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there’s some fascinating information I

want to share with you regarding iodine

that goes Way Beyond the thyroid so it

is true that the Lion’s Share of iodine

is stored inside your thyroid but

there’s also iodine in the breast tissue

in the uterus in the ovaries

in the prostate and I’m going to tell

you why in the sperm in the stomach in

your lungs and especially in your brain

okay the front part of your brain that

involve cognition Focus memory

concentration and this is why if a

infant is deficient in iodine at Birth

they’re going to have some problems with

their IQ they’re going to have decreased

intellectual capacity and so iodine is

important and not just for your thyroid

for other things as well now the other

interesting thing about iodine is the

requirements for iodine the rdas it’s

roughly in America it’s about 150

micrograms not milligrams but micrograms

but what’s interesting about that is if

you take a look at Japan they consume on

average per day between a thousand to

three thousand micrograms of iodine and

they don’t have nearly the problem with

breast cancer with female reproductive

issues and many of the other iodine

deficiency problems that we have in the

U.S there just is no agreement in the

scientific community on how much iodine

we really need as far as a therapeutic

dose they do state that the upper limits

should be no more than a thousand

micrograms but that’s kind of an

arbitrary number because people have

taken a lot more without any problems in

fact if you have way too much iodine and

create the same exact symptoms as a

deficiency in iodine now there’s two

general types of iodine the type that

should be used topically in in the body

not internally like povidone iodine

that’s great for fungal infections on

your toes or even a skin tag or a wart

but you shouldn’t take that orally there

are other types of iodine that you can

take orally but I would recommend taking

it as a food base whether it comes from

actual food like shellfish or even

better yet seek help which is seaweed it

comes in a package from nature that has

all the other trace minerals and things

that are connected with it because

anytime you take one of anything in the

body you have to realize that you could

throw off other things as well

especially when we’re getting into the

trace minerals but you’re more protected

and you can tolerate it more if you take

it from a food source like sea kelp of

course the key about sea kelp is making

sure it’s high quality it comes from a

an ocean that is very very pristine and

healthy without heavy metals because you

don’t want contaminated

toxic heavy metals in your sea kelp now

there’s some fascinating applications of

using iodine to help with various body

conditions and one of the big things

that iodine does is it helps to regulate

estrogen especially if there’s too much

estrogen in the body as in estrogen

dominance so what does that mean it

means it can help you with heavy periods

periods that go on for too long it can

help with something called fibrocystic

breast in fact relating to that topic

one of the best ways to identify an

iodine deficiency is through just the

symptom of having breast tenderness most

of the time when a woman experiences

tenderness of the breast they’re really

just experiencing an iodine deficiency

so you can use iodine on fibrocystic

breast ovarian cysts

endometriosis fibroids because you have

high levels of iodine in the ovary in

the breast tissue in the uterus also

iodine can be used for a prostate

enlargement why because as men get older

their testosterone goes down and the

relative ratios of estrogen goes up so

iodine is known to help prostatic

enlargement but iodine is also good for

other things like PCOS polycystic

ovarian syndrome it’s good for cystic

acne it’s good for TB upper respiratory

infections because you have iodine in

your lungs probably to act as an

antimicrobial because it’s good as a

defense mechanism for your immune system

iodine is also good for something called

croup which is a kind of this wheezing

in the upper respiratory tract where you

get this high pitched sound when you’re

breathing in usually you see this in

infants or even this excessive weird

cough which actually sounds like a dog

barking as well as asthma I already

mentioned toenail fungus it’s a good

remedy for that because it’s anti-viral

antibacterial oil

anti-fungal and anti-candida I’ve done a

video on how you can use iodine to help

remove an award as well as a skin tag

I’ll put that link down below and let’s

not forget in the importance of the

thyroid so having enough iodine can

actually help you to lose more weight it

can help you with brain fog it can help

you when you’re excessively cold and

have dry hair and dry skin and even

constipation because it supports the

thyroid gland and even depression as

well but unless you consume food okay

that is either from the sea or from

vegetables that are grown on the

coastline chances are you’re not going

to get a lot of iodine in your Foods

because if it’s not in the soil it’s not

going to be in the plant and so there’s

always going to be a very very tiny

amount of iodine in the soil but in

certain areas of the country you could

have literally a hundred times less

iodine in those vegetables then

vegetables that are grown by the coast

close to the ocean there is a bit of

iodine in eggs dairy as well as iodized

salt and even sea salt but with sea salt

there’s going to be just small small

amounts now another thing I want to

mention is that you can’t actually have

an allergy to iodine okay so some people

have an allergy to shellfish for example

that has iodine you might need to get

your iodine from the straight iodine if

someone is deficient in iodine the body

is going to allocate or recruit iodine

and make sure you have enough for the

thyroid so it’ll pull from different

tissues and that can keep you deficient

in certain parts of your body and

sufficient in other parts one of the

most accurate ways to measure iodine

because the problem is if you get a

urine sample or even a blood sample in

the morning you can have a false

positive because you have the lowest of

iodine in the morning so the best way to

assess iodine is a 24-hour urine iodine

test another simple test would be just

to basically take a little drop of

povidone iodine put it on your skin okay

maybe on the inside of your your arm or

your leg or your thigh and then just

cover an area like maybe an inch by an

inch and then see what happens within

one hour you can put maybe like a little

patch Robert or a Band-Aid and if it

disappears in one hour chances are you

are deficient in iodine you need more

because your body is sucking it up but

if it’s still there after an hour

chances are you probably have enough now

of course that’s a crude way of

measuring it but it’s just one

indication and like I said before breast

tenderness is another uh classic symptom

of a deficiency of iodine a couple of

other ways that people are deficient is

consuming uh maybe excessive amounts of

raw cruciferous vegetables because

there’s certain compounds in the

cruciferous vegetables that tend to bind

up that iodine also if you consume

millet

soy sweet potato

you can also have the same problem

people that are are vegan plant-based

have to be very careful because they’re

usually eating plants that are deficient

in iodine and they don’t consume

shellfish but on the other hand if they

have sea kelp they’re going to be okay

if a woman is pregnant or lactating the

demand for iodine goes up so they should

make sure that they take a little bit

more other things compete for iodine

like fluoride and bromide if someone is

on a low salt diet because they have

high blood pressure because the doctor

told them to get off the salt they can

also be deficient in iodine just from

not having enough of the iodine in the

salt but of course that would have to be

either iodized salt or

sea salt there’s some other chemicals

that commonly create problems for iodine

perchlorate that’s like a chemical waste

product from fertilizers that they put

in the land and then the runoff goes

into the water supply and then it ends

up in your water so perchlorate blocks

iodine as well as nitrates

which is another waste product from

fertilizers so the absolute best way to

get your iodine is through a little sea

kelp you can take some on a regular

basis just take whatever is recommended

on the back of the label but also start

consuming more shellfish to make sure

you have enough as well now I created

another video that has gotten millions

of views and this relates to using

iodine to get rid of skin tags in warts

if you haven’t seen that video check it

out I put it up right here