Now, let's talk
about adrenal dysfunction.
Not exact matches
This is good, but by and large, this is usually missed until after many miscarriages because people don't think
about this, because physicians don't think of the general picture of stress, of the thyroid involvement or the
adrenal dysfunction when a young, otherwise healthy woman comes into the office after just having a miscarriage.
I've written quite a bit
about other root causes of Hashimoto's, including toxins like fluoride (which may damage the thyroid), nutrient deficiencies like selenium (Selenium helps to neutralize oxidative stress in the thyroid gland, which occurs whenever we make thyroid hormones), an impaired ability to handle stress that often manifests as
adrenal dysfunction (this weakens our natural defenses and suppresses our thyroid production) and chronic infections like Blastocystis hominis (infections can be inside the thyroid, inside the gut, or in another part of the body leading to immune system confusion).
Many allopathic vets refuse to acknowledge the beginning of
adrenal dysfunction because they don't know what to do
about it until a dog fails the ACTH stimulation (stim) test.