Hashimoto's and Low Libido - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Today we are talking about thyroid and low libido, and this goes for females as well as males. Frankly, I don't treat a lot of males, but almost everyone that comes in here has a low libido. It's a pretty straight forward shot as far as why that occurs. If we go back to the thyroid, we go back to Hashimoto's most of the time it's hypo thyroid that has been caused by an immune attack on the thyroid. Hypo thyroid means everything slows down. Your thyroid hormones have receptor sites in other words, where they hook into the cells in every single one of the trillions of cells that we have in our body. Now, if you came to me and again, it's mostly females but if a female came to me and said, you know, I have all kinds of menstrual problems,

I have periods that are off. I have periods that are gone, that shouldn't be gone. I have heavy bleeding, low bleeding, cramping, no cramping. Oh, and by the way, I also have a dry vagina, and I have no libido. That's usually how it works. People don't usually come in here specifically for no libido and if somebody, or if a guy said this it's a little different, but the bottom line is with either one of them, you would be looking to see why their testosterone in a guy, or why their estrogen in a woman isn't working. In a woman, it's usually gut problems, It's usually liver problems, It's usually gallbladder problems because estrogen needs to be used whether it's made by your body or whether you're taking a hormone replacement therapy, it needs to be used. It needs to be effective.

Then the kind of the residue needs to go through the liver, gallbladder, through the intestines and into the toilet. That doesn't happen, you're going to have high estrogen and believe it or not high estrogen causes the same problems as low estrogen. Without me getting into that whole thing, at this point in time, it's about the estrogen. It's also about blood sugar. It's also about stress. It's also about essential fatty acids, all of these work together to make your brain tell your adrenal glands or tell your ovaries to make the estrogen that you need and then process it properly and get it into the toilet and, you know, detox you and get it into the toilet. If you have a hypo thyroid, that's not going to happen. Now, thyroid does have kind of a straight shot relationship to progesterone as far as prolactin and as far as, so having a baby and fertility and stuff like that.

But in the end, all of those things I just talked about are going to slow down. Your liver is going to start slowing down and you're not gonna be able to get the estrogen through it as much. You can tell by looking on your labs, whether your liver enzymes are up or not, a lot of the times you can look at that. You can look on your labs and if you're the one who has the high cholesterol, and you have the high LDLs, and you have low, good, HDLs, low, good fat then people go, well, you need a statin drug. You need to stop eating, you know, junk and everything. You go, like I'm on the autoimmune paleo diet. I don't need any of that stuff. How could that be?

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