Hashimoto's and Memory Issues - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Hashimoto's and memory problems. It is a rare Hashimoto's patient that comes in here that doesn't write down memory as part of their clinical picture, and Hashimoto's can play a huge part in memory problems. The part of your brain that controls memory is called your hippocampus. This hippocampus controls memory, and it controls sleep. It controls your short-term memory and long-term memory. Short-term memory turns into long-term memory when you sleep. Just the context, the background, there. Hashimoto's hits memory in a lot of different ways. Alzheimer's is the result of the beginning of your hippocampus being destroyed, short-term memory, then not being turned into long-term memory. We do know what it is. We do know there are many, many things that contribute to that.

They're calling Alzheimer's diabetes type-3, because somebody finally figured out that diabetes annihilates the hippocampus, and that starts off the whole chain of events, but it's one of many, many things. Many, many of those things are directly or indirectly related to autoimmune thyroid disease. Let's go directly. When you have autoimmune thyroid disease, and your thyroid gets triggered, for many, but not all of you, a triggered Hashimoto's is going to cause intermittent heart palpitations for no reason at all, inner trembling, maybe anxiety, or panic attacks. It's going to cause insomnia, night sweats.

Those are the signs that your thyroid are getting attacked, and not all of you have that, but most of you have that. When you're getting that, just know that when that's happening, your thyroid is doing a lot of bad things in your body. Two of the bad things they're doing is it's flooding your brain with inflammatory... They're called cytokines. The Hashimoto's inflammatory molecules have a specific affinity for your hippocampus. They go to your frontal lobe, but they have a specific affinity for your hippocampus, your short-term, long-term memory area of the brain.

The second thing that they do is... All neurons in the brain need a lack of inflammation. So, it does three things. It's a lack of inflammation that creates healthy brain function, and Hashimoto's creates inflammation in your brain. Then, it also decreases oxygen to your brain, so all the neurons in your brain, no matter where they are, whether in a hippocampus, or whether in amygdala, or the frontal lobe, or whether in the cerebellum, or wherever they are, they all need oxygen. Hashimoto's decreases oxygen to the brain.

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