How is Gluten Related to Hashimoto's?

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Hashimoto's and gluten, and that was really one of the first things that we understood as functional medicine practitioners in the early days was a problem. We didn't completely know exactly why at that point in time. This was before anybody heard of gluten. This is when you told somebody to get off of a gluten or get onto a gluten free diet. And first they would look at and go, "What's gluten?" And second, when you told them what it was, they would ask you if you were crazy because it's all the fun food. So gluten. So gluten is actually, technically can be one of the causes of Hashimoto's. Hashimoto's can be triggered by a number of things, and I've had people on some of these questions, they asked me what causes Hashimoto's?

And technically, here's how it works. Gluten is a trashy, trashy carb. So first of all, it screws up your blood sugar. It is modified. It's genetically modified. As you know, gluten, or if you don't know, gluten is a very sticky protein. That's why they use it to make bread and stick breads together. And those wonderful pizza crusts that I can't eat. It sticks those things together. And cakes and sauces and soups and it's in non-gluten free soy sauces and stuff like that. So it's sticky. And the protein has become larger and stickier as time has gone on. So when we eat it, our stomachs and our pancreatic enzymes don't break it down very well. It's not like the wheat. It's not like our grandmother's wheat. Okay? Or even my mother's wheat. It's a whole different animal.

So when it doesn't break down on the inside of your intestines, there's this thing that most of you now probably know, 70% of your immune system is on the inside of your intestines. So there are sort of different aspects of the immune system. One is when something comes into the intestines and it doesn't look like it belongs there, there are these other cells that come out like this and actually look like little octopuses and they come out and they put their little tentacles on that undigested protein and go like, "Well, it's not virus. It's not a bacteria. But it doesn't belong here." So it literally grabs it, and then it presents it. They're called antigen, virus, bacteria, gluten, now, are antigens, things that want to hurt you. They take that and they take it over and they present it to the cells that decide whether we're going to attack it or not. They're called CD4 cells, but they're your immune system. That's the immune that tries to keep you healthy by making sure that nothing's going in here that's going to make you sick.

And when they look at that, they go, "Man, that doesn't belong here," and they attack it. Now, when they attack that, they create an inflammatory response. That's what happens, like when you get a virus and the fever is an inflammatory response when it's attacking it. So these cells say, "You know what? We're going to attack you." There's an inflammatory response. And then what happens is that inflammatory response will let the thyroid know that there's something down here that looks exactly like the thyroid and I'm attacking it. And so I'm going to attack the thyroid too. How could it possibly look exactly like the thyroid?

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