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Hashimoto's disease and pregnancy. That's a wide open topic. I'm not if you're asking can you get pregnant, or what happens when you get pregnant, or what happens after you get pregnant? So I'll try to answer all three of those. So Hashimoto's can first prevent you from getting pregnant. And I think that's pretty well accepted out there today. We've had some patients that came in and their medical doctor treated their thyroid for their infertility and they got better. And there's a couple reasons for that. Most direct reason is that Hashimoto's has a very, very specific relationship with progesterone, and progesterone is the hormone that allows you to hold the egg, so when you ovulate, and then you ovulate embeds, and then when the egg embeds itself in the wall of the uterus is progesterone that allows it to stick, if you will. And then it is progesterone that allows you to carry through the pregnancy. If your progesterone is very low because you have hypothyroid, Hashimoto is hypothyroid, then there's a good chance that you're not going to carry through. On top of that, Hashimoto's seems to have a very direct relationship to polycystic ovarian syndrome, in which your blood sugar goes off, and your blood sugar is controlled by your diet, but it's also controlled by your adrenal glands, and by your pancreas, and by your thyroid. All of these can be affected Hashimoto's in different ways. The end result ends up being usually that the person develops an insulin resistance, which is kind of high blood sugar but it's not diabetes, it's kind of pre-diabetes, insulin resistance is kinda in the same category, and then that usually increases testosterone production in the ovary also, in addition to what has happened with your adrenals, and your pancreas, and your liver from the low progesterone, and then the chances of you having a baby are reduced by, I believe it's like 50%. I do know that the last statistics I saw was that polycystic ovarian syndrome, which is very closely related to Hashimoto's, is responsible for as much as 50% of infertility in this country. Then Hashimoto's during pregnancy, it certainly, you know, it's better to be healthy when you're having a pregnant child, when you're planning on having a child, getting pregnant, and so from that perspective, I tell my patients who have Hashimoto's who are coming in here, not to get pregnant until after we've cleaned up a lot of things, because I don't know, somewhere in there is a question of can this affect the child? And the answer is yes, and probably should do a different segment on that, because it's a long topic. And then as far as the mom's health during that period of time, it is not unusual for me to hear, "That's the best I ever felt." "I felt wonderful, everything was great. "My fibromyalgia went away." And things of that nature. And that has to do with immune shifts that take place while you're carrying the child, particularly in the third trimester, where you're shifting antibodies in to Your child so that when your child is born, they have the ability to build a immunoresponse, and a humeral immunorespone after they're born.

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