Hashimoto's and Low Dose Naltrexone - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Hashimoto's and Low Dose Naltrexone. So I, this is kind of an interesting topic to me. Uh, and, and so low dose naltrexone is now being used by mostly alternative medical doctors for Hashimoto's. And the reason it's interesting to me is because Hashimoto's is an auto immune disease. So, so having been in the Hashimoto's pool, probably since the inception of people realizing that Hashimoto's was an actual cause of their hypothyroidism, um, have watched the medical community struggle with this because they're kind of boxed into it's a thyroid problem when it's actually an autoimmune problem. And they were, and they were totally boxed into that for probably the first 10 or 11 or 12 years that I was aware of, of, uh, of, of Hashimoto's. So you would go to the doctor, they would, they would look at you, they'd say your thyroid is normal and they would, um, and then all of the symptoms that you got a Hashimoto's, they would treat with a different medication.

So if you had constipation, they give you some for that. And if you had pain, they give you something for that. And if you had migraines or if you had the, um, or if you're overweight, they, they would try to give you something for that. So, so that's kinda how it was the fact that, that it was an auto immune problem was, was not even like considered. And then later on, they started getting a little bit more than the medical community started getting a little bit more like, okay, this is, this is an autoimmune problem, but we're still just going to give you the TSH. And we're still just going to give you like all these drugs for all the different symptoms that the Hashimoto's is actually doing. And then, and then just in the last couple of years now, I'm in Reno, Nevada, and this, this has been an kind of, I know people think of Reno, Nevada.

They probably think more like casinos and divorce and, and, and, and things that we've been gambling, you know, and, and, and, and things that we've been famous for prostitution that we've been famous for forever. Right. They probably don't think that we're an alternative Mecca, but this was like the alternative Mecca of the country for years in the seventies, early eighties. Uh, because if we had all those other things, then why not have alternative medicine, right. When alternative medicine wasn't very popular in any of the other States. So we have a lot of alternative medical practitioners here, and they're kind of forward thinking. So this group seems to have started thinking, you know, this is an auto immune problem, so maybe we should treat the autoimmunity. So a number. So I have a number of colleagues that will try hydrocortisone, which is an autoimmune, which is a, um, uh, anti-inflammatory, uh, steroid ish, uh, medication.

Why, because that dampens auto immune responses, um, that's pretty aggressive. And a lot of the doctors, um, the one that used to work here, as a matter of fact, I had a, I've had, I've had the pleasure working with a couple of osteopaths here over the years. And, um, and one of them really turned me on to, to the low dose naltrexone. So basically low dose naltrexone was another acknowledgement that it's not, it's the thyroid being attacked.

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