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Today the question is, when do you take the thyroid out? If there's a time to take the thyroid out, do you take the thyroid out? And interestingly enough, I haven't gotten any questions that I can remember about radiation and Hashimoto's, which is kind of crazy. So we'll cover that too. So basically, never. No, close to never. Look here's the deal, right now we're in a spot where the medical community, which is, I was just having this conversation with a nurse just two days ago. The medical community still is thinking that Hashimoto's is a thyroid disease and only a thyroid disease and they're not treating it as an autoimmune problem as we've talked about previously.

We should be treating the immune system to dampen inflammation against the thyroid. There's a hierarchy as to, as to treatment. I'm not never take your thyroid out, but I'm close to that. I mean, mine was not coming out. Spoiler alert as they say, mine's not coming out unless somebody tells me I have definitively have thyroid cancer, that's it, that's when it's coming out. But you know, a little bit of background on that, because the medical community is now becoming aware of Hashimoto's, but they don't particularly have an agreement among doctors as to how to treat it. You'll have some people give you thyroid medication still and not do anything about the immune system. There are some people in the medical field that are trying to do the immune system by giving people hydrocortisone maybe some low dose Naltrexone to calm inflammation down.

These doctors are far and few between but they're at least thinking of addressing the immune system, and then if that doesn't happen, then they're going to start going well, maybe we should just take it out and then we'll moderate your hormone levels by just giving you medication. The problem is, is there's a lot more to it than that. A lot more to it than that. You don't just take medications and all of a sudden everything corrects when you have Hashimoto's. There's so much more than that. It's that I don't have time to talk about that in these daily segments. But, the other thing is, is they might be for that. So they might say, you know what, let's just radiate it or let's just take it out. I'm seeing that a lot.

Let's just radiate it. Let's just take it out. That's not a good enough reason for me to take out my thyroid and by the way, most of you probably know I have Hashimoto's. The other thing, the other pathway could be that you go to the doctor, you have an enlarged thyroid, or you have nodules, they end up taking a biopsy and here's what they got. Here's what they say. They say, "you have abnormal tissues in there, undifferentiated abnormal tissues in there so maybe we'll just take that part of the thyroid out." I wouldn't do that, and I'll tell you why I wouldn't do that because more and more it's becoming apparent that those undifferentiated abnormal unidentifiable cells are because of Hashimoto's, but that's not quite been embraced completely by the people who are taking out thyroids at this point in time.

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