Hashimoto’s Depression

The topic today something we see again all the time all the time if somebody comes in here and tells me I've got
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depression and anxiety and panic attacks I'm looking to see if they got a path I read problem if they haven't already
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been diagnosed and that thyrd problem is usually going to be Hashimoto's so there's a lot of chemistry involved in
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that depression is a frontal lobe problem frontal lobe right in here this is who we are this is where we think
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this is our executive functions this is where our motivation is this is where our focus is this is where we make our
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decisions and if it's not working well this is where you make bad decisions these are the people who don't have a
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who have a don't have a filter on their mouth which I am told sometimes is me but but that's frontal lobe frontal
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lobes also where your mood is so frontal lobe is I'm happy more serotonin I'm motivated more dopamine or I'm sad more
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serotonin or I'm depressed more serotonin really bad so so it's a chemical issue most people come in here
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depression is a chemical issue you're looking for what destroys the chemistry in the brain so what do you need to not
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get depressed what do you need for your frontal lobe to keep working and not be depressed proper blood sugar too high or
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too low blood sugar who's gonna is going to cause inflammation in your brain proper oxygen you have lack of oxygen
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going through your frontal lobe you have anemia something like that you have blood pressure all of these things low
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thyroid the low thyroid aspect of Hashimoto's you're not going to get enough oxygen there you're not gonna be
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able to make dopamine and serotonin and you're gonna be down you're gonna be depressed
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stress obviously does it it and and and you need you need a lack of information I just mentioned
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inflammation stress is probably the number one on that one and in blood sugar so blood sugar oxygen essential
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fatty acids and a lack of inflammation Hashimoto's has an affinity for decreasing blood supply to your frontal
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lobe and increasing inflammation to your frontal lobe without getting into the whole chemistry of that that's why she
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motto is done so if you so if you're if you're and you're like in hypothyroid symptoms you're like fatigue then you're
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tired sigh roids not working that well everything slowing down you're not getting you're not getting a whole lot
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of of oxygen to your brain remember you need oxygen for for you to have proper serotonin and be happy okay and and so
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from that hypothyroid aspect you're getting that then when the immune response kicks in it may kick in
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intermittently or it may be steady across the board then you start getting more hyper function you start getting
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more inflammation and that inflammation has an affinity for the frontal lobe and you get inflammation your frontal lobe
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can't make dopamine can't make serotonin PM egg don't mean that you can't make serotonin these are
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people who when they come in here they mark in the box thinking of harming myself okay so that's one step past
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depression but the point is that whole spectrum is is as relative to Hashimoto's and just to Carrie that's
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really even though it wasn't the question but to show how much Hashimoto's affects mood next thing is
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you start getting consistent attacks on your thyroid and you start making way too much thyroid hormone anxiety and
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then it can just take off and and and contribute to it and not just anxiety but it can contribute to panic attacks
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too so the pressure and anxiety panic attacks they're all different different sides of the same coin so yes yes yes
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yes depression and hashimoto's can be length hashimoto's can at the very least strongly