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Hashimoto's thyroid or immune ⎸ Root Cause Series Ep 212 · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  At the beginning of the summer, we talked about vitamin D. Then we talked about
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  minerals and stress, the hair mineral testing.
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  There's a whole list of things why women end up with Hashimoto's.
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  If you're anything like the women who email me, you now have a longer list,
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  but maybe the exact same question that you had in May.
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  What one am I supposed to do something about first?
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  It's not an information problem that you're facing. It's a sorting problem.
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  So today we're going to go back through the beginning of this entire summer
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  series and put every root cause that we covered into one of two buckets, thyroid or immune.
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  Because the buckets were always there, I just hadn't named them yet.
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  I hadn't told you the framework, even though we were talking about it. So now let's sort.
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  Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition. That means your immune system is attacking
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  your thyroid. But knowing that is only the beginning.
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  This summer series is built in three phases. Phase one was understanding what's
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  happening in your body. Phase two is learning how to think about what you're 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 causes and help
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  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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  All right, the summer series started actually before summer.
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  We started doing like a basics. What is Hashimoto's and what does it feel like?
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  We started that back in episode 201. What is Hashimoto's and why most doctors
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  miss half the thyroid picture?
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  Now that second part of the title,
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  why most doctors miss half the thyroid picture, is the second bucket.
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  Hashimoto's is two buckets. It's the thyroid bucket and the immune bucket.
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  And your job as somebody with Hashimoto's, you get to sort which bucket am I
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  looking at? Which bucket matters today? What bucket am I addressing?
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  So episode 201 was what Hashimoto's really is and why most doctors miss half the thyroid picture.
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  And that is really your introduction to this two bucket system.
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  And then episode 202 was the actual introduction to the summer root cause series
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  and in that one I did tell you we were going to go through every single root
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  cause and then later on in the summer I was like wait a minute this is kind of silly
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  why would I go through every single root cause on the podcast when I have Hashimoto's
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  decoded and you can do it right now.
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  You can literally pause my voice in your podcast app scroll down click the little
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  link to Hashimoto's decoded And in less than an hour, you're going to sort everything
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  into thyroid bucket and immune bucket.
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  And then you're also going to know those root causes, which ones most likely apply to you.
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  So that was episode 202, talking about the root cause series.
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  Let's get to episode 203. Now, vitamin D.
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  What bucket does that go into? How do we sort things in real life?
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  Okay, Esther, you told me that vitamin D is a root cause.
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  You told us on the podcast episode that most people are really low in vitamin D.
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  You also talked about it being like a brake pedal, like your immune system.
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  That's a key. The immune system relies on adequate amounts of vitamin D in order to function properly.
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  And autoimmune conditions are the immune system not functioning properly.
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  So you can probably guess right away, this is an easy one, vitamin D is going
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  to go into the immune bucket.
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  Vitamin D does not directly impact your thyroid.
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  It's important for every single cell in your body. I mean, you are made up of
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  cells and a lot of the things that we talk about are impacting you on a cellular level.
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  So that's where it can get kind of tricky. Is this thyroid or is this immune?
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  Because it kind of functions with my thyroid cells because my thyroid is made
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  of cells, but also it really works with the immune system. So which bucket do
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  I put it in? Well, vitamin D is going to go into the immune bucket.
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  If your vitamin D is low, that is impacting your immune system more than your thyroid.
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  So you get to, you know, address that in the immune bucket.
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  All right, so the next episode was 204. And it is all about the hair mineral test.
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  I learned so much in that episode talking with Dee.
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  If you have not listened to it yet, go back and listen to episode 204.
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  Seriously, I learned so much. I had no idea that the hair mineral test could show you so much.
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  You just snip a little bit of hair right next to your scalp.
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  You want, you know, stuff that grew recently.
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  And then you get so much information. You get a three-month view of what's been
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  going on in your body, especially mineral reserves.
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  Okay, so let's go back to is it thyroid or immune?
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  Now, minerals, every single cell in your body needs minerals in order to function.
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  The minerals act kind of like the spark plugs, and they fire,
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  or they help your cell functions fire.
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  Every single cell needs minerals, and a lot of us are deficient.
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  I think magnesium is the top mineral deficiency for everybody,
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  and so that's one that people commonly add.
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  But the hair mineral test shows you more than that, and that is what I didn't
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  know until talking with Dee.
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  Prior to talking with Dee, I would put minerals directly in the thyroid bucket
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  because your thyroid needs minerals.
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  We've talked about selenium on the podcast.
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  You know, you need about two Brazil nuts worth of selenium every day in order
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  for your thyroid to do its job.
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  And selenium is a mineral. So when I hear minerals, I'm thinking,
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  what does the thyroid need to function? It needs minerals.
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  So clearly this is going to go into the thyroid bucket.
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  But this one, it kind of goes into both.
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  Because as Dee explained, the HTMA hair test, it sees more things than just minerals.
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  Dee said that when she's looking at somebody's results, it can help identify
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  hidden stressors like infections or gut issues and blood sugar issues.
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  So the HTMA test itself can go into both buckets actually, because your thyroid
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  needs enough minerals in order to work.
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  But your immune system is dealing with all of these other hidden stressors like
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  infections and gut issues, blood sugar, those are all going into the immune bucket.
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  So here is a test that you can get. You can get it from Dee,
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  just go to the down below in the show notes.
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  There's always a link to the podcast or to my website.
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  And almost all of the episodes now have a blog post. Okay, now I'm going to make a caveat on that.
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  This month, August, I am redoing basically my entire website.
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  All of the blog posts are going to be archived for a minute until I update them.
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  If you know anything about websites, everything is like surrounded by code and
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  I'm switching from one theme to another, which basically means like the paint
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  on the house, or maybe it means the sheetrock.
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  I'm not quite sure where it would be in a house situation, but in order to switch
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  from one theme to another, I have to go back and manually fix all of the code, which is huge.
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  I have 200 blog posts. It's going to take a while.
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  So for the next little while, if you check the blog and you find one is missing, I am working on it.
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  I am going in priority order. So the top 10 most popular posts are getting done
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  first, and then the top 50 is going to take me a while.
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  But episode 204 was the hair mineral test.
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  And yeah, she tells you how to connect with her.
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  The link is also in the show notes for that episode. Anyway,
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  so you're going to take this test, the hair test.
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  And then you get to sort even those results further into what is impacting my
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  thyroid, like the selenium, like the minerals, and what is impacting my immune system.
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  That is what this sorting system is all about.
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  Instead of having things all jumbled up and saying, okay, I have these 25 things
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  that I've heard on, you know, different podcasts, I've read in books,
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  I've seen on social media.
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  I've got all of these things saved to my care, or all these carousels saved in screenshots.
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  I have so much information. There's 25 things that I feel like I should be working on.
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  Well, now you get to sort them, thyroid or immune.
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  Which one is struggling the most right now? Which one can I support?
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  And then take one next step.
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  And that is what a framework really helps you do.
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  So those were the first couple episodes. We talked about vitamin D and then the hair mineral test.
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  Stress, that was the next one. That's episode 205.
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  And stress is going to go in the immune bucket. That one is absolutely immune bucket.
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  When you are under stress, any of the types of stress, we talked about the five
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  different parts of the whole you, body, mind, spirit, diet, environment.
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  You can have different stressors in each one of those categories and all of
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  that stress impacts your immune system.
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  I hope that helps give you an idea of how to do the sorting.
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  In the last episode I helped you see or I told you my story of how I sorted
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  things and now we've talked about a couple different episodes and now it is your turn.
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  So you can go to Hashimoto's Decoded and you can figure out the two bucket system
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  but really before you start sorting anything it really helps to know which questions
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  get you real information at your next appointment.
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  If you do not yet have a free guide called 10 Thyroid Questions to Ask Your
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  Doctor, the link is in the show notes.
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  I did just update that.
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  If you have the old version, still go down to the show notes,
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  click the link and get the new version.
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  As always, it has a printable page on the last page so that you can read through,
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  know what questions and why to ask and what the answers mean.
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  And then you print the last page, take that to your doctor's appointment so
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  you can take notes right there and you know what questions to ask at your next appointment.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted health care provider.
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  there. You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  So that is school, S-K-O-O-L dot com, and it is the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.