Hashimoto's and Eye Issues - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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today we're gonna answer the questions from those of you who asked about Hashimoto's and eye issues, and that's um, it's not terribly common, but it's not terribly uncommon. It's kinda like in between. It's not something, eye issues are not something that are listed as a symptom of Hashimoto's. However, Hashimoto's, I think, has a much farther reach than I think the research has ultimately been willing to put out there because they haven't been able to make definite connections. And so you're gonna hear about Hashimoto's and eye connections eventually, but I see it moderately. I do see it. And we'll see blurred vision, and we'll see double vision. We'll see dry eyes. Those are the main things that we'll see in conjunction with Hashimoto's. The connections, I surmise from treating all of these cases and evaluating how things kind of are connected, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis has a commonality, it's called a molecular mimicry, with something called the cerebellum. Cerebellum is in the back of the head down here. Cerebellum is balance. Cerebellum's not working right, you can get a stiff neck. Cerebellum's not working right, it can affect your ear. You can get balance, dizziness, vertigo. Cerebellum also helps you to fixate on things. So if you have your eyes fixated on that thumb while you're doing this motion, that's you're cerebellum doing the fixation. If your cerebellum's not fixating properly, because the cerebellum controls your eye muscles, if it's not fixating properly, you're gonna have a situation where your eyes are gonna go like that, and you're gonna get blurred vision. That actually, now that I'm thinking about it, that's a pretty common complaint. Blurred vision is a very common complaint. Double vision not so much, and I never know when I'm doing a Hashimoto's patient, if somebody says double vision, if it's connected directly the Hashimoto's or not. And then we've had situations where once we got the immune response under control and everything calmed down, their double vision improved or went away. So I don't know the exact mechanism for that, if that's kind of like a secondary, you fix the Hashimoto's, it decreases inflammation, and than that stabilizes some neuro inflammation in the brain, but I have seen that. The dryness of the eyes is usually more that Hashimoto's is related to a lot of other different autoimmune conditions, and one of them is Sjogren's. And Sjogren's you'll get dry mouth. You can get dry eyes, and I see that. I've seen that connection on multiple different occasions where the person has both of those, the Hashimoto's and has the Sjogren's, or doesn't know that they have the Sjogren's, and then we run the antibodies to find out if they have it and find out that they have the Sjogren's.

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