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so i wanted to touch on the topic of the thyroid  gland but specifically a goiter what is a goiter a  

goiter is an enlarged thyroid gland you have this  little gland in the brain called the pituitary  

it makes a hormone called thyroid stimulating  hormone which then connects to the thyroid gland  

two main purposes of the thyroid stimulating  hormone number one it tells the thyroid to release  

t4 and t3 to some degree but it also has another  purpose to increase the size of the thyroid gland  

so if there’s too much of this hormone that  could be one reason why it’s enlarged and one  

of the big reasons for a goiter would be an  iodine deficiency in fact ninety percent of  

the time it’s going to be an iodine deficiency  not a hundred percent ninety percent and realize  

most of time it’s going to be benign it’s not  going to be a malignant tumor now this condition  

mostly is associated with a hypothyroid gland  but sometimes it can be associated with a hyper  

thyroid gland so you have to be able to think  with all the information because if you have  

an enlarged thyroid and you have symptoms of a  hyper your eyes are bulging out you have a high  

pulse rate fast metabolism you’re sweating you  can’t sleep versus hypo which is you’re sluggish  

you’re losing your hair you’re depressed um you’re  gaining weight then that would be more over here  

okay so if you have hypo of course you’d want to  take iodine if you have hyper you don’t want to  

take iodine there’s several reasons why a person  might be deficient in iodine one could be they  

just don’t get it in their diet because they’re  not consuming shellfish or seaweed or sea kelp  

or eggs for example but it could also be  they’re exposed to bromide bromide is used as a  

conditioner in dough or flour when they’re making  bread that could be one reason there’s other ways  

that you could be exposed to bromide but bromide  will deplete iodine also fluoride unless you  

have a good filter at your house you’re probably  getting fluoride that can deplete your iodine too  

number three i already talked about this number  four pregnancy it’s very important if a woman  

is pregnant or lactating that they’re taking  some trace minerals specifically iodine because  

if that child is born with iodine deficiency they  can have hearing problems even become death and  

they can also have mental deficiencies as well so  iodine is very very important in the formation of  

the brain smoking can cause a deficiency of iodine  alcohol can create a deficiency and low selenium  

now when someone has a goiter and they get tested  they may find that their t3 is a little bit higher  

than it should be now that’s weird you would  think that would be low but what’s happening is  

the body is trying to convert as much as it can to  compensate so you might have higher t3 and lower  

t4 all right that’s my summary of the goiter  before you go if you have a question about a  

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