Fascinating Insights on Hashimoto’s (Hypothyroidism)

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you know what’s really fascinating about the statistics on what type of health conditions people get like cardiovascular is number one cancer is number two but there’s some fascinating information to show that there’s another epidemic condition that’s even higher than both of those combined and that is autoimmune diseases and so today I brought in a very competent doctor Dr Demitri to discuss this topic because he has a lot of experience in there so welcome Dr Dimitri hello Eric hello Dr bur how are you I I appreciate you taking the time I I interviewed you before because you’re actually my doctor so I wanted to tap into your knowledge base but you you even mentioned this and this is like mind-blowing there’s so many people that have autoimmune diseases nowadays um I mean it’s like it dorfs some of these other conditions which is crazy but what I want to uh ask you is out of all of the autoimmune conditions that people are getting what is at the top of the list the number one condition okay let me give a picture can I show a picture of some stats that could help um okay uh autoimmune disease is the number one cause of chronic disease and now I’m going to refer a few statistics about us population so while in US there are 9 million people suffering from cancer and 22 from cardiovascular disease there are 50 million probably more people suffering from a type of autoimmune diseases autoimmune diseases are conditions where the immune system does not recognize its tissues or organs ourselves so it attacks them considers them as being estrous uh U particles or tissues and attacks them this creates a chronic inflammation and gradually uh leads to the destruction of the organ interested now from all these diseases the number one the most common one is Hashimoto disease which is an autoimmune thyroid autoimmune condition yeah this is interesting because um you know if you take a look at hypothyroidism which you know you know you just assume that the thyroid is not working that well it’s a thyroid problem but isn’t the majority of hypothyroidism Hashimoto yes the great majority it’s the number one cause of hypothroidism is Hashimoto’s disease so in reality um would you say that um this Hashimoto is not necessarily a thyroid disease it’s more of an immune disease would I just clarify that with me of course Hashimoto thyroiditis is a autoimmune Condition it’s a chronic inflammatory condition of the thyroid that is caused from the immune system itself the immune system attacks the thyroid gland and gradually destroy it when the destruction of the gland is above a certain percentage and influences the function of the organ itself we go into hypothroidism a lower function of the thyroid GL at this moment in us it’s calculated that 26 million of the population are suffering from Hashimoto thyroiditis if you consider that nine out of 10 of these patients are women it’s a it’s a huge part of the women population uh that is suffering from this disease and it’s pretty wild that you you you know I know when I was in practice people would come in with um hypothyroidism and they would just think oh I have low thyroid hormones so I just need to take my thyroid hormones and it’s going to correct the problem but this is a little different this is a little bit different the the problem here is that since the thyroid gland is not recognized from the immune system it uh produces antibodies they are called Auto antibodies which attack the thyroid gland and then these antibodies um get attached to thyroid cells and then uh cells of the immune system are guided towards these antibodies and destroy the gland itself so we have a chronic inflammation of the thyroid but in order to arrive at that point where the body produces these antibodies and distruction and chronic inflammation of the gland there must be some prior metabolic um dysfunctions and deficiencies that brought to that so uh it’s a small this diagnosis it’s a small uh part of the whole problem the whole picture so basically there’s a Cascade of things and this is usually late on the chain of events te tell me some of the um potential triggers or causes that precede this condition yes um first of all while we said that there are 26 million uh people with hashimotos and nine out of 10 of these uh uh people are women nine of 10 that are diagnosed with Hashimoto thyroids are women this is caused mainly because women have a lot of hormonal adaptations and changes during their lifetime they start having menstruation they have mensturation every month they get pregnant they stop menstruating and so on and all these change in and out and changes in the balance to Progesterone and estrogen um create adaptations of the immune system and the theid has to adapt also and these changes when there are uh the body is not in an optimal condition guide to dysfunction of the immune system and the inflammation that causes the the disease wow so 18% of the US population us adults uh which is more than 60 million are have is calculated that they have Auto antibodies against the thyroid the Hashimoto is not a one the auto antibodies against the disease uh are one part of the diagnosis in order to make the diagnosis of Hashimoto thyroid it is the actual is with biopsy but usually we don’t make biopsy to everyone uh so we measure the TSA which is a hormone secrete to regulate theid function we measure the thyroid hormones like T3 and T4 we also see through ultrasound uh test the form the the structure of the theid and all these data uh contribute to make a diagnosis but let’s say that the final diagnosis the is Hashim modus is a biopsy diagnosis no through about so okay so then um now you you have a you know a very large clinic in both Rome and also Greece so what what are you seeing um as far as the common things to be able to reverse this and first of all is it reversible and then what what are you finding that you have to change to make things better okay yes uh this is a very often question we have if this is reversible from patients also there are various points we can intervene and this um uh in relation to reversibility uh when we ask about reversibility we mean we stop the destruction of the thyroid we mean the inversion of the damage of the thyroid or we mean stopping taking medications because all this are different points where the disease has arrived and uh uh if we answer the first question uh so stopping the immune system destroying the thyroid gland and lowering the auto adding bodies this is uh almost in 90% of cases we can do that it needs um usually in in six to months to a year this is something that can um can occure uh reversing the destruction of the thid is probably the most important uh for me and for the patients because uh we Salvage the thyroid which is uh it’s vital for the quality of life and the health of the patients and then uh reversing also the inflammation of the gland also this is possible if it’s in the um starting stages of the disease but if the person has started taking an um medication and T4 usually uh to supplement the thyroid hormones uh this is not uh in most of case this we cannot do uh cannot reverse and stop taking the medication because thyroid gland is a is a gland that is very slow in regenerating uh each tissue in our body has a different time of uh regeneration for example our blood cells regenerate in a few months three four months uh the skin cells in a few days and so on but the theid cells regenerate uh in they have a time of regeneration of seven years so it’s a very slow process we had some cases that we follow them for many years and it happens that they had they managed to stop taking the medication but it’s not something we can say for every case or this is going to happen so reversing the disease means uh initially the most the first Target should be to lower the out a