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Hey guys, so today we're gonna talk about Hashimoto's, okay? This is an autoimmune condition, hypothyroid condition. There's another autoimmune related to the thyroid, it's called Graves, and that would be a hyperthyroid, so that speeds things up too fast. Hypo, it's too slow.
So I'm gonna kind of walk you through some pieces of this puzzle. An autoimmune condition is where your immune system, your own body's immune system, is generating cells that are attacking itself, called antibodies, anti-against the body, okay? And it's kind of weird that it'll do that, but it does that. And pretty much any tissue in the body, you can have an autoimmune to any tissue: the nervous system, the connective tissue, even synovial fluid in the joints.
But as far as the thyroid goes, there's the most common antibody that that's involved in Hashimoto's is something called anti-TPL antibodies. What does that mean? Basically, it's anti-thyroid peroxidase. Now, what is the peroxidase? That's just an enzyme. So thyroid peroxidase, which is TPO, is an enzyme that works with hydrogen peroxide to basically make thyroid hormones. So it's some chemical in the thyroid that's involved in making the thyroid hormone. It's basically, you can take the dietary iodine and then it converts it to the iodine that's necessary to make the thyroid hormone because you have like T3 and T4. The four and the three represent the number of iodine molecules in that protein, in that hormone. So to do that, you need this chemical and this chemical together.
Now, they really don't know exactly what causes this problem, but we know it's a problem within the immune system. We know that somehow it could be involved in your body's dropping to defense of the immune system because many of these conditions occur right after a stress event. So you have this adrenal connection, which also controls the immune system, and then you have the immune-adrenal connection. So that could be a link.
But when you have an autoimmune condition, we do have excess hydrogen peroxide floating around. And if you, you may have some of this in your cupboard, like this little, this bottle of hydrogen peroxide that you use if you cut yourself to sterilize it, okay? To disinfect, because it's a very powerful oxidant. So it kind of bubbles and cleans bacteria, kills bacteria. So how did you, hydrogen peroxide, if it's in the body at higher levels, it can actually create oxidative stress or damage.
So one thing we want to do is, we want to kind of remove the excess amount of this right here. And that's what I'm going to talk about because we want to increase our immune defenses. We want to increase the antioxidant network that's going to actually fight and neutralize the oxidant. So we start up with selenium. Selenium is a very powerful antioxidant. It's a trace mineral that is very helpful in making thyroid hormones and also helping the conversion from the inactive to the active form. Zinc is another powerful antioxidant. And there's one more that has a very long name, S-acetyl-L-cysteine. Very important antioxidant that will help clear out the excess amount of hydrogen peroxide.
So if I personally had Hashimoto's, these are some of the remedies that I would take to support that condition. So we can actually remove some of the excess hydrogen peroxide because that can create more damage. And I would focus also on just getting my body healthier and healthier. And definitely include in intermittent fasting because anytime you do prolonged intermittent fasting, let's say you do it once a month or once every other month, you are going to drop inflammation, you're gonna help the immune system, you are going to enhance the immune function.
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