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Hashimoto's and low libido, and I'm largely talking to women on this because it's a lot different between women and men. Frankly, 97% of my practice is women and so I'm very much more familiar with that and I try to stick to things that I know. So basically, it's a complex relationship and it's not. So let's talk about libido and what causes libido in women. It's estrogen. So estrogen's what makes you want to have babies, it's what makes you want to have sex, it's what helps to procreate the human race. So it really comes down to all about estrogen and what's affecting estrogen. So this kind of hooks into Hashimoto's and pregnancy, this kind of hooks into Hashimoto's and abnormal periods and menstrual cramps, and just the whole thing.

And today, even endocrinologists up until maybe two years ago when I would see panels coming in from other doctors that were endocrinologists, they were never on a thyroid panel when we're trying to figure out a woman's female hormones. But today, they are. Today they are, they're running panels and they're not necessarily looking for Hashimoto's, but they're definitely are getting if the thyroids screwed up, then it's going to slow everything down and it's going to slow down a function of the process of making a proper estrogen, estradiol, estriol, progesterone balance.

So, this is kind of how it goes. Someone comes in here and they go, I'm not menopausal. I have all of these female hormone imbalances. Or I'm looking to get pregnant, I have no libido. Because they all kind of go together, it isn't like it's no libido and it's I have menstrual issues. It's all estrogen at that point. So the question is, is how do we, without drugs, I'll be the first one tell you, I'm not a big hormone replacement therapy guy or like, okay, you have this symptom, so take estrogen and you're about to find out why.

So basically, here's the things that have to be working in a person properly for them to produce proper estrogen production and proper estrogen clearance. And what that means is you produce estrogen, the estrogen gets made, it goes into the cells. In the cells, the estrogen is used for certain chemical processes. And then there's waste products and those waste products have to get into the toilet. If they don't get into the toilet, you start accumulating too much estrogen in your liver, in your fat cells, and some parts of your intestines, and now you start becoming estrogenic. The problem with that is it starts telling your brain you have too much estrogen and now you're ovaries start not making enough estrogen because your brain's going, kicking back and oh, well we already got enough estrogen sitting around. So I'm going to tell the pituitary gland to tell the ovaries to kick back and not make enough estrogen.

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