Illness and Hashimotos

[Whitney2017]

I was diagnosed as Hashimotos about a month ago so still trying to get my head around it all. I am just wondering whether there is a link between Hashimotos and illness - I seem to lurch between having a cold/sore throat/tonsilitis constantly, on top of the fatigue. Any advice appreciated x

[Heloise]

Hi Whitney, yes, there are many connections to other hormones and it can get complicated. Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease maybe you've been told. Your immune cells are attacking your thyroid (not because the thyroid did anything wrong) but your gut has been attacked first. It's a long string of events but usually boils down to the food and what commerce has done to it with herbicides, GMOs, mixing in artificial colors and flavors. Your body doesn't know what to do with it all. This is interfering with your nutrition. Gluten is also very difficult to digest for everyone. The worst thing in not getting your nutrition is that you also don't get enough sun which makes vitamin D (which is actually a pro hormone) in short supply. That helps all your other hormones work which then makes a problem for your thyroid hormone and vitamin D prevents infections and/or cancer so it's very important. You can learn how everything works from Dr. Bergman.

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[Whitney2017 in reply to Heloise]

Thank you so much - I have been misdiagnosed for years so I'm just trying to get my head around it all. I am lactose intolerant so have gone lacto free and also trying gluten free. I am taking 75mg levothyroxine and supplementing selenium. I have an appointment with endo in January. My main concern is my tpo which is 1,300. I need to get this down.

[Heloise in reply to Whitney2017]

Yes, sometimes we go for many years before a diagnosis. Metabolism controls so many areas and has so many different symptoms and then the profession has such wide ranges for the blood tests they figure wherever yours falls it's fine. But they should do a TSH plus FT4 and FT3. They should both be in the higher range. FT4 (your levo) goes through the liver and kidneys and hopefully becomes FT3 which is active and tries to get into the cells. This conversion is important and needs good cortisol levels from the adrenal glands and ferritin levels, otherwise you get Reverse T3 which is totally inactive. This is why people go to natural desiccated hormone which contains T4, T3, T2, T1 and calcitonin just like your own body would produce or synthetic T3. I've used all of them myself. I would take selenium and zinc supplements and always ask for a print out of your test results, you are allowed.

This explains TPO and if you view the rest of them which are only five minutes you will see how many body functions are affected when you have low thyroid numbers with or without taking hormones for thyroid.

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[Heloise in reply to Whitney2017]

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[Whitney2017]

These videos are so informative and giving me a lot of food for thought . Thank you x do you have any insight or experience with supplementing raw enzymes to support the gut? X

[Heloise in reply to Whitney2017]

I'm very much into enzymes, it's one of those things that aging has a huge impact on. You need them for so many things to be activated. I use digestive enzymes but not sure what you mean by raw. I use Betaine HCL with meals often. I use proteolytic enzymes to dissolve proteins that should not be in your blood and I've really had an impact using unfiltered apple cider vinegar with some meals as well. A lot of body functions depend on bacteria and those get very out of balance as you age as well. There are so many methods to support your body but most people don't take note until they get sick. With any autoimmune condition, you really have to get to work and some can go into remission. Many online doctors like Tom O'Bryan, John Bergman is fabulous, Dr. Axe are really helpful because they are functional medicine doctors who know so much more than conventional....even endocrinologists who don't really try to heal anything.