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Hey guys, so today we're going to talk about Hashimoto's.

Okay.

This is an autoimmune condition, hypothyroid condition.

There's another autoimmune related to the thyroid called graves, and that would be a

hyperthyroid, so that speeds things up too fast.

Hypo is too slow.

So I'm going to 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 would 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's involved in Hashimoto's

is something called anti-TPO antibodies.

What does that mean?

Basically, it's anti-thyroid peroxidase, now what is peroxidase?

It'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.

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