Gary Brecka

And even if it's attacking the myelin sheath of the nerve, you have multiple sclerosis.

And the vast majority of the time you say, well, what caused the immune system to attack my tissue?

Well, we don't know.

It's idiopathic.

And then God forbid you have a relative somewhere in your lineage that happened to have the same condition, Hashimoto's, and now they're gonna tell you it's familial or it's genetically inherited, which is patently false.

We have to remember that the immune system just doesn't show up to random tissues in the body for no reason.

The immune system, like cholesterol and other compounds in the body, is called to that location.

Cholesterol responds to inflammation and tissue damage.

The immune system very often responds to pathogenic invaders.

So I would begin, if I had any autoimmune condition, to look at the big four.

mold mycotoxin, parasite virus, and heavy metals.

You wouldn't believe the number of times in our functional medicine clinic we found patients with Hashimoto's that actually had massive amounts of heavy metals embedded in their thyroid.

Thyroid has an affinity for heavy metals.

I don't think that I saw a single Crohn's diagnosis that did not have severe leaky gut leading up

preceding that diagnosis.

They usually had gut dysbiosis, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, and ulcerative colitis, and it went unaddressed, and then bang, they ended up with an autoimmune condition.

I often do a... Can you hold this for a second?

I do a...

I do a demonstration just so that you get the point.

If this were a mold spore or a mycotoxin or a heavy metal or a parasite or even a virus, and this was a healthy cell, this does not hide like this.