is is
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if you have autoimmunity you should just like you should just like you know have to
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come to grips with dealing with your wrinkles or
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and and maybe your migraine headaches i know after i learned this so i take you know multiple seminars a year because
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there’s always new stuff coming out and i think my mentors and i think the people that i go to
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and that i take their studies their cert researchers and uh and their stuff has proven credible to
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me across the board and when i got this data from this one
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particular seminar i had several patients that i thought let me send this out to them so
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that they would know um for future reference not to not to
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take a botox shot so that they would get out of out of their remission
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and sure enough two of them like one i when i talked to over zoom and the
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other one i sent an email to but both of them said that’s
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when i became disabled was when i got the botox shots and and so in those symposiums they were
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also kind of strongly implying that this new craze of i’ve got to look like
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25 years younger and i can’t have any wrinkles and so on and so forth um that’s leading to a lot of people
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using botox because it’s just like done just a shot here a little shot there a little shot here a little shot there
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you know it’s it’s it’s easy to get and that you look better but they’re
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strongly implying that it is part of what is creating and perpetuating this autoimmune explosion that has taken
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place over the last 20 years so so so this and when i present this to
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patients in person it looks like it’s and they are taking it it looks like it’s an uncomfortable subject so
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so uh so that’s my uncomfortable subject for the
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day but uh that’s what i know now um i’m advising all of my hashimoto’s patients
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absolutely for certain do not get botox shots do not use botox
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and um and frankly i’ve i’ve morphed over into telling all my autoimmune patients not to do it
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also so that’s that’s my uh clinical therapeutic um
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where the rubber meets the road decision on how i handle my botox
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recommendations for patients who have autoimmunity and hashimoto’s you