Hashimoto’s and PCOS

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Hashimoto's in our Hashimoto's monthly series here and the question was is Hashimoto's related to polycystic
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ovarian syndrome so the answer is probably there is different there are different studies out there that suggest
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that PCOS and Hashimoto's exist together some say 40 percent of times I'm say 30 percent some say 50 percent of the time
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some say 60 but but there's definitely a link between these two conditions Hashimoto's frankly rarely exists by
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itself as an immune condition all right so usually if you have Hashimoto's if you really start looking around you're
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usually gonna find the person either as celiac or antibodies against their cerebellum or they're gonna have
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rheumatoid arthritis so they're gonna have something else like that autumn you guessed right is Ottoman hepatitis just
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a lot of things that that that you can have along with Hashimoto's PCOS is a little different animal than that what
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they think is that the PCOS is really caused polycystic ovarian syndrome is really caused by blood sugar problems
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and and despite what you may have heard it's caused by blood sugar problems and when you have insulin resistance when
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you are morphing towards diabetes when your whatever you want to call it pre-diabetes insulin resistance those
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those those blood sugar problems alter the ability of the ovaries to make the rest urgent or progestin around right so
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where does the roid come in with that okay so so thyroid so Hashimoto's is is largely largely largely a hypo thyroid
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condition we talked on one of the segments about the thin Hashimoto's patient and we're not talking about that
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right now because they generally don't get polycystic ovarian syndrome either and so basically the thyroid will affect
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sugar metabolism thyroid will affect metabolism in general that's I roid if it slows down it'll slow down your
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adrenals it'll slow down your pancreas it'll slow down liver function well and and and it'll slow down the ability of
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cells to metabolize things and want to end and all of those things I just mentioned manage your manage your blood
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sugar and then in the end if they start not functioning right maybe insulin starts not functioning right next thing
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you know you have insulin spikes going now your develop pre-diabetes in some resistance and then that can ultimately
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lead into you having polycystic ovarian syndrome that would be the actual chemical pathways and that would occur
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versus the fact that there just is an affinity for Hashimoto's to be involved with so many other different areas of
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the body and I suspect the reason is because Hashimoto's is a thyroid problem it's an automated problem first the
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thyroid problem second and the thyroid most of the times the hypothyroid problem and the thyroid has receptor
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sites in every single cell of your body so pretty much when you go down and I put into hypothyroid you're pretty much
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affecting everything you can have a low blood pressure you can have low blood sugar you can have more from low blood
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sugar and high blood sugar now you're gonna have a low get-out acid in your stuff and your stomach so so that's kind
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of like the full breadth of that's a little bit more complex question and then you know what are the ranges of
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Hashimoto's but I felt it warranted a little bit more of an explanation so yes and would you take care of the
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Hashimoto's in somebody who's got PCOS absolutely I'd be I'd be dampening immune inflammation so that the attack
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on the thyroid allows the thyroid to gain more function and then that whole chain of events will not occur