Your Hashimoto's Might Start in Your Stomach

Normal TSH, still exhausted? Dr. Chris Motley explains the thyroid antibodies most people never get tested for, why a stomach infection called H. pylori keeps showing up alongside Hashimoto's, what a 2026 study found when it was treated, and what Chinese medicine has long said about digestion and a cold, tired body. 

(00:00) Your antibodies are five times normal, and "nothing to treat yet" 

(00:53) Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast 

(01:02) The most common thyroid disease, and the least recognized 

(02:15) How your immune system attacks your thyroid: anti-TPO and anti-thyroglobulin 

(02:55) What your thyroid does, and how TPO builds T3 and T4 

(05:38) Why the antibodies start: Epstein-Barr, and one more pathogen 

(06:13) H. pylori is not just a heartburn bug 

(07:17) The stomach infection you forgot you had 

(08:41) How people actually catch H. pylori 

(10:16) A hidden infection and an over-alert immune system 

(11:30) Mistaken identity: the molecular mimicry idea