Hashimoto's - Should I Take Medication? - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Today is going to be Hashimoto's. Should I take medication? This is kind of a new one for me, in a sense that the answer previously was different than what I'm going to give you today. I'll call it kind of encapsulate the entire subject here. Up until now, up until not that long ago, if a person came in here and they weren't on medication, and many of you who seek out alternative cares, don't want medication. Now, everyone thinking medication is bad and, I'm not never been entirely in that boat. There are different aspects of being ill. There's a very, very acute aspect of being ill and what you get, like a significant overwhelming infection. Sometimes maybe it's good to go get a medication and knock it out. Even if it's an antibiotic and then take a bunch of antibiotics and be done with it.

In my opinion, having done this, I've been there. I've tried knocking a lot of infections out with high doses of natural antibiotics and Oregano and these types of things and it doesn't seem optimum. It seems like when you have an acute, acute flare type of an issue, it seems to me like, it might be better to get the medication out of the way, clean up the damage, and then go on with it in a natural flow. In thyroid, I get the same thing. I get a lot of people come in, I don't want to be on thyroid medication ever. I want to be done. I don't want, and that's not always possible. If you've watched previous talks that I've done on this, our common procedure was if you are on a medication, stay on it. We will then modulate what we can, we'll find your triggers, we'll evaluate your case, we'll go through all of the things, the lifestyle, the triggers, the diet, finding stealth pathogens, whatever we have to do to get the immune system under control. Then at that point, you can determine whether you can do the job with herbs and botanicals, cause everything's been calmed down, or you can just stay on the medication because at this point in time, at that point in time after everything's been to the degree that it can be calmed down, put in remission, then your doctor can dose you much, much better, much, much better and it seems to be advantageous to do it that way in certain patients. I would tell people, if you were not on medication when you came here, 60 to 70% of our patients that were not on medication, or were on a small amount of medication for less than two years, that we could normally, 60 to 70% of time, we can get that person off the medication.

That's kind of changed over the last couple of months and this is not going to go across the board in the alternative field. I've affiliated myself for years with people who do research, people who are not just doing research, but also are clinicians who, in other words, they do the research but they actually treat and they use these protocols, and then they bring them to those of us who see their data as valuable. Over the last couple months, my mentor Dr. Kharrazian, who is very, very well known for being the person who wrote the book, "Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms When My Lab Tests Are Normal" has come out and not suggested when you're evaluating a Hashimoto's case, the TSH is now more important than we thought it was.

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