Hashimoto's and Lifestyle Changes - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Hashimoto's and lifestyle changes. I like this. I like this topic because it's so underappreciated, it's astonishing. And I think it's because Hashimoto's is still kind of misunderstood.

I've been fortunate enough. I think I've been training with doctors from the get-go, from the time I got involved with this, who were the doctors who brought Hashimoto's out of the woodwork and dusted it off. Dr. Hashimoto said most thyroid problems were autoimmune back in the 19th, 11 or 12th, of the last century. And then everybody made fun of him and it kind of went away, and then my mentor brought it back, and then his mentor and him worked together to work out the autoimmune prospect of it, and as a result, we look at it as a disease. And when you're looking out for diseases, you're usually looking for pathogens.

You've probably heard of, it's Epstein-Barr virus, a cytomegalovirus. It's HHV-6 virus, it's Lyme disease, and all of those can be triggers. The alternative medical doctors, or the alternative medical doctors that call themselves functional doctors or integrated doctors, they're still looking for the big time disease. They're still looking for all of those things I just told you and more. It's heavy metals, and all of those things can play a part in this.

But really, the solutions are not exotic. It's food. It's toxins. Toxins are big. I think you can understand there's a lot of toxins flying around, but lifestyle's huge. Lifestyle is huge, and lifestyle changes are things that when you're doing them, they alter physiology in such a way that they flare up in inflammation, and life is kind of inflammatory. And then they ultimately create an immune response against your thyroid.

Right off the top of my head, the number one lifestyle trigger for autoimmunity is, and specifically for Hashimoto's is, stress, because stress hormones cause your adrenal glance to put out a lot of hormones that create inflammatory responses. They put out adrenaline and noradrenaline and they put out aldosterone, which raises your blood pressure. And they put out cortisol, which screws up your blood sugar if too much is put out, and then that creates inflammation and all that type of stuff, and that flares it up. So, stress is like the number one trigger, I think, and it's also the number one lifestyle perpetuator. And it's one of those things that a lot of people usually have to deal with once we get them in control by herbs and botanicals, breathing techniques, taking a walk, praying, whatever it is. But stress is a big deal.

And a lot of the other ones are very obvious. I mean, if you're a smoker, you're sucking up a ton of toxins into your system, and I'm not admonishing you, okay? Smoking is something that many of us might have done at some point in our life and then got smart and quit, and it's not easy to quit. But I'm just saying, every time you smoke a cigarette, you decrease oxygen to your brain, but you take in so many toxins. Oh, my God. And those toxins are, in and of themself, what triggers the Hashimoto's.

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