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How often should you test for Hashimoto's? So, that's really an excellent question. So it assumes, I think that the patient already has Hashimoto's, all right. And so if you don't have Hashimoto's and you keep going to your doctor and they keep telling you that you don't have it, but you have all the symptoms, you should try to get tested every three months, because the antibodies go up and down literally daily. And so from that perspective, you should let no more than six months go by.

For me, I actually will have a patient who comes in here and everything's normal, but they got all the lab tests and their thyroids tender, and they've had nodules, but all their lab tests come up normal. I might test them every six weeks until it comes up, if they're really insistent upon getting a lab number that you can hang onto.

If you have Hashimoto's, okay, it's an immune problem that attacks... So, there's your thyroid. It's an immune problem, there's your immune system, that's attacking your thyroid. Okay. And until you pull all the triggers, until you find all the things in your physiology, whether it's small intestinal bacteria, or leaky gut, or one of the pathogens, Epstein-Barr Virus, lyme disease. Or whether it's that you drink too much, or whether it's blood sugar spikes going up and down or stress or diet, whatever it is. And there's 40 some of them, okay? Whatever it is, as long as these are there, your thyroid keeps getting attacked. All right?

So, especially if you're not... I mean, I'm going to promote here, the functional model. If you're not using some sort of functional model that is stripping these things down, and you're going to your doctor and just using the medication, the medication T4 and T3 are the thyroid hormones that are in these pills. Okay? They are antioxidants and they are steroids as well as being thyroid hormones. So, they can calm down inflammation to a degree and stop this a little bit. But if you're not pulling the triggers, it might be going like this. And you take the medication, it might be going like this. You might feel better for two, three weeks, six weeks, even three months. But eventually, you're going to start getting symptom [inaudible 00:02:31]. Why? Because there's still damage taking place to this tissue. Even though it's slowed down, there's still damage taking place.

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