Izabella Wentz, PharmD, FASCP, is an internationally acclaimed thyroid specialist, licensed pharmacist, and medical adviser to Pure Encapsulations, who has dedicated her career to addressing the root causes
of autoimmune thyroid disease after being diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis in 2009.
Not exact matches
Months later,
after way too many doctors» visits, I was finally diagnosed with Hashimoto's, an
autoimmune disease affecting my
thyroid and hormonal functions, accompanied by a wicked case
of leaky gut.
After the diagnosis
of autoimmune thyroid disease was established, the titration
of antigliadin antibodies (Ig A and B) were routinely detected.
Interestingly, in most cases
of hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's
disease, it's not the
thyroid that needs to be looked
after but the immune system (since Hashimoto's is an
autoimmune condition).
Compounding the tendency to explain away
thyroid symptoms is the fact that, like other
autoimmune diseases, the
thyroid conditions Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Graves»
disease also frequently appear during and
after periods
of great stress, both mental and physical.