About 1 percent of Caucasian women have
autoimmune thyroid disease where the thyroid is either over - or underactive.
Not exact matches
Dr. Jolene Brighten is a functional medicine naturopathic doctor and the founder of Rubus Health — a root - cause women's medicine clinic
where she specializes in the treatment of hormone disorders, including adrenal and
thyroid conditions and
autoimmune disease.
Hashimoto's is a chronic
autoimmune disease where my immune system the
thyroid and basically messes up everything.
Hello What about Hashimotos
where the
thyroid is being destroyed over time and is an
autoimmune disease?
Graves»
disease is an
autoimmune condition
where your immune system creates antibodies that cause the
thyroid to grow and make more
thyroid hormone than your body needs, making the
thyroid work very hard.
There are some other medical conditions such as hypothyroidism, myxedema, Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE),
thyroid cancer, thyrotoxicosis, rheumatoid arthritis, pernicious anemia,
autoimmune collagen vascular
disease and type 1 diabetes
where the level of
thyroid antibodies is mild to moderately elevated.
Interestingly, it's been many years since the March 2001 issue of the same exact journal,
Thyroid, published a German study that found that the use of levothyroxine treatment for cases of Hashimoto's
autoimmune thyroiditis
where TSH had not yet elevated («euthyroid») beyond normal range could reduce the incidence and degree of
autoimmune disease progression.