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128 // The Root Cause of Hashimoto's · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hey, Happy New Year. Welcome back to another episode of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  It is 2025, unless you're listening to this in the future, in which case it might be 2026 or beyond.
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  We are celebrating today in the school community.
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  So the school community is where you can find a group of other people who all
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  are on this journey with you. We all have a similar mindset.
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  We all know that we have things that we can do to increase our health.
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  We're not relying on other people to make the decisions for us, like doctors.
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  Yes, they are on our team. We want to use them as a resource,
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  but we know that our health is up to us and the small decisions that we make every single day.
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  So come on over to our school community. School is spelled S-K-O-O-L.
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  It is a huge platform of hundreds or thousands of different groups.
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  Kind of like Facebook was back in the beginning or even back in forum days where
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  you go to your group and that's all you see.
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  You see the things that are posted. You don't see what the algorithm decides
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  to show you. I love that about school. There are no ads.
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  When I'm scrolling on my school feed, I see exactly what people have written.
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  I see follow-ups. I see conversations. I don't see ads.
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  I don't see what Facebook or Instagram or TikTok thinks that I want to see,
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  I see what's actually there.
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  And over in the school community, I just did a workshop. We did it live on Zoom.
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  That is a perk for being in our school community, which is free,
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  by the way. The school community is free.
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  And so I posted on there, we're going to do a call.
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  Here's the Zoom link and anybody who was available came and we chatted about celebrating for 2024.
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  And then we went through the Transform Your Year workbook and how to make plans.
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  So if you want to do that, head over to school.com, join the Health with Hashimoto's
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  community. Like I said, it's totally free.
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  And the Transform Your Year workshop, that class in the classroom tab, 100% free.
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  The workbook is there. You can download it, you can print it,
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  and then there's a video of me walking you through it. You can do this any time.
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  I actually created the workbook when it was my birthday, not in December or January.
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  I like to do that reflection on my birthday because I feel like that is like my new year.
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  So that is when I originally did it and we did the workshop,
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  the Zoom together yesterday.
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  So I invite you over to school. Also in the school community, you will see a fun perk.
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  And that is if I do any interviews, which I do have interviews planned for 2025
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  for you on the podcast, you get early access to them over in the school community.
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  I am also asking guests if they would be willing to come and do a Zoom with
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  the community after the podcast goes live.
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  So right now, I have a pharmacist who came and we talked all about LDN or low dose naltrexone.
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  And that podcast episode will be this month in January.
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  But the school community members already have access to that video interview.
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  And the call with that pharmacist is already scheduled on our calendar.
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  So if you are interested in joining that call, you have to join the school community
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  to be able to get that link.
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  And I am so excited because, you know, I did ask what questions do you guys
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  have? I asked that in the group, and I got some good questions.
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  But this call is going to allow everybody to ask their own questions.
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  And I'm just super excited. So come on over and join. Those are just some of
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  the perks you get as a school community member.
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  Of course, there's also the other courses that I have, like the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  And in January, a lot of people are looking forward to different ways that they
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  can improve their health.
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  The Health with Hashimoto's course, sorry, the Holistic Hashimoto's course is
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  an excellent thing to do.
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  I'm going to walk you through simple and sustainable ways that you can change
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  your health, you can address your root causes.
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  And that leads me to today's topic. What is a root cause?
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  What is a root cause? I talk about it all the time. And so for me, it just feels obvious.
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  But it's not obvious. And I'm sorry that I have just been assuming that everybody was understanding.
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  So let's talk about what is a root cause. Now, if I get a cold,
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  I'm thinking I have four boys.
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  And there are some times when like you are holding your toddler or your preschooler,
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  and they have a cold, and they look right at you in your face and they sneeze or they cough.
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  And you're like, oh, there it is.
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  You just gave me your cold. You know the moment that it happens because it's so obvious.
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  Or, you know, your kid pukes on you. So disgusting.
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  But you're like, oh, there's my exposure. Like you can pinpoint the time that
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  you were exposed to that germ, to that bacteria or the virus or whatever it
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  is. That is one type of a root cause.
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  The root cause is the bacteria or the virus, the germ, the foreign thing that is now attacking you.
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  That is it. You know it.
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  But when I talk about root causes, it's not necessarily that.
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  It's not necessarily the one
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  point in time where you were exposed to Hashimoto's or where it started.
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  Because number one, Hashimoto's is not contagious.
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  So we can't catch it from somebody. and also
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  there are so many different things that
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  are the root causes so I talk about you know
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  figuring out what are what is your root cause or what are your root causes because
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  there are multiple and I do have some episodes about that somebody was just
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  saying that AI is now scraping podcasts and stealing content to use in, I guess, in AI.
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  So they were recommending that people take some of their podcast content,
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  leave it up for a while and then make it private so that the AI can no longer scrape it.
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  As of right now, I do have all of my podcast episodes available.
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  I believe it's episodes 60 and 61 that I talked about the root causes.
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  I think it's those two. And now I'm debating, maybe I take them and I put them
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  into a private podcast for people who are interested in figuring that out. I have not decided yet.
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  So by the time you listen to this, if you go and look, they might be gone,
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  but they are in the school community.
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  The episodes were based on the root causes course that I do.
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  It is the Hashimoto's Decoded Root Causes, and that is in the school community.
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  So I have that. I go through all of the root causes because when I say root
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  causes, I don't mean like a one specific thing that started it.
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  I have plants. And I have been on this journey of figuring out how to not kill plants.
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  Back when we got married 21 years ago, my husband once told me that I do not have a green thumb.
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  I have a gangrene thumb because I kill plants when I get them.
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  I have been working hard on that. I've been working on trying to remember to water them.
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  Now I think maybe I'm overwatering them. So now some of them are dying.
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  It's this balancing action. I don't have it down yet, but I do have greenery in my house.
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  And I know that it's not one root that's holding up my plant.
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  It's not one little string that the nutrients are being delivered through.
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  No, a plant, even a tiny little plant, has multiple little stringy roots.
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  I have a couple seedlings starting.
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  My husband gave me a hydroponic, is that what I call it? Hydroponic garden, where it's just water.
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  And so I've got little seedlings started. It's so exciting.
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  And those little roots, they already have so many little strings coming off
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  of them. It's not just the one tap root.
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  And that is it for your health too. It's not just one thing.
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  When I say we're looking for the root of your Hashimoto's, I'm not talking about
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  one exact instance when you got sick.
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  I'm talking about all of the things that support your health.
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  And so those roots of your Hashimoto's, your autoimmune problem,
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  could be stress and diet and genetics and your gut.
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  Like it could be all of those things. And it probably is.
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  It probably is multiple things because we are complex human beings.
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  We're not just data. We're not a computer.
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  We're not a robot. We are a complex human being, and there is so much depth to you.
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  And so when we're looking for the root of the Hashimoto's, we have to look broadly.
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  So what does that mean then? Great question.
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  Well, we know that every autoimmune condition starts with three things.
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  Because the autoimmune conditions, they all have different names based on what
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  is being attacked in the body, but they all are your immune system.
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  So they all have three things in common.
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  Every single autoimmune problem has a gut component.
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  Your gut is responsible for 70 to 85% of your immune system.
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  It's so big. So this would include the foods that you eat.
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  Maybe you are sensitive to gluten or that causes inflammatory response in you.
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  Maybe it's the lining of your gut. Maybe you have leaky gut.
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  Maybe it is your microbiome. Maybe you don't have enough probiotics or you don't
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  have the right probiotics.
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  Maybe you have an overgrowth of bad ones.
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  People talk about SIBO, which is small intestinal placebo bacteria overgrowth.
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  And you can do things about that. There are so many things within the gut that you can do.
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  So we know that there is always a gut component with an autoimmune condition.
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  We also know that there's always a genetic component. And that's kind of where
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  we see which autoimmune problem that you have.
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  A lot of autoimmune problems, not
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  all of them, but a lot of them do have a genetic disposition or you do.
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  So for me, I have Hashimoto's. That means that I can look back at my family
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  and I can see other people who have had Hashimoto's and not all of them have
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  Hashimoto's that has presented.
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  Like my dad, he does not have Hashimoto's, at least not that I know of, not that he knows of.
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  He doesn't go to the doctor, but he doesn't have the symptoms,
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  but I know that his parents and his cousins, there are so many people on that
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  side of the family and my dad's side that all have Hashimoto's.
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  So I know that my dad gave me a gene or that genetic disposition towards Hashimoto's.
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  So when my autoimmune or my immune system started to go haywire,
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  started to attack myself, it was that genetic predisposition that said,
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  okay, this is where we're going to attack ester first, because that is how my genes are wired.
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  And maybe somebody else's genes are wired for something else.
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  Maybe something else runs in that family, is how we say it.
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  It's still your immune system. It's still your immune system going haywire,
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  and it's your genetic predisposition to where it's going to attack.
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  So we know that there's a genetic component. We know there's a gut component.
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  And then the third thing that every single autoimmune condition has is one or more triggers.
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  So when I'm talking about root causes, I'm talking about all of those things.
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  It's not just a, like, who gave me this?
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  Like when your kid coughs in your face and gives you a cold.
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  That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about.
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  Everything that is supporting or doing the opposite of supporting,
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  like sabotaging your health.
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  Those are the roots that we want to address when you have Hashimoto's.
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  And that is what I do in the Hashimoto's Decoded Root Causes course.
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  If you come to the school community, you're going to go to the classroom tab
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  and you're going to see, I think right now there's like nine different tabs in there.
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  One of them is the Hashimoto's Decoded Root Causes course.
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  And that is right now is $7. If you know that you're going to do the holistic Hashimoto's course,
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  then skip the root causes and just do the holistic Hashimoto's course because
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  we start out with the Hashimoto's decoded root causes in the holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  I can't take you through the whole course without looking at the root causes.
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  So skip that $7 one, go straight into the holistic Hashimoto's course where
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  we first will help you figure out what are your root causes.
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  And then after you figure them out, there's that saying, when you know better, you can do better.
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  When you know what's going on, what's causing your health problems,
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  then you can address them.
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  And are you going to know every single thing? Am I going to have you do crazy
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  expensive labs like some functional medicine doctors do? No.
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  I'm just going to walk you through the most common root causes,
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  and you're going to use logic.
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  You're going to say, oh, okay, environmental toxins.
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  Yes, I basically grew up.
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  Breathing Bath & Body Works. I love Glade scented plugins.
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  I have scented everything. When I wash my laundry, I have scented laundry detergent.
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  I have scented softener.
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  I have scented everything.
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  So yes, using logic, there's probably some environmental toxins of environmental
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  toxin load going on in your body.
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  And yep, that can be a trigger.
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  Do I need expensive labs to figure that out? No, we just need logic.
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  So that is how I approach it in the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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  Yes, you can do labs. And I do encourage you to do some labs.
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  We want to know, is your thyroid producing enough T4?
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  Is your liver and the rest of your body converting that T4 to T3 so that your cells can use it.
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  Do you have a high level of reverse T3, which is when your body says,
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  oh, here's some T4, but I don't want more energy. We actually need to prioritize rest and healing.
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  So we're going to put the brakes on. And instead of converting that T4 to T3,
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  we're going to convert it to reverse T3. That's the brake system.
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  And I feel like that is a very important lab. I want to know if my body is saying,
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  no, we're not going to prioritize converting T4 to T3.
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  We're going to put the brakes on. I feel like that is important to know.
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  I want to know if the gas is on or if the brakes are on, right?
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  We also want to know our antibody levels and I want to know them on a trend.
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  So when I'm looking at mine, I want to know what were they last time I had them?
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  Are they going up? Are they going down?
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  Is what I'm doing with my life, with my diet, with my environment,
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  with my stress level, all of these things.
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  Is that making my antibodies go up or am I healing?
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  Are they going back down?
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  I want to know those labs.
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  But to figure out your root causes, a lot of times you just need logic.
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  So I don't know about you, but my husband and I, we have four boys. The budget is tight.
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  One of the kids broke multiple bones this year.
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  I mean, our medical expenses were up.
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  And so sometimes you're in that position where you have to choose.
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  Am I going to do a bunch of lab tests, which will give me knowledge and can be very, very helpful.
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  And then I have to apply knowledge. You know, I have to apply that knowledge
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  to my choices, what I'm going to do with it. And then.
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  Based on the lab results, then maybe I would go join a course.
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  I created the holistic Hashimoto's course so that you can use logic.
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  So you don't need to do a bunch of huge testing first. You can do the things that make sense.
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  Like I said, environmental toxins, all of those smelling things,
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  scented things, that's an obvious one.
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  You don't need expensive testing to look back in your history and say,
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  oh yeah, that is definitely part of my history.
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  And it could be a root cause. And we go through all of the root causes,
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  and then I help you figure out exactly what to do for them.
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  So I love that we can address some things just on a basic level.
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  And I do that with supplements too. When I walk you through the supplements.
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  You know, I know that you're a human first.
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  So we look at what do you need as a human? And then we go deeper.
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  Okay, what do you need for your specific situation.
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  But first, you're human. And then for Hashimoto's, we know that you have Hashimoto's.
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  So let's look at the most common root causes and figure out what to do for them.
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  And so now I hope you know what I mean when I say you're going to look for and
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  address your root causes.
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  It's not just one thing. It could be many things.
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  And when you join the Holistic Hashimoto's course, I'm going to walk you through those.
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  And I'm going to walk you through the solutions so that you can figure out exactly
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  what to do for your situation, for your root causes, and for this time in your life.
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  You know exactly what's going on. You know what you have time for.
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  You know what you have brain space for. You know what you have bandwidth for.
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  And so I will help you figure out exactly what to do right now for your health.
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  I will see you in our school community, especially in the Holistic Hashimoto's course.
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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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  I'll see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.