Hashimoto's and Hair Loss - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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I think most of you probably know that I have Hashimoto's. And that I was actually one of the early diagnosis of Hashimoto's. Back when the doctor told me I had it, I didn't even... Never even heard of it. And, the doctor said, no, nobody's heard of it, but everybody's got it. That was a while ago. And he was right. And I had the classic symptoms. Actually what happened to me was I got pneumonia and I was under a lot of stress and boom, it triggered a whole autoimmune cascade in me, not just Hashimoto's but celiac and other things.

And it's interesting, the two things that I noticed the most was actually I put on weight like immediately, but my hair started thinning. And I was suddenly finding that I had large clumps of hair in my sink and on my brush and stuff like that. And my eyebrows were going away. This was years ago. And you'll notice, maybe you'll notice, I don't know, my hair is kind of back. I mean, there was a point where you can look and see my scalp and my eyebrows were gone.

So I mean it's just part and parcel to the hypothyroid aspect of Hashimoto's, essentially everything slows down. Your hair loss can come from poor liver function. So thyroid slows everything down, next thing you know, you're not getting proper liver function, now you're not breaking down enzymes, you're not making proteins that make your hair. You could get... And it's not a direct autoimmune attack on the hair. It's altering your physical, it's altering your hormonal function. In women, it's altering your estrogen receptor sites, so where the estrogen gets into your cell, starts not working right. In both men and women it starts gunking up your liver's ability to clear, to produce vitamins. Biotin is like... Everybody gets biotin when they got [inaudible 00:02:09].

So, liver produces B vitamins, so it's not producing B vitamins. It's glunked up. There's toxins, it's toxic. And the next thing you know, you're not getting the nutrients and you start losing hair.

But it's not like a direct hit on your hair. Okay? So you can get alopecia. If you've ever seen anybody who has like specific chunks of hair that just come out all at once. That's autoimmunity. Now, you don't get one autoimmunity in isolation. I've almost never seen it. There's always like autoimmunity of Hashimoto's and rheumatoid arthritis. Or Hashimoto's and celiac. Or Hashimoto's and get antibodies to your cerebellum. Or Hashimoto's and get antibodies to your pancreas, in which you start getting blood sugar issues.

So you can have that kind of cross reaction. I've seen it a number of times where the person has had that alopecia along with Hashimoto's, but I don't think that's what the question was asking. I think it was question was asking, is Hashimoto's causing my hair loss? So, indirectly, yes. Indirectly, it's one of the most common things. You will go in the hypothyroid and one of the classic signs of Hashimoto's is my hair starts falling out.

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