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What high or low antibodies mean in terms of Hashimoto thyroid symptoms? This is a great question. It's a question I have gotten a zillion times. It's not actually a, a question I've gotten a zillion times, basically what happens in this person comes in with their, with their labs and, and, and, and then they're opining or agonizing over whether their antibodies have gone up. Whether they've gone down, my antibodies won't come down, but I gotta get my antibodies down. And, and, and none of that is exactly well, it's not correct at all. So here's, here's kind of the skinny on antibodies. So antibodies are, they are made by your system to to alert your immune system, to attack something that's bad, like a VI Iris or something like that. And then unfortunately for a lot of us, we have the genetics that say that once you've developed a certain trigger and your immune system flares up your immune system might look around and go, oh, that person's genetics say I can attack their thyroid tissue.

Okay. Now there's, and, and, and this is interesting because everybody talks about the thyroid peroxidase antibody. So there's two different types of antibodies. There's an antithyroglobulin antibody, which almost nobody ever talks about. And there there's the anti and the thyroid peroxidase antibody, the infamous T P O. And so these antibodies are attacked. Are these antibodies when when a trigger is introduced into the system a food or toxin or a stress or you over exercise or whatever your triggers are, okay, then, then this trigger will set off an immune response. And then, and then that immune response will, will cause the antibodies to go up because you have the genetic propensity and your antibodies have been tagged by your immune system. So now every time your immune system goes up, your thyroid antibodies will go up. And then, and then that will call your, your, your, your white blood cells to come in attack.

Okay. And so basically the antibodies I've had people come in here with antibodies of 20,000 or more now the range of zero to nine. And for those of you say, it's 0 32 and 0 64 and 60, and all that. It's not zero to nine. Okay. And if so, so if, so I, so if somebody comes in here and anybody's at 20,000, they're freaked outta their minds. Oh my God. They might be sitting there and not even feel that bad. Maybe their only symptoms are that they get occasional heart palpitations for no reason at all. And they get the hypothyroid symptoms of, of being overweight and their hair's falling out. So, which has nothing to do with their antibodies, has to do with them being hypothyroid, because their thyroids been beaten up. It's not working well. And so, so there's not a correlation really between numbers of antibody.

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