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today let’s discuss the number one sign

of iodine overload the symptoms from not

having enough iodine are just as bad as

getting too much iodine iodine is a

trace mineral meaning that it’s needed

in very small tiny amounts so we’re

talking about

micrograms not milligrams so the amount

of iodine you need on a regular basis

should be between

150 to 200 micrograms per day but you

don’t need a lot there is an iodine

supplement called potassium iodide which

is meant to take as a protection against

some type of nuclear radiation exposure

and potassium iodide should not be taken

on a regular basis as your iodine

supplement now I will say that it’s more

common not to get enough iodine a lot of

people are deficient than to get too

much iodine but you should be aware of

certain things that can happen if you

take too much now since we are on the

topic of iodine we should probably talk

a little bit about Hashimoto’s okay that

is an autoimmune condition it’s a

hypothyroid condition it was discovered

by a doctor out of Japan thus his last

name Hashimoto’s which is a Japanese

name and by the way as a side note Japan

has more Hashimoto’s disease than any

other place in the world and I think

because of this one point Hashimoto’s is

really not caused by an iodine

deficiency but can be aggravated or even

triggered with taking too much iodine

and in Japan they do consume a

tremendous amount of iodine from seaweed

sea kelp seafood

Etc but I do want to point out if you’re

taking like 150 to 200 micrograms of

iodine you’re usually not going to

trigger Hashimoto’s it’s when you take a

lot of iodine that you could potentially

trigger it now if there’s something that

triggers Hashimoto’s what can happened

is the thyroid can start producing a lot

of hydrogen peroxide and then hydrogen

peroxide is a very very irritating and

corrosive to the thyroid gland but

normally our bodies have enough

neutralizing factors to buffer that

hydrogen peroxide and one being selenium

which by the way selenium is really good

for Hashimoto’s it’s also necessary to

convert T4 to T3 which is the active

form of the thyroid hormone but the

selenium is also like a precursor to

glutathione which is the liver’s

antioxidant so probably what’s happening

with Hashimoto’s is we have a situation

where we don’t have enough selenium or

glutathione or we have a weak liver or

even we have some problem in the gut

that’s where your your immune barrier is

and if there’s some type of leaky gut

situation or increase permeability in

the gut because there’s inflammation

that’s usually where Hashimoto’s starts

and this is why there’s such a huge

association between things like gluten

and Hashimoto’s but what you need to

know is that Hashimoto’s is not an

iodine deficiency and too much can

actually trigger Hashimoto’s situation

there’s also some other factors that I

just want to just briefly touch on with

the Advent of DNA testing you can now

get your DNA tested and find out where

your weaknesses are and if there’s some

type of mutation in your genes it’s

called a polymorphism you can also have

a weakness or a higher risk factor of

getting an autoimmune disease especially

to your thyroid and that’s called

Hashimoto’s so for example if you have

this gut issue you’re consuming a lot of

gluten and you’re low in selenium you

could be much greater at risk for

getting Hashimoto’s than someone else

but I think also hypothyroidism could be

a protective mechanism some type of

compensation from having too much iodine

that’s just one theory that I have just

because too much iodine could be very

damaging to the body all right now let’s

dive into the number one symptom that

someone would have relating to getting

too much iodine okay the number one

symptom is a highly irritable energy

that keeps you from sleeping okay so

let’s say for example you’re just you’re

in this flight of flight mode and you

just your body is just on edge and you

just can’t sleep that is usually one of

the first signs that of an iodine excess

now you could also have that symptom

from other things like low B1 for

example and being stressed because your

adrenals in overdrive but just realize

that too much iodine can activate the

thyroid which can then activate too much

sympathetic nervous system too much

flutter fight and so that’s really one

of the first signs that occurs with

taking too much iodine here’s some other

ones fast pulse rate okay like your

pulse rate is just boom boom boom but

again that can also come from other

things like low potassium or low vitamin

B1 another symptom of excess iodine

could be atrophib or heart arrhythmias

in general another one could be heat

intolerance or diarrhea or hand tremors

or your temperature is increasing but

you don’t necessarily have a like an

infection fever it’s just your body is

just hotter or you could even have bone

loss or osteopenia which is a

pre-oscoporosis situation

or another one would be a loss of

menstrual cycle or excessive sweating or

even and this is rare but you can have

what’s called a thyroid storm all of

these symptoms could potentially be you

have too much iodine all right so what

is someone going to do if they have

symptoms of too much iodine well the

most important thing is to find out

where it’s coming from and start to

eliminate iodine from your diet or your

supplements okay so let me just kind of

go through a list of sources of iodine

now there’s a couple things I want to

mention related to getting too much

iodine first of all maybe you’re taking

way too much seek help or seaweed in

your diet or you’re consuming a lot of

iodized salts or a tremendous amount of

seafood or it could be a combination of

several supplements you’re taking with

too much iodine so you want to read the

back of the label and just start

counting up how much iodine you really

getting and if it’s over like 300

micrograms you should start cutting back

all right and the other question is

um is there a blood test or some test to

know if we have too much iodine okay

well there’s a couple things in past

videos I talked about a skin test where

you can drop a little bit of iodine on

your skin put a little patch on and then

see if it gets absorbed or not over a

period of time and that’s one test but

the problem with that test is it it

really only tells you

um recently what’s going on in your body

there’s a a much more accurate test to

do and that test is a urine test and if

I’m not mistaken it can even be a home

test okay and I’ll put a link down below

to see if you can just get this test

ordered and you can send it right to

your house but the test is a urinary

collection test where you send your

urine off to the lab and they’re

measuring something called urinary

iodine to creatinine ratio and when you

get that test done you want it below a

hundred

micrograms per gram okay

if it’s above a hundred micrograms per

gram that means there’s some source of

iodine that you’re taking unknowingly

that’s keeping your iodine a bit too

high all right so that’s that now if you

have Hashimoto’s okay I have a lot of

videos on this but

I wouldn’t recommend taking extra iodine

instead I would take selenium okay now

preferably you get it from your food and

the food that has the highest selenium

is Brazil nuts maybe you just take a

couple of those per day that will be

enough or you just get a supplement and

only take what’s on the back of the

label so it’ll take a lot of synonym

because selenium is also a trace mineral

so you just need sufficient amounts so

if you have Hashimoto’s there’s a couple

really key points here there’s a lot

more to know about it but I would

definitely take selenium okay I would

also take vitamin D very important

vitamin D has been shown to decrease the

antibodies in Hashimoto’s okay and I

would recommend taking 20 to 30 000 IUS

per day

and lastly I would take a good natural

source of B1 because B1 can also help if

you notice a lot of these symptoms also

cross over to almost mimicking a B1

deficiency and so these symptoms can be

improved with B12 especially if you have

this sympathetic nervous system

dominance now also another hidden source

which is probably not your situation is

consuming a lot of Bakery Goods okay or

breads or pastas things like that

because a lot of times they use iodide

as one of the dough conditioners which

have something called iodate which is a

form of iodine and another thing I want

to bring up when you take um like

purified bile salts okay which is in my

gallbladder formula and where it’s in a

lot of other products you’re taking this

bile or even a form of tadka if you have

hyperthyroid symptoms just realize that

can make things a little bit worse

because that increases the conversion

through the liver from T4 to T3 so that

could be a really minor point but it can

just contribute to this problem if you

have too much iodine however if you need

more iodine that would be a great thing

to take because like I said before it’s

more common to have a deficiency of

iodine than it is to have too much

iodine and also if you have Hashimoto’s

I’m not saying that to completely you

know have zero amounts of iodine your

diet but just realize that you never

want to correct these things necessarily

with just a single

element like a mineral realize that in

nature it always comes in complexes so

if you are deficient for example in

iodine taking CCAP would be better than

just taking a single iodine because in

nature it never comes that way and if

you do use a single mineral to correct

something work with either your doctor

or a health care practitioner to help

get the levels just right because it’s a

bit complex and also realize that 80

percent of the conversion from T4 to T3

the active form of the thyroid hormone

occurs through the liver and the kidney

so if you have a thyroid problem and

it’s not Hashimoto’s for example I mean

the problem could be in your liver or it

could be in your kidney that’s creating

this problem so it’s not always just a

thyroid issue now there’s a really good

book that I recommend if you have a

thyroid problem or you want to get a lot

more information about the thyroid gland

itself it’s by the author Isabella Wentz

and she’s written several books about

the thyroid the one I would recommend

would be Hashimoto’s protocol now since

we’re on the topic of iodine and thyroid

I think it’s very important to

understand other factors that can affect

the thyroid especially in the conversion

factors from t E4 to T3 and for that

information I put this video up right

here check it out