Is It Hashimoto’s Disease? Or Is It Something Else?

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

While there are a few ways to assess the presence of Hashimoto’s, thyroglobulin (Tg) antibody tests, in particular, can suffer from false positives. This may mislead patients into thinking they have Hashimoto’s. It's crucially important to move over to a model of treating patients and not treating only labs. In this podcast, I speak about a patient who was told he had Hashimoto's disease, but his symptoms, health history, and response to treatment were telling a different story. Listen in now to hear the outcome.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:30.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:36.4	any disease. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show.
0:44.6	Hey, everyone, I just wanted to pop this quick intro here. We'll go to the podcast in a moment that has its own intro. However, I felt that I may have buried a little bit of the lead.
0:57.8	So I wanted to just frame the issue that we're going to cover today, which is an incorrect diagnosis of Hashimoto's,
1:06.6	how to make sure that that does not happen to you. And here's essentially the summary on this.
1:14.8	There's a few different ways to assess if Hashemaros is present or not.
1:20.4	The reliable research validated markers that are accurate and don't suffer from things like false positives are
1:29.3	TPO or thyroid peroxidase antibodies and thyroid ultrasound. There is also this marker
1:39.3	thiroglobulin or TG and this is not accurate because it suffers from false positives and
1:50.0	or will be elevated in some healthy subjects. And I want to frame that for you because the
1:58.6	kind of case report will go into in a moment here. A gentleman came in
2:04.0	being told that he had Hashimoto's based exclusively upon a positive T.G. Or thiroglobulin antibody.
2:16.8	While his TPO is negative, his ultrasound was normal, and his thyroid hormone levels were normal.
2:26.8	And then I'll juxtapose what walked in the door from this other doctor against how if you go through the exercise of
2:37.0	looking at him as an individual, you could clearly see that problems in the gut causing food
2:46.1	reactivity combined with electrolyte insufficiency and or dietary mismatch of too low carb and or too low
2:56.2	calorie were fairly clearly what was causing his symptoms.
3:01.9	But the main thing I want to flag here is TPO and ultrasound accurate for diagnosing Hashimoto's.
3:12.8	Thiroglobulin is not, and this Hashimoto's provider made the diagnosis exclusively based
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