Stress and Hashimoto's - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Stress and Hashimoto's I think was the question that I am kind of going with today. Does stress affect Hashimoto's? Does it cause Hashimoto's? No, it triggers Hashimoto's, it creates stress, creates inflammatory process. Stress does a zillion bad things to us, and it all starts with the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands are our stress management glands. When you go into a fight flight response, a stress response, a lot of things happen in that adrenal gland to offset physiology. It slows down your gut, it causes you to have constipation so you're not detoxifying the increase in cortisol. When stress occurs, there's a hormone called cortisol and it goes up and it goes up a lot. It goes up to make stress hormones, or it is, it goes up because it's the stress hormone being made instead of making something else. Cortisol has a bad effect on blood sugar control but it has a worse fact on inflammation. Too much cortisol will cause inflammation, inflammatory responses will then in turn cause an immune inflammatory response against your thyroid. So that's like, so that's one of the direct pathways. I mean, your thyroid works specifically in tandem with your adrenals, and that's really the core of how stress affects your thyroid. When your adrenals have been under stress a long time, your metabolism goes down and when your metabolism goes down, everything goes down. We just did one on female hormones and we talked about when metabolism goes down, everything goes down and your estrogen goes down. Your estrogen goes down, then you can't make babies so stress has a big, big effect on that. And then that in turn has an effect on your thyroid, thyroid and female hormones and thyroid and male hormones have a actually what they call a crosstalk with each other.

Stress causes under conversion of T4 to T3 so what that means is, your thyroid makes a hormone called T4 mostly 93 to 97% of the hormone that you make in your thyroid is T4. It's not active until it gets somewhere like the liver or the intestines or the cell sites. For it to get there, certain parameters have to be met. If there's inflammatory responses going on from stress, these proteins that carry the thyroid hormone from the thyroid to where it needs to get, can't do that. You may have perfectly normal thyroid hormone numbers, but you might be stressed and that might cause you to not be able to convert. It's called under conversion, your T4 to T3. Basically what happens is, is you're not getting active stuff into your active thyroid hormone into your cells and you're tired.

Stress indirectly affects thyroid hormone, as opposed to just directing directly hitting the thyroid and and the cortisol that we talked about, that high levels of cortisol. So when cortisol goes up, one of the main things it does is it dumps blood sugar out from your liver. It's primarily designed to do that in the middle of the night when you're on a fast and you're like sleeping, and you're not eating anything for 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 hours, and your blood sugar keeps going down cause you're not eating anything and your brain needs blood sugar.

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