Ep. 267 Hashimoto's: What Is It and How It Impacts Our Health

Everyday Wellness with Cynthia Thurlow ™

Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

I am delighted to connect with Dr. Anshul Gupta today! Dr. Gupta is a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and world expert on Hashimoto’s. He educates people worldwide on reversing Hashimoto’s disease. He is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician who worked at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic alongside Dr. Mark Hyman. In this episode, Dr. Gupta shares his personal story, and we speak about the root of autoimmunity, how Hashimoto’s causes the slow destruction of the thyroid gland, and the impact of chronic stress, food, and an imbalanced gut microbiome. We also talk about toxins and infections, labs to look out for, fasting and thyroid disease, as well as medication options, peptides, and the issues surrounding iodine supplementation. I sincerely hope you enjoy listening to today’s conversation with Dr. Gupta as much as I did recording it! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: How Dr. Gupta’s personal health journey sparked his passion for thyroid issues. What is autoimmunity, and what is Hashimoto’s? How increasing doses of thyroid medication indicates a deterioration of the thyroid gland. Dr. Gupta shares five major root causes of Hashimoto’s. Why do foods like gluten and dairy make it much harder for the thyroid gland to function? Why are heavy metals such a big issue? The impact of exposure to mold and mycotoxins. How the Epstein-Barr virus interacts with the thyroid, to make people more susceptible to Hashimoto’s. How does exposure to stress impact thyroid function? Some natural ways to detoxify the body. Dr. Gupta talks about lab testing for the thyroid and Hashimoto’s. The benefits of fasting for mitochondrial health- particularly for people with thyroid issues. Dr. Gupta discusses different medication options for people with Hashimoto’s, including peptides and LDN (low-dose naltrexone). Dr. Gupta shares his thoughts on iodine. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Anshul Gupta On his website On YouTube and other social media (@AnshulGuptaMD)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.0	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:14.0	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the
0:19.2	health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.
0:23.4	Today I had the great fortune of connecting with Dr. Gupta, he's a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and the world
0:35.4	expert in Hashimoto's. He educates people worldwide on reversing Hashimoto's diseases.
0:41.8	He is also a board certified family medicine physician who worked at the
0:45.9	prestigious Cleveland Clinic alongside Dr. Mark Hymen. Today we spoke at great length
0:51.2	about the root of autoimmunity, his personal story, how
0:55.0	Hashimotos causes the slow destruction of the thyroid gland, the impact of chronic stress,
1:01.6	food, an imbalance gut microbiome, toxins and infections.
1:06.3	Labs to look out for the role of fasting and thyroid disease, and yes, you can fast with thyroid disease, medication options, peptides, and the issues surrounding
1:18.6	iodine supplementation. I hope you will enjoy this podcast as much as I did recording it.
1:27.2	Dr Gupta, it's so wonderful to connect with you. I've really been looking forward to having a conversation about
1:31.9	Hashimoto's largely because I've had quite a few
1:35.3	thyroid experts on and this has not been a particular disease process or focus of any of our other
1:41.6	podcasts. I'm really excited to have a Hashimoto's expert on today to
1:46.5	unpack what women need to be thinking about when it comes to auto immunity and the role of
1:51.6	Hashimoto's and how you know it seems to affect quite a few women especially
1:56.2	those of us that are in those peri menopause or menopause years.
1:59.8	Absolutely Cynthia thank you so much for having me over here. It's a pleasure. You are doing an amazing work of sharing all this great knowledge, great experts coming on your show. So I'm really thankful for being over here.
2:12.0	Yeah, and what got you so passionate about that? So I'm really thankful for being over here.
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