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Summer Root Cause Series Introduction: Why do people get Hashimoto's? ⎸ Ep. 202 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to episode 202 of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Today we're talking about the root causes of Hashimoto's.
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  Hashimoto's is two different things. It is an attack on your thyroid,
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  so you have thyroid symptoms, and then you have something causing the attack,
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  which is the autoimmune condition.
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  However, there are root causes causing the autoimmune condition.
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  So let's talk about what those root causes are, and more importantly,
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  what you can do to address those root causes so that you can start feeling like yourself again.
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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. This is where you will find
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  clarity and simple, sustainable strategies to feel better.
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  I want to help you figure out your root causes.
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  My name is Esther Yunkin. I am a registered nurse.
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  I know how exhausting it is to live with fatigue, brain fog,
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  and the ups and downs of Hashimoto's, and that is why I'm here.
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  I'm here to cut through the confusion and to give you practical steps that support
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  your body, calm your immune system, so that you can regain your energy and feel like yourself again.
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  So in the last episode, episode 201, I talked about all of the basics.
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  What is your thyroid? What is Hashimoto's? And...
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  A little tiny bit about what you can do. Today, we're going deeper into what
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  are the primary root causes so that you can know what you can do.
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  Now, if you want to shortcut this, you can skip today's episode and go straight
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  into Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  I have a Root Causes Revealed mini course.
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  I call it mini because in less than one hour, you are going to be able to figure
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  out your root causes. And this is the common sense approach.
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  There is a philosophy of test, don't guess. I'm not asking you to guess.
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  I am teaching you about the root causes in Hashimoto's Decoded so that you can
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  figure out, oh, you know, these are my root causes.
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  Yes, if you want to go further, you can do lab testing.
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  And we're not going to do that in less than an hour in the Hashimoto's Decoded
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  mini course. That is less than an hour.
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  You're going to get a little workbook. You're going to be able to make your
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  map of exactly what you need to do in order to feel like yourself again.
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  So if you want to hit pause on this episode, head down to the show notes and
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  I will have a link right down there so you can click and go to Hashimoto's Decoded.
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  I think it's very important that every single person knows your root cause because
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  if you do not know what is causing your immune system to go haywire,
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  then there's nothing that you can do and then you are essentially just a victim
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  and you are a lifelong pharmaceutical patient.
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  And I don't want that for you. I want you to feel like yourself again.
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  I want you to have your symptoms go away.
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  I want you to be on a stable or even a lowering dose of your medication because
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  that means that your thyroid is doing what it's supposed to do.
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  It's producing the hormones that it's supposed to and your body is converting as it is supposed to.
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  The goal is always that your body is doing what it is designed to do. That is the goal.
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  I just did a complete revision on episode 83 on the blog post.
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  I went to answer somebody's question in a DM, and I
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  It was about supplements. And so I was like, oh, you need to go to episode 83.
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  Here's the blog post and it will answer a lot of the questions.
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  And as I opened the blog post, I'm like, oh my goodness, there's a lot of changes that I needed to make.
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  The essence of episode 83 of all about supplements with Hashimoto's or for Hashimoto's
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  is getting your body to do what your body is designed to do.
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  That is the goal of supplementation. That is the goal of activation.
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  You can read more about that in the blog post or listen to it on episode 83.
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  We want to get your body doing what it is designed to do.
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  One of the things your body is designed to do is heal.
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  And we want our thyroid to be able to heal.
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  We want to stop the attack on it. We want your body to do what your body is
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  designed to do so that you could feel like yourself again.
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  So with every single autoimmune condition, there are three different things at play.
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  And this is universal for all autoimmune conditions, at least all that I know
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  of, because every autoimmune condition is an autoimmune condition.
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  We name them different names, Hashimoto's, lupus, MS, type 1 diabetes.
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  We name them different things because your immune system is attacking different
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  things in the body. So they all get their own name.
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  But at the root, all of them have three things in common. And one of them is a genetic condition.
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  You cannot change your ancestry. We cannot be born again other than spiritually.
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  It's a whole other topic.
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  You cannot change your ancestry. Your genetics are your genetics. However, it's
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  I hear the analogy of a loaded gun a lot.
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  Your genetics are like a loaded gun, but something pulls the trigger.
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  So you have your genes, but how
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  they express is really up to a lot of lifestyle things and diet things.
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  You look at the logo for Health with Hashimoto's, and it has five petals.
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  It is a flower with five petals. There's a butterfly in the middle.
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  Those five petals represent body, mind, spirit, diet, environment.
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  There are different things in each one of those petals that can pull the trigger,
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  that can change your genetics, and it can make things express differently.
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  So the first thing every autoimmune condition has is a genetic component.
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  The second thing is a gut component. Now this, for a lot of people, is leaky gut.
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  You cannot feel or see leaky gut.
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  There are not easy tests for leaky gut.
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  You can test for it, but it's just assumed now as they've done more and more
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  and more research on leaky gut.
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  It's officially called intestinal permeability because it means things can permeate
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  or go through your gut lining that they're not supposed to go through.
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  The problem is when things go through the gut lining, then you have things that
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  are too big, like bits of food, bits of protein.
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  They're too big. They shouldn't have gone through. And then your body is like,
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  oh, this isn't supposed to be here.
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  It mounts a defense and it tries to attack that thing.
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  And that is one reason you can get allergies and sensitivities because of leaky gut.
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  But another thing that leaky gut impacts is autoimmune conditions.
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  One of the reasons why leaky gut is assumed to.
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  Or why some people assume that leaky gut impacts on immune conditions is because
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  your immune system is constantly fighting all of these particles that are too big.
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  And so your immune system is working over time. And,
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  I'm sure that you have done some overtime work in your life.
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  And the more overtime you put in, the more tired you are, and the more cranky
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  you are, and the more likely you are to snap at somebody that you love,
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  right? Has that happened?
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  I'm sure it has happened to you. You just get so tired. You're overworked.
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  And all of a sudden, you are just, you're cranky.
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  And you're attacking things that you normally wouldn't attack.
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  And I'm not saying like physically, but.
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  You're not yourself. Well, that's your immune system. It's not working right.
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  It's cranky. It's attacking things. It's overzealous.
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  And the thyroid, one reason people think,
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  or one of the theories of this immune system attack on your thyroid is that
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  your thyroid has collected a lot of environmental toxins and your immune system
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  is a little overzealous,
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  but it's attacking your thyroid because it says, hey,
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  there are things in here, the thyroid is hanging on to things that should not
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  be here, and we need to attack it, and we need to, you know, we need to get rid of it.
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  So every single person with an autoimmune condition has a genetic component,
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  has a gut component. Those are two of the three.
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  The third thing that every single person has is a trigger.
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  You have a genetic component. That's the same for everybody.
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  You have a gut component. That's the same for everybody.
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  Genetics, gut, huge categories.
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  You have a genetic component and a gut component. The other thing is a trigger.
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  Now, triggers can vary from person to person, and there are eight common triggers.
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  So let me quickly go over those. The summer series this year,
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  I usually do a shorter episode format in the summer, around 10 minutes instead
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  of 20 minutes, and I have a theme.
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  This year, the theme is your root causes, knowing what's going on,
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  because the more you know, the more you can choose different things to address the problems.
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  If I don't know, let me give you a quick example.
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  When my third boy was one year old, we went to his well child check and because
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  we lived in a really old house, they're like, it's standard that we do a lead
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  check. I'm like, okay, that's fine.
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  So they drew the labs and then we went on with life.
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  While I was working in the ER over the weekend, I want to say it was a.
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  It was for sure a weekend. It might have been a holiday weekend where it was longer.
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  I was like, oh, I'm just going to check on his labs because I was in the hospital system.
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  And back then you could access family charts without breaking any sort of HIPAA.
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  Now things have changed and you're not supposed to. Back then it was 100% fine.
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  So I logged in, checked his labs, and I saw two red exclamation points and it
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  said critical lab value.
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  And I was like, oh my goodness. You know, my heart sunk.
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  I was completely stressed out.
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  Like my one-year-old has toxic amounts of lead.
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  That was the knowledge. Now I knew what I was dealing with.
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  Then I had to figure out two different things. I had to figure out,
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  number one, how to stop the lead from going into his body.
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  Where is he picking it up? How is he becoming toxic?
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  And then the second thing I needed to figure out was how to get the lead out.
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  So I needed to prevent more lead from going in. and at the same time,
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  I needed to get the lead that was already in, I needed to get that out.
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  Well, it's the same thing with your root causes.
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  You need to have the knowledge. You need to know what is going on.
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  And then you need to do two things at the same time.
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  Number one, figure out how to lower that root cause, you know,
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  prevent more from going in. And at the same time.
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  Figure out how to mitigate whatever that root cause was.
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  So if it's environmental stressors, if it's environmental toxins,
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  just like the lead, then we need to figure out how to get it out of your body in a safe way.
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  Because sometimes if you go through a detox, it can be really,
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  really hard on your body.
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  You can actually cause more harm than when your body was just,
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  you know, biding its time, kind of had things protected in bubbles.
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  Your body is very good at protecting itself from further harm,
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  which is why it stores some toxins in your thyroid. It just sticks them there for later.
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  It stores other things in fat cells. It like wraps it in bubble wrap,
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  a bubble wrap of a fat cell to keep it away from everything else.
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  Some toxins go into your bones. That's where the lead is stored.
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  So with my son, we could get some of it out.
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  And then as you get it out of his bloodstream, then more is released from the
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  bones because the blood can accept more or something.
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  I just know that it goes in cycles so you remove it from
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  the blood and then the bones release more and then
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  you have to remove that from the blood and then the bones release more so there
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  are systems and there are things that you have to do once you figure out the
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  root causes and like I said Hashimoto's decoded in one hour less than one hour
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  I'm helping you figure all of those out but that's what we're talking about
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  over the summer is a different root causes and what you can do.
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  So briefly, here are the eight most common triggers.
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  And they're each going to get their own episode. Number one is stress.
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  And you're like, yeah, Esther, I know that one. Absolutely.
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  The thing is, there's a lot of different kinds of stress. We're going to go
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  through body, mind, spirit, diet, environment.
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  There are stressors in each one of those areas.
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  And it is your duty as somebody with Hashimoto's to figure out,
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  okay, where are my different stressors?
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  What can I lower? And how can I deal with a stress that I cannot lower?
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  Because there are some stressors that you can't get rid of. They're just part
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  of your life. So you get to figure out how to deal with them and how to lower
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  your response to the stress.
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  Another one, and this one does need testing, not just guessing, it is vitamin D levels.
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  When you have low vitamin D, that is a trigger for many autoimmune conditions.
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  It's a trigger for a lot of things.
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  During COVID, we heard a lot, at least I heard a lot about vitamin D.
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  Because it was directly correlated with COVID levels.
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  So vitamin D is something that you need to test. We're going to do a full episode
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  about this over the summer. Just know that it is one that you can do through the mail.
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  I purchased, I want to say I got one on Amazon, or I got one for sure on Fullscript.
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  You can just get a little card in the mail and then poke your finger,
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  send it to the company, and they send your results in your email.
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  Low vitamin D is one of the common triggers.
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  Hormone changes. Now, if you've heard any of the episodes I've done about fertility,
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  about puberty, I had guests on for both of those topics.
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  You know, a lot of Hashimoto's triggers or gets started during the three Ps,
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  puberty, pregnancy, and perimenopause.
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  Hormone changes can be a trigger for Hashimoto's. Another is food reactions.
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  We've talked about gluten.
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  I had Mickey Trescott on a little bit ago talking about the autoimmune protocol,
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  and that is a huge tool to figure out what your body does and does not want
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  as far as different ingredients.
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  Another trigger is environmental chemicals and toxins.
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  It's huge, and I don't know about you, but I grew up in the bath and body age,
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  the bath and body era, when you went to the mall and you always swung by Bath & Body Works.
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  I had my favorite smell. I would love to know what your favorite smell is.
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  We kind of all had our favorites.
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  And you might not be the same age as me, but there are different things,
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  environmental chemicals, that I'm sure you can think of. You're like,
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  oh yeah, fabric softener.
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  All of my laundry smells a certain way.
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  Those are VOCs, volatile organic compounds, and there's a lot of other environmental chemicals.
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  I could, and I will, go into more detail over the summer when we talk about that.
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  Blood sugar issues, I'm not just talking about people who are diabetic.
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  I'm talking about anybody.
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  And high blood sugar and low blood sugar can be a trigger for Hashimoto's.
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  In fact, low blood sugar is actually more of a trigger than high blood sugar for Hashimoto's.
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  And some of that comes back to stress. Because low blood sugar,
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  think of yourself, when you get hangry, you're stressed.
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  So blood sugar issues can be a trigger.
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  That is six. Number seven is iodine.
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  This one, I've honestly been scared, not scared, unwilling to do a podcast episode
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  about iodine because there is very good research on both sides of this issue.
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  Some people believe that you need more iodine. Some people think that you need less iodine.
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  We do know that when your thyroid produces T4, it gets that number four because
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  there are four molecules of iodine.
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  So you obviously need some iodine for your thyroid to be working.
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  So we will talk about iodine this summer. I'll finally tackle it after over
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  200 episodes where I have not tackled iodine.
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  But you deserve to know. You need to know what's going on.
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  The eighth one that we're going to talk about this summer, and I might not go
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  in this order over the summer, by the way, it is infections of any kind.
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  And this could be bacterial infections or viral infections. It could be mold,
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  which isn't technically an
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  infection, but there are infections of any kind and that can be a trigger.
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  So in summary, Hashimoto's is your body, your immune system attacking your thyroid.
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  We have to address why is your immune system going haywire?
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  And then we have to also address what we can do to support your thyroid.
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  So knowing your root causes is crucial.
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  You can go through Hashimoto's Decoded right now. The link is down in the show
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  notes. It's super cheap.
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  In fact, when I'm talking to somebody about the different things I offer for
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  pay, they're like, why is there this gap?
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  You have something for $27 right now, and then you have your Hashimoto's root
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  cause reset, which is over $500.
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  This is a huge gap. And I'm like, yes, I know. But I want every single person
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  to be able to figure out their root causes.
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  I know that there is a, you know, there's a gap between $27 and $550.
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  I think it is right now. I know there's a gap.
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  And that's intentional because I priced the Hashimoto's decoded so low so that
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  it would be available for everybody.
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  I really want every single person who listens to my podcast to be able to figure
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  out what their root causes are.
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  I want you to be able to shortcut your time so that you know exactly what to do.
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  And then the Hashimoto's root causes reset is taking you by the hand and leading
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  you through, okay, how are you going to navigate these?
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  Now that you know your root cause is, what next?
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  And you can figure that out on your own. I am a DIY person, so I mean,
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  I had to do all of this myself.
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  But I want to make it shorter for you. I want to be able to walk alongside you
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  and support you and figure out how you can shortcut your time so you can feel like yourself again.
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  Because I don't want you wasting any more days, weeks, months,
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  or years looking for answers.
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  I want you to have all of the answers that you can be able to implement things ASAP.
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  So join me this summer. Send this podcast to a friend and let's heal and learn together.
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  I am excited for this series and I will see you next week. Oh,
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  by the way, I will still have guests.
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  So every third episode, I typically have a guest and the guests are not going
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  to be necessarily following this root cause theme.
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  I have been interviewing people over the last month or two, and I'm just going
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  to schedule those out through the summer. So I am excited about some of those guests.
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  I think you're going to really like it. All right, let's have a great summer.
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