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Why do I have so many Hashimoto's symptoms at the same time ⎸ Root Cause Series Ep 208 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Once you find out that you have
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  Hashimoto's, the very first thing that you get to do is figure out why.
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  Figure out what is behind this diagnosis. What's behind my body attacking my
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  thyroid, my immune system going haywire?
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  What's behind my symptoms? Is it my immune system? Is it my thyroid? What is going on?
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  And then after you figure out what some of those root causes are,
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  then of course you get to tackle them.
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  That is your privilege. It's also your responsibility. Sometimes it can be really
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  heavy. And then here's a little wrinkle.
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  You know the logo of Health with Hashimoto's?
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  It looks like a flower, right? With a butterfly in the middle.
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  The butterfly represents your thyroid because your thyroid is shaped kind of like a butterfly.
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  The five petals are, they were drafted by a Venn diagram, meaning the whole
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  person, each part of that whole person, the whole you, body,
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  mind, spirit, diet, environment.
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  Each one of your root causes interacts with each of those five parts,
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  and it also interacts with other root causes.
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  Root causes end up stacking.
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  And that is what this week's episode is all about. Hashimoto's is an autoimmune
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  condition. That means your immune system is attacking your thyroid.
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  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. 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, I did say root causes stack. They impact each other,
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  they impact every part of the whole you.
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  You are not a simple, like, bone. You're not a simple skeleton.
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  As much as the orthopedic doctors of the world seem to want to think that you
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  are just bones, you cannot isolate just one part of you.
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  The orthopedic surgeons are just as wrong as the endocrinologists.
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  You cannot be separated into one solo body part.
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  Not only are you a symphony of different body parts and tissues and organs and,
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  all of these things working together, but you are also more than a body.
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  Your body, mind, spirit, diet, environment, it all goes together.
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  It all impacts all the other parts.
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  And that includes root causes. So what does this look like in practicality?
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  Well, here's a very simple example.
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  Let's say that you are low on sleep.
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  Of course, if you have Hashimoto's, you might be familiar with like bone weary fatigue.
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  But I'm talking about like you got a night of really poor sleep.
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  This is different than your day to day.
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  You got a really poor night of sleep. Well, what happens as a result of that poor night of sleep?
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  Your blood sugar is not as well regulated the next day.
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  Even if you're not diabetic, you do not have to be diabetic for having weird,
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  wacky blood sugar in a day.
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  Now, Are you going to have as weird blood sugar as somebody who is diabetic,
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  who doesn't have all of the regulations in place in their body to control blood sugar?
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  No, you're still going to have more control, but it is going to be more dysregulated
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  than normal after a poor night's sleep.
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  Also, when you have a poor night's sleep, the next day, your diet is different.
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  Part of this is because of the blood sugar.
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  You're getting hangry. You need some food. You need some food right now,
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  your brain is looking for quick sugar.
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  Part of it is also willpower. When you are low on sleep, you have less willpower.
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  So if you have all of these ideals for how you want your diet to be,
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  especially after figuring out your root causes and figuring out,
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  oh, you know, gluten is one of my root causes and I am going to go gluten-free.
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  If you are tired, your willpower to stay committed to that decision is less.
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  And then your blood sugar is going a little wild, and you put those two things
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  together, and you might reach for something that you wouldn't normally eat.
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  So that is the impact, just some of the impacts, that a poor night's sleep can have.
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  Here's another example, and this one is more in-depth. Let's say that you have
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  some stressors in your life. I know, hard to imagine, right?
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  So you have increased stress. What does that do? we're going to go through body,
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  mind, spirit, diet, environment. We're going to go through three of those four, the three of those five.
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  If you have increased stress, your body reacts, your immune system reacts,
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  and your immune function overall goes down.
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  Think of when you were in college.
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  You know, you had a lot of stress going into finals week.
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  You might have stayed up late, so there's also some sleep issues going in.
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  But what happened about five to seven days after finals were done?
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  You're back at home or you're on vacation, and all of a sudden, you get sick.
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  Maybe this didn't happen every time, but it probably happened at least once
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  or twice to you or a friend.
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  Finals happened, you were all fine, you went on vacation or you went back home,
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  you're just chilling and you get sick.
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  Why did you get sick at this time?
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  Part of it is because when you were under the stressors, when your stress was
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  increased, your immune system was prioritizing other things.
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  Your immune system was not functioning at full capacity.
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  Viruses, bacteria hit, and then they grew, they incubated, you know,
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  and then five to seven days later, you're like, oh my goodness,
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  why do I have symptoms? Why am I feeling so crummy?
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  Because of the stress. Also, stress can increase the dysfunction of your immune
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  system. Autoimmunity is your immune system going haywire.
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  Increased stress can increase that immune system going haywire.
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  That's just from stress. That's looking at the body. Just a couple examples
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  in that body petal of the flower.
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  What about diet? So I just talked about low sleep and how that can impact it?
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  Well, when you are under stress, your intestinal permeability,
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  so leaky gut, it increases.
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  There are bigger gaps in between the little junctions of your intestines and
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  more things can get through.
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  When more things get through, like let's go back to gluten.
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  Let's say you eat some gluten. It normally doesn't bother you,
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  but you're under a lot of stress.
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  Your intestines have increased permeability, you eat that gluten, the gluten gets through
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  in a bigger protein chunk than normally it should be able to when your intestines
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  are nice and tight junctioned. I don't know if that sentence made sense.
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  But the gluten gets through. And then your body is like, oh,
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  this protein shouldn't be here.
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  I'm going to attack this protein because I know this protein should not be in the bloodstream.
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  I'm going to treat it just like any other invader. And then your body starts
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  to identify gluten as an invader and you develop allergy symptoms.
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  This is one thing that can happen when you are under stress.
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  So that's the diet petal of the flower, the whole you.
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  Body, mind, spirit diet environment. Every single petal of the flower is impacted by stress.
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  And it shows up in different ways. And then the different petals impact each
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  other. Remember, my first example of this stress was your immune system in the
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  body petal of the flower.
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  And I gave the example of college finals stress getting sick.
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  Well, what I didn't say was that is also the environment petal,
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  because your environment is where you picked up that bacteria or the virus.
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  So you can see super simple how the environment and the body interact,
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  those two petals of the flower interact.
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  All so interrelated. And your root causes, they tend to stack.
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  They tend to impact each other.
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  So what do you do? You're like, Esther, you're just giving me more information.
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  I'm feeling more overwhelmed.
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  What in the world am I supposed to do with this? You're saying that everything
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  is related to everything.
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  And do you want me to tackle every single thing? I don't have the bandwidth
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  for that. I don't have the mental space.
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  I just want to turn off this podcast right now.
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  Okay, don't leave me. Don't turn off the podcast because there is hope.
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  Just as one thing can negatively impact all of the other petals of the flower,
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  the whole you, small changes for good can also impact everything else.
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  Take diaphragmatic breathing, for example. You know, you're lowering your stress.
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  You're telling every single cell in your body to chill out. It's okay. Relax.
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  You've got this, diaphragmatic breathing impacts positively every other cell in your body.
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  It impacts every petal of the whole you of that flower.
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  So there are things that you can do positively, small, simple things.
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  There are ways, even when you are like feeling like your bandwidth is down to
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  just a bare minimum, you don't have time or mental space for anything.
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  There are things that you can still do to influence every single part of the whole you for good.
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  And if you want help building that picture for your own body and learning how
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  to use it going forward, that is what Hashimoto's Discernment Coaching is designed to do.
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  The link is down in the show notes, of course.
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  And if you want to look at the stress, the petals of the whole you related to
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  stress, there is an infographic on the blog post for episode 205.
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  So you can take a look at that.
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  And then yeah, head down to the show notes, sign up for Hashimoto's discernment
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  coaching. I'll see you inside.
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