Hashimoto's Encephalopathy - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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The question was tell me about Hashimoto's encephalopathy and that's interesting cause it's something in all the years I've been studying, things have always kind of just blown off because encephalopathy means abnormality of the brain and Cephalon means brain apathy means abnormality, right? I kind of equated to peripheral neuropathies in a sense that peripheral neuropathies are abnormal dysfunctions of the peripheral nervous system, like the hands and the feet, but there's a hundred different things that cause peripheral neuropathies. Hashimoto's encephalopathy has always struck me kind of like that. And I never really had my attention directed to it until this kept coming up as a question as to what is it. So decided to kind of look into it a little bit further, especially since I actually am going to be studying this specifically in about a week in a class I'm going to, and I happened to have data on, so I'm actually using notes on this particular subject because I wanted to be very clear on it because it's something I've always kind of thought, ah, what's an encephalopathy.

I mean, one of my teachers, one of the teachers that I look to for good data in addressing brain function, encephalopathy as a brain abnormality would say, don't overthink it. It's all inflammation, all the things that caused the brain that were problem, it's all inflammation. You just got to dig and find out where the inflammation is, that kind of fits Hashimoto's encephalopathy. Let me just read to you what my notes say for the class, for the upcoming class that I've got here, Hashimoto's encephalopathy also known as steroid responsive encephalopathy inflammation. You'd give the person a steroid and all of a sudden their symptoms improve associated with autoimmune. Thyroiditis is a neurological condition characterized by encephalopathy, have normal function of some different part of the brain, thyroid auto immunity. In this particular diagnosis and they have a million diagnosis's out there now for every single symptom that there is. For this particular diagnosis you would have Hashimoto's. So you would test positive for the antibodies and a good clinical response to steroids.

You would take corticosteroids for the brain symptoms and you would feel better, this is what they call Hashimoto's encephalopathy. I gotta tell you, that's almost, that's a lot of the Hashimoto's cases that come in here. After further reading it says it's associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. It was first described in 1966. It is sometimes referred to as a neuroendocrine disorder, something between the brain and the hormones, the endocrine system hormones blood sugar, thyroid, adrenals, all that. Although the conditions relationship to the endocrine system is widely disputed, It's recognized as a rare disease, which I did consider a rare disease, which is why I never really looked into it. By the national Institute of health, genetic and rare diseases information up to 2005, they're almost 200 published cases reported of the disease. But between 1990 and 2000, 43 cases were published, suggesting that this rare condition is likely to have been significantly underdiagnosed in the past.

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