Hashimoto’s and Sleep Apnea

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Uh hi dr rutherford here so okay as many of you know i you know i get a lot of
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these classes i i i have a lot of mentors who are just really amazing and they keep doing
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research and i went to a class like maybe three years ago and and one of the things that you'll hear
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me say when it comes to these you know relatively complex cases by the time a person gets here
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is sometimes it's not about the sexy stuff okay sometimes it's about really basic
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stuff like oxygen or blood sugar i've had i've had people where we've gotten their blood
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pressure up gotten enough oxygen to their brain and their extremities and their feet and
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their gut and all sudden like all these kind of crazy things started getting better
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we have presentations on that same thing with blood sugar so we're going to kind of hit oxygen today from a
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different angle we're going to hit it from sleep okay sleep is very very very
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important to getting well and uh and and i i i could go on with that forever i wrote a little book
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uh like i think in 2002 it was just called it was just power health you know back to basics and
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it really was more for my chiropractic patients who just kept asking me why they weren't
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holding their adjustments i said well you eat like crap you don't sleep you don't exercise you know and and you
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know a bunch of things like that so sleep's a broad topic but but i went to
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this seminar it was it was about three years ago and the doctor made the point about oxygen and blood sugar
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and i was like yeah i already get this i've been like doing this forever but then he said something i had never
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heard before he said don't miss the sleep apnea you missed sleep apnea you're screwed
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you already have no chance of getting this patient where you could get them because people need oxygen
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you need oxygen to every cell in your body and then that went back all the way to my very very very very
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first class i ever took on functional medicine which was a long time ago and the doctor
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said if you if you can't make energy in your cells you can't get the person well you can't
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get them back to balance a lot of the patients coming in lately say i just want to get back to bound you can't get
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homeostasis back because you need you need these mitochondria in your cells
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to make oxygen okay to make they it needs oxygen i'm sorry the mitochondria need oxygen to make energy
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so you can get better those of you who hit the wall i have a good day and i go out and i
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crash this is part of the reason you don't know you don't have enough oxygen going through your cells in your
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mitochondria you're just crashing it's part of the reason okay and the sleep apnea comment by this teaching
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doctor kind of like i was like sleep now i gotta check everybody for sleep apnea
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like oh my god jeez so i dutifully go home and do these things because
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these are smart people and every time i go to these particular people's classes and they say something it turns out
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being valuable data so i start checking everybody for sleep apnea oh my god i mean i think i think 40 of the people
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who come in here have sleep apnea and basically it's on it's on the intake form do you have sleep apnea
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yes do you have your cpap well yes do you use it sometimes so
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so i really started to get it because then i started pushing for people to get
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a little bit friendlier with their with their cpap machines and and started really seeing results some
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miraculous results some mild results moderate results it's one of like 39 different things
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that you need to like investigate relative to a hashimoto's case so sleep apnea is a big deal because
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because what happens is when when you are not when you're when you're when you're having your sleep
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interrupted basically what it does is it actually injures your cells so your cells need
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oxygen everything needs oxygen like every single one of your trillions of cells
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need oxygen and when you deprive it of oxygen they start to get injured
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those intermittent injuries then cause inflammation and then inflammation in turn does a ton
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of things and and every one of those ton of things creates a potential response
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over reaction of your immune system an inflammatory response and then that alters thyroid function
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in fact it's been shown to increase it's been shown to increase your thyroid hormone t4 your thyroid
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hormone t3 and your reverse t3 which a lot of people don't take seriously
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but it's a but it's a it's it's a it's a thyroid marker and it represents in theory
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thyroid hormone in your intestines and and if that goes up you're going to have less thyroid hormone available to you if
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that and so if the other two go up you might be you might be hyperactive
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so it it directly messes with your thyroid hormone now the interesting part is the latest studies show this might be
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bi-directional it might be that your that your um thyroid is actually
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contributing to causing sleep apnea now i have had lots of patients come in here and have their sleep apnea go away by
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addressing all of the triggers and all of the things necessary to address
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their particular problem relative to what's causing their their thyroid to flare up and i always
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assumed it was because most patients come in here and those circumstances are overweight
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and it's always been kind of known that when you get the when you get the weight off the person breathes better or you
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know they don't they don't have as much obstruction or everything works better but it turns
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out that it's entirely possible that it's also because the thyroid inflammatory markers that are causing
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your thyroid to go off the ones i just talked about that the t3 t4 going up the reverse t3
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going down it's also entirely possible that that is a part of what's causing your sleep
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apnea so because of this cellular destruction that takes place
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when you deprive the cells of oxygen so sleep apnea is big and it actually is very big it's it's
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almost like there's certain things that i know like oxygen sleep in and blood sugar
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those of you who've watched a lot of my videos you'll know those are baseline kind of standards
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that i look for to stabilize before i do anything else because every cell in your body needs blood
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sugar every cell in your body needs oxygen i would argue that if you're going to function medicine practitioner
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or doesn't understand that i wouldn't go to that just i mean it's basic
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it's basic to functional medicine it's basic to homeopathy it's basic nitrites it's like
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follow the fuel it's like fix the sugar and fix the oxygen first sleep apnea is oxygen deprivation
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at its very best it's like second only to anemia in depriving you of oxygen so if you
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have sleep apnea you should be using your cpap machines and and and and this is not only a
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treatment for your sleep but it is definitely a treatment for helping you to get your hashimoto's
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under control it might be one of five or six major areas for you as a patient who has hashimoto's
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but you'll notice i use the term major areas and those major areas are what you want to attack uh once you've developed
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the understanding of these are the five major areas for this person that's what you want to attack that
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that's how you go after one of these cases so sleep apnea it's just so important if
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you have sleep apnea if you think you have sleep apnea if your spouse is telling you you snore all
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the time and and and that you wake up or that you stop breathing
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those types of things okay you should go get checked for sleep app yeah and and the devices
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i understand are getting better and better and they have smaller devices and they're making the masks better and
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and so on and so forth so uh but it's about hashimoto's and and frankly it's about autoimmunity
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in general for those of you who may have other autoimmune problems along with the rheumatoid arthritis celiac ulcerative
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colitis all that lupus all those things sleep apnea is a big player and it should be treated as
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such so that's my presentation for today and take this one to heart it
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i it's i've seen i've seen a big game changer in in i'd say a third of the cases that
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that people uh have come in here with and in all cases there's been improvement
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uh in in areas of managing the case once that person started on their cpap machine okay