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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 blood sugar. Prediabetes is pre high blood sugar. And when you have low blood sugar, it's a big problem. It is completely blown off in the medical community. I mean, I'm not bagging the medical community, but more and more and every day, as our patient population grows to be more chronic conditions, it's just an outdated model of care for that particular type of person. [inaudible 00:01:07].

And a lot of people who have reactive hypoglycemia, which means that their blood sugar goes low, but it doesn't go low enough for them to be passing out and having to take a candy bar and all that type of stuff. They're being told they're okay, and they're not. So blood sugar and Hashimoto's. So Hashimoto's is an autoimmune thyroid disease. And I'm gathering somebody who is looking at this probably knows something about Hashimoto's or you wouldn't have clicked on this. So I'm not going to go really into Hashimoto's other than it's a thyroid problem. Okay?

So there's a lot of reasons that a person can... And I'm going to talk about how they go together. Hashimoto's you get an immune attack on your thyroid. And then as a clinical practitioner, you are a clinical practitioner. You're a functional medicine practitioner. Your nutritionist, your dietician, whoever everybody's going to today, your naturopath, your homeopath, they should be first evaluating your entire picture of all of the 40 or 41 or 42 triggers before they even start treatment. Because there's an order in which you attack, and blood sugar way up there on the things you have to attack first. And so blood sugar is one of those 42.

Say, "My God, well it's only one of 42. What a big deal." But certainly these ones like gluten are way more important than the other ones. And blood sugar is up there. Blood sugar is in the top four of the triggers that have to be addressed. Otherwise you're not going to get a lot of [inaudible 00:02:47] done.

So blood sugar, why is this an issue? You already have an autoimmune thyroid disease, which means you want to reduce the attacks on your thyroid by your immune system. Okay. So let's go into what I was talking about. Here's blood sugar. Blood sugar, a lot of people have diabetes type two.

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