Can you talk to us about that thyroid and skin health connection?

Absolutely.

So one of the most interesting things is that it is well known that when you have low or poor thyroid function, and, and I'm gonna bucket that in to include Hashimoto's and autoimmune issues associated with the thyroid, 'cause I think that the, any of these would suffice to potentially trigger two possible things to happen in your skin.

First of all is it can lead to very dry and itchy skin that can also crack.

About 65% of people with Hashimoto's end up with this issue.

So you'll notice that your skin texture really changes.

Uh, moisture, you're moisturizing so much and it doesn't seem to help.

Yeah

We like to eat mostly clean foods, but we also believe that people should be able to go and have a croissant somewhere or have, um, you know, have some dairy or cheese and every now and then, and not really feel terrible after, right?

And, and, and just to clarify too, for people going, "Well, what does it mean to feel terrible," right? So part of this we already talked about are these skin manifestations, but then there's also, I'd mentioned there's other symptoms because histamine does impact other body systems.

So in the event that someone is dealing with, like, insomnia, and headaches, and migraines, sinus issues, you have different gut issues like diarrhea, um, you can sometimes have abdominal pain, or you'll just, like, flush up red, and you fee- even your face will feel hot.

So it's not a hot flash that someone would get because they're going through perimenopause into menopause.

This is something totally different that's triggered as a result of histamine.

And sometimes people will even experience, um, issues with breathing, like asthma type issues, arrhythmias, um, low blood pressure.

And if we go to the very extreme, I would categorize, like, POTS, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, um, and like that's when you're getting into more, like, mast cell, uh, dysregulation and, and mast cell issues, where it's more severe of, of histamine reactivity.

When I was doing like a lot of stool testing, initially I found about 30% of people that I worked with had a Blasto infection, and I was only working with people with Hashimoto's at the time, and then the test I was using like went out of business, and I started using a different test, and then the rates were like 10 to 15%, and I was like, "That's interesting." But some of the people would still have symptoms, right? And they would definitely be symptomatic, and at that point you're kinda like, okay, so you've got a stool test, you see this thing, and then you know to treat it, but sometimes you've got the symptoms and the stool test comes out negative, and then what do you do then at that point, right?