Hashimoto’s and Low Libido

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About thyroid and low libido and this goes for females as well as males and frankly i
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don't treat a lot of males but almost everyone who comes in here has low libido and
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it's pretty it's it's a pretty straightforward shot as far as why that occurs if we go back to
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thyroid we go back to hashimoto's most of the time
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it's hypothyroid that has been caused by an immune attack on the thyroid so
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hypothyroid means everything slows down your thyroid hormones have receptor sites in other
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words where they hook into the cells in every single one of the trillions of cells that we have
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in our um in our body now if if you came to me and again it's mostly females but
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females came to me and said you know i have i have all kinds of menstrual problems i
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have uh i have periods that are off i have fears that are gone that shouldn't be gone i
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have heavy bleeding low bleeding cramping no cramping oh by the way i also have
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a dry vagina and i have no libido that's usually how it works people don't usually come in here specifically for no
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libido and if somebody and or if a guy said this it's a little different
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but the bottom line is with either one of them you would be looking to see why they're
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testosterone in a guy or why they're estrogen and a woman isn't working in in a woman it's usually
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gut of problems it's usually liver problems it's usually gallbladder problems because
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estrogen needs to be used whether it's made by your body or whether it's whether you're taking a hormone
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replacement therapy it needs to be used it needs to be effective
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then the kind of the the residue needs to go through the liver gallbladder through the intestines
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and into the toilet that doesn't happen you're going to have high estrogen and believe it or not high estrogen causes
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the same problems as low estrogen without me getting into that whole thing at this point in time
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it's about the estrogen it's also about blood sugar it's also about stress it's also about
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essential fatty acids all of these work together to make your brain
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tell your adrenal glands tell your ovaries to make the make the estrogen that you need
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and then process it properly and get it into the toilet you know detox you and get it in the toilet
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if you have a hypothyroid that's not going to happen now thyroid does have kind of a straight
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shot um uh relationship to progesterone as far as as far as uh and prolactin and
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as far as so having a baby and fertility and stuff like that but in the end all of those things i
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just talked about are going to slow down your your your liver is going to start slowing down and you're not going to pro
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you're not going to be able to get the estrogen through it as much and you can tell by looking on your labs
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whether your liver enzymes are up or not a lot of the times you can look at that you can look on your labs and if you're
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the one who has the high cholesterol and you have the high ldls and and um and and you have low
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good uh hdl slow good fat um then people go well you need a statin drug you need to stop
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eating you know junk and everything you go like like you go like i'm on the ottoman paleo diet
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i don't need any of that stuff how could that be it's usually a thyroid it's slowing everything down so you're not
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processing your fats we're also not clearing estrogen and then that can
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and and if your gallbladder is going down you're not clearing your essential fatty acids which i just said was
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important to make those hormones and um and if you're not making your cholesterol if
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the cholesterol is getting stuck there then you know it may not be available to make your hormones so it's
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it's that okay that's how it works with a female a guy's a little different
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and a guy it basically alters again it alters physiology for men usually it's that they start
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putting on weight usually because they have intestinal problems they have they have
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bacteria or that will start altering their insulin responses
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they'll start putting on weight they'll and when they start putting on weight their fat cells start turning
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their testosterone into estrogen the guy starts becoming a woman he starts
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you know he starts crying at lifetime movies and he starts getting real emotional and
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he shouldn't be getting emotional he's putting on weight and um and so and then
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that lowers the testosterone but in the end the again the hypothyroid slows down
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a lot of the processes in the body that allows that to happen it's the the fit guy that comes in here
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is going to be less likely to have his thyroid affecting his erectile dysfunction than the female
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is going to be to have a direct hit on all of her female hormones
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but it can be a player in the guy it is it is if someone comes in here they're a
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female they have all those symptoms they've come in there for that i don't even look at their female hormonal panel
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until we get all that cleared up and i check their thyroid and i would say percent of the time
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and i i i always say this you always hear me say i said i had one in here uh i talked to the other day if you were
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watching she's uh she's a nursing patient in florida if you're watching and she
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announced when i talked to her says i got my period it's been like three and a half years i
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haven't had my period she's a nurse and she's like i'm so happy i'm like because she's 47 a lot of people aren't
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happy when they get their period back at 47. but we didn't do anything for estrogen
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we we worked with all the others areas over physiology that dampened the immune response against our thyroid
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thyroid starts working right boom everything works if so that's that's how that's how the thyroid works with
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with that so uh so yeah so thyroid has a lot to do with low libido because low libido is
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estrogen you you don't have to write estrogen whether it's low or whether it's high
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estrogen if it's high if you have too much estrogen it's kind of like having too much sugar trying to hit your cells
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the cells eventually stop opening for the estrogen and then you get the same symptoms as
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though you had no estrogen because it's not going into the cell okay
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so high low estrogen it's caused by all that that causes low libido that's how it works
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so for all you're interested in that that's the mechanism and it's it's fun it's fun to do because usually by that
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time the person's on a bunch of medications and and
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they've been told they're in early menopause if they're 43 and they're told that they need to go see a
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counselor or get a new husband or something like that and it's and it's your gut your liver and it's
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your gallbladder and it's all things that aren't working because you have hashimoto's
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so there you go so okay i hope that was interesting and uh and we'll come up with another
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relevant topic for our next presentation see you then you