TPO 10,000?!?!? - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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A TPO of 10,000, like doc, save me, please, I'm dying. Help, It's 10,000. I just had one the other day and it was 20,000. Just had one the other day that was 20,000. That's pretty scary if you have no idea what that means and our, you know, our tendencies. There's a lot of tests that I run, one of them is food sensitivity tests that have just so many different interpretations and you have to know what those interpretations are. I had one of these this morning, like a note on it, like, well, this says this food sensitivity test says, I should eat this. This one says, I shouldn't eat this. And which one is it? And both of them were different food sensitivity tests. They had completely different meanings and they were totally congruent in the end. You need to know the nuances of how that can happen because we're used to looking at blood tests forever, right?

You're used to walking in and your doctor goes, your blood sugar is one 102 so you're a little bit over. But, let's not worry about it yet because it's just early pre-diabetes. That's where we're at. It's like look at these numbers, but we're finding out in chronic conditions that, especially Hashimoto's, you just can't do that. There's just so many nuances to how you look delve into these tests and understand these numbers. Thyroid peroxidase enzyme, that's the most commonly attacked thyroid enzyme in auto-immunity. There's an anti thyroglobulin one, and then there's another one for Graves, but TPO is it? You say TPO, most people know what you're talking about in that field so that gets attacked. Then, that starts to make you make more thyroid hormone, you start getting jittery. I have patients that come in and they lay down in front of me, like the one the other day. It was 20,000 but she didn't have heart palpitations, she didn't have anxiety, she wasn't thin and couldn't put on weight. She didn't have graves' disease. It was like, Oh my God, I have 20,000. I gotta get it down, I gotta get it down. Not necessarily. So the thyroid peroxidase enzyme gets attacked by antibodies to tell your, in Hashimoto's, to tell your immune system to attack that cell in your thyroid.

The TPO enzyme will go up as antibodies affect it, It will go up. However, it's not a measurement of damage to your thyroid. It doesn't, it tells you that your immune system is signaling your white blood cells essentially to kill your thyroid. But that doesn't mean that they're doing it. It just means that you got a lot of antibodies flying around, telling your thyroid to do it. Now, your thyroid, your immune system might be so suppressed and fatigued, It may not be doing it. There's a number of reasons that it might not be doing it. I might have a patient who's coming in and they figured out a lot of their food sensitivities and or whatever it is.

They figured out chemical sensitivities, or they've taken vitamin D and it may dampen the white blood cell response. Despite the fact that the person's making a ton of these, of these antibodies that are raising your TPO.

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