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Hashimoto's is not primarily a thyroid problem. Hashimoto's technically is not a thyroid problem, at least not first. It is a problem of your thyroid secondarily. The initial problem is autoimmunity. This is why when you go to your medical doctors they have nothing for you to offer other than a thyroid medication. If that doctor doesn't understand thyroid medication applications it's not uncommon for people to come in here saying, "I took the thyroid medicine and it made me so much worse. Well and then I changed to the natural one and it made me worse." Some people take the medication and it made them feel better for a couple of weeks or even a month or two and then they crashed because they're treating the thyroid.

So the technical name for your condition if you have Hashimoto's is autoimmune Hashimoto's hypothyroiditis. The autoimmune is the key. It's an autoimmune problem. Your immune system has at some point been given the okay by your DNA to attack you and it could attack your skin. It could attack your salivary glands. It can attack your intestines. It can attack your bones. It can attack everything. But if you have autoimmune thyroid disease, it has decided to attack your thyroid.

If you came in here and you had autoimmune thyroid disease, lupus, celiac, autoimmune gastritis, it would still be the same approach to that case. It would be get the immune system under control first because it's an autoimmune problem. The interesting thing to me is it's 2022 and Hashimoto's has been being discussed now for approximately 20 to 22 years. Even though it was discovered in the early 1900s, it has only been an entity that has been brought to the table in the last 20 years. That's 20 years. That's a long time and still the medical profession... Look, I'm not an anti-medical profession basher per se, but in this one particular area, this is stunning to me.

The medical profession has not made the jump to the fact that all these other diseases, MS, Sjogren's, lupus, autoimmune gastritis, celiac, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, all these are autoimmune diseases. If you have Crohn's disease they don't treat you for a gut problem. They treat you for autoimmune Crohn's disease. If you have Sjogren's or lupus, they'll give immunoglobulins or they'll give you steroids because they're treating it not as a skin disease, but they're treating it as an autoimmune disease.

It's been 20 some years and the medical community has not made the jump to this is an autoimmune disease. Maybe that's good because you're going to go in there and if they treat it as autoimmune disease, first thing they're going to do is give you steroids or immunoglobulin therapy or something like that. You're going to feel better. You're going to feel better. I have people take prednisone for something else and if they have an active Hashimoto's they go, "Could this be helping my Hashimoto's?" It's like yes, because your Hashimoto's is an autoimmune disease not.

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