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102 // What is root cause medicine in Hashimoto's? · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to Health with Hashimoto's. This is the podcast where I help you find
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  simple and sustainable solutions for your Hashimoto's.
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  I want you to find your path to health with Hashimoto's.
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  My name is Esther. I am a registered nurse.
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  After 17 years in the emergency department, I went back to school for holistic
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  health education, and now I help women find simple and sustainable things that
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  they can do for their health.
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  And I am starting a new series. we're going to try something out.
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  I'm calling it my summer shorts.
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  And I will strive to have these summer episodes between seven to 10 minutes,
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  you can still binge them.
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  But I know that sometimes in the summer, your gaps of time or your,
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  you know, time that you have to yourself is limited.
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  So let's see if we can talk about what to do for Hashimoto's in seven to 10 minutes.
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  And I've already spent one minute giving the intro.
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  All right, so when you have Hashimoto's, you can think of your health like a plant.
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  That's one of my favorite analogies. You can also think of your health and your disease as a stream.
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  So let's talk about the stream since in the last episode, we talked about the plant a lot.
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  Imagine you are walking down a creek or a stream, and all of a sudden you see
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  a little rubber ducky floating down the stream towards you. It's cute, right?
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  No big deal. You scoop it out because you don't want pollution and you go on
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  your way. And then you see another one and you scoop it out.
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  And then pretty soon you're seeing like 5, 10, 15 little rubber duckies.
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  Now you can continue standing there and scooping them out and you're going to
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  get tired. You're going to get cold, but you're going to be effective, right?
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  Because you are doing what you can at the time you're scooping out the rubber duckies.
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  What's going to be more effective? Standing there and scooping out the rubber
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  duckies or going upstream a little bit and finding out who's throwing them all in the river.
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  You want to find the culprit, right? You want to find out why all of these rubber
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  duckies are getting into the river. Well, that is like your health.
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  The little rubber duckies are your symptoms.
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  And a lot of people spend a lot of time attacking the symptoms and trying to remove the symptoms.
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  And it works for a while. And you can find solutions for some things.
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  And then others are a little harder to get rid of. But those are are the rubber duckies.
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  What we really want in our health is to figure out what's causing the rubber
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  duckies to be in the river in the first place.
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  So in this case, it would be what's causing the symptoms.
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  Now, because Hashimoto's is an autoimmune problem, that means you've got two
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  different things going on.
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  You've got the autoimmune problem, and then you've also got the attack on the thyroid.
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  A lot of your symptoms are coming because of the thyroid issue,
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  but it's It's not really your thyroid that's the problem, it's the immune system attacking it.
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  So it is your job to go upstream a little bit and to figure out what's causing
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  it. Who's dumping the rubber duckies in?
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  Now, in the case of an autoimmune problem, it is your immune system going haywire
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  and starting to attack yourself.
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  So why is it? What is triggering your immune system to go on attack?
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  And not only that, but attack the wrong things. You want to figure out how to
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  calm your immune system down and how to help it work like it's designed to work.
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  And one of the biggest things for that is stress.
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  So if you've not listened to any of the stress episode, if you have some time
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  after this one, I have a bunch of episodes about different kinds of stress and what you can do for it.
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  The stress episodes, I start out with number seven.
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  So episode number seven is all about stress, your thyroid and Hashimoto's.
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  And then episode eight is five
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  tips for you when you're a busy person to reduce and manage your stress.
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  In episode 24, I talk about your adrenal glands and chronic stress and Hashimoto's in episode 34.
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  I give you some ways to halt the damage caused by stress in that one.
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  We also talk about your lymphatic system because that's huge in stress.
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  Your lymphatic system is like the garbage disposal system of your body.
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  And when you are under stress, it can cause almost like a molten lava type situation
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  in your lymphatic system.
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  And you don't want that. You want things to be moving really well.
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  In episode 36, I talk about using art to de-stress.
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  That is one of, I think, my favorite episodes because there's so many like fun
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  things that we don't really think about for health.
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  In episode 40, I talked about spiritual stress and how that can be related to
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  inflammation and autoimmune system or autoimmune diseases.
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  So those are some episodes about stress. And stress is huge when you're talking
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  about autoimmune problems.
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  So that is one cause or one person dumping rubber duckies into this dream.
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  That's one thing you can look at is the stress.
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  But there are other things that can trigger or can cause autoimmune problems.
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  I have an entire mini course for you inside the Health with Hashimoto's app.
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  This is actually step two of your path to health with Hashimoto's.
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  Step one is Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  It is 10 questions to ask your doctor because you want to invite your doctor
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  to help you figure out how to help yourself.
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  Your doctor can only do so much. They can give you the best advice that they can.
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  They can prescribe medications, but your doctor cannot make choices for you.
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  Also, your doctor really probably does not have time to dig into the root causes.
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  Your doctor doesn't have time to go upstream with you and figure out what's
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  throwing the rubber duckies into the river. That is your job.
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  So step one is Hashimoto's Decoded, 10 questions to ask your doctor.
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  And these are things that your doctor can probably answer and can really help
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  you become your best patient advocate.
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  Step two is Hashimoto's Decoded, root causes revealed.
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  And that's helping you look for what's causing the rubber duckies to get into the stream.
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  I guide you through...
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  The three main root causes, and then the eight most common triggers and help
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  you figure out which ones apply to you and your situation.
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  Because once you can identify the culprit who's throwing rubber duckies into
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  the river, then you can take action.
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  Because it's so tiring to just keep scooping out the rubber duckies.
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  It's so tiring to just keep addressing the symptoms and not feel like you're
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  actually making any difference.
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  That's why I left the emergency department. I felt like I was always just scooping rubber duckies.
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  I was just always helping people with their most urgent symptom.
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  I wasn't really helping them live a better and more healthy life.
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  I have been just so grateful that I get to help you in this way through the
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  podcast and through the Health with Hashimoto's app and through my course,
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  the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  I love to be able to help you learn how to identify your root causes and take action.
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  All right, I did it. Seven minutes and we talked about the root causes and what
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  it looks like to look for those root causes.
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  So if you have some extra time right now, head down to the show notes.
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  You can either pick, listen to one
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  of the stress episodes or enroll in the Hashimoto's Decoded Steps 1 and 2.
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  Again, Again, step one is it's a PDF to download and you actually print the
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  last page so you can take it to your doctor and ask questions.
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  But the audio course is like listening to a private podcast.
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  I am walking you through the 10 questions so that you know which ones are the
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  most important so that you know which ones to ask and so you can get your answers.
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  And then step two is Hashimoto's Decoded Root Causes Revealed so that you can
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  look for who's throwing in the rubber duckies and you can address them.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  If you found this episode helpful, will you please share it with a friend?
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  I'll see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Music.