Many thyroid patients with autoimmune thyroid disease like Hashimoto’s and Graves’ don’t realize this but the antibodies that cause thyroid problems (that are associated with these disease states) also cause problems in other tissues in your body.

These antibodies are like heat-seeking missiles that target various proteins and receptors in your thyroid gland which results in abnormalities in thyroid function as well as thyroid gland damage.

We are also learning that these antibodies can cause harm and damage to other tissues as well depending on which antibody you have present in your body.

Let’s go over each antibody and the problems they can cause:

Thyroid peroxidase antibody:

- Hashimoto’s encephalitis

- Infertility

- Vasculo-placental complications

- Health in aged women

- Increased cancer incidence in breast, colon, kidney, and uterus

- Decreased survival rate in breast cancer patients

Thyroglobulin antibody:

- Infertility

- Increased cancer incidence of breast, colon, kidney, and uterus

- Decreased survival rate in breast cancer patients

Thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibody:

- Graves’ orbitopathy

- Graves’ dermatopathy

- Increased cancer incidence of breast, colon, kidney, uterus, and ovary

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