Hashimoto's and Constipation - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Where the Hashimoto's might be the cause of your constipation. It's stunning to me how many people have no idea that they've had constipation, like forever and that their thyroid was the problem. Hashimoto's, immune attack against your thyroid, heart palpitations, anxiety, and panic attacks to different degrees. For some of you there's actually, some of you don't have those symptoms yet, that's called silent autoimmunity. But in the end, the core of Hashimoto's is that it's a hypo thyroid problem, the thyroid itself gets beat up by the immune system. Depending on the degree of destruction to your thyroid, you will get a variety of the symptoms I just got done talking about but you will always get a hypo thyroid. Your thyroid will always ultimately go into hypo function. Okay, I'm going to take them back. There is a thin hyperactive Hashimoto's patient.

They are far in the minority, but 90%, 95% of the time you're going to get hypo thyroid. The word hypo pretty much defines it. The thyroid controls all your energy and it controls your temperature, right? But it controls your energy, it literally, so when it slows down, it slows everything down. I can talk about hypothyroidism constipation, hypothyroidism of female hormones, and hypothyroidism and poor digestion, and stuff like that relative to that. Hypothyroid, I think, is the number two cause of constipation that I see in my practice. Number one cause is stress, by the way, chronic stress and chronic stress can cause the hypothyroid, the Hashimoto's, which can both cause constipation. The hypothyroid does it just by slowing the whole digestive chain down. It basically slows down the ability of your stomachs, what are called parietal cells to make hydrochloric acid.

You don't make that, you can't sterilize your food, hydrochloric acid sterilizes your food before it gets to your gallbladder, your pancreas and your intestines. It digests your proteins, it creates a proper acidic balance in there. For those of you who are the alkaline people, we need an acidic bolus to go down into the slightly acidic intestines so that we have a nice natural environment that kill viruses and bacteria's and parasites, well that doesn't happen when the thyroid starts slowing down. There's a signal that goes from the stomach to the gallbladder. So the stomach tells the gallbladder not to work because it doesn't have enough hydrochloric acid and the bolus is not acidic and the bolus is not chopped up. But also, the thyroid directly causes your gallbladder to get slower and to not eject your bile the way it should be. It's called an ejection fraction. For those of you who had your gallbladder's checked, had them taken out, you know what an ejection fraction is, cause that's what they measure. They measure how your gallbladder is pumping and they look at stones and stuff like that. But this will cause you to create stones, despite what you eat and then same thing with the pancreas. It slows down the pancreas. Now you're not making enough digestive enzymes, you're not making enough hydrochloric acid, gallbladder struggling and they want to take it out.

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