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Something I've been actually studying a little bit more lately. It's a topic on which are a lot of different opinions as to when you do it and why you do it. So, to understand that you need to understand Hashimoto's. For those of you who have not seen any of these videos, Hashimoto's is an immune attack on your thyroid. It's the number one cause of hypothyroidism and people get hypothyroid symptoms, overweight, fatigue, can't sleep, the bowels, the backing up, constipation, dry skin

Usually on the shins, you can have puffing of the face, dry mouth and you can have dry eyes. There's a ton of things that you get with the hypothyroid aspect of it. Then eventually you start to develop hyperthyroidism from the immune system attacking it. As immune system attacking it, you destroy tissue, there's the cliff notes version, you destroy tissue. It vomits out a bunch of thyroid hormone and you can get anxiety, and you can get heart palpitations for no reason at all, and tremors and night sweats. A bunch of more hyper symptoms, so that's kind of Hashimoto's and so the point is it's actually a thyroid problem first, and then it's an autoimmune problem. Actually, I would say it's actually an autoimmune problem first

And a thyroid problem second. Basically what happens with that patient is they go to the endocrinologist. Endocrinologist today says you have Hashimoto's but it really doesn't change initial treatment. Most endocrinologists are gonna look at your normal thyroid panel, thyroid stimulating hormone T3, T4 and not run a full panel. Then they're going to give you thyroid hormone and maybe it gives you a little bit of a brief break and you feel a little better for a little time, but as long as this is going on, as long as you're getting attacked, it's not going to work for a lot of people. In those folks for whom it doesn't work, there is a second and a third option and the second and or third option, depending on who you're talking to is radiation and or surgery.

We're talking about radiation today. Radiating a thyroid for me would be a third option just for the record. But radiating thyroid, you basically take a pill. There's radioactive iodine, something that I really can't imagine I would want in my body, but that's how they do it. Then hopefully they dose up enough to where your thyroid dies. Radioactive iodine kills your thyroid radiation coach with heart. Now we have no thyroid and the question usually is, alright, I don't have a thyroid now they're telling me I'm going to go into hypothyroid period, and then they're going to control it with the medication. Now I was seeing a couple, probably a few hundred of these cases and over a period of time, I've been doing this.

Obviously that's not always true. I don't know what the percentages of people for whom that doesn't work, but it's enough to where I've seen several hundred of these myself. So, what happens, a couple of things happen, first of all, it's a thyroid problem that is being attacked by an immune system and you have an immune problem.

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