Hashimoto’s
Causes, Symptoms, Lifestyle Factors.
“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
- Josh Billings
What is Hashimoto’s?
Hashimoto’s is an autoimmune attack on the thyroid glands, tissues or hormones. There are similarities to Hypothyroidism, but each individual presents with their own signs, symptoms and underlying root cause of the condition.
Common Causes:
✴ Digestive imbalances
✴ Nutrient depletions
✴ Infections
✴ Inflammation
✴ Adrenal and blood sugar imbalances
✴ Food sensitivities or intolerances
✴ Environment triggers
✴ Genetic predispositions
Many Hashimoto’s patients are first diagnosed with hypothyroidism while overlooking the underlying autoimmune component. Hashimoto’s affects ALL systems in your body. Take steps NOW to calm the autoimmune process and resolve your signs and symptoms.
Common Symptoms:
Symptoms can be quite diverse from person to person. They are often on a continuum, improving or worsening depending on dietary, life-style factors or with shifts in medications. This is a partial list of common symptoms:
✦ Less energy than others
✦ Arms feeling like dead weights after activity
✦ High or rising cholesterol
✦ Chronic low grade depression
✦ Often feeling cold
✦ Constipation or hard stools
✦ No hair growth or hair loss
✦ Exhaustion in every dimension - physical, mental, spiritual, emotional
✦ Nausea
✦ Extremely crabby, irritable, intolerant of others
✦ Lactose intolerance
✦ Joint pain
✦ Carpal tunnel symptoms
✦ Inability to eat in the morning
✦ Forgetfulness
✦ Foggy thinking
✦ Always gaining weight
✦ NO sex drive
✦ Dry skin or snake skin
✦ Osteoporosis
✦ Acne on face and in hair
✦ Thinning outer eyebrows or no eyebrows
✦ Palpitations
✦ Suicidal thoughts
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
- Socrates
Help for Hashimoto’s
Hashimoto’s is a complex condition requiring a full systems approach. Together we’ll explore and address underlying digestive and nutritional issues, lifestyle factors, stress and how your genes impact your expression of Hashimoto’s.
As Hippocrates reminds us, all disease begins in the gut. We’ll investigate gut issues that may be contributing to your signs and symptoms, assess where you may have underlying nutritional deficiencies, or explore where your current diet may not be serving you well. In partnership we’ll uncover the nutritional choices you may need to make to achieve your best health and decrease symptom expression.
Could hidden food sensitivities or allergies be affecting thyroid hormone production and expression of symptoms? Or, do you have indications of infection that will need to be evaluated in partnership with other members on your health care team. Life-style, sleep, movement, relationships, spirituality, stress - these are all factors that can contribute to improved resilience or impede your progress.
All factors will be explored to determine where we can move the dial in restoring your health, within the context of honoring you as the unique individual that you are. The approach to your care will be different from anyone else. Your journey will be unique to you.
There's no need to struggle alone and there is hope. You can achieve dramatic improvements in symptom resolution that will propel you forward on your path toward restoring your health. What’s holding you back?
Start your journey now.
Call 612-308-7353 today to schedule your free discovery session.