Stella Aubert knows the secret to healing Hashimoto’s. The New Mexico–based chiropractor and “cellular detox specialist” dispenses wisdom on TikTok, in videos where she often wears a white doctor’s coat. While the disorder is an autoimmune disease that impacts the thyroid—a gland that controls the metabolism—Aubert believes that it is really more about negative emotions, “which can get stored in your thyroid,” she claims in one video with 16,000 views.
Hashimoto’s is a fairly common condition—more than 1 in 50 Americans have it, the vast majority of them women. It’s the result of the immune system attacking thyroid cells, which triggers hormone imbalances, weight gain, and fatigue. There’s already a treatment: levothyroxine, a replacement thyroid hormone most people with the disease will need to be on for the rest of their lives. According to another video of Aubert’s, though, “if you have a doctor who is telling you you cannot heal from your ‘diagnosis,’” they’re wrong. “They do not understand the power of the human body.”
