Hashimoto’s Disease Explained - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Hashimoto's disease explained. So for me, who is embedded in Hashimoto's all day long, it's like, wow, people still need that explained. But yeah, they do and I know that from the consultations. I can tell you that most of the Hashimoto's seminars I've gone to have been about 24 hours long, over a period of three days. So I'm going to bring you the ultimate CliffsNotes of Hashimoto's disease explained.

So Hashimoto's, Dr. Hashimoto was a PhD in Japan back in the early 1900 and he was looking to see why are people getting thyroid problems? This was before the atomic bombs. I don't know if you know, the people who were in the areas of the testing in Las Vegas for atomic weapons all got thyroid problems. Radiation screwed up their iodine and stuff like that. But this was before that. This was before Hiroshima and all that type of stuff. So he's checking it out and he goes, you know what? All these people have autoimmune antibodies against their thyroid and nobody took him seriously.

So there were some doctors throughout the time, throughout the last century who checked for Hashimoto's. Occasionally I'll get a person who was checked for Hashimoto's in 1960 or 1970, which shocks me. But for the most part, nobody even knew what Hashimoto's was. And so Dr. Hashimoto figured out it was an immune attack against the thyroid and that's the defining factor. Okay. So for years and years, and years, and years, and years, and years and years in this country, and in most of the world, most thyroid doctors ignored what Dr. Hashimoto's findings were.

And so everybody was hypothyroid and everybody was being treated as a hypothyroid, meaning it's a thyroid problem. If your thyroid is low, then we give you a thyroid medication to bring it up. And if it's hyper, then we give you a medication to stop you from making thyroid problem. And that's how it was until probably 20 years ago. So basically what happens is let's go to the autoimmunity then. So basically what happens is you were born with a gene that says it is okay to attack your thyroid. And this is why I'm not yet fully embracing genetic testing because genetic testing tells you what could happen. It doesn't necessarily tell you what's going to happen.

So you can have a gene and never, ever, ever have Hashimoto's in your lifetime. And so basically, then the next thing that occurs is life. So there are a lot of triggers that can trigger autoimmunity, not just Hashimoto's, but autoimmunity in general, and those triggers are significant stress. Who's had significant stress over the last three or four or five or six years? It can be an overwhelming infection. So those of you know I have Hashimoto's. For me, it was a combination of an overwhelming infection and stress that hit me. I was under a lot of stress and I got pneumonia. Everything blew up.

After that, having a baby is probably the second most common one I hear after stress. Doc, I had a baby, it was my second child. It was the last child. It was my first child, whatever it was and after that, I've never been the same.

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