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Why Knowing Your Hashimoto's Root Causes Is Not Enough ⎸ Root Cause Series Ep 206 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  You have done the research. You've listened to the podcasts,
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  read the books, bought the supplements, tried the diets. You probably already
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  know what your root causes are. You can list them all.
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  Side note, if you don't know that yet, go down to the show notes and get Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  But you still might not know what to do with all of that information when something
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  new comes along. Maybe a friend recommends a practitioner, an ad appears for
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  a new protocol, or somebody recommends a new supplement, and then you freeze.
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  Knowing about root causes does not necessarily give you a filter.
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  It just gives you more information to sort through. And that is the problem
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  this episode is solving.
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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
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  learning, and Phase 3 is building your own personal discernment framework with support.
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  So most women with Hashimoto's have a lot of information, but what they're missing
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  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 yes, there is a brand new name. In fact, I'm renaming a couple things in
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  my offers because I just found out that there is a very well-known program,
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  well-known person in the Hashimoto's space, and one of her programs has the exact same name.
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  So I didn't want any confusion about whose work was whose.
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  So I really dug down deep to figure out what am I actually teaching?
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  And the answer I kept coming back to was deeper than root causes.
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  I've been talking about root causes for a long time, but root causes are just the starting point.
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  What I actually teach you comes after you understand your root causes.
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  Obviously, I'm helping you understand your root causes. That is what Hashimoto's
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  Decoded is all about, figuring out your personal root causes in less than an hour.
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  But I also teach you how to think about your Hashimoto's so that you can evaluate
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  anything and everything that comes your way. And that is discernment.
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  And so the new name of the root cause reset is switching to Hashimoto's discernment
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  coaching, because I want you to be able to have the ability to see if something is for you
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  or not for you. And that is discernment.
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  So discernment in this context of Hashimoto's means having a personal filter.
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  It means knowing enough about your own body, knowing your root causes,
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  knowing your patterns, knowing enough that you can evaluate any new information
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  against a specific situation rather than general.
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  Like, you know, a Facebook ad doesn't know you. You know you.
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  So what does discernment look like in real life? Well, here are three different
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  examples. The first one I feel like I encounter all the time.
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  The social media algorithms, I just get fed protocols and supplements and parasite cleanses.
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  You probably get this too. Whether it's a personal friend or whether it's an
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  ad, you might see like a supplement. Like this is really good for you if you
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  have Hashimoto's or if you have this symptom.
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  Without discernment, you might feel guilty for not trying it or you might try it.
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  But with discernment, you know, you absolutely know which of your root causes it addresses.
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  You will know if it's relevant to your situation.
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  And you could also figure out what questions to ask a practitioner if you have further concerns.
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  Example two, a new diet. So I have a lot of episodes about diet.
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  And you might, you know, talk to a friend, she says she's had Hashimoto's for a really long time.
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  She went dairy free, and it reversed her symptoms.
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  Without discernment, you might overhaul your diet, or you might dismiss the claim.
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  With discernment, you know if dairy has shown up as a trigger for you specifically.
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  Now, obviously, this is if you have gone through some sort of testing period,
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  and we do that in my Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching.
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  It's one of the phases we go through. And if you listened to the new AIP episode
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  with Mickey Trescott. You learned about testing your diet with the autoimmune protocol.
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  You have learned about that. With discernment, you can implement it.
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  And you know when somebody's talking to you about a specific dietary protocol,
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  you know if it will work for you or if it's something that you should experiment with.
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  Let's not do this all or nothing thinking. Discernment is being very particular,
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  if it's going to apply for you.
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  Example three would be a flare-up. Now, I did an episode in,
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  I think it was for the first 10 episodes, because I had no idea what somebody
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  meant by a flare or a flare-up.
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  And so I explained it back in those early episodes.
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  A flare-up is some symptoms or maybe one symptom getting worse for you.
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  So maybe your brain fatigue, your brain fog, your brain is just so tired it
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  can't think, Maybe it's coming back after a really good stretch of clear and quick thinking.
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  Without discernment, you might be scared. You might be confused.
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  You might be just flabbergasted and worried.
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  But with discernment, you can run through your own checklist.
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  You can think through what's been going on for my sleep, my stress, my food.
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  Where am I in my menstrual cycle? You're not guessing. You're investigating based on what you know.
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  So the commonality in these three examples is not necessarily data.
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  It's not necessarily knowledge.
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  It's about how you apply that knowledge. It's knowing yourself well enough to
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  ask the right questions.
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  It's knowing your experiences, your past, your root causes enough to guide you
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  to implement new things.
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  That is discernment. Discernment is the ability to see if something is for you or not.
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  The filter that kicks in when you get new information or, you know,
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  somebody wants to help you with whatever helped them. Instead of guessing,
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  you will know, is this actually going to help me?
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  And now here's some nuance. I'm not saying that discernment is having a magic
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  crystal ball where you can see
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  the future and know exactly everything that will work or will not work.
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  You're still going to have to do some experimenting on yourself,
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  but discernment gives you a really good filter about knowing if something is
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  worth investigating, worth trying or not.
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  So I am pivoting the summer series a little bit, as you've probably noticed
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  already from this episode, because I realized it's kind of silly for me to do
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  a full episode on each root cause when I already go into depth on each root
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  cause in Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  Like it's already available for you.
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  All you have to do is click the link and in less than an hour,
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  you're going to get all of that information.
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  So yeah, we're not going to do an episode on every single root cause,
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  even though I said we were going to do that. I said we were going to do an episode
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  on iodine, so maybe I guess I'll do that in the fall.
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  But it's in Hashimoto's Decoded. So drop down to the show notes and you can
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  click the link and go through Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  Because I don't want to just give you a list to check off in the free podcast episodes.
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  I want to give you the material for your own discernment framework.
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  So each episode can add to your picture of what might be driving your symptoms.
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  And that is the point of the episodes going forward.
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  Not necessarily information accumulation, but pattern recognition for your specific situation.
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  So I have two options for you depending on where you are.
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  So option A is if you are still in the understanding phase, trying to figure
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  out what is going on, what led to you being here, what is leading to your symptoms.
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  Hashimoto's Decoded is the place to start if you are in this place.
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  In Hashimoto's Decoded, you're going to figure out your root causes,
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  you're going to figure out what's leading to your symptoms.
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  Hashimoto's Decoded is foundational to pretty much everything we talk If you
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  have already been through Hashimoto's Decoded, option B is for you.
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  If you know your root causes, then let's figure out how to build that filter
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  to get that discernment because,
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  that will guide you, that will help
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  you go through life figuring out if something is for you or not for you.
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  So that coaching is six sessions designed to help you build the framework.
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  Links to both of those, Hashimoto's Decoded and Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching,
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  those links are down in the show notes. You can just click the link.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only please discuss
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  i'll see you next time on the health.