Hashimoto's and Stress - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Who's not stressed today, right? It's a funny thing, people get that they're stressed and, they get that it creates a physiological response in them, and then it makes them want to choke people, and kill people, and do stuff like that. But they're also, you know, it's like my heart's beating and I'm huffing and puffing and I have no energy, but there's not a connection. A lot of times with the fact that the stress is either triggering, causing or perpetuating their conditions. Not only is there not an exception for that with Hashimoto's thyroiditis or just Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, stress is probably the first thing I look at when a person walks in here and I do do functional neurology. I am involved in that and functional neurology.

One of the big aspects of it is to assess people's stress responses and how it affects their entire physiology. For those of you who've watched us, and maybe you've seen our back to basics, we kind of have an idea as to how to attack auto-immunity and there's an organization to it. You've probably heard me talk about hierarchy, probably tired of hearing me talk about hierarchy in order and how you attack things. Stress is right at the top, like literally right at the top. It's like the three first things I look at, the five first things I look at is stress, sleep, relationships, blood sugar, and oxygen. I mean, I don't even go anywhere else until I look at those. It's because if you're deficient on all of that, I can't help you with your relationships.

If you have a bad relationship with your husband, or your wife, or your boss, or your workers, or coworkers or wherever, and it's ongoing, that's something that has to be kind of handled before we get into the whole involvement and getting in, finding out all your triggers. That's like the biggest trigger that there is because it causes stress. Stress is number one, so it's stress, sleep and relationship, stress, relationships, sleep. They need to be addressed. Why? Because stress, when you go into stress, it alters your entire physiology. There's not that many things that affect every single one of the trillions of cells in you. Stress happens to be one of them and thyroid happens to be another one of them. Stress will trigger, basically what stress does, is it shuts down your whole gut system and it shuts down your bladder, your urinary bladder.

Stress creates an issue where your stomach's not working. How many people do not know that stress causes ulcers? Well, long before you got ulcers, that's altered physiology in your stomach so that you're not digesting food, you're not sterilizing food, your bowels aren't moving. Stress is probably the number one cause of constipation in this country. For all of you who are taking MiraLAX, for all of you who are buying stock in smooth move tea and magnesium supplements and all that, look and see if you're stressed. Stress is the number one cause of that, stress shuts down your intestines, your intestines can't work. Now it's off to the races. You can get, without getting into it, you can get small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, you can get constipation, imbalance in bacteria, you name it. It'll cause your candida to flare up.

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