Which Test for Hashimoto’s?

Which test do you do to to figure out whether a person's got Hashimoto's or not there's and there's there's a few
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nuances to this that we may cover later on some of our other series presentations on this but the tests
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themselves there's two so when you go to the doctor and they do the TSH they do your thyroid stimulating hormone
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e t4 t3 those are for thyroid function and they have nothing to do with whether you have Hashimoto's or not so the test
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that the doctor should run to determine whether you have it is twofold one it's called a TPO t like in Tom P like in
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Paul o like an Oreo cookie and and and that it stands for thyroid peroxidase enzyme and and then and that's the
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enzyme that takes the T so your so your thyroid hormone that is mostly made here thought it was called t4 so it takes two
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t which is tyrosine and it puts it together with four iodine's and that makes your T for that that
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enzyme is what does that so that enzyme gets tagged by anybody's to be attacked by your immune system so they so that's
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one tyroid peroxidase enzyme TPO enzyme they're one in the same test the second test is the anti thyroglobulin test so
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globulin is a means protein basic league this is not an attack there's not an antibody tagging an enzyme for an attack
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it's an antibody attacking our attaching to your actual thyroid tissue the actual tissue in which the enzymes and the
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chemical reactions that make your thyroid hormone take place so that's called an anti fibro globulin harm
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the ranges on those are significantly different and that's something that we'll be covering in the in the future
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this was basically the genesis of this presentation was it was a question that as well you know what do i do what do i
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do fine is there a test is there a test for Hashimoto's yes and what is it it that's what it is it's a dose to if you
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go to the lab core they and they actually have a panel there it's just called thyroid thyroid antibodies and if
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you order that panel these are the two these are the two ranges that you would get so that's it for today tpo anybody's