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Living with Hashimoto's My Journey to Diagnosis and Healing

13 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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A personal YouTube narrative by Robert Whitfield MD about his experience being misdiagnosed, later diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease by a naturopathic/acupuncturist provider, and his recovery through dietary changes and integrated Eastern/Western medicine practices. The speaker reports a high thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibody (≈680), prior vegan/gluten-free diet, chemical exposures from a farm upbringing, and that the diagnosis occurred over 25 years ago.

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Approximately 680.

Over 25 years ago (speaker says "this was 25, over 25 years ago").

A naturopathic doctor who is also an acupuncturist.

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And after five misdiagnosis from doctors up there, I was referred over to a naturopathic doctor who is also an acupuncturist. And he. He ran my labs and he said, oh, you've got Hashimoto's. My thyroid peroxidase antibody is for, like, 680. Okay. And so I was like, oh, finally I had an answer. And so this was 25, over 25 years ago. And I was gluten free before. It was cool. It was. I was following a very strict diet with him. I was vegan at the time and also exposed to a lot of chemicals on the farm I grew up on. And so it was just a perfect storm. And then you add in a little bit of stress from school and. Or whatever it was, and that just completely threw me into a thyroid storm. But it was that doctor that helped me recover my health. And then I ended up going to Hawaii and studying more integrated medicine. When I was there, I learned both Eastern and Western medicine, and I just grew a love for finding solutions that work really easy for the body.