Will Thyroidectomy Cure Hashimoto's? - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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The question is, will thyroidectomies cure Hashimoto's? The answer is no. Why do we do thyroidectomies? We're going to be talking about that tomorrow. But a thyroidectomy takes your thyroid out. The problem is that the thyroidectomy doesn't address the root cause of the problem. The root cause of the problem is an overactive immune response. It's an autoimmune problem. That's really the root cause of the problem. The thyroidectomy in this particular light usually occurs when you have driven your endocrinologist batty because they can't find a drug that works for you, and you're still having a significant number of symptoms. What I'm seeing today in the thyroid world is the doctors have now diagnosed you with Hashimoto's. They've tried all kinds of medications, none of them have worked. So it's like, "Let's just take it out, or radiate it."

By the way, this could also go along with, does radiation a cure? And the answer is no. Not only does it not cure it, their position is, "We'll take it out. We'll take it out and we'll give you enough thyroid hormone. We'll fine tune it just right so that it works," which the vast majority of time it doesn't. You got number one, you have somebody who's giving you exogenous hormones. They're giving you levothyroxine or Synthroid, or maybe one of the natural ones, but still it's very difficult to dose that properly, number one.

Number two, it is very frequent that because of the positioning of the thyroid, it isn't taken out completely. And so if you still have thyroid tissue there and the tissue was getting attacked before you got the surgery, you're still going to be getting thyroid attacks from the immune system after the surgery, and you're still going to end up putting out intermittently excessive amounts of T4. Not as much as if you had your whole thyroid but it's still there. It's still confusing. It's still not allowing that person to maybe dose your thyroid that they're going to give you the way that they think they're going to dose it.

I think one day they're going to figure this out. But for right now there's a lot of thyroids coming out. There's a lot thyroids coming out. I'm amazed at how many people put up their hand and go, "No, give me radiation. Radiate me." And that's crazy. They walk into the room with a hazmat suit on and then they tell you don't go near anybody for the next several weeks or whatever it is. That's something that I would avoid. But it will not cure it. And there's another aspect to this too. Let's just even theorize that they got it all out and let's theorize that they could somehow figure out the absolute perfect dosing of the exact proper medication for you, which is no small task if can even be done.

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