Hashimoto’s and Constipation

And that is extremely common and with Hashimoto's conditions so why does is it related yes I would say that Hashimoto's
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is considered probably the number two cause of constipation number one cause is chronic stress and then after that
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you can go into all of the things that occur but Hashimoto's from my understanding goes at constipation in
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two different ways the primary way that Hashimoto's causes constipation is it it alters the physiology of your brain stem
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and without getting too into the into the weeds and we do functional neurology here as well as functional medicine so
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they kind of go together brain functional neurology so so essentially it alters the ability of your of your
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brain stem to to dampen stress responses in fact that increases stress responses which they can overwhelm relaxation
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responses relaxation responses are known as para sympathetic responses so basically if you're in aquatic fight
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response let's put hush mode over here for a second if you're in a stress response
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the number one cause of constipation the stress response basically shuts down your relaxation response when you're in
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fight flight you're not supposed to be relaxed it's a different chemistry and the Hashimoto's does a similar thing to
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the parasympathetic relaxation response you may or may not realize it because a lot of you sit on the toilet thinking
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when you have to go to the bathroom we go oh you know and you're pushing and all that type of stuff we're just just
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saying if you were kind of relaxed start doing some deep breathing start meditating whatever it is he relaxed you
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would find your bow switch move a lot easier because it is a relaxation so essentially it shuts down the vagus
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nerve which allows that relaxation response in what's called your enteric nervous system there's a separate
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nervous system some of you have heard the phrase we have two brains there's a second brain and in the gut that's what
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we're talking about and that second brain is in the in the in the muscular lining of the gut that is right below
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where all the little digestive areas villi are and then and then it gets tight it when the relaxation response is
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interfered with the muscles become tight and then they don't work they are there's there's this part of the nervous
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system and they're called migrating motor system and the migrating motor system helps you to migrate your feces
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out to the toilet okay so that kind of gets slowed down paralyzed and and so that that's really there is a huge
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connection hashimoto's is called also Hashimoto's is called some people call it Hashimoto's hypothyroid disease
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because price seventy-five percent of you have Hashimoto's hypothyroid as opposed to the small percentage that are
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the thin Hashimoto's patient and the hyper thyroid hypo library patient everything slows down so Hashimoto's can
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cause your gallbladder to slow down not not pump as much you know it can cause your pancreas to slow down it can cause
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your stomach to not to slow down not make as much hydrochloric acid when you do that you interfere with the whole
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digestive chain Oh everything that is made to die almost everything it's made to digest your food is affected by that
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so that's kind of an indirect effect and essentially if you're not breaking down your food properly if you're not
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breaking down the fats if you're not breaking down starches you're kind of not going to go to the
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bathroom very well because you're not going to digest your food and then you're gonna get a more difficult bolus
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to move through the enteric nervous system through the intestines okay so it kind of has a two-fold effect on
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constipation one a direct hit on the nervous system that causes the the muscles not to move the the feces
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through it's called peristalsis not that not to have peristalsis and the other is a more indirect hit of it slows down
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several of the digestive organs slows everything down right we put on weight our air starts falling out we get tired
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we get edema we get said no problems and the number-one bowel problem that we get from a hypothyroid and from our motors
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hyperthyroid is constipation so that's Hashimoto's and constipation and I'll see you back tomorrow with