Yeah

... and the adrenal glands aren't functioning well, it essentially will trigger the, the immune response to turn into an autoimmune disease.

It causes much higher inflammation.

It causes insulin resistance.

It steals away your sex hormones and converts them into cortisol.

So now you have all this hormonal dysfunction.

It actually degenerates the intestinal lining.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

Their immune system is going crazy.

So if you can correct the immune system or enhance it or improve it, then that improves the actual destruction that occurs at the thyroid.

Now, if a patient has a low thyroid, I want them to be on thyroid hormones.

I'll prescribe thyroid hormones and get their TSH perfect, for sure, because every cell in your body utilizes thyroid hormones for energy, right? However, if the patient has Hashimoto's, it's a much bigger, more complicated systemic problem.

It's not just an isolated thyroid problem.

And people are sick and tired of going from doctor to doctor thinking they just have a thyroid problem, when in reality they have a much bigger, more complicated immune issue that's never been addressed.

Absolutely.

biggies there that

people...

This is kind of a cool thing, too, because I had somebody ask me, isn't almond milk bad for you or isn't this bad for you? And I think there's a lot of people really confused at what's bad, what's good.

The cool thing about my clinic is we see around 200 to 300 patients a day over the course of those 10 clinics.

And so for the last 17 years, we kind of have our own research center in house and we're testing labs, we're testing inflammatory markers, we're testing antibodies, then we're implementing the treatment, then we retest and we go through that process.

So sometimes when I look at research and I try to apply it into a clinical setting, it's absolute garbage, it doesn't work as you know, right? And then sometimes we look at research, we apply it and it's fantastic.

But for us, what's cool is I don't have to guess, I don't have to depend on an influencer or somebody else to know if something's good or not, right? So what we've seen is the number one trigger for autoimmune patients is gluten.

What are some of the most beneficial supplements for A1C, for insulin specifically? What are some of your favorites for inflammation there as well?