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in this video we’re going to talk about

iodine I’m going to really increase your

awareness on this vitally important

trace mineral now trace minerals are

those minerals needed in very small

amounts but the problem is there’s no

RTA’s or requirements yet for trace

minerals only for the bigger minerals

like calcium and vitamins and things

like that but trace trace minerals are

those minerals needed in very very tiny

amounts usually micrograms not

milligrams okay but iodine is definitely

needed because the function of iodine

supports the brain function in a growing

infant without enough iodine that child

could be mentally all cells

need iodine so not just the thyroid the

reproductive organs need iodine

including the breast the uterus the

ovaries the prostate the testicles we’ll

get more into that in the next section

but the point is that if a female has

very large breasts they need more iodine

to support those breasts okay

iodine is also used to help detoxify

heavy metals so if you have if you’re

consuming a lot of shellfish and you’re

getting mercury and things if you have

enough iodine on your system that will

protect the detail will help you

detoxify it iodine is needed to reduce

the need for insulin so it’s involved in

diabetes or slowing down diabetes it’s

involved in stabilizing blood sugars and

you know I’m just kind of showing you

some other things that people can do if

they’re diabetic and they consume some

iodine it could take a big stress off

the whole mechanism with blood sugars

and of course the one of the most

important things for iodine is the

control of metabolism through the

thyroid so if there’s not enough iodine

your metabolism could be shut down by at

least fifty percent or more

and then you gain weight okay so if

you’ve ever talked about the thyroid in

relationship to like thyroxine or t4 or

t3 and what that means is that the

number associated with that T like

thyroid t3 or four that’s the num

of iodine molecules that are attached to

that thyroid hormone okay so that’s what

that means and so when the thyroid sends

out a hormone and it sends out t4 that’s

the one that it starts with but it’s

inactive and even when people take

medication like synthroid for example

that’s t4 and what happens is that that

is made active or activated by the liver

and the kidney so in other words eight

eighty percent of t4

is converted through the liver through

the gallbladder through the bile ducts

and 20% of the t4 is converted through

the kidneys so one cause of thyroid

problems or iodine problems would be the

lack of the conversion because the gall

bladders not there or there’s a problem

the gall bladder the livers damaged or

there’s kidney damage or many other

reasons too

one side note is that you need the other

trace mineral inium to convert t4 to t3

and that’s why it’s always important

when you’re taking an iodine to take it

in a concentrate of a blend of all the

trace minerals not just one you have to

really look at a holistic approach with

that so so we have that now let’s talk

about just the causes of iodine

deficiencies there’s direct causes and

indirect causes and the reason I’m

showing this is because I want to expand

your awareness on all the possibilities

so we don’t have tunnel vision and you

don’t go to the doctor and he says oh

yeah we checked your thyroid it’s normal

but they’re not looking at their liver

the kidney the iodine in your diet all

these factors all right so first first

thing is it could be just low iodine it

could come from the diet why because the

soils really don’t have any more iodine

in it especially unless you live about a

hundred miles from the ocean there’s

really no more iodine in the soils so

you’re the farmers don’t necessarily

replace that they replace it with maybe

nitrogen phosphorus and potassium but

not all the trace minerals so you’re

consuming food without iodine that could

be

why you’re not getting the iodine the

normal requirement that our body needs

is a hundred and fifty micrograms

so it’s a very small amount and that is

set up I think by some standards that

were a bit too low because in the in

Japan they’re they consume a hundred

times more iodine than Americans and

they have a lot less thyroid problems

breast cancer cyst on the breast and

ovarian problems unless prostate

problems then Americans so I think

there’s definitely a connection with

that but it could be also the person is

maybe eating a bit too much cruciferous

but honestly you would have to consume a

lot of cruciferous to create an iodine

deficiency so not just a couch like a

day but if you are consuming a lot of

cruciferous I highly recommend that you

add a source of iodine to your diet I’ll

get into that in a little bit because

that cruciferous does have a tendency to

deplete or block some small amounts of

iodine okay so we have that and then we

have low salt diet so if someone’s on a

low salt diet and they’re not having any

salt likes even sea salt

then where they get near iodine they’re

not even doing iodized salt so that

could be one possible reason we just

want to look at every possible reason

stress stress can also deplete iodine in

the minerals and then a thing called

endocrine disrupters that would be

something like an exposure to pesticides

insecticides herbicides fungicides right

from the food or from the environment

that can also mess with your thyroid and

block the absorption of iodine because

these endocrine disruptors these

chemicals do compete for the receptors

for iodine so let’s say we have the

receptor right here and iodine is

supposed to go in there like that

well what happens is the endocrine

disrupters will block it so they won’t

let that iodine connect in there and

that could be some of the heavy metals

like mercury and it could be other

elements like

fluoride chloride and even the sink

called bromide

alright bromide is a very interesting

element because in the 70s we used to

have iodine in all the flour products

the bakery products okay but then they

switched it with bromide I don’t know

why they did that so in the past people

were getting iodide and then in the 70s

we had a bromine without the iodine and

guess what that alone can decrease your

absorption of iodine by having too much

bromine in your breads pasta cereal

crackers biscuits waffles pancakes of

course you’re not doing that if you’re

watching my blog anyway so you don’t you

have nothing to worry about okay so we

have those things that can interfere

just directly low iodine from that

now there’s other other reasons why you

could also have a low iodine number one

high levels of estrogen can block your

iodine all right it can also increase

the need for more iodine interesting so

that could explain why when you get

pregnant the spike of estrogen you end

up with a thyroid problem yeah because

of the spike of estrogen severely blocks

the iodine absorption into the Vaught

thyroid so what are all the sources of

increased estrogen number one getting

pregnant to hormonal placement therapy

three birth control pills eating foods

without that are not hormone free could

do it there’s certain milks and meats

that have hormones and then having too

much soy soy is estrogenic especially if

it’s not fermented okay the Japanese

always have fermented soy I like tofu

tempeh tempeh miso soup they don’t

consume the soy protein isolates in the

prepackaged diet foods that that are out

there the veggie patties that

vegetarians consume with it all soy base

a lot of the protein powders um it’s in

the baby food

you name it having a fibroid which by

the way is caused by high estrogen can

also deplete the iodine in the body and

obstruct the thyroid and then having a

very heavy or regular or painful cycle

which is estrogen dominance can also

lower your iodine okay

and then lastly we talked about this

briefly before a liver damage so if you

have liver damage it could be that could

be the source of your your low iodine or

your lack of conversion into the thyroid

or a lack of bile now I’ve done videos

and bile and biles the detergent to

helps break down the grease and without

enough bio you won’t have that iodine

conversion and that can mess up the

thyroid or I’ll not allow you to convert

the active form of the thyroid hormone

to make it work so it’s always inactive

so it really doesn’t work so you get a

blood test that doesn’t mean anything

they’re not looking at all the other

possible causes of a thyroid problem and

so what causes low bile is sometimes

when you become a vegetarian you have no

saturated fats well saturated fats some

such artifacts stimulate the bio

released without saturated fats you

can’t your your gallbladder kind of

shrivels up and you don’t produce enough

file anymore

that could be one cause and then stress

high levels of the stress hormone from

the adrenal called cortisol that one

that makes the belly fat that can also

block your bio therefore decreasing your

iodine so those are all the possible

causes and then the next part I’m going

to show you all the symptoms of iodine

deficiency so let’s talk about these

symptoms of iodine deficiency number one

you get fat you gain weight all over

that would be a thyroid body type why

because all the cells are controlled by

the thyroid and iodine so all the cells

get fat on them it affects the cognitive

it makes you feel very very sluggish and

brain fog especially in the morning you

just feel like you waking up you’re not

refreshed that is one symptom even your

IQ but why because again remember the

iodine effect

the brain especially in a growing person

but also an adult too so not that you

will feel mentally but you

could feel a little mentally

psychiatric disorders mental retardation

also are a lot of them are iodine

deficiency and of course they just treat

them with drugs unfortunately they’re

not looking at the nutrition why because

they’re not taught nutrition in school

only 25% of the colleges universities

that teach medical doctors teach

nutrition and out of those about they’ll

teach them 6 to 11 hours maybe 20 hours

so you’d be better off asking a neighbor

because they just don’t have the

information on these key natural

remedies okay so we have that cancer can

also be as a symptom of an iodine

deficiency so if you want to go to a

great website and now post it down here

Jeffery Dodge it’s da CH com I’ll post

it down there and this medical doctor

basically found that you can put a lot

of breast cancer in remission by adding

iodine to the diet so I want you to read

that if you have worried about cancer

and that’s very interesting cancer of

the breast cancer of the stomach and

other cancers ok fibrocystic breasts oh

my gosh there’s a lot of research on

taking iodine for fibrocystic breast to

eliminate that problem why because the

breast needs iodine and without it it

forms little cysts especially if you’re

when you’re breastfeeding you

concentrate a lot of iodine and that’s

why it’s very important for a mother to

consume enough of that trace mineral

before she’s pregnant and maybe even

during the pregnancies in a very small

amount so that baby gets enough iodine

because without it she’s gonna crave all

sorts of weird things to try to get it

but she might not get it okay so Farber

cystic breast is a symptom of iodine

problem cysts on the ovaries or the

testicle prostate enlargement could be

an iodine deficiency the

Russian fatigue slow thyroid Gorder a

bulge of a thyroid right there enlarges

that could be a iodine deficiency a lot

of menstrual cycle issues polycystic

ovarian syndrome that would be those

there’s people that have facial hair

acne they get gut wait and one of the

doctors who they put them on metformin

because they try to treat them for

insulin resistance but what about iodine

given some iodine see what happens

salivary saliva deficiency so your mouth

can get really dry or dry eyes because

the ducts the salivary glands or the

other glands don’t produce the fluid so

things can dry out that could be a

iodine deficiency and then thyroid

nodules and then migraines and then

miscarriages or stillbirths all that can

be iodine deficiency interesting foods

that have high iodine would be

strawberries eggs yogurt and seek help

but check this out you would have to

consume because the soils are so bad

11 cups of strawberries to get your

daily amount of iodine so who’s gonna do

that six eggs

I have four a day so I’ll have to have

two more or two large cups of yogurt

every day to get your iodine no one does

that

so or you can do one eighth of a cup of

seek help but of course what I’m gonna

recommend is do it in the capsule I’m

gonna recommend you get some seek help

three to six capsules a day of about 500

to 600 milligram tablets now that

doesn’t mean that it’s 500 600

milligrams of iodine that just means

they’re sea kelp so they have all the

trace minerals so it’s a smaller amount

but what’s really cool about sea kelp is

that it’s from the sea you have the

selenium to convert the thyroid from t4

to t3 it’s all planet base so in other

words it’s not a direct rock or an

element that our body has a hard time

absorber absorbing our bodies absorb

plant base trace minerals and just

minerals in general we do not do well

with things that are not coming

from a plant source or another source so

we need the plant source that was seek

help and then also you don’t to worry

about trying to take a steroid

supplement that like an high dosage

because a lot of times doctors use high

dosages of iodine because it doesn’t

absorb because they don’t do it in the

plant base if you do plant base you

don’t need as much because the body can

absorb it and it breaks it down very

easily so it’s not about a shotgun

approach it’s about just providing it

for the body to start absorbing it over

time so that’s the source that I

recommend for you so I hope this

increased your awareness and I will see

you in the next video