Hashimoto’s Triggers

And you are series talking about Hashimoto's we're going to be more based this month on questions that seem to be
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more fine-tuned than maybe maybe all the ones that we were doing last the last month so and today the question was what
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are triggers of Hashimoto's I'm pretty sure that I covered this in one of the presentations we did last month and B
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since we did 30 presentations I don't remember which one it was so we'll do it again
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so triggers versus causes I think I'll just cover all of that so triggers classic triggers so Hashimoto's is not a
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being problem okay if this first time you're seeing this then Hashimoto's is an autoimmune problem more than it is a
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hypothyroid problem even though it's both but what gets triggered that ultimately creates the immune attack
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against the thyroid that beats it up and causes it to be hypothyroid is the immune system so what we want to know is
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what is triggering the immune system so the immune system is that classically the person already has some sort of a
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propensity to have Hashimoto's maybe they have what's called silent Hashimoto's you actually are getting
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your thyroid attacked but it's on such a low level that you don't even know you have it
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or maybe you're getting some of the symptoms but you're kind of blowing it off as as other things and then you go
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and as you're going and traveling through this great journey of life things happen and so one of the things
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that can happen is pregnancy women get pregnant I've had literally hundreds of when we come in here ago I was going
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along fine you know I felt good and then I had my you know I got pregnant and I felt great and then I had my baby and it
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was like the end of my life everything fell apart and that was and that's when everything began and it's been getting
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worse ever since so so pregnancy can create an inflammatory response believe it or not and it can also cause
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antibodies shifts in other words when you're when you're giving your antibodies as a woman over to the child
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they can create an antibody shift and then if the person has the propensity to develop Hashimoto's genetically that
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shift causes a lot more a lot more antibodies to be flying around that person's body than than normal because
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they're giving those extra antibodies to the kid and the next thing you know you got Hashimoto's anything that causes a
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significant increase in inflammation and so stress does that so you could have a big stress thing happen you know it
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could be a tradition it could be a trauma could be an emotional trauma it could be you know lots of women in here
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who've been sexually verbally physically abused and boom next happen are there they were taking care of a loved one
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and that loved one was dying slowly under their tutelage and care at home and or they lost the or is it or is a
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divisive divorce these things create stress hormones stress hormone the big stress hormone that most people are
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familiar with today's cortisol cortisol is actually a good hormone to have because it creates a mild inflammatory
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response in the body when you're attacked by anything viruses cuts bruises bacteria and then that mild
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response tells your immune system to come to attack that area or heal that area but when you get stressed that
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cortisol goes way up it creates an inflammatory response the person is already compromised person
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already has parents have Hashimoto's or autoimmune disease etc then they have the genetic ability to be attacked and
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so that inflammation causes the immune response immune response attacks your thyroid thyroid the number one thing
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gets attacked across the board because it's just so sentient metabolically sensitive
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surgeries surgeries can do that surgery you're on the surgery let's say you're out you know you're under anesthetic
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you're out you're like you're like you know this close to being dead when you're they bring your or all of your
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vitals down but what happens is when you're under when you are under under the knife as they say your body no you
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said your nervous system knows that even though you're consciously under anesthesia your nervous system that was
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that and your nervous system is going like ah I'm being attacked what's going on here like I'm not
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supposed to be being attacked nobody supposed to be cutting me open and your immune system will your cortisol levels
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will go up I've seen estimates of 2 to 3 to 4 to 500 times 100 times and so in that cortisol goes up that much then
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that'll set off of me responses and that's a common thing I heard here at all time I had that I was doing fine I
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had hip surgery and all sudden like you know I'm putting on weight my hair was falling out my gods bad and and I'm
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fatigued and and and then they go ask their doctor and if the hip surgery could have had anything to do it then
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the doctor always says no and if doctor probably legitimately doesn't think there's anything that it could have been
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put so that's another one that's another one and so and injuries injuries to see a lot of people kind of car accidents
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hurt my back you know no I'm just talking to a gentleman this morning he was playing football and and then took a
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particular head got a concussion next thing you know boom so it could be an injury whiplash it could be that you
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hurt herself that way so those are the biggies injuries stress surgeries overwhelming infection would be the last
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big one overwhelming infection for me I got into this was even never seen me before I got into this because I have a
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lot of this stuff and I do have Hashimoto's and and it was it was I was under a lot of
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stress at the time and then I got pneumonia and boom that was it off to the races I had you know I started
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getting the I started getting a lot of symptoms of Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism and then that morphed
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into a little bit of kind of like a like a fibromyalgia peripherally type of thing so so I had two triggers right
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there but overwhelming infections obviously flare-up immune responses in an effort
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to dampen those in fact to kill the infections and then in the meantime again you always hear me say if the if
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the person has genetic like propensity they've the genes that say it's okay to attack me because I have family members
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have autoimmunity then those are the people that get it now those are triggers those are not causes now when
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we get in the causes now you're talking the different viruses and the bacterias and things that make us susceptible like
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immune barrier stuff another words like you got those types of things food sensitivities are not causes some
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they're not they're certainly not triggers food sensitivities can be can can take that back food senses can
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trigger autoimmunity but usually that that doesn't happen until one of these other things has set off an overall
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general response and then you eat the food sensitivity and it flares you up you don't eat the food and you're kind
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of fine so so those are a little bit more they're a little different than what I
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think this question is asking for I think this question was like I was walking along everything was fine one
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day and then all the sudden it wasn't and now I have all these all these hash marks enzymes and how did that happen so
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I think I've answered that question and if I haven't you let me know but I think that I think that is probably it so okay
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see you with another one in a couple of days you