- Tonight everyone, and everyone got the rundown,
about our little Gigi I'm sure.
- Yes. - So she's turning
five months old on Monday, growing like a weed, tons of fun.
That's how we prop her up if we try to want to eat dinner
together, stuff her between some pillows, works out
pretty good, she seems pretty happy.
And that's our dog (mumbles).
So that's what we do in our free time, that's what those do
takes up a lot of time. - That's a lot.
- Yeah it's a full time gig there. (laughs)
Alright so we're gonna talk about thyroid health tonight,
and we've been doing one talk a month on a health condition
and the reason why is there's a pretty healthy interest
in people who want to take care of their health
naturally right?
It's appealing, a lot of folks are coming around to the idea
that medications aren't really a good long term answer
for these chronic type of diseases.
But the problem seems to happen when you try to dive into it
by yourself and maybe you're following someone online,
it gets really confusing when you're doing natural health
on your own, nobody sets realistic expectations,
you start with one path and then maybe here's something else
that sounds good and you want to try some of that.
So we figure the more that we can get some information
out there on natural health and how to do it the right way,
more people will feel comfortable using that approach.
And trying to leave the medication side for emergencies,
when it's grand, it's great in a life threatening emergency,
medications the best, I'm the first one lining up to get it,
but for chronic diseases, not the best.
So are you one of the many?
So common thyroid issues are fatique, weight gain,
constipation, hair loss, muscle pain, brain fog,
high cholesterol, dry skin, edema, joint pain.
So tons of different systems that you can have with
a thyroid condition, right?
And there's lots of people out there with thyroid
conditions.
It's the most commonly prescribed name brand drug
in our country, 23 million prescriptions each month,
and that's in a country that really loves it's drugs,
we take over half of all the prescription medications
in the world.
Americans will just take whatever you tell them is gonna
fix their problem, even if it doesn't really do that.
So what's interesting to me about thyroid medication
especially is when you go get your lab work done
and your TSH shows that you're hypothyroid for example,
you're offered this medication, that (mumbles) Armour,
and you never really get a reason why your thyroid
isn't working, you might get told it's just what happens
with age or your genetics, but really, that's just a way
of saying we don't know what's wrong, so, we're gonna
give you this medication, and you're pretty much gonna have
to take it the rest of your life, and maybe it'll help
your symptoms, but there's plenty of people on those
medications who still have symptoms, who still aren't
healthy, and the reason why is you never address
the underlying cause of why the thyroid's not functioning
as well as it should be in the first place.
So medication, especially in a situation like this,
it's not helping your thyroid so just because you're
on a thyroid medication, you're artificially manipulating
an increase of thyroid hormone in your body, it's doing
nothing to help heal your thyroid, so never stop looking
for ways to heal the thyroid, right?
Because that medication, it's not helping, it's gonna give
you some different lab results, but there's way to get
the thyroid functioning better, and to me that sounds like
a better idea.
So in a situation like that, medication in the best case
scenario it makes you feel a little better while your health
continues to worsen, because you never addressed
the reason why the thyroid's not working.
So we'll jump right into reasons why the thyroid might not
be working right, so one is heavy metals, this is a pretty
common one, it's not the biggest one, but it's worth
talking about.
So heavy metals, mercury, aluminum, lead.
We're all pretty aware of those at this point.
So they're in the food that we eat, the tuna has a lot
of mercury, gotta watch that.
It's in the water that we drink if you're not drinking
purified water.
It's in the air that you breathe unfortunately,
we're all exposed to it on some level.
It's in certain pharmaceuticals that you may be taking,
and it's also passed down from generation to generation
in the womb, so you could be dealing with a mercury burden
that originally started with your grandparents
or great grandparents and it gets passed down.
So sometimes we just come into life with toxins and with
problems, and a lot of times that kind of gets talked
about, like well it's just your genetics, well,
kind of, the idea is right, but it's not your genes fault,
it's something that can be addressed.
So the thing about metals is it's real easy for them
to bind onto receptor sites on the thyroid gland,
and they love to do it and the thyroid gland lets them
do it real easily.
And once you have that going on, it will interfere
with your thyroid production.
So what we do in office if we suspect someone has
a heavy metal burden and we want to check it out,
we'll do a hair analysis for metals and we snip a few
pieces of hair, send it off to a lab, they do the reading,
they send the results back that says you're high in this,
this or this or whatever it is, and that lets us know
that's where we need to focus our attention with diet
and supplements right now.
So there's ways to figure out if you have a real obvious
heavy metal overload.
So this is the big one with thyroid conditions.
Epstein-Barr virus.
And with lots of other conditions too.
This is a big cause of a lot of problems these days.
So Epstein-Barr virus, it causes glandular fever among
other things, and that's a name that it was given.
And what's the thyroid?
It's a gland, so there's a big affinity, it gets drawn
into that thyroid real easy, it likes to hang out there.
It's also known for causing mononucleosis so if you have
active infection when you're in your college years
or high school years, it gets called a mono and that's
when you're laid up in bed for a few weeks and you just
feel like death, can't do anything, but you can have
that flareup any time of life.
So there's one test to show if it's active in the blood
or if you've ever had it in the blood.
Pretty much all of us have Epstein-Barr virus in our bodies
all the time, it's just a battle of is our immune system
strong enough to keep it weak, or are we losing that battle?
But what we can't test for is that Epstein-Barr virus
is hanging out causing problems in organs or glands.
There's no test for that right now.
They've done biopsies of thyroids in patients with
Hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is the number one cause
of hypothyroid, so when they take out a chunk of
the thyroid, the person like that and they look at it,
they found very high concentrations of the Epstein Barr
virus, so we know it likes to hang out in there.
Oh and by the way, Hashimoto's hypothyroid,
that's technically an autoimmune condition.
So what do we say about autoimmune conditions in like
the medical community?
It's your immune system has kind of lost control
and it's attacking your healthy tissue now.
Like sorry, good luck to you, you're gonna have these
symptoms for forever, it's pretty bleak.
But what we're starting to learn is that your immune
system's actually doing exactly what it's designed to do,
it's going after viruses that are causing a problem.
So your immune system's sending it's army to attack
that virus, if it's in your thyroid, or it can be
in your pancreas, your small intestine, wherever it's
hanging out, and it's sending the immune cells to go kill
that virus, knock it down, make it weaker.
And what can happen with that is you can have some
collateral damage kind of like friendly fire, where some
of the good tissue of the organ or the gland will also
get damaged along with that.
But that's what we're starting to think might be happening
with a lot of autoimmune conditions, is it's actually
attacking a virus in there, yeah?
- [Woman] What is Hashimoto's?
- So Hashimoto's is basically, it's the name of a doctor
who discovered that there was an autoimmune inflammatory
attack on thyroid tissue, so that's been around since
the early 1900s I think, it's been around a while.
So it's basically the name for an autoimmune caused
hypothyroid, but you can have hypothyroid and hyperthyroid
symptoms with it.
So it's just a doctor's name.
And you'll get labeled that, I'll go over that in a second.
So like I said, most common cause of hypothyroid,
the way you know you have it is a simple blood test,
and you check two antibodies for thyroid tissue.
And if either of those come back, you're diagnosed
or labeled Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroiditis.
Now if you've had a thyroid condition for a while
and you've never been tested for that, there's a reason
why, and the reason why is simply because there's no
medication for Hashimoto's, it gets treated the same as
regular hypothyroid, so most endocrinologists as far
as I know don't really check for the antibodies
because it doesn't change any other treatment.
But I think it's good to know if you have that component
going on.
And like I said, you can have hypothyroid, it can switch
between hypo and hyperthyroid symptoms, and sometimes
this is the one that's tough to pick up if you're
just doing like your basic thyroid blood panels, so,
it won't always show up that you have a thyroid condition.
Excuse me.
So maybe you don't have Hashimoto's.
Maybe you have just regular hypothyroid.
So this is like the most important thing to kind of
start hearing about chronic health conditions.
So if it's a thyroid issue, if it's hormone issues,
if it's fatigue, if it's brain fog, whatever it is,
those are secondary symptoms to something that's causing
that set of symptoms.
So you always have to be looking for what's the driving
factor behind all that.
And that's a big part of what we do in the office
with our blood work and trying to see what's going on
and where we need to start to fix the foundation, so,
If it's just non-autoimmune hypothyroid it could be
secondary to something like blood sugar disregulation,
can still be a chronic viral infection.
Heavy metals, radiation will wear out the thyroid.
Liver congestion, all those can cause that hypothyroid.
So this just happened the other week and I had to share it,
because it was too perfect, so I'm sure I'm not the only
one who has to deal with weeds in my front yard,
and I refuse to use Roundup, I will not give them my money.
So I hopped online and I Googled organic yard care
in Durham, called the company, they came out, they met
with me, I was like well how does this even work?
How can I realistically expect to keep a nice looking
front yard without my neighbor's weeds coming in?
And you know just going back to this weedy front yard again?
He said it's really simple, the whole idea is we have to,
we're gonna test your soil, your soil is not healthy
right now, that's why you have a lot of weeds growing.
And we're gonna test your soil and we're gonna see
what nutrients it needs to make it healthy.
And once we make the soil healthy, it's gonna create
an environment where your grass seeds are more likely
to grow, and it's gonna, that same environment is gonna
make it more difficult for those weeds to grow.
I was like, how do we understand this with yard care,
but we don't get this concept with health?
Like it's so simple, and that's the truth.
It's not easy, they also told me it'd take about 3 years
to get at that, so, (laughs)
but I'm okay with that, I'm okay with that.
Nothing that's worth it comes quick I don't think.
So don't focus on attacking the weeds, yeah your symptoms
are important and they can guide us, but they're just that,
they're symptoms of some other problem that's going on.
So if you're constantly just trying to find new ways
to drive down those symptoms, I'll guarantee it,
you're gonna be doing that the rest of your life
for one symptom or another.
But if you take this approach to your health and you figure
out what you need to do internally on a foundational level,
yeah you're still gonna get some weeds, you're still
gonna have some health challenges.
But I promise you they're not gonna be anything like
what most people are dealing with, and you're gonna be able
to control them and you're gonna be in charge
of your health.
That's like, as far as I'm concerned,
what's better than that?
I mean what's more important than your health?
Hyperthyroid or graves disease, so that's straight
autoimmune, it's not too common, but it's definitely
out there, same thing, you gotta support the immune system,
you gotta look for what's driving the autoimmune condition.
So supplements, and we don't really do it like this
in the office, we always look at bloodwork and figure out
where we need to really concentrate our supplements.
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