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107 // Hashimoto's Causes: What Your Endocrinologist Didn't Tell You · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Has your doctor or endocrinologist told you, quote, we don't know what causes Hashimoto's, unquote?
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  They told you that before? Have you heard that before? That's what we're going
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  to talk about on today's short episode of Health with Hashimoto's.
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  So during the summer, I am attempting to do a short series where every single
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  episode is between seven and 10 minutes.
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  A couple of them have gone a couple seconds over 10 minutes.
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  So I'm really meeting my goal of seven to 10 minutes.
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  I'm pretty proud of myself. I wasn't sure if I could stay under 10 minutes and
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  just going a couple of seconds over in a couple, I'm okay with that.
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  If we haven't met before, my name is Esther. I am a registered nurse and I specialize
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  in Hashimoto's, specifically helping you discover a simple and sustainable solutions
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  so that you can figure out how to have better health.
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  And I have a path to health with Hashimoto's that we're going to talk about later in this episode.
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  But this specific comment came to me in a direct message, and they said that's
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  what her endocrinologist had told her.
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  We don't know what causes Hashimoto's.
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  And I would kind of agree and kind of disagree with this endocrinologist.
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  Now, obviously, the endocrinologist is a specialist.
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  They have gone to more school than I have. I went to four years of school to
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  become a registered nurse, and then I went back to school for two more years
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  for holistic health education.
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  Also, I have a lot of learning under my belt, both in the emergency department
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  and then on my own so that I can help you.
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  The endocrinologist went to school for a lot more years to become a doctor and
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  then to specialize in hormones, which is what endocrinologists specialize in.
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  So he or she has a lot of knowledge behind that answer.
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  And the reason why I would agree with the endocrinologist in that we don't know
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  what causes Hashimoto's is because Western medicine wants exactly one cause for one disease.
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  And if we don't have one cause for one disease, then they say we don't know, typically.
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  For example, the breast cancer gene. Now they can, quote, know what causes breast
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  cancer because we have some genes to link it back to.
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  There's two different genes and they're abbreviated BRCA. There's BRCA1 and
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  BRCA2. People can get tested for that.
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  Now, it's not 100% that if you have those genes, you're going to have breast
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  cancer. it's not 100% that if you don't have those genes, you're not going to have breast cancer.
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  But we know that those genes are directly related to breast cancer,
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  and they do increase your risk of getting breast cancer if you have those genes.
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  And then of course, there's a lot of other scenarios in Western medicine where,
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  you know, we have vaccines for different things.
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  Like you're going to get, I don't know, MMR so that you don't get measles, mumps, and rubella.
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  Now there's a lot lot of different paths that we could go on for a vaccine topic,
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  and I'm not going to, I'm just saying they like to have a specific cause so
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  that they can have a specific treatment so that they can market it to you and
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  also to keep you healthy.
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  There are people who really, really want to help you be healthier.
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  There are also people in Western medicine who really want to make a lot of money and are very good at it.
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  So in Western medicine, they want one cause for one disease and Hashimoto's does not have one cause.
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  So can we say that we know what causes Hashimoto's in that scenario? No.
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  We know there's a genetic component to Hashimoto's. To my knowledge,
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  they have not isolated the specific gene and can test for it,
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  but you can see it run in families.
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  So we know that there's a genetic component. And if you have downloaded step
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  one in your path to health with Hashimoto's, step one is 10 thyroid questions
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  to ask your doctor. It's the first part of Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  Question number two to ask your doctor is what caused my diagnosis?
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  Because a diagnosis is helpful and it determines your treatment plan,
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  but the diagnosis is not the whole picture.
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  And I even say in the explanation about number two is your provider may not
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  know the answer to this question. In fact, they probably will not.
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  It usually takes some digging to get to your root causes.
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  And that is why I have provided Hashimoto's Decoded Part Two.
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  Part part two or step two on your path to health with Hashimoto's is Hashimoto's decoded root causes.
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  So step one is Hashimoto's decoded 10 questions for your doctor.
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  And then step two is the root causes.
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  Root causes is really what you want to figure out.
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  And I feel like when the endocrinologist says we don't know what causes Hashimoto's,
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  they're saying there isn't one specific thing.
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  What I'm saying is we know and we have identified a bunch of different root
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  causes, and it's your job to figure out which ones apply to you based on your health history,
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  based on what you know about your own life and your own situation.
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  A couple of weeks ago, I was serving at a Bible camp as their camp nurse, and it was really fun.
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  But I was talking to one of the kids about out migraines. And I mentioned to
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  him that when I was logging my migraines, I didn't find that there was one single trigger.
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  For me, my migraines came when there were three different things kind of coming together.
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  And that was a lack of sleep, increased sugar, increased or any gluten, and poor posture.
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  Now, if you were counting, those are four things.
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  I didn't need all four. I just needed three of them and it could be any three.
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  I noticed that as I was tracking my migraines, when I had any three of those
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  four, I would get a migraine, but it didn't have to always be the same three.
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  And you know what? That made it really hard to pin down my triggers.
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  It took a long time to figure out, oh, it's this combination or it's this scenario.
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  It can be the same thing for you. We know that there are a bunch of identified
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  root causes and triggers.
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  And then it's your job to look at them and say, well, these specific ones apply
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  to me and my situation. It's not.
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  One-size-fits-all. And that's the really hard thing about autoimmune problems,
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  because it's not a one-size-fits-all.
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  It's not a one-solution-fits-all.
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  It's a figure out what's going on in your life, and then figure out how to address that.
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  That is the goal. We want to address what's going on in your specific situation
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  so that you can get the answers, and you can get the results that you want.
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  And that is why I created the Path to Health with Hashimoto's.
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  Three steps so that you can get your exact answers.
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  Like I said, step one on that path is Hashimoto's Decoded, 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor.
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  Step two on that path is Hashimoto's Decoded, The Root Causes,
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  so you can figure out what contributed to you getting Hashimoto's. Now, is this 100%?
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  No, this is based on what you are reflecting on.
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  And it's not a like, I can't give you an A and say, yep, you exactly figured it out.
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  There's always some subjectiveness in this and figuring it out.
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  But you don't need a bunch of expensive tests.
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  Just go through that. It's a $7 course right now. The Hashimoto's Decoded Root Causes.
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  Super simple. Figure out your root causes. And then step three is the holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  And that is where you're going to figure out exactly what to do.
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  I'm going to shortcut your time and your energy. I'm going to take away a lot
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  of the like throw spaghetti at the wall, the trial and error.
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  Like one person I talked to, she said, I just keep trying over and over and over.
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  I have so much error in trying to figure out what's going on until I finally got to some solutions.
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  She had wasted so much time and I don't want you to waste all that time and energy.
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  So that is why I created the holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  So was that endocrinologist correct? Do we know what causes Hashimoto's?
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  They said no. And I say, well, kind of. You can go through that path,
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  step one, step two, step three, and you can get answers for yourself and figure
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  out some solutions for yourself.
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  And that is what really matters in the end.
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  So drop below in the show notes and there will be links to the app,
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  the Health with Hashimoto's app.
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  You can find all three steps in there, or you can just do step one, which is down below.
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  And then of course I will send you an email and then you can go to step two.
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  And then after step two, you would check your email and go to step three.
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  I look forward to seeing you along the path to health with Hashimoto's.