everybody this is dr. Eric Hellman I'm at my office you see him wearing the University of Kentucky Wildcats shirt today you know it was a great day with the family and and some sports I hope your teams won today UK certainly did so I'm happy about that but hey I wanted to come down a promise that I would do I would do a video in another four videos in four days right on mess of the thyroid and today I wanted to you know tonight you know I was just kind of settling in you know given I get everything ready for the week and to go to bed and I came down the office and I want to shoot you a quick video because medication is a big deal there's a lot of people nowadays they wanted hey I have a thyroid condition I'm either struggling with weight temperature of my body my Energy's low I have brain fog and I can't control my metabolism I'm cold all the time and my skin is really dry my nails are bad hairs falling out so yeah all these symptoms and you go to your doctor and your doctor looks at you and said it doesn't take a genius to say that's you know that's a thought way those are thyroid symptoms but then you know then the next thing is a test and the test is usually very incomplete as we went over our last or last live and if you I would definitely recommend going do it I spent about 17 minutes going over these things about how you know those things are incomplete and there's a lot of things that affect the thyroid but medication is a big deal to a lot of people because they get scared and they don't know what to do and they go to the doctor and the doctor says well here take this test like I said most of them are incomplete and then they look at one marker and then you're on medication and you don't know really what to do yours following their advice and then you'll go to the pharmacist and they'll fill it up and the next thing you're on meds I have the first thing about first thing about our medication your thyroid is designed to create you know it houses its own hormone and when you start to give it hormones you start to take hormone and then your your brain signals it says hey I don't need to make it anymore so then your thyroid gets weak you get sluggish and of course it becomes very ineffective and you know there's a genius to the body there's there's a design and intelligent design of the body and everything all the different organs are working together in unison you throw something synthetic you throw something that's not coming naturally in the body then it throws off the whole Apple card and people really get sick and so people get there's a lottery it shuts down enzyme processes and people end up getting a lot of affects people call them side effects but their effects there's nothing side about something terrible that happens your body when you put a medication your body how I'm not anti medication not at all someone absolutely need something right they need a medication then by all means take it but the one thing that this is this goes deep in my heart it really does I don't speak to you guys really straight from the heart because I grew up on a lot of medications I grew up on asthma medications allergy medications antibiotics I mean there well I don't remember telling when I was grow up with a that well wasn't on a medication right and so I grew up on these so I know what it's like right to be frustrated and be like mammals go to the doctor most of this you know I couldn't breathe right while all the other kids were running you know I played sports my entire life you know growing up and I was always one step behind I never could breathe properly and I was fast I had a lot of really great eye hand coordination but I was always on some medication I was always being held back so trust me I know this is a very very sensitive topic for me right and so I grew up on the medications and I knew just deep down that it wasn't right I never felt better on meds I knew that there had to be another way right and so I was just sick and tired of it and it really wasn't I graduated high school and I actually joined the army I was in the army and stopped taking meds altogether and then all of a sudden a lot of problems start going away all right but it wasn't till later I found out how amazing the body was how amazing it could heal itself but you have to understand what's causing the problems in the body so inflammation is a big deal there's a lot of triggers for inflammation and the thyroid is definitely affected by inflammation right and so here's a thing if someone comes in to the doctor and says hey I brain fog I'm cold I've bad skin I'm gaining weight man I feel terrible no temperatures I'll go other way you got a thyroid problem they'll run a blood test and they'll run TSH which is a brain hormone that's regs taking a look the brains looking at into the blood and to see if there's enough thyroid hormone and if there's not that TSH will go up because the brains tell them to thyroid hey you need to get an action and then just get out of medication and here's the thing the very things that caused the thyroid to struggle in the first place were never dealt with now you're on a medication and he still hasn't fixed the problems he still addressed the root issues of why the thyroid was not functioning properly in the first place so it's really you know to me it's really kind of acid on to be just saying hey take this well Norrell the thing the reasons why I caused it but now you're on another medication with other side effects whether its natural or not right and most of the time the adrenal glands are involved and one of the biggest counter contraindications to thyroid medication are wiped out adrenals but though they never even test them right so number one you need a more of a complete panel number two the question is a lot of times is once I'm on medication once I'm on thyroid medication am I on for life right that's a good question right you should always be tested be tested properly and I can tell you just from experience just from my own experience that I've been doing this for 24 years so I think I have a right to say something I've taken care of thousands if not who knows by now like a lot of a lot of patients over the years and I've seen so many people dedicated people who did not want to be on medication as a lifestyle get healthier the body came back in balance and then they were able to get off medication as they went to their doctor and they said hey I'm doing much much better can I get off the medications and they got off the medications I'm in patients that were scheduled for thyroid surgeries they're going to cut them out gross I'm a thyroid shrink and completely disappear the doctors like but that's not possible but it happened right so really the body has abilities yeah but we have to understand what is stressing the thyroid right so if we find the triggers we find the things that are causing the thyroid to be stressed or for your thought or not to make hormone properly then you can it's possible for you to get off your medications okay but I don't say that well we my job is actually silence I know why your body why your thyroid struggling while you're having these symptoms test you properly and then help your body get healthier and then you can wean off medications with with your doctor mother person to prescribe them because most doctors they want to help you right and and if they see that you're getting healthier they'll move they'll take off those meds right though the and they're really custom pasta they never see people get off them but we like regularly see people cancel surgeries regularly see people get off medications so look I mean I'm telling you hey dr. Flint good to see you man you're awesome you do this in your clinic every day - great to see you Jamie thanks for coming on see you guys there I tell you guys if you're on right now of course we're going to record this and we're going to post it to the to the page but share this with somebody share it you know tag people I and because there's people that are wanting to do have to be on medications is their hope really it's the main thing is their hope is their hope for me to feel better to have energy to have optimal weight and not have you know other issues you know that come along with the bad thyroid or thyroid struggles now I want to say what things like 90% of most thyroid problems are autoimmune which means the immune system is actually attacking the thyroid or it's like Hashimoto's you can part Graves disease so something else is going on that's actually attacking the thyroid now I like this um you know I like the posters I like these I had these for education in our office there's a copy that makes it it's really nice right so it shows you the gut and shows you the thyroid there and it shows that got here the stomach the large intestine small intestine what ends up happening if there's infection or food allergies ends up happening is this immune cells end up affecting the thyroid gland makes it sluggish so I like good visuals and and so ends up happening is you you end up having an autoimmune condition that immune system starts beating up the thyroid the thyroid gets really weak and it stops functioning properly and that's just one but it's like most of our catches that I see in our clinic we test for these things we test for the autoimmunity part of it the antibody part of it and we also test to make sure that the the thyroid if I worried hormone is actually getting out of the cell actually getting actually getting so out of the thyroid and actually getting to the cell and actually inside the cell so it can produce the energy so those are two really big pieces is that thyroid getting beat up by the immune system and most of the time that's the case and those things are lifestyle things but when the body gets out of control and that immune system starts like getting out of control and one thing to know about the immune system it's always right it never makes mistakes it's always perfect right it's always gonna do the right thing so it's attacking the thyroid it means it's going after things right and other metals things combined heavy metals combined to the thyroid there's a lot of things happen like that so number one as far as like being on medication for a lifetime you know if you had your thyroid radiating and damage any temperatures hormone you're gonna be on hormone most likely for the rest of your life at some dose proper dose number two if you better your thought were removed then it can't make that one but anymore I can be on medication for the rest your life it depends on the doses right but barring those things barring a damaged thyroid as far as like radiated or an actual surgery where they've taken it out they've done a surgical removal I've seen almost almost every case people decreasing the medications seriously a lot or actually getting off them altogether okay so there is hope you can you can't get your back healthy your your body healthy again and that's a great opportunity to number one trust your body but then really engage in the things that will make your health body healthy take the stress off the thyroid and then let your body function optimally again and then you don't have to have the drugs or the surgery number one don't have to spend the money on the meds that the pain the but it is to get nor the doctor get them you know get the meds go get the prescription filled spend the money on a go take something you don't want to take anyway right if you don't have to if there's a way to get off of it right so we're doing an event on December 4th at 6:30 now can you tell us about this I'm excited about this topic because there's so many women to come some men to mostly women come into the office and they are struggling they are seriously stressed out fatigue they don't know why they're getting away and they can't lose it and you know they they have these massive shifts and turnarounds so it's there's nothing more rewarding than you know helping people get their lives back that's we're going to be talking about December 4th at 6:30 on Tuesday night and we're going to be addressing the myths of the thyroid that most people don't understand we're going to be talking about how to test properly we're talking about how the thyroid functions and what causes it the body to get out of balance and then how to actually get to restore health to it so it's going to be awesome we're looking forward to it if you're in the the British Charlotte area the Fort Mill Rock Hill like Wiley area come on out and I tell you what if there's if you share this with somebody you're saying hey I can't be there maybe I'm out of state well guess what if you if you contact us we will do a virtual will do a zoom call we'll get on the line we'll do it we'll do a virtual seminar for you as well because I don't think anybody should be left out and then as far as as far as I be able to take care of people their wellness ways all the way across all over the United States they are phenomenal they know exactly how to test for the that word properly complete test and they're they're committed doctors and they're though I'm sure if there's not one area we can help you find get you know find one in your area to help you really get your life back so guys thanks for tuning in please share please like like our paints right so like our face you can keep up with our information we'll get things out to you and we'll make sure you stay informed that's opposed to what we do is doctors were doctor means teacher so enjoy enjoy the rest your Saturday night I will be back tomorrow I promise because I promise I'm do four myths in four days I hope to see you guys tomorrow and I have an awesome evening