I was diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism at age 21. I’m 48 now, so this has been part of my body for 27 years. What most people don’t realize is the thyroid and the stomach are closely linked in autoimmunity. When one is affected, the other often follows. There’s even a clinical name for it (thyrogastric syndrome) first described in the 1960s. A recent bidirectional endoscopy revealed autoimmune gastritis. It’s the same underlying autoimmune tendency I’ve lived with since 21, now showing u
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I was diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism at age 21. I’m 48 now, so this has been part of my body for 27 years. What most people don’t realize is the thyroid and the stomach are closely linked in autoimmunity. When one is affected, the other often follows. There’s even a clinical name for it (thyrogastric syndrome) first described in the 1960s. A recent bidirectional endoscopy revealed autoimmune gastritis. It’s the same underlying autoimmune tendency I’ve lived with since 21, now showing u
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