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Why is Hashimoto's becoming so common? I mean, I've had a lot of time to think about this over the last couple of months, because in my mind that plays in with a lot of things that are happening right now with people being more compromised, and being more vulnerable to getting the Corona virus and some people reacting much worse, continually hearing how compromise those patients are. It's really, auto-immunity, that's becoming more common. When I first got in the practice, I was treating people who got well pretty quick, whether you or, I was doing chiropractic, whether we were doing physiotherapy on them, whether we were giving them blood sugar diets, whether we were giving them supplements, I don't know, you know, it was just like you, okay, you're better. That's good, let's see you later. Back then auto-immunity was basically MS, it was rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Lou Gehrig's disease, which is still very rare. It was these things. It was things that you would know and grasp but then

it started to become understood that, and I do think it started with the thyroid. It started to become understood that the thyroid was actually the most hyperthyroid is actually autoimmune thyroid. The research on that, it's like irrefutable at this point in time, even Mayo clinic says 85 to 95% of all hypothyroidism are Hashimoto's. Within the framework of being in practice during that time and seeing those patients and watching the explosion, I remember the group of doctors that I was with back then, we were all kind of like communicate with each other on board and go, "does everybody have autoimmune?" It was auto immune at the time and we were running autoimmune markers before anybody else was running them. They were telling us that we were crazy, and everybody was coming up, the A and A's were coming up on them, the antibodies were coming up. Then one of my mentors said, "let's test everybody for Hashimoto's." I was resistant to it, tested them, I tested the next 10 patients and seven of them had it. I basically almost fell off of my chair. Like, how could that be? So I think Hashimoto's kind of led the way to now, even in the medical community, they're embracing more and more that these mystery diseases, things that they can't put their finger on could be auto-immune.

More and more automated testing is being done, it's in its evolution. But the point is, is that, we are developing auto immunity as a common factor in our patient population, in our society. I think, you know, being my age and having gone through the fifties, the sixties, and seventies, all the way up until today, had opportunity to watch the change in society. What challenges our immune systems? Our immune systems are amazing. It's like, how do you have a system that detects things that come into the body that don't belong there and either kill it, or detox it without killing you? Think about that, you know, your immune system will attack a bacteria, virus, that type of thing, but in theory, it shouldn't attack you except in auto-immunity. Now all of a sudden it's attacking us and it would appear based on the evolution of what we understand we need to do to dampen the immune response that it's societal, It's indeed more stress.

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