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now there are seven warning signs of an

iodine deficiency you may be familiar

with a thyroid problem if you’re low

iodine you can actually create a

hypothyroid condition and the various

signs and symptoms of that would be

hair loss thinning of the hair lethargy

depression

dry hair dry skin

as well as weight gain

and cold intolerance you do not tolerate

cold and by the way like in the us alone

there’s like 10 million people who have

hypothyroidism in europe it’s 40 million

people and just so you know 90 of all

hypothyroidism

is more autoimmune and so it may not be

an iodine deficiency

however

iodine deficiency in general is very

very common

1.88 billion people on this planet have

an iodine deficiency so it’s quite a few

people one of the best ways to know for

sure

if you are low on iodine

i’ve talked about the patch test where

you put a little drop of iodine on your

skin and you see if it gets absorbed

but if you really wanted to do an

accurate test to find out if you have an

iodine deficiency

you’d want to measure your thyroid

stimulating hormone because that’s a

really good indicator to know

what’s happening at the level between

the pituitary and your thyroid simply

because the thyroid is an iodine hog so

it’s going to start hogging up all the

iodine and so if there’s a deficiency of

thyroid hormones you won’t get this

feedback loop to turn off the thyroid so

the pituitary just keeps putting out

more thyroid stimulating hormones so

it’s going to be higher and that’s a

really good indication to know if you’re

really deficient in iodine and relating

to that as far as the numbers go

you want it to be under four

but some institutions are bringing that

number lower like 2.5 there’s some

interesting data on that that might be

true but in this video i want to talk

mainly about the symptoms that you may

not be aware of that are related to an

iodine deficiency okay

number one intellectual disability

that’s right your cognitive function

diminishes greatly when you don’t have

iodine in adults and in children in fact

if you’re deficient in iodine your iq

could go down by 15 points if a child is

deficient it can go down by 13 points if

you add to this an

iron deficiency in a child

that can bring it another seven points

lowered so you’re talking 20 points

lowered iq from a simple mineral

deficiency and not just a mineral it’s a

trace mineral and what’s really bizarre

to me is that we only need these tiny

tiny

trace amounts of this mineral and if

you’re deficient the consequences are

not tiny they are huge so this really

involves your ability to solve problems

your advancement in your job

and it can relate to your future success

number two

infertility now

if you take a look at the body’s main

purpose its purpose is to survive

reproduce and continue okay and so this

little symptom of infertility is not so

little it’s actually

a huge symptom for the body in its

purpose to reproduce and so there’s a

huge importance in this connection

between

having this little trace mineral and

having the ability to reproduce

if an infant is deficient okay in iodine

or if a mother is deficient while she’s

carrying a baby the child is very very

vulnerable to developing hearing loss

because

out of all the parts of the brain okay

the part of the brain that needs the

most

oxygen

the most metabolism

and the most iodine which they’re all

connected

is the auditory centers and so if a

mother is deficient in this one trace

mineral the child can end up not being

able to hear or having hearing

deficiencies and before fibrocystic

breast now

why would an iodine deficiency show up

in the breast well because iodine has a

very big importance of regulating excess

amount of estrogen and when you have too

much estrogen and not enough iodine you

can develop like these mini little

cysts

either in the breast tissue or in the

ovary and as a side note if you have

fibrocystic breast you should be taking

iodine as a supplement and it works very

effectively all right number five heavy

periods now why would you have the heavy

period well because you’re estrogen

dominant and iodine can help regulate

that and it can help regulate your

periods and as a side note too

this doesn’t work all the time but i’d

say about 50 of the time it can also

help hot flashes all right number six

and this is interesting having a

deficiency of iodine can reduce your

productivity your ability

to achieve something in children and

adults and i know what you’re thinking

this probably explains a lot of things

that’s happening

nowadays with a certain percent of the

population but iodine can help people

increase their ability to get things

done all right number seven brain damage

now

now wait a second an iodine deficiency

causing brain damage i thought you’d

have to have physical trauma to cause

brain damage well guess what if you

don’t have enough iodine all sorts of

things occur because iodine is essential

for certain enzymes that

not just create brain tissue

but also repair brain tissue and if

you’re deficient you actually develop

brain damage in fact it’s the number one

cause of brain damage in children

fascinating

now i know you’re thinking right now

well what foods are in iodine

what causes

an iodine deficiency

i’ve done a whole other video about that

but i will just touch on it briefly the

number one cause of iodine deficiency is

not necessarily related to not getting

enough iodine from your diet okay i want

to primarily focus on number three

goitrogen foods

these are foods that can cause a goiter

which is swelling of your thyroid

usually because of an iodine deficiency

so what’s interesting is this you could

be getting enough dietary iodine but

consuming these foods at the same time

and end up with an iodine deficiency and

creating a lot of problems so this point

right right here number three goitrogen

foods

is the most important information okay

and out of these foods that can deplete

iodine

cassava is the number one that has the

ability to block iodine why because in

addition to its ability to bind to

iodine and lock it up it also has two

additional chemicals that can also

bind in a potent way to iodine

hydrocyanic acid which then turns into

this theocyanate

which is a very strong and potent binder

to iodine so because of these two

chemicals right here

it is not good to consume a lot of

cassava simply because it can block

iodine so unless you’re consuming a lot

of iodine okay you’re probably going to

be deficient there is certain parts of

the world that consume a lot of cassava

in their diet and this is one of the

reasons why large populations are

deficient in

iodine now you also have soy

and corn

and canola okay

which also block

iodine and take a while to guess what

they feed animals okay

soy corn and sometimes canola but if you

actually feed animals this food you can

actually create deficiencies in the

animals so here you are thinking well

you know i don’t consume soy i don’t

consume corn i don’t consume cassava

i’m good to go but you’re consuming the

animals that live off these foods

now also cruciferous foods that would be

the cabbage the broccoli the brussels

sprouts things like that now i’ve done

videos on this and there’s two points i

want to make on it if you’re steaming or

cooking these foods as in the

cauliflower or steaming the broccoli or

cooking the cabbage it’s going to

greatly reduce the effect of binding to

iodine also you would have to consume a

lot of cruciferous to create a

deficiency so

this is not at the top of the list okay

now peanuts and pine nuts also can bind

with iodine in large amounts they are

not the strongest foods that will do it

but i wanted to put it on the list and

you also have millet

and rice that can also bind with iodine

so this is why

there’s a larger population that are

deficient in iodine in india

south east asia south america as well as

africa

so what are the best foods for iodine

the number one best food for iodine

especially if someone’s pregnant

would be

shellfish okay

then

fish

anything out of the sea okay

like seek help that would be good

you also have eggs have iodine organ

meats have iodine nuts have a moderate

amount of iodine but believe it or not

vegetables and fruits are not high in

the list with iodine so if someone’s

consuming soy

corn

millet other grains

with cassava vegetables

fruit and no animal products no eggs no

cheese

they can easily end up with an iodine

deficiency now this is an interesting

topic but this next video is even more

interesting it’s the seven surprising

reasons why you are deficient in iodine

that go even beyond what i just talked

about check it out i put it right here