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Does Hashimoto's cause nodules?  

That's kind of a complex kind of vicious cycle type of a situation where the answer is kind of yes and no, it's actually more yes than it is now. So basically nodules are mostly created from intermittent bursts or consistent vers of too much thyroid stimulating hormone. And so, and then they create a situation in which you develop too much thyroid tissues. You're making too many thyroid tissues. So you're, you're chronically have this, this high thyroid stimulating hormone that is creating a lot of T4, some T3 and over stimulating the, the the thyroid to do that. And then you're just making too much thyroid tissue, too many thyroid cells. That's really what it is. And, and, you know, you, I don't know how much you want to talk about the cancer aspect of it, but it's, it's very little, it can happen, but like 99% of, of nodules are probably too much thyroid stimulating hormone.

But having said that you have Hashimoto's, which is not depending on who you are reading or listening to a researching 85, 90, 95, a hundred percent of all hypothyroidism. And and so, and, and the correct term for it is, is Hashimoto's hypothyroiditis. They're all thyroiditis is they're almost all hypothyroidism. And and so, and so basically the Hashimoto's like literally ramps that up. It literally ramps because every time you get an attack directly on your thyroid, that makes more thyroids. That makes more that makes more thyroid hormone. So that makes more thyroid hormone. Thyroid hormones made into cells. If it's a big demand, it could be damaging cells before damages cells that can actually be growing them. But what ha what will happen in that case is eventually you go into hypothyroidism and then your brain starts telling yourself that you're your thyroid to make more thyroid hormone.

And then, and then, and then you, you start so you go up and down, basically you go up and down between making, making a lot more thyroid hormone, a lot more tissue, you get the nodules and you go up and down between making a ton, having a lot of thyroid hormone being made with the auto-immune attack that attacks your thyroid, that the tissues are damaged, that vomits a lot of thyroid hormone out into the tissues that can contribute until the damage is over, and then it goes down and then you go back into hypothyroid. So, so it's, it's a vicious vicious cycle. So the answer is yes. I mean, it contributes to it if I honestly, I mean, I guess, I guess from a practical let's say clinical perspective. If I'm interviewing a patient and they tell me that they have enlarged thyroid it's, it's tender, it's not tender. They have, they've been diagnosed with nodules to me, they're autoimmune thyroid until proven innocent. So I would say the vast majority of time, there is a relationship between Hashimoto's and, and thyroid nodules.

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