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Using the Hashimoto's thyroid or immune framework for yourself ⎸ Ep. 211 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  So over the last 200 and something episodes, I've been talking about Hashimoto's
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  as two different things.
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  There's the thyroid portion and there's the immune portion.
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  And in the last, I don't know, 10, 15 episodes, I've been more explicit about
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  this two different system framework.
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  Today, let's explore what it's like to use that framework for yourself.
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  Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition. That means your immune system is attacking
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  your thyroid. But knowing that is only the beginning.
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  This summer series is built in three phases. Phase one was understanding what's
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  happening in your body. Phase two is learning how to think about what you're learning.
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  And phase three is building your own personal discernment framework with support.
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  So most women with Hashimoto's have a lot of information.
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  What they're missing is a filter, a way to evaluate what applies to them specifically.
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  That is what this series is now designed to give you.
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  If you want to start with a foundation, check with the show notes for Hashimoto's
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  Decoded, new name, Hashimoto's Decoded, Thyroid or Immune.
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  In less than one hour, I will walk you through the most common root causes and
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  help you identify where to focus.
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  My name is Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse, holistic health educator,
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  and the host of this podcast, Health with Hashimoto's.
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  I believe your health is a blend of five interconnected areas,
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  body, mind, spirit, diet and environment. Let's work through this together.
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  So let's go back in time to when I first got my diagnosis.
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  So if you haven't listened to episode, I think it's episode two, maybe three is my story.
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  And in summary, I had this horrible like eczema rash, but it wasn't eczema.
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  And I had it for a couple of different winters. It was getting worse.
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  I went to my chiropractor to do some allergy testing.
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  Like what is causing this? And she looked at me, did an evaluation.
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  She's like, I think it's your thyroid. Did some labs.
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  My labs came back that my thyroid numbers were borderline. I did not need any
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  medication, but my antibodies were up. And she said, you have Hashimoto's.
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  So then I had to dive into all of the information. What is Hashimoto's?
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  Because again, if you've heard my story...
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  Four years of nursing school, 17 years in the ER, went back to school for holistic health education.
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  You could stop me on the street and ask me about virtually anything related
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  to diseases, body processes, things going wrong, health goals, anything.
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  And I could tell you body, mind, spirit, diet environment, a little bit about
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  what was going on and some initial steps.
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  Because that was my passion, helping people with their health.
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  But one thing that it always, always, always confused me, was the thyroid.
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  Like different things go up and others go down and your TSH is like way high,
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  but that means you're hypo, like you don't have enough. What is going on? I was always confused.
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  So when I first got my diagnosis, I knew two things.
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  I knew there was a thyroid component. After all, Hashimoto's full name is Hashimoto's
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  thyroiditis. It is inflammation of the thyroid.
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  I also knew that it was an autoimmune condition. So I knew there was an immune component.
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  I have been talking about this for 200 and something episodes,
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  that there are two different systems in the.
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  In this scenario. You have your thyroid bucket, you've got your immune bucket.
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  Over the last, you know, 10 or 15 episodes, I've been more explicit about that
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  divide because I want you to see Hashimoto's in this framework.
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  And when you're thinking about your next thing, I want you to be thinking,
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  okay, what is related to my thyroid? What does my thyroid need right now?
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  And what is related to my immune system?
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  What does my immune system need right now? What is one small thing I can do
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  today or this week or this month to help my overall health, the whole person,
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  body, mind, spirit, diet, environment, looking at it
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  in those two different buckets, the thyroid bucket and the immune bucket.
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  So back when I got my diagnosis, I was looking at those two different things.
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  I was looking at the thyroid bucket. I looked at the labs, figured those out.
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  My husband was able to help me. He's also a nurse.
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  And so approaching the thyroid bucket, you know, I see my labs, they're borderline.
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  I look at the ingredients that my thyroid needs in order to do its job well.
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  I think I made one adjustment in one of my supplements.
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  Other than that, I really didn't deal with the thyroid bucket very much because
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  I was more focused on the immune side of the two different systems.
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  Obviously, there was an attack going on on my thyroid.
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  And I wanted to slow or stop that attack. So I needed to focus on my immune system.
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  At the time when I got my diagnosis, there was not anybody teaching root causes.
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  Not at least that I could find easily. Yes, there were books and there were
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  like video courses that I did not feel like I had time to do right then.
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  I wanted something super quick that I could figure out like,
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  okay, these are my root causes.
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  I didn't want to have to go in for more lab testing that It cost tons of money.
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  I didn't want to have to pay for a big course that was going to take me a month.
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  I didn't feel good right then. I was exhausted right then.
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  I wanted answers right then. And really, that's why I created Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  In less than one hour, for $27, you're going to be able to get all those answers. Common sense.
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  Here's the thyroid bucket.
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  Here's the each. Here's what different things feel like, Hashimoto's or hypothyroid
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  symptoms, hyperthyroid symptoms.
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  When you're looking at the immune side, here are the most common root causes and the triggers.
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  I go through all of it in less than an hour because I know that you probably
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  don't want to spend a ton of time, money, or energy figuring yours out either.
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  So back to my framework, I'm looking at myself, my labs, my symptoms,
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  and everything that I know through these two different buckets, this framework.
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  I looked at the thyroid, and then I looked at the immune system.
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  I figured out the root causes.
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  And for me, I was already gluten-free, although it was not my choice.
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  I, you know, I struggled so hard. I did not want to go gluten-free.
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  My youngest, when he was a tiny baby, had eczema head to toe,
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  and he was exclusively breastfed. So I had to do an elimination diet for his sake.
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  A lot of time, we won't do something for our sake, but we will for our kids.
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  And that's what happened there.
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  And then gluten ended up to be fine for him. But my body really appreciated that break.
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  And so I can never go back to it myself.
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  But I don't think, like based on that knowledge, I don't think that gluten or
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  the AIP diet would have been something that I tackled right away.
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  Even knowing that diet is so hugely impactful for so many people who have Hashimoto's,
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  I think that I probably would have started with what I did start with.
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  Even if I was eating gluten at the time, I probably would have gone to sleep
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  and stress because I was so bone weary tired.
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  Like I felt horrible. I was slurring my words because I was falling asleep while
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  reading a book to my kids in the middle of the day. I was exhausted.
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  And that was so frustrating because I was trying to get some good sleep.
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  And the Hashimoto's was stealing my energy. And I was not okay with that.
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  I also was pretty sure that there was a stress level component.
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  Because as an ER nurse, like it takes a lot to fluster me to make me feel stressed.
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  And yet stressors still happen. And even though my mind, my emotions can deal
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  with stress, and like I don't, I don't feel it, it's still impacting my body.
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  So those were the first two things that I looked at when I looked at my diagnosis
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  and the time in front of me, like a week to a month to a year,
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  like what can I work on first? How can I feel better?
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  What's going on with my thyroid? What's going on with my immune system?
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  And what can I tackle first? And that's what I want for you too.
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  I want you to be able to know what is next.
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  Like what happened to get here and what happened next.
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  So I hope this like illustration of the framework and how I worked through it helps you.
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  My teenage son, young adult son, he's now 19.
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  He asked me the other day how my podcast was doing. And he specifically wanted to know money.
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  And I turned the question back on him and I said, you asked how my podcast is doing and.
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  I never said that money was my most important metric.
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  Like, how are you gauging success? And he looked at me kind of like,
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  why would you gauge success for anything else?
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  And I explained, I started the podcast out of a need that I had,
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  because there was nothing simple, clear, easy, and available right then when I needed it.
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  I wanted to teach via a podcast so that anybody anywhere can learn for free.
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  Every single week, you can tune in and you can learn something about your thyroid
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  and your overall health so that you can feel better.
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  And there's over 160,000 downloads of my podcast so far. Thank you so much.
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  That means so much to me because that's my mission, is to help others through the podcast.
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  And now also through Hashimoto's Decoded, as I get to take you in less than
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  an hour through what took me a long time and so much frustration to be able to learn.
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  That's my goal, is to be able to help you learn quickly and easily so you can
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  feel like yourself again.
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  There's a lot of information out there, but really there's nobody teaching you
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  how to sort things, thyroid and immune, and what to do next.
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  And so that is what This episode was, that's what Hashimoto's Decoded now is.
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  It is what I want you to be able to do. Sort your stuff so you can easily know
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  what to do next. I'll see you next week.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  To take your next step, join our school community and explore the courses available
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  there. You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  So that is school, S-K-O-O-L.com, and it is the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.