 I'm Dr. Ruscio. I'm here with Patricia. Patricia Johnson. And she has some really good results in a short period of time. So I wanted to, well I asked you if you'd be willing to share this, especially for people who have a hard time making the dietary shift because I think that was really key for you. So why don't you tell people a little bit about what you came in with, what you experienced and what we did and what you noticed. Okay, so I had gone to my primary physician for, I have a thyroid nodule and it's not anything you see on the outside but it was causing some swelling and I felt like I couldn't breathe at night. And so when I went to the doctor he said that it wasn't really enlarged any additional than it had been and there wasn't really anything I could do if I wanted to have an operation that may or may not alleviate it but I would probably have to go on medication and not the best. So I left there and I also had a ear nose and throat doctor look down on my throat because maybe it was something there. Right. And they didn't find anything but I still had these feelings so I had heard about you because I listened to Jimmy Moore and on Living Leviton Low Carb so when I thought about going to another doctor I thought well I'll go to Dr. Lucio because you studied thyroid. Sure. So when I came here and your suggestion was for me to go on this autoimmune diet I was a little a little skeptical because I thought that I had been eating pretty well. I know I needed to lose weight but I had been eating some things I shouldn't eat but they were all what I consider to be healthy things. Right. So I studied the diet for a week because it took a while to kind of take it all in. Like what am I going to eat and so then I prepared myself got my kitchen all prepared and I started following the diet within three days the swelling was gone amazingly and I kept waiting for it to come back and it didn't come back and now it's been about three weeks and it's amazing. Awesome. Absolutely amazing I can't believe that the swelling is completely gone my energy level is greatly improved and you've lost maybe eight pounds probably lost about eight maybe ten pounds we're about to do the weigh-in but from her home scale she thinks about eight pounds yes and it's only been you know so I plan to follow this I don't know every while it just feels great I mean it's not that hard once you start yeah and I've gotten used to not having any yogurt in the nuts I was just I love nuts but nuts are what's causing my swelling I won't have that sure and eventually what we're going to do with Patricia is we're going to start to reintroduce some of these foods so that she doesn't have to be off all these foods indefinitely and we'll see if we can pin down one or two foods that may be causing this this issue and what we found with with Patricia was we did find Hashimoto's and what I think was happening was coming to our thyroid model here in a in a healthy thyroid gland it's smaller but when a thyroid gland becomes enlarged as you see here um or when a thyroid gland has Hashimoto's it can become enlarged and that can cause some occlusions it's a pressure on the throat um this is why when a goiter gets bad enough they may have to do surgical removal of thyroid gland because they can they can encroach on a swollen breathing and things like that so what's probably happening underneath the surface is that the thyroid autoimmunity that's causing thyroid inflammation and swelling has been quelled by changing the diet and now that feeling is gone yeah that's pretty it's miraculous yeah that's amazing so I feel it I mean if you touch I don't feel like it yeah that's pretty amazing yeah you feel much better you could bottle that and sell it well the problem is you can't bottle it and sell it and that's why I think I had more popular than it is um but she's done great um 30 days autoimmune paleo diet we also put you on some basic vitamin support a low dose um hormone replacement therapy and and that was pretty much it and I'm convinced that the the largest contributing factor is definitely in the diet um and I wanted to share that for for people out there who may think that they need a more serious intervention yes to get benefit and they may but sometimes the the simple things really work the best well and I thought that I could come here and get started on something that would prevent my iris from getting any worse um because according to the doctors not anything I can do is to wait and see what happens uh it was getting a little worse you know so now I can breathe great I don't have any problems at night um and now I'm working on my sleeping working on my exercise and I'm sure the weight's gonna go down um continue to go down no cravings um it's pretty it's pretty good and we didn't have to do a lot of expensive lab testing we did one blood panel to look at her thyroid uh function but we did not have to do uh extensive food allergy testing or or other workouts we may do some additional testing in the future but um our our agreement now is we'll follow in 30 days or she's still feeling this great we're pretty much done yes cool well thank you so much for talking with us thank you very much