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So, vitiligo and Hashimoto's. So, vitiligo's a skin disease. It discolors. Those of you who are looking at this already know that, and there's varying degrees of it. And I'm not sure if you're aware that it's pretty much accepted now. The studies are largely, largely, largely pointing to the fact that it's an autoimmune problem, which we have supposed for quite some time because we treat autoimmune cases a lot. And although I haven't traded anywhere near as much vitiligo as other things, I've treated enough of it. And the question is, is vitiligo related to Hashimoto's? So, the answer is yes and no. And what that means is Hashimoto's doesn't cause for to say, vitiligo. You can have vitiligo and not have Hashimoto's. But because of my practice being the way that it is, virtually every vitiligo patient that's ever come in here has had Hashimoto's and other autoimmune conditions.

This is probably a good moment to illuminate that very few people actually get one autoimmune problem. I know myself, I have three active autoimmune problems for sure, potentially four, and I have one antibody against my pancreas that I don't think is a problem. And that may sound confusing to you, but there's a test that you can do to find out if you are diagnosed with, say, lupus, or you're diagnosed with vitiligo, you can do this test and see if you have antibodies to other tissues that if you keep triggering your vitiligo, you keep triggering your Hashimoto's, eventually you're going to express other autoimmune problems if you already have the antibodies. So, the one test I use is Cyrex 5, and it's, and it's Cyrex 5 C-Y-R-E-X 5, and they test all those antibodies.

What's the value of that? The value is that, is to find out if you have those and you keep exacerbating your vitiligo, which we'll get back to in a second. And then all of a sudden you start getting all the symptoms, all these are weird symptoms, and you know that you have antibodies against your thyroid, and you go, "Oh, my God, those are Hashimoto's symptoms, and I got Hashimoto's antibodies." Now you know you've developed Hashimoto.

And here's the other thing about Hashimoto's. So, as long as I've done this, I've seen a growing number of autoimmune conditions that are related to autoimmune thyroid disease Hashimoto's. So, I've seen a ton of people who have Hashimoto's and rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto's and pancreatitis, Hashimoto's... I'm sorry, Hashimoto's and diabetes type one, Hashimoto's and celia, Hashimoto's and Crohn's disease Hashimoto's and ulcerative colitis, Hashimoto's and autoimmune gastritis. [inaudible 00:03:15] saying Hashimoto's probably has something to do with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which isn't even necessarily an autoimmune disease, but I mentioned that because of the mechanism.

And the mechanism is this, your thyroid has receptor sites in every single cell of your body. And so, I think Hashimoto's has become so prevalent because the thyroid is so sensitive and it relates to everything else, and then it keeps getting beat up and beat up more than anything. You get stressed, beat up. Your blood sugar goes up, it gets beat up, your blood sugar goes down it gets beat up. You have a food sensitivity, it gets beat up. You have some smoke... I point outside because we had smoke here for... I'm in Reno, we had smoke here for only a week or two this year as opposed to three months like last year. And all of those toxins, boom, boom, boom. And if your thyroid keeps getting attacked and it's uber super sensitive more than anything else, it's going to raise your immune responses more and more and more and more and more and more and more.

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