Can Hashimoto's Cause Anxiety? - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Is Hashimoto's related to anxiety? Can Hashimoto's cause anxiety? Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. What is anxiety? Okay. Anxiety is an over-firing of a certain part of your brain, and you have something called the amygdala and that amygdala is the fear center of your brain. And when the amygdala has been either programmed and it's in a chronic fight, flight response, because maybe you're in the middle of the coronavirus issue or other issues in your life, then that fear center starts to fire to give us the adrenaline that we need to get through it.

Unfortunately, a lot of times that fear center stays engaged and the definition of anxiety is fear of the unknown. Well, there's a lot of fear of the unknown right now and there's a lot of fear in the unknown in life. I mean, most of us don't even know we're going to be here tomorrow. So there's a lot of anxiety. So we think of it that way, that was my whole point of that beginning diatribe. We think of it that way. We think of it as a personality disorder. It is not a personality disorder, period. If I have 10 people come in here with Hashimoto's or chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, eight or nine of them have anxiety as prominent symptoms that they want to address.

So how's the Hashimoto's connect? So there's a lot of things that contribute to anxiety. Low blood pressure contributes to anxiety. Low blood sugar contributes to anxiety, chemically. And what these things do is they alter chemistry in your frontal lobe, in your brain. So if you start to get too much inflammation in your frontal lobe, you start to get a lack of oxygen in your frontal lobe, you don't have enough central fatty acids or you get too much inflammation. For those people who've watched me, you probably understand that I say that a lot, those four things.

That frontal lobe, it's the part of your brain that's supposed to shut down that stress response and shut down the anxiety. So Hashimoto's kind of attacks from two directions when it comes to anxiety. Number one, it creates inflammation in your frontal lobe and some people would say throughout your whole brain, but it certainly creates inflammatory responses in your frontal lobe, and it decreases blood supply to your frontal lobe. So from a purely functional neurology point of view, you have this frontal lobe that's supposed to be shutting down the stress response and the anxiety response, and it can't do so because it doesn't have the proper chemistry because you have Hashimoto's.

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