For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Managing a Thyroid dump, I'm taking that the person that asked this question means I get an exacerbation. All of a sudden I got thyroid hormones running into my body, and although the question didn't expand upon the symptoms, I would assume you maybe get shaky, jittery, anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia, tremors, those types of things when you get this thyroid dump, and it was relative to my medical doctor is trying different things. This is with the medication that they're already t ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com "I'm eating as well as a human being can possibly eat, but I'm still having my Hashimoto's symptoms." And I actually see this a lot. I see it a lot now, because in the day when we first started doing this, and all we knew was ... we told everybody, get off of gluten, casein, soy, corn, and eggs. That's what we did. And those were allergies, they weren't sensitivities. At that time, we weren't even testing for sensitivities. We were just putting people on diets. And eight months late ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com So today's topic is can a concussion cause Hashimoto's? So the answer to that is it can trigger Hashimoto's. So Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease. People who are looking at this probably already know what Hashimoto's is. It's an immune attack against your thyroid. And you can have silent autoimmune disease. You can have silent Hashimoto's for your whole life and never get it. What has to happen is you have to have some sort of a trigger that triggers your immune system, which is ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's exercise intolerance or exercising too much. So this is a topic that I have to address quite frequently. One of the main reasons is to my right, and if I point this way about that far, there's about 30 miles is Lake Tahoe, which is one of the biggest beautiful, most beautiful places on earth, and lots of crazy people are up there. Those crazy people are people who run triathlons and run and run, what do you call them? Just decathlons and every athalon that there is. And t ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Are My Supplements Working? And this is one that, when presented to me, I was actually excited about doing because this is a challenge. I work in a field in which we use diet, lifestyle and a variety of different supplementations from herbs and botanicals to nutraceuticals, to vitamins, to minerals, and so on and so forth, combined with diets. So I work with this every day. It's a very nuanced area and, "Are my supplements working," is something that I hear a lot. People will come i ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Can I get Hashimoto's if I wasn't born with a thyroid? So the answer to that is I don't know exactly for sure the answer to that because I've never met anybody who's been born without a thyroid. Certainly have never treated anybody who's been born without a thyroid. But let's follow this through because I've also way more frequently gotten the question of if I have my thyroid taken out, can I still have Hashimoto's? The answer to that question is yes. The reason the answer to that q ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com There's no medication specifically for Hashimoto's. There are medications in and around Hashimoto's, so I'll go with that. The number one medication that is used, mostly by alternative functional medicine practitioners, is low dose naltrexone. Low dose naltrexone goes in, dampens the inflammation, creates an effect in your system that increases your endorphins, makes you feel better. That can dampen immune responses by just calming that whole system down. It's a favorite for alterna ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Food sensitivities and Hashimoto's. Food sensitivities are... I think they're becoming much, much, much more appreciated. I have patients coming in, going, "I want my food sensitivities done. I want my food sensitivities done." So, years of a lot of us talking about food sensitivities is paying off because it's very, very, very important to an autoimmune thyroid case. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had... I don't think I've ever had anybody come in here who didn't have any ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and blood sugar today, because I think this is a really important subject. And I think the main reason it's so important is because somebody just turned it off going, "I don't have a blood sugar problem. I don't have diabetes. And my doctor said, even though I got a little prediabetes, it's okay." It's not okay. And at the other end of the spectrum, there's a lot of people who have hypoglycemia, but they've been told by their doctors that they don't. Hypoglycemia is low b ..read more

For more information on this topic or to schedule a consultation please visit us at http://WhatIsHashimotos.com Hashimoto's and birth control pills. It could be Hashimoto's sex hormone binding globulin and birth control pills, and you'll see why in a second here. Okay. So birth control pills. I am a big non-fan of birth control pills. I get it. I get it, but birth control pills change a lot of things. There are a variety of types, but there's estrogen, there's estrogen and progesterone. I don't know if anybody's even doing Premarin anymore. I haven't seen that in quite a while, but anyway, so ..read more