What causes Hashimoto's - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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What causes Hashimoto's? I don't feel like maybe I've put out a succinct enough explanation of this. Just based on like, thinking back to some of the presentations I've made and, and, and I wanted to do this to either update or clarify that question for people Hashimoto's patients come into us. And back in the day before we knew a whole lot about Hashimoto's and how to determine if the person even had it the numbers were all over the place. Nobody knew what the ranges were. A lot of people still don't know what the ranges are. They're still all over the, I mean, I've talked to somebody in Alabama the other day where the range of zero to a hundred the Mayo clinic is now agreeing that the range is zero to nine.

I, in my city, there was a hospital zero to nine. There's another hospital, zero to 34, and there's another hospital to zero to 24. So there was a lot of confusion on that. And, and, and those types of things made it really challenging. So we went a lot on symptoms. And one of the things we started to recognize was if mom had a thyroid problem and the grandma had a thyroid problem and their sister had a thyroid problem, this person's probably got it. So we understood in the beginning that genetics was a big player. So, and then, and then there's the genetics. So we used to do the HLA DQ testing, and we would go, oh my God, you got the positive codes for it. You have it. And then now we know that that's not necessarily true. You can have the genetic code for it, not get it and not have it, so you can be treating it.

And for a lot of people out there who are still going by the genetics, there are a lot of doctors out there treating people by the genetics for things that they don't have, their thing there's things that they could have, but they don't have. So having said that genetics genetics are involved. You usually have to have one of the genes that say, you can get Hashimoto's to get Hashimoto's. So this is why you'll see it in your family. And if you've got it, you'll see your sister's got it. Or maybe your grandmother's got it. Great. Grandma's got it. Her brother, you know, and, and usually that's a prerequisite. There used to be like two genes that we talk about. I think it was the HLA B 27. I forgot what the other one was, because it was so long ago. Why do I forget it?

Because now there's 90 genes that are listed that indicate a vulnerability to Hashimoto's 90. So, so that doesn't mean you should go out and get genetic testing. Okay. It just means that if you really want to know the, cause there's been some sort of an evolutionary issue to where hypo thyroid are turning into into PR into problems. And maybe these genes have been there forever, but we haven't been doing the things that turn, turn it on. So so the things that make us more vulnerable to and that contribute to the expression of these genes is smoking. I mean, you're going to, I mean, you're going to get a lot of these things, but the reality is these are the things that make you vulnerable to these 90 genes being able to turn on smoking alcohol, you know, alcohol is one for sure a lack of selenium.

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