256: Dr. Datis Kharrazian - Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? • Understanding Iodine • Vitamin D & Autoimmunity
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Datis Kharrazian (@DrKharrazian) is a clinical research scientist, academic professor, and a functional medicine health care provider. He specializes in developing evidence-based models to treat autoimmune, neurological, and unidentified chronic diseases with non-pharmaceutical applications such as diet, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine.
Dr. Kharrazian's academic and clinical research has been featured in numerous documentaries and his clinical models of functional medicine are used by several academic institutions and thousands of health care providers throughout the world.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The research that led to Dr. Kharrazian writing his first book
- The majority of hypothyroid patients have Hashimoto's
- How Hashimoto's attacks the thyroid gland
- Balancing thyroid hormones doesn't fully address Hashimoto's
- What is cerebellar ataxia?
- The inspiration behind Dr. Kharrazian's second book
- Many thyroid patients have brain impairments
- Breaking down TH1 and TH2
- Problems with conventional thyroid testing
- Symptoms of Hashimoto's
- Finding the right treatment
- How lifestyle factors impact Hashimoto's
- Gluten is the most common trigger for people with Hashimoto's
- Infections that can cross-react with the thyroid
- How chemicals can impact thyroid function
- Every patient is uniquely different
- The Autoimmune Protocol (AIP)
- What are goitrogens?
- Why some patients react to proteins
- New research published about cross-reacting food proteins
- Iodine flares up symptoms in patients with Hashimoto's
- Vitamin D is important for all autoimmune patients
- Addressing the adrenals
- The role of adaptogens
- The benefits of hydrochloric acid (HCl) & digestive enzymes
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Related links:
Dr. Datis Kharrazian - Why Do I Still Have Thyroid Symptoms? When My Lab Tests Are Normal (book)
Dr. Datis Kharrazian's website
Follow Dr.Datis Kharrazian on Facebook, and Twitter
Dr. Datis Kharrazian - Why Isn't My Brain Working (book)
Which thyroid hormone is right for you? (Dr. K. News)
New food sensitivity issues on AIP? The oral tolerance protocol (Dr. K. News)
Healing & Dealing with Hashi's (Marni & Samantha's Online Course)
Related episodes:
267: Dr. Datis Kharrazian – Why Isn't My Brain Working?
228: Focus Friday – Healing And Dealing With Hashimoto's
156: Elle Russ – Reclaim Your Thyroid Health
119: Dr. Amy Myers – The Thyroid Connection • The Impact of Goitrogens • Hyper vs Hypothyroidism
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| 0:00.0 | People that are pro-iodine will say, well, everyone is iodine deficient, so why not give it to everyone? |
| 0:05.2 | You can say the entire US population has deficiency of all minerals. |
| 0:08.2 | That doesn't mean that's the treatment for their disease, you know. with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.2 | This week our featured guest is Dr. Dautiz Karazian, he's a clinical research scientist, |
| 0:29.7 | academic professor, and a functional medicine health care provider. |
| 0:33.0 | He specializes in developing evidence-based models |
| 0:36.0 | to treat autoimmune, neurological, and unidentified chronic diseases |
| 0:40.0 | with non-pharmaceutical applications such as diet, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine. |
| 0:45.0 | We are actually recording this intro for you guys from Bally. |
| 0:49.0 | So if you hear some background noise, we are sitting outside of our villa and there is definitely some some creatures around us |
| 0:56.6 | so super exciting we're having the best time on our honeymoon and yeah we're still |
| 1:01.2 | getting an episode out to you guys as we do every week and you're really |
| 1:04.5 | in for a treat this week because Dr. K, Dr. K, Dr. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. is someone that we've been wanting to have on |
| 1:09.2 | the show for a very long time and his name has been floating around and we know that he is one of the |
| 1:14.8 | top experts not only in thyroid health but also in brain health so we have them |
| 1:19.0 | on today and we know we're gonna have them on again and you guys have to get |
| 1:22.4 | ready because today's episode goes really deep. |
| 1:25.0 | He's bringing some cutting edge information that has not been shared before, definitely not on our |
| 1:29.6 | podcast and the research is so new and so exciting that you guys are going to hear it for the first time today. |
| 1:36.0 | So here's some of what we talk about with Dr. Karazian. |
| 1:38.5 | We discuss why the majority of hypothyroid patients have Hashimoto's, breaking down TH1 and TH2 and what these are, |
| 1:46.2 | problems with conventional thyroid testing, symptoms of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, |
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