What Causes a Goiter? Causes of Thyroid Enlargement – Dr.Berg

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hey guys in this video we’re going to talk about  the goiter okay let’s kinda let’s kind of go through it first of all you have a hypothyroid  case that’s a low thyroid that could come from a low amount of iodine in the diet okay now either  you’re not consuming in the diet because it’s not in the food because it’s a trace mineral and  our soils are so poor or you could be eating certain foods that are pulling it out okay so  there’s even medications and drugs like sulfa drugs will deplete iodine lithium will deplete  iodine perchlorate that’s in the water supply that’s why you need a house filter that will cause  a depletion of iodine and then thiocyanate that’s from cigarette smoking if you smoke that can also  that chemical can pull iodine out of your thyroid and then also different foods like yuca soy bean  pine nuts strawberries peaches pears bamboo shoots sweet potato cruciferous vegetables all those have  the capacity to deplete you of iodine so so it could be a thyroid situation coming from a lack  of iodine or it could come from a liver problem or you’re low in bile because your gall bladder  is removed in which case you can’t convert t4 to t3 so that could be the cause or it could be  high levels of estrogen a lot of women that are pregnant and have a baby during the process the  thyroid goes down that’s because the high mountain of estrogen that can block the thyroid regardless  of that situation what happens when you’re low in iodine you’re not making the thyroid hormones and  so therefore the feedback mechanism is going to go up to the pituitary and tell the pituitary  to make thyroid stimulating hormone and that hormone from the pituitary makes the thyroid and  large okay that’s the purpose of it so that sends back here because we’re not getting the feedback  loop because when your thyroid is producing normal amounts of thyroid hormone it should act as a  feedback and turn off the pituitary so it can stop producing but it’s not enough it just keeps  sending communication it’s not a little bit of a circuit and the thyroid gets bigger alright  then you have Hashimoto’s that’s an autoimmune situation where your Thyer is making antibodies  that are attacking itself in which case it’s going to block the thyroid hormone so you’ll  have low thyroid hormone low iodine sending a signal back up to the thyroid stimulating hormone  or not sending a signal back and causing this the pituitary to stimulate the thyroid more to make  it get bigger to the same mechanism but in this case it’s the actual iodine deficiency this is  an immune reaction this is usually created by stress induced autoimmune type problems most  autoimmune is stress-related in this case you would want to take iodine and you would also want  to take selenium okay selenium is very important in the conversion process and also the production  of making thyroid hormones it’s part of a certain enzyme that makes thyroid hormones also it’s very  important in vitamin A to take vitamin A if you’re deficient in vitamin A either this one or this  one if you’re deficient in vitamin A you’re not going to make thyroid hormones that well so you  need vitamin A vitamin A is in animal products it’s not in it’s in vegetables as a pre vitamin  A but not the actual retinol which is the active form which is mainly in color boil egg yolks and  grass-fed dairy products things like that so or you might not have a gallbladder and you can’t  pull in that vitamin A so that’s another source so if you’re taking selenium you need about two  hundred micrograms and by the way what’s really high in selenium is wheatgrass juice which is  interesting okay so we got those two mechanisms and then we have Grave’s which is a high amount  of thyroid hormone production so it’s a hyper thyroid problem so that person is too much iodine  okay so you’re not going to give more iodine to a Grave’s type situation and the reason why the  thyroid is enlarging with Grave’s is because the immune system is creating another thing  called thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin TSI and that is the thing that’s making this  get bigger not the pituitary but this immune reaction okay so you never want to give a person  more iodine or C help if they have Grave’s because that’s going to worsen it you never want to  give a person with graves like bowel support or gallbladder support because that will make  more conversion and make more hormone okay so these foods are probably good not the chemicals  but the foods would be good for Grave’s because it will lower iodine okay now I have a I use  a sea kelp from Iceland which is a very pure organic certified sea kelp because there’s not  many oceans left that are cleaned so that one is very clean it doesn’t have any chemicals in  it it’s highly pure and you would take that in the morning of course not if you have Grave’s don’t  take it before you go to bed because it increases energy okay so I just wanted to kind of give  you a background of what is behind goiters and it doesn’t necessarily have to always be a hypo  it could be a hyper alright thanks for watching