Hashimoto’s and Fertility

Talk Hashimoto's and fertility I'm gonna have to try to keep this one short because I could go off on this one for a
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long long time so we're not going to get into chemical pathways and things of that nature but Hashimoto's does affect
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fertility one of the biggest things that one of the biggest connections in fertility I think with Hashimoto's is it
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has a connection to polycystic ovarian syndrome they've done Studies on young gals who are 12 11 13 14 years old and
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and and who had cysts and they gave my red medication and her sis when towei okay so I again when I said I have to
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keep this real like not go through all the chemical pathways there are pathways that involve the adrenal glands and
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blood stirrer manipulation that are secondary to Hashimoto's that ultimately create these cysts people get polycystic
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ovarian disease probably understand or those of you who don't know is the cause of some some studies estimate 50 percent
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of the of infertility in this country so so that's a big cross talk connection between a thyroid and the ovaries but
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just in general Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a hypo thyroid condition and hypothyroid conditions slow everything
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down so it just it just slows everything down so slows down your ability to make eggs it slows down your ability to pop
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those eggs out you can't get the egg out no cycle no baby so Hashimoto's works at it from that
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perspective it's you know you can have I have a lot of women who come in here and they're on hormone replacement therapy
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for their estrogen and all centers thyroid starts getting better and and now you know there are they have to go
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down on their hormone replacement therapy because because now they're starting to make more estrogen and
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and they're making too much and they're getting all kinds of symptoms of too much estrogen they're getting heavy
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periods and stuff like that so it has a direct direct effect on estrogen metabolism it has a direct effect on
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progesterone metabolism now in a little different way so progesterone so estrogen you know you make the yeah you
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have the baby you are you've already made the heck you came with the eggs but yet the egg is now made viable it's it's
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it's you know it's made so that it can be expelled and the follicle can can be coming at can can can get into the
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uterus that's estrogen okay estrogen does all that but for gesture on makes the uterus so that the follicles stick
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and so that it will hold okay and and progesterone has a very interesting relationship with thyroid hormone
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thyroid hormone will sensitize the receptor sites on the cells okay so that the progesterone gets in there better
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and if there so if you have hypothyroid and you're not producing enough thyroid hormone or you're not converting enough
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hybrid you thought thyroid hormone from t4 to t3 then then you're not going to have your thyroid hormone sensitizing
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the progesterone so maybe so maybe you conceived but then you can't carry it to term and and you have miscarriages and
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women who have hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's hyperthyroidism I think are four times more likely to miscarry and
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then another thing relative to thyroid hormone is when when thyroid hormone decreases okay hi red hormone is under
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the auspices of your pituitary gland thyroid glands how's your thyroid what to do and and so they have a very close
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relationship and if when we get a decreased ism particularly the most common one
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which is Hashimoto's inflammation can affect the pituitary gland and it happens mostly during Hashimoto's but it
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can happen during a pure hypothyroid and then you make and then you make too much prolactin prolactin is the hormone that
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gives you breast milk okay and when you start making breast milk it kinda tells your your whole female hormonal system
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to stop because you're saying no I think you got a kid so you don't need to like you know they like be having cycles and
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stuff like that and so from that perspective thyroid interferes with fertility also and there's one indirect
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topic I think that would be relevant and that's birth control pills I just had somebody that I spoke to yesterday who's
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been on birth control pills for 20 years so that kind of alters the case a little bit because birth control pills are
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birth control estrogen is particularly creams but it happens with pills usually it builds up estrogen builds up okay
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that's what it does it builds up things it builds up your uterus but it also builds up in your system it needs to be
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cleared by your liver it needs to be cleared by your intestines you need to you need to not be constipated the
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estrogen gets into a lot of different places and then if it doesn't get cleared out the excess estrogen from the
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pills from the creams the xxm doesn't get cleared out it kind of Gunks up like I just said it kind of comes off the
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liver and then that alters a number of things and one of the things it alters is what's called thyroid hormone binding
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globulin that's a fancy name for a protein that when your thyroid makes thyroid hormone it attaches to a protein
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like a think of it as being like a taxicab that takes your your hormone to where it needs to be and it needs to be
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either in the liver or it needs to be in things or needs to be in the cell so that it can be converted into an active
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hormone well that that those that sex hormone-binding globulin starts becoming
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like it increases them and so when it increases them you start having so much so much hormone that attaches to those
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that you don't have enough hormone flying around to go into your cells and now you have another now you have not
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enough action in in your physiology or your metabolism Goes Down and then all the things happen that we talked about
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when I said hypothyroid just slows everything down and it slows your estrogen down so it's so you might be
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getting you might be taking the hormone therapy and getting all kinds of estrogen low estrogen sensitives even
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though you're taking it because it's affecting your it's affecting the ability of your thyroid to work properly
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or to convert hormones properly so that they weren't properly I mean the bottom line is is is that thyroid has a massive
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effect on your female hormones when when I have a case like delay with it with with a lady then I spoke to yesterday
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and the primary observation or the primary desire is is I want to get my hormones under control before you get
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the hormones you got to clear out the liver you're going to clear out the gallbladder you got to clear out the gut
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you got to get the blood sugar right you got to get Persons essential fatty acids right because they also sensitize those
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receptor sites and if that doesn't work then you have it and and if that doesn't work you have to look at the thyroid by
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that time because thyroids a hormone issue too so you have to look at all of those things for the thyroid but you'll
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do the thyroid first before you'll do the anything to the female hormones for all of the reasons that I just got done
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talking about so yeah it has a huge effect on infertility Hashimoto's Duss and again just the PCOS is considered
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just that connection is considered to be responsible for 40 50 percent of miscarriages in this country so I
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hope that answers it in in a relatively 6/6 period of time here so all right seeing a couple days with another