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We’re going to talk about Hashimoto’s and heart problems. This is kind of an interesting one. And I’m going to speak to you strictly from experience on this because a lot of people are looking for, “Oh, it’s causing this exact thing, that to the heart and it’s creating the bundle branch to not work right,” and blah, blah, blah, and all that type of stuff. But I’m going to tell you the nuts and bolts, blue collar aspect of Hashimoto as a heart disease.

So I’ve been doing this for a long time, seen thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of patients. And here’s what I hear. I am going to grew greatly downplay how many times I think I’ve heard this, but I have heard this somewhere between 500,000 times. And I think probably more, but this is how common it is. The patient comes in and maybe they don’t even know that they have autoimmune disease at that time, maybe they don’t even know that they got a thyroid problem at that time. And so you’re sitting there are listening and digging and taking notes and trying to go, “Okay, what’s going on here? Does this person fit my practice? Do they have autoimmune problems?” And then it happens. Then I ask, “Do you have heart palpitations for no reason at all? Heart palpitations or anxiety for no reason at all? Would you call that PVCs, pre ventricular contractions? Would you call that SVPs?” These are all medical pathology that cause your heart to beat out of your chest. And then I’m like, “Well, tell me more about that.”

Here’s the story. “I was under a lot of stress and then all of a sudden, for no reason at all, for no reason at all, my heart started to really pound. And I really started to get big time arrhythmias. And I couldn’t breathe very well, and I was really getting anxiety and so on and so forth. [inaudible 00:02:05]. So I was at a hospital and then they did an EKG, they did an echogram, they did a cardiogram, they did everything. And everything was normal,” for the lucky ones. For the lucky ones. “And everything was normal. And they told me to go home and they told me to take some electrolytes and I’m probably just stressed and maybe I just need to deal with my stress and go to counseling. ‘But if it happens again, maybe you can go to cardiologist,’ even though everything was normal.”

The second person, who’s not always quite as fortunate, they’ll pick something up on some of the electrical diagnostics and they’ll go, “Okay, we’re going to go in and we’re going to ablate the nerves that are causing your heart to do that…” And then they do that. But the patient’s still sitting in front of me with heart palpitations for no reason at all, and anxiety for no reason at all, and those types of things, even though they’ve been ablated. So when I see questions that come in on does Hashimoto’s cause heart problems, technically the answer is no. However, not technically, the answer is yes. And here’s how it happens.

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