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Vitamin D and Hashimoto's. There's a distinct advantage to having good vitamin D levels when you have Hashimoto's. Hashimoto's is an autoimmune problem, and that means that you get hypothyroidism but then when you get attacks from your immune system, many if not most of you, get irritable. You get heart palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, night sweats. You get these hyper functions.

Vitamin D has a role to play in that, and vitamin D, actually it's a precursor to a steroid. It's called a SUC sterol. if you look it up, it's S-U-C, S-U-C, not S-U-C-K. S-U-C steroid. Vitamin D is a big, it is a steroid when it's at its full potency. So what are steroids? They're anti-inflammatory. If you dampen inflammation, you're going to dampen inflammatory responses that create immune flare ups that could attack your thyroid.

Beyond that, you'll notice pretty much every one of you who has had vitamin D checked and who also has Hashimoto's, has had low vitamin D, like really low. We just got off the phone with somebody about two hours ago and they said, "Yeah, mine's kind of low. It's 19." I said, "Well, the range is 30 to 100." They went, "Oh." There are countries in Europe and the Far East where the ranges run more like 100 to 300, 90 to 235. Most of you have vitamin D that's in the 20s, in the 19s. Usually to me that means that there's been a lot of immune activity and here's why.

Here's where I think it really connects up to Hashimoto's. You have like many, many, many, many, many parts of the immune system. Okay. A zillion. I'm going to simplify as tremendously. This part of immune system kills bacteria and viruses and candida. This comes in, viruses come in, bacteria come in, they come in and this part of the immune system goes into attack and it attacks and it attacks and it attacks and attacks and attacks until it can't attack anymore.

Now there's this other part of the immune system that after the attack has stopped, it'll come in, make antibodies and these things got to be balanced. But this part of the system has to stop first for your full immune response to kill and then get immunity to that the next time it comes in, this has to stop.

There's a third part of the system called the regulatory system. This regulatory system regulates both of these guys from getting out of control. When this guy goes and it starts killing a virus, it's killing it, and it's killing it and it's killing it. It's beating it up and it's kicking it and it's stabbing it and it's chopping it up and it's like something's got to go in and go, "Stop." That's the regulatory system. The regulatory system says, "It's dead. You can stop now." Because if that response keeps going, it might look around and go, "Oh, there's a thyroid that looks like it's got the DNA of somebody who says I can attack it." So it has to stop and the regulatory system stops it.

Now, why did I go into all of that? Because the regulatory system is heavily, heavily, heavily fueled by vitamin D and glutathione. So if you have an autoimmune problem and your immune system is always trying to attack your thyroid, this vitamin D is the fuel that's fueling these regulatory cells to try to stop to attack your thyroid.

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