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If somebody comes in here and tells me I've got depression and anxiety and panic attacks, I'm looking to see if they got a thyroid problem, if they haven't already been diagnosed. And a thyroid problem is usually going to be Hashimoto's.
So there's a lot of chemistry involved in that. Depression is a frontal lobe problem, frontal lobe, right in here. This is who we are. This is where we think, this is our executive functions. This is where our motivation is. This is where our focus is. This is where we make our decisions and if it's not working well, that's where we make bad decisions. These are the people who don't have a filter on their mouth, which I'm told sometimes is me, but that's frontal lobe.
Frontal lobe is also where your mood is. So frontal lobe is, I'm happy, more serotonin, I'm motivated, more dopamine or I'm sad, more serotonin or I'm depressed, more serotonin, really bad. So it's a chemical issue. Most people come in here and depression is a chemical issue. You're looking for what destroys the chemistry in the brain.
So what do you need to not get depressed? What do you need for your frontal lobe to keep working and not be depressed? Proper blood sugar. Too high or too low blood sugar is going to cause inflammation in your brain. Proper oxygen. You have a lack of oxygen going through your frontal lobe. You have anemia, something like that. You have low blood pressure. All of these. Low thyroid aspect of Hashimoto's, you're not going to get enough oxygen there. You're not going to be able to make dopamine and serotonin and you're going to be down. You're going to be depressed.
Stress obviously does it and you need a lack of inflammation. I just mentioned inflammation. Stress is probably the number one on that one and blood sugar. So blood sugar, oxygen, essential fatty acids and a lack of inflammation. Hashimoto's has an affinity for decreasing blood supply to your frontal lobe and increasing inflammation to your frontal lobe. Without getting into the whole chemistry of that, that's what Hashimoto's does.
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