WEBVTT - How I'm Healing My Thyroid Without Medication. (Full Hashimotos Auto Immune Disease Update) 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:05.440 Well, friends, Welcome back to New World, Old to a podcast. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.480 Thank you for being here once again. We asked all 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.479 of you out in the Internet world whether or not 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.760 you'd be curious to hear about Melissa's progress with her 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.920 throid issues and the Hashi motos and how all of 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.000 that is going motives the Hashi motos. So many of 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.440 you expressed in interest in how it is that she's 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:23.759 been addressing all of these health concerns. But before we 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.840 jump into that conversation, we just wanted to bring up 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.800 an address because I'm sure we'll get some questions about why 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.639 it is we're not discussing this. We're recording this on Sunday, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.600 and there's been a lot of breaking news about everything 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:34.599 that's happening down in Mexico. I'm sure by the time 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.559 we post this, additional information and details will have been 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.080 made known to everybody out there. Pretty shocking what's happening, 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.960 and we just wanted to express our concern and really 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.360 pray for everyone that's specifically vacationing down there, because how 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.320 unexpected would this be if you were just hoping to 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.720 take a family vaca, a couple of vaca and then 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.120 all of this turmoil begins. Very scary stuff. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.280 Yeah, it's really scary. My sister was actually vacationing there 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.080 well the week after we back from Hawaii, so I 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.480 think she got back maybe a week ago, ten days ago. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.200 Yeah, scary stuff. There's all these video clips that are 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.120 coming out, like I said, prayers or everyone that is 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.160 down there or down there currently seeing like gun battles 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.720 in the streets and people being ripped out of their 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.560 cars and everyone's sheltering in place in the hotels, which 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:21.640 would be an awful feeling. Yeah, So we wanted to 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.000 jump to this health discussion regarding so many of the 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.840 positive results that you've gotten more recently with all of 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.360 you your different strategies that you've implemented with addressing this 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.600 Hashi Moltos diagnosis that we encountered last year. You want 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:35.440 to jump right into that. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.560 Sure, let's do it all righty. So I was diagnosed 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:45.039 in October with hashimotos and it's an autoimmune disease and 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:51.160 essentially it's where your body or your immune system attacks 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:56.360 your thyroid gland and your thyroid. It affects everything in 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.000 your body and this can affect men and women and 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:03.160 so a lot of people have hashimotos that don't even 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:04.600 know it. I mean, they can affect up to ten 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.720 percent of men, but it's more prevalent in women, So 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.440 like one in five women will be affected in their life, 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.280 and then a lot of women will have it and 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.079 suffer with it and then never be diagnosed because doctors 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.680 just don't often test for autoimmune diseases. You have to 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.720 really push. It takes five to twelve years on average 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.040 to get diagnosed, so I don't know how long I 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.919 had it, but I just basically advocated for myself. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.799 Your mom was also diagnosed very recently, and she had 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.960 no idea. She had run herself through the full gamut 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.160 as far as testing goes, with every reason right, and 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.239 nothing was coming back. Nobody landed on hashimotives. It was 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.799 more so you tho. I was like, hey, yeah, test 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:40.640 for this specifically. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.000 Yeah. So, And it was Nevea that told me so. Nevella, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.800 after many many tests, discovered that she had sealyact disease. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.839 And then after I had Micah, I started just I've 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:57.200 always been very cold sensitive, I tire easily. My hair 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.520 started falling out pretty much after I had kids. But 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.679 that's very for women, you know, they're like, oh, ever, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.840 since I've had kids, I have half the hair I 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.720 used to have, and then we just accept that as normal. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:08.320 But it's not normal. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.079 Is that what you attributed all of this too? 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.399 Well after I had Micah, Like my hair got really 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.520 thick when I was pregnant with Mike, and I was like, oooh, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.840 enjoy it now, like take all the pictures because I'm 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.440 about to be bald, Like I already know how it goes. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.920 But three months postpartum, my hair started falling out in 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.280 the shower like a bad movie, like I'm washing it 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.160 and it felt like spiders going down the back of 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.320 my legs, just clumps of hair. And especially when I 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.280 dyed my hair, like it would just fall out and clumps, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.080 which were I know, I am rocking the gray. And 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.080 I just noticed all of a sudden my hair like 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.280 I lost probably half my hair in a matter of 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:46.000 a couple of weeks. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.280 That's when you knew you had to take action. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:47.880 Yeah. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:48.800 I was like, this is. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.440 Not gonna work, this is not happening. And then I 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.960 started noticing on videos that I was puffy in the face, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:56.840 and I thought, like, I just had a baby. I 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.480 had a baby three months ago, no one. Yeah, I'm 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.240 puffy in the I'm retaining water, I'm nursing. But it 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.000 wasn't right like I thought, And then I thought, am 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.440 I having an allergic reaction? I started throwing away all 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:08.560 my eye products. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.680 Neither one of us really thought much of it, because 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.680 people were bringing it to our attention and down on 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.720 the comment section of so many of our videos were like, Wow, 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.440 how Roe, she just had a kid like come back. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.839 So it was women that started saying, Hey, your throat 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.279 looks a little puffy, and that's how my throat looked 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:28.200 before I got diagnosed with hypothyroidism or Graves disease or 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.440 any kind of a thyroid issue. And I had no 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.400 idea that I actually had hashimotives. So my daughter was like, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.120 you know what, let's just do a hash emotives test. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.440 You can just buy it online because I asked doctors 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.039 and they're like, nope, nope, nope. They'll check your T three, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.880 they'll check your T four, they will check your TSH. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.159 What what are those things? 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:46.720 These are? 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:46.880 Like? 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:52.039 The TSH is what your thyroid? It's I don't like 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.000 know all the scientific stuff behind it, honestly, Like I 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.520 know that your body turns T four into T three. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.240 T four is your storage thyroid hormone. T three is 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.960 your active Every. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.560 Every time I started talking about this, I started thinking 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:10.279 of the terminator. Why T three T four, oh, terminator two. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.480 They can do a lot of damage, like seriously, and 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:18.840 so they don't tend to check your antibodies. You're and 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.400 if you have antibodies, if you have elevated TSH, you 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:27.280 have low T four, and you have antibodies present, you 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.280 have hashimotos. So it's so easy to just check when 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.440 you're doing a thyroid panel, check the antibodies to see 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.839 if the people are actually dealing with an autoimmune disease. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.359 But doctors won't do it right like and so my 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:39.960 mom asked and asked enough. She had to go to 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.480 three doctors to get one to finally test your antibodies, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.040 and sure enough it came back she had all the 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.920 antibodies pairwered with the high TSH and the low T four. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.680 So you'd highly recommend these at home test. Kids. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.640 You can ask your doctor, like, okay, so some of 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.360 the things that you could be experiencing if you have 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.200 all kinds of autoimmune disease, and this is men and 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.919 women is going to be fatigue, mostly weight gain. I 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.839 experienced weight loss, which is kind of weird, but most 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.120 people like weight gain. No matter what you eat, no 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.080 matter how few calories, no matter if you're fasting, you're 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.800 still gaining weight. You're falling asleep in the middle of 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.440 the day, you're crashing mid day. We're told these are 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.240 normal aging things. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.760 Right, you actually thought this was paramenopause. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.080 Potentially, I thought that, like, yeah, maybe I'm just going 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.600 through paramenopause. Maybe this is hormonal shifts. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.200 And then you got me thinking because you're saying that 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.800 ten percent of men are also diagnosed or undiagnosed yep, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:34.719 with hash emotives. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.839 Men are generally undiagnosed with hashimotives, and something that. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.400 Always attributed to I'm just getting older and so yeah, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:41.280 I'm more fatigued. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.520 Yeah, so hashi rotos can cause low tea in men, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.320 and so they'll say, oh, I just have low tea, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.479 But you don't just have low te something caused low tea, 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.960 and just aging isn't always like that's not always the answer, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.960 especially like if you're in your early forties or you're 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.120 in your late thirties and all of a sudden you 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.120 notice your testosterone crashing, or you're losing hair, or you're 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:08.559 gaining weight in your mid section. Heat intolerance and cold 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.000 intolerance can be symptoms numbness in your fingers and toes, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.600 immune system issues. I'm trying to think of, like some 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.040 of the other things, let me see, I wrote them down. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:21.400 I wrote a lot of stuff down because I didn't 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:26.280 want to forget things. So weight gain, feeling cold and 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.440 enlarge thyroid like in your throat, if your throat feels 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.520 puffy and it flares, and then like a little go down. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.920 Hoarse voice like if all a sudden you feel like 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.600 your voice is getting hoarse, or you feel like I 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.600 had kind of a feeling of being choked, or just 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:41.520 it felt like pressure. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.800 But you didn't really realize that until you began to alleviate, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:45.760 right symptom. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.800 Yeah, until I was aware of it when it started 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:53.000 to go. Yeah, dry skin hair loss is a huge one. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.920 Joint and muscle pain if all of a sudden you're 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.720 having this can be and then brain fog just overall 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.840 forgetting things, not be able to find your words, things 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.280 like that. And I think like almost anyone who's older 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.560 can go I have some of these symptoms. It's worth 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.360 looking into seeing if you can get an all over 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:16.200 anybody test, because there's so many different autoimmune diseases and 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.240 they're like on the rise. They're two hundred percent higher 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.320 than they were before nineteen eighty. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:21.880 Why is that? 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:23.720 You have to wonder? 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.320 Right, So we'll get into that as well. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.400 Yeah, we'll get into that a little bit as well. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.200 But like type one diabetes has doubled since nineteen ninety. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.360 Okay, so I have not tested for this. You do 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.520 have me curious. So just rattling off so many little 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.079 symptoms there, it's so easy to be dismissive of these things. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.440 Maybe I should take the test well, and so many 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.160 things overlap. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.559 Well. The reason I bring this up is because I 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.680 think we as men, like I'm somebody who's very reluctant 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.240 to go to the doctor. Stupid of me, I realized that, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.280 and that's true for many men. But you should do it. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.000 You should stay up on top of things. You should 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.199 know where you're at, and you should know whether or 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.040 not you're able to alleviate any of the symptoms that 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.000 you're coping with. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.680 Now, if you're going to a traditional doctrine, you're saying 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.559 I want this test and this test and this test. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.079 Insurance is going to want to separate all those blood 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.400 tests are going to be like, Okay, we're gonna do 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.360 a Celiac test, We're going to do an MS test, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.360 which I've done all of these. We're going to do 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:16.000 the Hashimoto UH test with the antibodies. We're going to test, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.440 you know, all these things. You can go online and 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.960 there's these great little kits where you collect your prick 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.319 your finger, you fill in the circles. There's also ones 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.920 where they do the little micro needle. If you don't 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.040 want to do the finger prick, which you know it 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.360 hurts and sometimes you don't blame love and then you 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.000 can't even do complete your test. So now I've found 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.520 one that does like vials and it's micro needles and 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.000 you don't even feel it, and you fill your little 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.320 vial and you send it in. And there's so many 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.520 different companies. We've used one called every Well, which is 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.880 how I do my thyroid panel. I like to test 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.040 every eight weeks now that I'm doing this diet to 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.280 see if I'm heading in the right direction wrong direction. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.720 So they do one, but they don't do an all 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.040 over autoimmune test, and there is a company that does 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.320 it's like a three sixty autoimmune panel and it will 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:08.319 check for MS diabetes. I'm trying to think of a 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.120 rheumatard arthritis, hashimotos you name it. If it's an autoimmune disease, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.440 they test for it. Celiac disease, which our daughter has. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.559 So it's definitely worth just doing it and seeing if 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:20.960 you have any anybodies. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:21.440 Or nothing to lose. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.760 Yeah, exactly. So I had no idea besides my hair 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.200 falling out and feeling puffy in the face. And I 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.760 could have easily said I just had a baby, It's fine. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.480 But Navella was like, no, mom, just take the test. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.319 And she just happened to have a diory test up 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.880 in her apartment because with Celiac often comes hashimotos. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.840 So and with her diagnosis, Neveda is like really really 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.400 into all this stuff. Now. She broke down the genetic 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.040 background on it as far as who can be a carrier. Right, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.439 parent wise, we think it's mean, what was the reason I. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.240 Got tested for the gene? So you have to carry 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.480 the Celiac gene in order to develop Celiac disease, And 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.880 so they checked me for the gene and the antibodies, 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:00.880 and I don't have either. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.280 So by a cancelation, it's me. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.719 Yeah, by cancelation, it's you. So also the fact that 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:10.080 she has Celiac disease gives our other offspring a twenty 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.520 percent chance of having it because one parent has it 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:13.280 and a sibling has it. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.160 So there you go. And I was completely oblivious to this. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.920 Yeah, yeah, we didn't know. And it's stuff that you 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.880 just don't know, like people don't really know that, all. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.840 Right, So we're going to jump into what it is 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.840 you've done to beat all of this. But you take 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.800 the test, you get your results back, you actually go 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.680 to the doctor. They confirmed this diagnosis. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.840 If they did their own blood tests because they didn't 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.440 believe it. My levels were so bad they were like, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:34.400 something's off. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.640 The immediate remedy was to prescribe you level thyroxine. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.200 Yeah, love a thyroxcene. They put me on seventy five. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:43.959 Micrograms. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.720 Excuse me, seventy five micro Yeah, they put me instantly 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:53.559 on seventy five micrograms. And then I had three nodules 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.880 that were larger that they considered thyroid cysts on my thyroid, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.040 and so I had to have those biopsy to make 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.640 sure that they weren't cancer and make sure. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.880 That they discover those is all done through ultrasound. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.000 Yes, they did an alter sound. Well they could just 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.640 feel them. I can actually still kind of feel this one. 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.480 It's they feel smaller though, yeah. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.960 Yeah, And so like the doctor went, oh, yeah, wow, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.360 your thyroid is really inflamed. And then he went, I 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.720 can feel like a nodule over here. I can feel these. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.080 So we did an altersound. I had three cysts on 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.800 my thyroid. He was like, they're pretty large. I want 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.600 to make sure that you don't have thyroid cancer. So 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.760 I had to have a needle aspiration. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.440 And redocumented all that over a good experience. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:35.920 That was not a funny to watch. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.440 It was traumatic. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.680 It's pretty awful having needles stuck in your throat. It 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.480 was fifteen needles, Like all you're awake. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:44.120 Who to watch it being done on you? It was 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.480 like it was like a birth type of situation again, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:47.719 like I can't do anything to help you. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.680 It was pretty terrible. Sorry, yeah, I didn't like it 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.600 at all. So anyway, that came back that it was 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.960 just thyroid tissue, and so I thought, okay, I just 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.440 have like so much inflammation going on. Thankfully I don't 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.400 have thyroid cancer. Let's get to work fixing this. So 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.800 the ear nose and throat doctor that did the biops, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.440 he told me, you need to double your level. You 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.440 need to go to one hundred and fifty micrograms. He's like, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.920 I started you there and then I would probably end 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.360 up doubling it again. And I'm like, so basically, you 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.400 just go on level until it stops working, until your 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.400 body is like, Okay, that's not enough like it. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.120 And this is really the crux of White is that 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.520 we want to focus and discuss this because it's become 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.080 so commonplace that we get so much feedback on our 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.720 comment section from primarily other women, again because MENO tests 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.000 for these types of things. But hey, I've been on 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.920 level for years, decades, So what is it that you 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.920 did to move on from the level fi. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.920 There are films that entertain you, and then there are 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.839 films that change you. 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First of all, we can discuss the 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.040 results of you taking the level, because they were mostly negative, 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.560 they were not positive. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.320 The level with thyroxine is a synthetic form of T four, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.560 and because my T four was so low, so originally 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.560 when I was diagnosed, I had a TSH level of 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.040 ninety two. You want that to be abouto point five 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.560 to four point five to be in the normal range. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.600 So ninety two was incredibly high. And basically that means 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.440 that my thyroid is working so hard to try to 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.680 produce hormone because my immune system is attacking it. So 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.280 every time it produces thyroid, the immune system goes in 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.600 there and craps all over it. And then so that's 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.480 why your TSH goes up and your T four goes 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.840 down when your antibodies are high. So my T four 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:27.000 level was zero point one, zero point one. It should 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.640 be point eight or one point seven or two to 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.280 one point seven seven, So you want to be above 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:39.240 a point eight, So being point one was like basically 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.000 non existent, Like I had no T four at that point. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.440 And then my antibodies, which you want to be anywhere 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.480 from zero to thirty four, were at two hundred and thirteen. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.320 So that's why the doctor was like two hundred and thirteen. Okay, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.560 Now I don't believe this blood test when he took it, 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.920 it actually increased in that time, in that five day period, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.720 it's spiked all the way up to two fifty six 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.440 more accurate, yeah, or it had just been longer, like 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.280 I think I was just on such a flare that 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.200 everything was just getting higher. So he instantly put me 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.760 on leveo and then the level thyroxine is a t 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.440 for it doesn't do anything for your antibodies, and it 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.560 doesn't do anything for the root cause of hashimotos. So 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.880 I'm not really interested in just treating the symptoms. I 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.600 wanted to get to what caused my hashimotos, what is 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.080 the root cause of this? And so when I went 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.000 and did the aspiration test the biopsy, I said, yeah, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.320 I think I'm gonna go gluten free, and the doctor 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.440 tells me diet does nothing. Eat your cinnamon rolls and 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.320 take your medicine. That's what he told me. And I 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.080 was so annoyed. And that was before the biopsy. So 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.960 not only was I like in pain during the biopsy uncomfortable, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.520 I was mad at the doctor. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.160 When he said that. I glanced over at Melissa, and 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.880 do you see the age. I knew it was there, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.360 which is why I think you glanced over at me. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:55.600 I was like, yeah, We're not in the same page 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:55.960 with this guy. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.520 Yeah, Like, yeah, you're not my doctor, Like this is 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.480 never gonna work. So he basically is in the business 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.840 of just keeping people sick. Because love with thyroxine. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.440 As oftentimes a case yeah. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.800 Is now the fifth most popular prescribed medicine in America. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:11.920 Really yes. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.160 So there are millions and millions of people on love 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.960 with thyroxine and they all still feel like garbage. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.199 So let's dive into that. Whatever. Some of the downsides 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.520 to you taking the level. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.000 So the side effects of love with thyroxine are heart 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:29.879 palpitations of racing heart feat. I experienced anxiety, which I 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.120 think was probably a racing heart. I just didn't physically 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.440 feel it, but I did feel. I'm an anxious person anyway, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.800 like I have contamination OCD and things like that, as 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.560 you guys know, bacterial OCD, like things like I worry 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.920 about getting sick. It's just something I have and it's 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.680 caused from anxiety. And it definitely upped my anxiety, which 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.879 I do not need because I'm already like and so 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.439 I did feel more anxious. It does cause depression in 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.080 a lot of people. I didn't feel depressed because I 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.440 had just had Micah and I'm like on cloud nine 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.920 with him right now, but I felt very anxious about 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.119 everything that was going on with him that could happen 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.760 to him. I was googling things for all the kids, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:19.439 like I just start Yeah. But it definitely increased my anxiety. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.760 It causes insomnia, which is a side effect. It can 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.000 cause night sweats, which I was experiencing, and I thought 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.919 maybe it was just a hormone dump. But it was 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.840 basically like waking up with hot flashes, which is since alleviated. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.000 That's completely gone now. I haven't had a single one 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:41.520 since going off of Levo. So the most extreme side 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.280 effect I had was I stopped growing body hair. 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:46.040 You were losing hair. 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.240