Hyperthyroid vs Hypothyroid Explained By Dr. Berg

What is the difference between a hypo and hyper thyroid? Watch this video to find out.

hey today we’re going to talk about hyper what’s the difference between hyper thyroidism and hypo well I’m going to talk about hyper hypo any gland in the body I want to give you some principles on that hyper means too much excess and hypo means a deficiency or not enough of something so if relating it to the thyroid for example um let’s just take a look at um how this works you have a gland that originates or communicates a hormone hormones are Communications so the gland makes the hormone it produces and receives the hormone going back because these hormones are on a um kind of an onoff feedback loop and so they come back and they influence over here and they call that uh negative and positive feedback so if I were to talk to you right now and you were to receive that message through your ear into your brain and then give me some acknowledgement that would be the feedback talking about so then I would feel I would be heard and I wouldn’t need to continue talking anymore so a good example is just with your kids if they’re listening to you and they comply with doing the dishes then you don’t need to say anything else right so but if that thing is ignored oh my goodness then that gland will start working hyper mode and start producing more and more and more communication so in some cases what causes a hyp is the failing of the return communication to turn that thing off because the off switch is not is broken okay so that’s one thing and um so that’s one thing and then the other thing is that the environment your glands are very sensitive to your environment and stress and whatever you’re experienc in your environment stress can definitely cause a hyper mode uh especially in the adrenal gland the stress gland on top of the kidney if you’re always stressed out that adrenal is going to pump a lot of adrenaline and cortisol out and you start getting weight you you can’t sleep and you start breaking down you start getting older all these wonderful things right so I had this lady who um had this problem and she went on a very very long trip overseas in a part of the country that is uh on some country that’s very very laidback and chilled out all of her adrenal symptoms just cleared up like that all of her endocrine symptoms that she had from a hyper State just completely went away and she started losing weight and she was not actually cutting calories and she was eating worse actually eating more fat and more calories and things and even sweets so she comes back eats less eats better and then falls apart again so I know for a fact that stress can majorly influence your glands your gland health health and they usually kind of what they’ll do they’ll initially make it hyper and then you burn out and then it becomes a hypo so hypos can come from a long-term burnout of pushing pushing pushing pushing accumulating stress getting old and then just kind of going downhill but also your foods can influence this as well and especially with the gland called the pancreas when you eat sugar that pancreas responds by pumping out insulin to lower the sugar and blood so if you’re doing this too much and I love I love how people say well I’m just eating normal amounts of sugar wait a second what is normal amounts of sugar the average person has 145 pounds of sugar a year like even a a cup of so juice for example has like what 13 teaspoons that’s like way way way way too much and that’s enough to really jack up and Hyper that pancreas to the point of creating a a trauma every time you eat something like that and then eventually becomes a hypo and you get diabetes type 1 where you don’t produce the insulin anymore and then you’re uh you’re pretty much screwed so diet can influence the gland stress and one more thing it’s called endocrine disruptors and um those are the chemicals in the environment that’s that’s the food the chemicals in the food the hormones in the food the animal products the genetically modified foods the pesticides in the foods all that greatly influences the gland because it acts like estrogen that’s why they call it um not just endocrine disruptors but estrogen disruptors as well so an endocrine disruptors anything that mimics estrogen so we’re going to just shut that thing down and we’re going to create um little cyst and nodules so if people have like nodules in their thyroid or a cyst in their thyroid or a growth or fibrocystic breast or or Cy on the ovaries what that comes from is environmental estrogen mimickers and so in that case they need to clean that up clean up the diet and start consuming foods that are anti-estrogenic like the cruciferous vegetables um and one thing about those cyst as a remedy calp is a really good uh thing for nodules um especially of the breast and the ovaries the ovary and breast respond very very good to seek help FYI that’s like seaweed um so those are the three things that highly influence whether someone’s hyper or hypo hyper is more of an endocrine disruptor situation unless it’s the pancreas and then it’s sugar well unless it’s the adrenal and then it’s stress but the point is that any one of these can either make you hyper or hypo and you just have to do this one last technique to figure it out ask yourself when did you start noticing signs of hyper or hypo and then what occurred just before that and you’re going to find you’re going to get a clue is a diet change a stress change or an exposure to some endocrine disruptor hope that helped I’ll see you in the next video