Case Study of the Month

Patient Name:  Eva

Condition:  Medical diagnosis is Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, resulting in a variety of symptoms, including digestive problems, insomnia, right arm and shoulder pain, brain fog, and lack of energy.  

Functional Diagnosis:  What is actually CAUSING her problems…sensitivity to gluten, intestinal infection, overactive immune system (High T-Helper Cells), adrenal fatigue (low cortisol), and thyroid function all over the map.

Treatment:  We began with our usual AutoImmune Protocol…including avoiding dietary stressors, especially know sensitivities such as gluten in her case, along with transdermal glutathione, vitamin D, and high dose fish oils.  We also used botanical medicines (natural) to remove intestinal infections.  In fact, we are using the whole “4R” approach to healing the intestinal environment.  1R = Remove infections  2R = Replace digestive enzymes  3R = Repair the intestinal lining and  4R = Reinnoculate with healthy probiotics bacteria.  Each visit, which is every other week, we reset her meridian system, muscle imbalances, and treat her physically.  

Results:  After 8 weeks, she reports that her digestive problems are gone, her pain is gone, her sleep problems are gone, her brain fog is gone, and her energy is 80% improved.  

Comments:  Eva is a responding very well to our treatment choices.  She still has imbalanced lab findings, so we aren’t sure if she is feeling as well as she “rates,” or if she is just so happy to finally be seeing some results.  Obviously, we only have ourselves to compare to when rating things like our energy…she may still be at 30% of someone who is very healthy, but to her, her energy is so much better than it was…it must be 80%.  Hopefully we will surprise her with improvement to 200% of what she was!! 

What is the source of her improvement?  As you can see, we are treating multiple systems, including immune system, digestive system, meridian system (as in Traditional Chinese Medicine evaluation), and her Musculoskeletal system.  All systems affect all systems…and that is a concept foreign to most doctors who practice specialization.  Her adrenal hormones showed some of the best lab changes in her initial retesting, and we didn’t do anything specific for her adrenal glands.  However, the immune system is a powerful stimulator of the adrenal stress response, so after years of infection, eating foods she is reacting to, and attacking her own tissues, her adrenals were fatigued.  So, removing these immune stimulants, and soothing the immune system, along with physically treating her pain, another powerful stimulator to the stress system…that was enough to change hormones, and let her enjoy sleeping through the night.