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Today we are going to talk about Hashimoto's progression. And I'm Dr. Rutherford, for those of you, who've never seen me before. And we're talking about Hashimoto's, big series here on Hashimoto's, and we're gonna talk about progression today. Hashimoto's progresses would be like the cliff notes form of what needs to be said here. So basically look autoimmune problems always progress. For different people, they progress differently and that goes for symptoms and that goes for speed of progression. And so, the bottom line is all of these autoimmune problems progress. Hashimoto specifically, we've talked about this, for those of you, who watch us all the time and shocked at how many of you that are out there that watch these things all the time. But it starts off as silent autoimmunity. So Hashimoto's, basically, you have the DNA to be able to develop an autoimmune problem and your DNA kind of alerts the immune system that it's okay to attack your thyroid. And it may be that you live a pretty healthy lifestyle, maybe you just have a strong constitution, for some reason, you have a stronger autoimmune, not autoimmune, stronger immune system than other people, but you're actually making antibodies to your thyroid and you don't even know it. You don't have any symptoms, you don't know anything about it. So for some reason, somebody might accidentally run the antibody and say, "You know, you got Hashimoto's" and you would go, "I don't have Hashimoto's. I don't have any symptoms. I'm fine. I'm not losing my hair. My weight's fine. I'm not fatigue." That's silent autoimmunity. And then the progression from there is frankly life. Okay, lifestyle, sleeping poorly, not getting enough exercise, getting too much exercise, eating improperly, getting a lot of chemical toxins in you, we've here in Reno now, we have this big smoke issue from all the fires in California for months. And there's a lot of toxins in there. I saw my patients get worse from burning tires and burning houses and burning cars and burning furniture and all the chemicals with that. All of these things attack, stress attacks, viruses attack, you get into money, all these things keep flaring up immune responses, and to the degree that that person's physiology is weak, medium or strong, you keep getting attacked. And then the next thing you know you start getting symptoms. The silent autoimmunity person, 999 times out of 1000 does not know that they have it. So what starts happening is you start getting Hashimoto symptoms, usually you'll start getting hypothyroid symptoms, and then you'll start getting tired and fatigue and your hair might start falling out and you might start getting constipation, you might not put it all together, and then you go to the doctor and they test you, maybe they run the antibodies and they're normal. Maybe they run the antibodies, or maybe they don't run the antibodies, which is more common. And so you have all these symptoms, but there's no testing. You don't have enough damage to your tissues yet for it to show up. So the tests are normal, you're feeling like crap, you have what we call reactive hypoglycemia, we can talk about that too, reactive Hashimoto's at that point in time. And then it advances as life goes on, get it life.

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