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Kristan's avatar

As helpful as your substack is (and I find it very helpful) it scares the shit out of me! The level of attack we are up against seems way beyond what I can defend against. I have a husband and 8 children to protect.

I try my best. But all this destruction of our innate immune systems seems so overwhelming! I look ahead and all I see are years of battle battle battle. I suspect I won’t win every battle and therefore I’m bracing for the reality that my loved ones will be hurt badly by all this shit. May God help me.

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Eric Brooks's avatar

Reading this got me to realize a hypothesis that I believe should be explored. When I was in my 20s (after a lifetime of eating the standard American diet) I developed *hyper* (not hypo) thyroidism.

I previously attributed this to some environmental exposure (such as fallout from Chernobyl) but now I am wondering if *hyper*thyroidism, which is an overactive thyroid causing a person to have higher heart rate and metabolism (in turn driving weight loss) is the body's first attempt to naturally reverse obesity induced by diabetes.

Overactive thyroids often burn out leading to *hypo*thyroidism, which is low thyroid function that would make the standard American diet triggered diabetes even worse.

It took me years to discover my *hyper*thyroidism, and I'm guessing this same process may be happening with a lot of diabetics. Hyperthyroidism, followed by thyroid burnout, followed by hypothyroidism.

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