Is Hashimoto’s an Autoimmune Disease? - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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is hashimoto’s an autoimmune disease, so i’ve been in this for so long. I that twists my brain around to think that there’s anybody that doesn’t know that hashimoto’s is an autoimmune disease at this point not to be an insult.

I i just i’m living in an alternative world, i’m living in a world where, all day long, like probably 80 percent of my patients, have automated thyroid disease. So the answer is yes, so hashimoto’s is an autoimmunity.

So here’s here’s how it works. Okay, so i’ll give you my family, okay, if well, that person asked that question. They may not know i have hashimoto’s, so i have hashimoto’s and um. So i have a. I have a mother who had her thyroid taken out.

I have an aunt who had her thyroid taken out. I had a grandmother all on the same side who had uh a goiter like until she died at like 96 or 97 years old, so this was back in 50s, 60s, um and and uh and and really nobody’s talking about hashimoto’s back then i mean it was Just like uh an afterthought in in in like somebody’s physiology book in medical school, but nobody really thought anybody got it.

Okay, but the point is, is you have to have the genetics first to get it um in a family where, if your mom’s got it um the chances uh and she has two daughters to change? There’S, there’s strong probability.

One of them is going to get it today. Okay, so you have to have the genetics to be turned on. That’s autoimmunity in general, whether it’s hashimoto’s, whether it’s a rheumatoid arthritis, whether it’s lupus you have to have the genetics, then what has to happen is you have to be unfortunate enough to get at a point in your life where your physiology crashes or you have a Trigger that is so significant that it overcomes the ability of your immune system to stop you from turning on that gene that will now cause you to have hashimoto’s and you can and and so you’re, so the immune system gets triggered and it can either attack the Thyroid tissue, so it’s called thyroglobulin tissue.

There’S a test called an anti-thyroglobulin test or much much more commonly the peroxidase enzyme and the peroxidase enzyme is an enzyme that that takes um tyrosine meta thyroid hormone is t4 and t3. The t is tyrosine the four iodines, so it takes this tyrosine and it mixes it with hydrogen peroxide, and then it sucks these four iodines in and now you have t4.

So this the thyroid peroxidase enzymes and the key player that makes your thyroid hormone. That can get attacked, so you can either attack the enzyme which is frankly way more common or you can attack the tissue or you can attack both i’ve.

You know i’d see it all. I see all that happening and then once that happens, that turns on your genetics and now your immune system has been given the the okay to attack you over and over and over again every time you trigger an attack, so the initial triggers that started for me.

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