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... So today we're going to talk about the microbiome and thyroid and so this is a subject that has been dear to our hearts for at least eight years you've been here and before then you know that was a part of where it started to go back in my mentors days dr. cross and who I believe was the first person that really got how much thyroid affected everything so anyway the point is that when we first started doing these videos years ago a lot of people complain that we talk too much about the gut so we're going to talk about the God again today and new data on the guy and the microbiome and how it's so interesting now from why do you talk about the gut and how stupid are you how could the gut affect anything and how could diet affect autoimmunity and how could it be how could eating a right diet ever helped me and we were we were doing this in...most days and it was kind of interesting now it's kind of like people come in and educate me on the diet and it's kind of fun so diet and thyroid thyroid is like the canary in the coal mine the thyroid is connected to everything and everything seems to be connected to the the diet and and the microbiome and when people come in here for their thyroid which people still do we get a lot of people coming here for their thyroid the first thing I have to try to help them to understand it's not about your thyroid it's about everything else and one of the big everything else is is the microbiome that we were been talking about forever so so now we're going to talk a little bit more about the microbiome more nuances over the past couple of years it's come out that that microbiome is a lot to do with autoimmunity different types of autoimmunity rheumatoid arthritis for sure probably did other different types of autoimmune diseases...

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"...So today we're going to talk about Alzheimer's and sleep and more or less the basic concept of what we're going to talk about is Alzheimer's cause sleep problems or do sleep problems cause Alzheimer's kind of we're going to have kind of a chicken or the egg type of a discussion here today and we just saying that dr. Gates depending on someone asked this yesterday and asked me to retrieve a lot of Alzheimer's and according to that one classification system that has like seven stages so probably 90% of our patients be classified as having some stage of Alzheimer's we treat a lot of stress and stress hormones tend to hit something called your hippocampus and you're going to find out a little bit about the hippocampus that I and stress hits that hippocampus and the hippocampus...cause of sleep problems and so there are so there are the cycles that hit the hippocampus of different things and the hippocampus is where your short-term memory is and it's where I think it's pretty upon the Alzheimer's begins so so we see a lot of people with early I forget walking in the rooms I I can't I can't find my so remember where I put my lost my train of thought and I'm starting to get short-term memory loss my working marriage something like that which may not be called full-blown Alzheimers at that point I would buy that classification system here on so we see a lot of people with this and it doesn't mean that you're going to go there either and so when we say Norris every patient they we're not saying 90% have Alzheimers caressing doctor suffer the same fate as far as the classification act so you have to look at it it's like if you have is act exactly as you said if you walk into a room you don't know you're there you're like stage one yeah..."

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...so Alzheimer's is kind of an interesting topic I still keep hearing nobody's found the cause of it yet I'm not sure there is a the cause relative to that and and and then our observation we do a lot of chronic pain that's what we do for those of you haven't seen us we combine functional medicine and functional neurology to create a paradigm to address kind of the cornerstones of physiology that seemed to be the core of what causes chronic conditions chronic pain in general and so if a person comes in here let's say with fibromyalgia it's pretty common that they're going to have brain fog and short term memory loss and and people come in here and there in PTSD there they're going to have short-term memory loss they're going to have they're going to have difficulty sleeping and things of that natur...going to bed but a substantial portion of our patients come in here with short-term memory loss and brain fog and and other things that you know have that Nuance of is this house hi so the Alzheimer's type of thing we have seen Alzheimer's patients but more often we see people who would seem to me to be in the process of going in that direction so it's of Interest to us to know what's going on and and so this is something that isn't that is it's enveloped in that core of conditions and and of problems chemical problems chemical Pathways neuronal pathways systemic problems that cause chronic problems chronic pain fibromyalgia preferably chronic fatigue dizziness vertigo balance a lot of these things it's interesting how they kind of overlap...

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"...on polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and depression today much to my surprise doctor uh Justin for me we've never done one which is because we've done a lot of talk on PCOS and we see it a lot pretty common clinical picture that comes in here we see a lot of thyroid to correlate coordinate with a lot of Hashimoto's types problems so I'm not exactly sure where dr. Gates is going with this because we just talked about it but this is a subject that I happen to know that we're extremely conversant with and so I'll be anxious to hear if he comes up with anything new today it's good I'm not aware of and if not I may or may not chime in what's that so PCOS and depression well what's menopause but that's what people come in...of times guys am I going into menopause yeah yeah and actually some of the lead Endocrinology researchers will say that most women and menopause are actually kind of in a state of PCOS because at that point chemically yeah chemically so for those of you have PCOS you know how what a burden this condition really can be especially emotionally and not only affects you know your menstrual cycles and whether they're happening every month or every six months but also hair growth can be a big big factor for PCOS patients unwanted hair growth as well as those cysts on your ovaries for all intensive purposes explode at times and that can be exquisitely painful as well but PCOS is incredibly common it's one out of five females and Essence when diagnosed via the Rotterdam criteria the Rotterdam criteria was established to say that if you have two out of the three that I just mentioned if you have..."

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"...apparently, we already have enough questions for the next several months but one of the questions was related to stress and hypertension and blood and it was kind of a question that seemed to require a little bit more of coverage than just answering it in that format so to my stress and hypertension there's some we see every day all day long it's a big part of what we see I think it's kind of took like okay stress and hypertension yeah but when you're in something all day it seems so obvious and so normal and everything and then you when you get a question like that you realize that that that there's a lot of folks out there wondering about the connections and what the mechanisms are and so on and so forth so I think the question was more specifically about the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone...row and renin-angiotensin system or something along those nature so I know how stress affects and how stress affects it so they must have been trolling through the internet or something like that about stress right and how to get rid of it right when it's a troll guys throwing has a different country I'm not an error that guy did we do this right every week every week we sit here I don't know Facebook I don't know I don't know Twitter I don't know internet and I don't know what trolling means so now I know it's something I probably have to learn what it means okay all right so relative to stress and the renin-angiotensin system so basically we have systems in our kidney that help to know if you're bleeding out and those systems and Essence will raise blood pressure in the event that like you severed an artery and that's kind of the way renal physiology works and control blood pressure that's how everybody learns..."

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"...more with one of them and that and in and I think as we were going along we realized our patients were stressed but we would actually when we first got together we would actually say okay on this patient it's there really stress so we should do like just the brain and not do the functional chemistry and and not worry about the gut and and these people will just do the gut and not worry about it because they don't seem to be quiet and one of our big breakthroughs was to realize that most of our people were not just stressed that they were actually kind of a chronic fight flight or post-traumatic stress syndrome and it's amazing when I bring this to people in the consult it's amazing how many people acknowledged and literally stopped me in the middle of my explanation go that's me and and they had at that hadn't really given a thought to the fact that they weren't a chronic stress response and these people are of course are here because they're trying to figure out what's causing their their chronic pain..."

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"...so we dug Gates is a board-certified functional neurologist I'm a functional medicine practitioner we've probably been in functional medicine since the Inception of its explosion if you will well way before its explosion and dr. Gates is affiliated with I would say the group of doctors that almost could say that they help to originate or maybe they did help originate bring rehab exercises and we've developed a pretty much a chronic pain practice okay I got a migraine that goes away I don't need you guys well I get migraines and they never go away I need and I could be fibromyalgia peripheral neuropathy or chronic fatigue or just a number of things so we've we are going to be answering questions from our listeners and the podcast from our viewers on we try to put together a representative compendium of questions that we think will be interesting to those of you who apparently view our products here if you want to call them that over over quite some time because it looks like a lot of these questions are from people who have given a lot of thought to their health the questions that we are seeing here some are very general some are very specific we don't see patients who particularly one particular question or one particular dietary 13 question relative to a supplement is going to make that much of a difference in their in their health that it doesn't that they don't show up here but certainly there are people who don't show up here dietary change has helped them or supplement changes help them and so we're going to address those those issues and we're going to dress those folks also so do you want me to just go down let's go down the so we have a we have a long list we're not going to get through all of them we're going to spend about 15 or 20 minutes going over over these..."

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"...we're going to continue on now with thyroid I was thinking about this earlier I'm going to talk about how I process a thyroid in my mind again when you look in a book thyroid or maybe even some stuff you see online about functional medicine is here's the thyroid here's how you do this you give them that supplement and it's not like that for the patients who come in here anyway because the vast majority have already been everywhere and they've been there doctor they've driven them crazy their thyroid symptoms are normal or okay but their numbers are off so the education is screwed some up or vice versa the numbers are okay but they have 25 out of 25 symptoms of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and the doctor was doesn't know what to do for him and because and then gives them medication and that's

actual hypothyroid case and those are the first challenge is to figure out that right there okay but really now again but really when a person comes in here and they have hypothyroid that's usually going to be they have hypothyroid they're taking that's usually beginning to be there are their several Pathways there's like twenty-one different Pathways between your thyroid making thyroid hormone and I'll go into a little your thyroid makes thyroid hormone it is made mostly like 93 to 97 percent of what it makes is enacted Department doesn't do anything it's inactive so I can be flying around your system attached these little proteins and fly around your system all..."

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"...we're going to continue on now with thyroid I was thinking about this earlier I'm going to talk about how I process a thyroid in my mind again when you look in a book thyroid or maybe even some stuff you see online about functional medicine is here's the thyroid here's how you do this you give them that supplement and it's not like that for the patients who come in here anyway because the vast majority have already been everywhere and they've been there doctor they've driven them crazy their thyroid symptoms are normal or okay but their numbers are off so the education is screwed some up or vice versa the numbers are okay but they have 25 out of 25 symptoms of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and the doctor was doesn't know what to do for him and because and then gives them medication and that's

actual hypothyroid case and those are the first challenge is to figure out that right there okay but really now again but really when a person comes in here and they have hypothyroid that's usually going to be they have hypothyroid they're taking that's usually beginning to be there are their several Pathways there's like twenty-one different Pathways between your thyroid making thyroid hormone and I'll go into a little your thyroid makes thyroid hormone it is made mostly like 93 to 97 percent of what it makes is enacted Department doesn't do anything it's inactive so I can be flying around your system attached these little proteins and fly around your system all..."

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"...in chronic conditions and chronic diseases which is just my practice is the great mystery disease practice of like I got pain everywhere all my tests are normal you know if so some of my colleagues call it the mystery disease practice so gluten is a big part of that gluten has is potentially a big part of that I want to clear up a few things on gluten Okay so without getting into it too heavily gluten is a protein that's found in Wheat naturally occurring there's a lot of different theories as to why it's becoming a big problem in and you can find them online I'll just hit a few of them one of the theories is that we're modifying or genetically modifying it so that we can make more wheat and feed the world okay and that's a nice thing to do and it's very odd..."

"...rustic the way that we can feed the world is because now we can use more of the toxins that we put on there to kill the bugs and then we're able to make more was crop your crops and thus make more weak okay problem is the genetically modified wheat gluten is what's called a very sticky protein okay we're going to talk about the sticky protein is why it's used in everything that's why it's used in soy sauce has its why Susan cake mixes it's why it's used in pizzas and every day it sticks things together okay and also because and as many of you understand that the inside of our intestines is where 70% of our immune system it has a significantly profound effect on our immune system a lot of the time gluten..."

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