Hashimoto’s vs Graves

Hashimoto's versus Graves disease and although they are seem to be two cataclysmically different conditions
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they're not in fact they have a bit of overlap so autoimmunity is involved in both of them so both of them are
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autoimmune problems both of them are as a result of the immune system attacking an aspect of that their thyroid
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physiology but in Hashimoto's it's one aspect integrase it's another aspect in Hashimoto's the thyroid peroxidase
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enzyme is attacked and in far less frequently the anti thyroglobulin tissue is attacked and what that means is
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there's an enzyme in Hashimoto's that's attacked that actually makes the thyroid hormone it's called the it's called the
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thyroid peroxidase enzyme and it takes it takes the iodine and the tyrosine so in T so in thyroid hormones are the main
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one that's made and then thyroid is called t4 so it takes the T which is tyrosine and and and that enzyme puts
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that T together with the four which is four iodine's and then that makes your t4 and when you have disruption of that
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when you have an attack on that enzyme you will you will tend to make a lot more thyroid hormone and that when you
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get an attack on and as you're doing that it damages thyroid tissue so you start making less thyroid tissues so
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between you making less thyroid tissue and for the small group that have anti thyroglobulin hormones these are I'm
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sorry enzymes being attacked then the then those enzymes are actually tacking the tissue of your thyroid the actual
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tissue that make your thyroid and and so between those two things you can get you can get
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hypothyroid and it's hired and a hair falling out and and the constipation and the and an edema around the ankles and
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dry skin and all these different things from everything slowing down and and then intermittently in Hashimoto's
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you're going to get an attack on that enzyme that makes more thyroid hormone and and you're going to and you're going
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to get jittery if you get both of them at the same time sometimes when you get the anti thyroglobulin antibodies attack
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meaning the one that's attacking the actual tissue sometimes when you get the destruction of that tissue that
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destruction alone vomits thyroid hormone out into the bloodstream for a little bit of time and that causes the heart
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palpitations and the anxiety and the panic of that so so the uniqueness of Hashimoto's is you get mostly
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hypothyroid symptoms the fatigue the hair falling out the eyebrows going away the skin going away the overweight the
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constipation all that and then intermittently you're going to get hyper thyroid you're usually gonna be
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overweight if you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis there is a small percentage of hype of Hashimoto's patients that
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actually are thin and have more of the symptoms of what we're about to talk about with Graves they're there they
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have more hyperactive symptoms and and and so they share that characteristic with Grace's these although they're two
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distinctly different diseases so so Hashimoto's hypothyroid intermittent attacks that cause Jarius now we have
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Graves disease Graves disease is a much more serious condition that's not that it's not that
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Hashimoto's isn't serious it's it's very serious that's why we talk about it all the time but Grey's is a potential life
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and death type of a serious it you someone has Graves disease is getting a different enzyme attached the thyroid
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stimulating hormone that creates that tells your thyroid to make thyroid hormone is getting attacked the thyroid
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stimulating hormone is getting attacked and it is continually being told to make more thyroid hormone more thyroid
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hormone or thyroid hormone so it's just like somebody's got their you know their foot on the on the gas pedal and they
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just won't take their foot up it's like their own 150 miles an hour you know all the time and and that's what's going on
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that now if you get if you have that happened now you can also have thyroid peroxidase antibodies be positive for
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grace disease just for the record okay not that it's it's hugely important but it just you can eat those enzymes also
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attack there so now you have those enzymes that are making more thyroid hormone now you have the thyroid
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stimulating hormone that is continually stimulating your thyroid and now it's just crazy and and so people try to
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doctors try to dampen it down with different types of drugs one's called meth I'm asalaam basically it stops you
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from making thyroid hormone if that doesn't work then it's almost always going to be a thyroidectomy of some sort
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and in this particular case I think those thyroidectomies are well are a good protocol okay I do treat Grey's
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patients okay but I do not treat a Grey's patient unless I am Co managing it with a medical doctor there is a
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condition called a thyroid storm and if you get a thyroid storm where that enzyme just keeps getting attacked like
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just consistently for hours and hours and hours and hours you can get your heart's gonna start pounding out of your
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chest you can get a heart attack and died and so Graves is a much more aggressive much more acute
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they're both autoimmune but different parts of the process of your brain and your pituitary gland telling your
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thyroid what to do different parts of the process are being attacked and so you get two different animals I mean
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that's really pretty much it sometimes graves and and Hashimoto's thyroiditis especially with the thin Hashimoto's
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patient are confused and and the testing sometimes isn't as clear but most of the time when you when you when you do the
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testing for for the thyroid stimulating hormones for the Graves disease that's positive you up Graves and so so that's
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the difference between graves it's it's in it to me as serious as Hashimoto's is it's a drastic it's a drastic difference
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between Hashimoto's and graves and a grace patient walks in here I'm kind of on like I'm kind of on my like Milo and
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tenner going up because it's like okay do we treat this person because it's still an autoimmune problem and but that
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person is it's still an autoimmune problem a lot of times you can still dampen it by doing the by doing the same
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things by biting that you would do to get autumn unity under control yeah I'm gonna find out if loosens food
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sensitivities fix their gut get their blood sugar under control all those types of things because there's
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different gradients of graves as there are different gradients from mild to severe ashy Moto's and graves but I but
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I don't care how mild it is birds coming in here they need to be being co-managed by a biomechanical doctor on that
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because a lot of times the person will be taking the medication it's not working then their next thing is is do
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they want to get a surgery and get it out and and then some people that will show up in here go can we do anything to
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make sure I don't have surgery and then we go into our dressing the immune response for them and sometimes it works
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and sometimes it doesn't and that's why I like to and that's why I like that to have a good relationship
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with their with their medical doctor when we're doing that case so that's yeah you know that's the cliffnotes of
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graves versus Hashimoto's but I think that's kind of the guts of what what somebody needs to know to understand the