Hashimoto's Protocol: A 90-Day Plan for Reversing Thyroid Symptoms and Getting Your Life Back

It takes time to create change in a system as big as our medical system.

In Hashimoto’s, the thyroid gland is not sluggish at putting out hormones; rather, the immune system has identified thyroid cells as foreign or harmful substances and has developed antibodies to attack these cells. This attack leads to inflammation and damage of the cells that produce thyroid hormones. As the thyroid cells are damaged and destroyed by the immune system, thyroid hormones that are usually stored inside of the cells are released into circulation, leading to an excess level of thyroid hormones. This causes a transient hyperthyroidism and may even cause a toxic level of thyroid hormone in the body (known as thyrotoxicosis or Hashitoxicosis). Eventually, the extra hormone is cleared out of the body, and the person becomes hypothyroid as the damaged thyroid gland has a difficult time making enough thyroid hormone.

I had always been a person who put everyone else’s needs before my own, so naturally I was drawn to the healing professions, but sadly my care for others led me to put off my own care.

new research suggests 10 to 50 percent of people with Hashimoto’s may not test positive for antibodies. In

The two antibody tests with elevated results in cases of Hashimoto’s are: •​Thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO antibodies) •​Thyroglobulin antibodies (TG antibodies)

people with Hashimoto’s and chronic hives often have the gut protozoa Blastocystis hominis and that eradicating the protozoa can resolve hives, IBS, and even Hashimoto’s. Scientists in Bosnia first published this connection in 2015, though I’ve seen it clinically since 2013.

In simple terms, we must eliminate the things that make the immune system believe that we are in danger and that we need to conserve energy and resources.

Some scientists will go as far as to say that all autoimmune conditions are the same condition but with a different target.

New research also supports the fact that autoimmunity is reversible. If one of the three factors is removed, a person will no longer present with autoimmune disease.

New research in autoimmune disease suggests that intestinal permeability always precedes autoimmunity.

One of the most important choices you can make is to choose to love yourself instead of choosing to attack yourself.

A big part of changing your perception has to do with truly getting to know yourself and then honoring yourself for who you are rather than feeling guilty about who you may or may not be.