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so if you have hypothyroidism i highly recommend  that you take cod liver oil let’s talk about why  

there are three main key nutrients that the  thyroid needs number one it needs iodine and  

iodine makes up the thyroid molecule itself in  fact when we talk about t4 or t3 we’re talking  

about the number of iodine molecules okay then you  have selenium selenium is involved in an enzyme  

that allows the conversion from t4 to t3  the active form of the thyroid hormone  

so you need selenium it’s a trace mineral so  about 80 percent of this conversion happens in  

the liver and 20% happens in the kidney so you need  a healthy liver and you need a healthy kidney but  

vitamin a is involved in this other hormone  called thyroid stimulating hormone which is  

created from the pituitary and it’s sent down to  the thyroid so it tells the thyroid what to do  

and this whole chain of events is on a negative  feedback loop in fact the way they diagnose  

hypothyroidism is with the thyroid stimulating  hormone if the thyroid stimulated hormone goes up  

because there’s no negative feedback coming back  that’s one way they would diagnose a hypothyroid  

case and when you have a vitamin a deficiency you  have a massive increase in thyroid stimulating  

hormone and that can even increase the size of  the thyroid as in a goiter and actually decrease  

the absorption of iodine so vitamin a is very  important in thyroid function so we have iodine  

selenium and vitamin a now what is the best source  of vitamin a you might say carrots or spinach well  

that will give you the precursor the beta carotene  which is good but the amount of conversion that’s  

going to happen is very very tiny okay because we  want the active form of vitamin a which is retinol  

but it is also good for the eyes and the sinus  and many other things but the thyroid is another  

benefit from vitamin a now you can get a lot of  vitamin a from liver in fact you might get too  

much if you have too much liver so you’d  have to have just a small amount of liver  

that’s probably one of the best sources of vitamin  a if you like liver and you don’t overdo it  

i’m going to recommend cod liver oil because a  regular recommended amount if you’re going to get  

a supplement would give you about 150 percent  of vitamin a which is a little more than what  

your body might need not too much just enough  and plus cod liver oil will give you vitamin d  

it will also give you omega-3 fatty acids you  can also find retinol in butter grass-fed butter  

eggs fatty fish cheese and other foods as well but  i wanted to emphasize the importance of vitamin a  

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