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It does this by producing hormones that<br />
control metabolism on the cellular level.<br />
And here’s what very few people realize:<br />
These thyroid hormones, absolutely<br />
essential to life and health, are made up<br />
almost entirely of the relatively rare<br />
element iodine!<br />
Unfortunately, your body produces<br />
no iodine of its own... your diet<br />
probably doesn’t provide enough... and<br />
you lose massive amounts of iodine<br />
daily through urination!<br />
And without a sufficient amount of the<br />
“raw material” iodine, your thyroid can’t<br />
produce enough thyroid hormones —<br />
known as thyroizine (T4) and<br />
triiodothyronine (T3) — for your body to<br />
function properly.<br />
The Growing Epidemic of Iodine<br />
Deficiency & Thyroid Disorders<br />
According to the World Health<br />
Organization, as many as 1.5 billion<br />
people worldwide suffer from iodine<br />
deficiency ... 740 million from iodinedeficiency<br />
disorders ... and 50 million<br />
A Simple Home Test to<br />
Test for Iodine Deficiency<br />
Take some tincture of iodine (you can<br />
buy this at your local grocery store) and<br />
a Q-Tip and paint a spot the size of a<br />
silver dollar on your stomach or thigh.<br />
If your iodine level is normal, the patch<br />
will still be there 24 hours later.<br />
However, if the patch has disappeared in<br />
less than 24 hours, it’s likely that you’re<br />
iodine deficient and could have an<br />
underactive thyroid.<br />
from some degree of IDD-related<br />
brain damage 1 .<br />
If you’re getting less than 50 to 100<br />
micro grams (mcg) a day of iodine,<br />
you’re likely suffering from a mild to<br />
moderate iodine deficiency that can<br />
cause persistent weight gain, fatigue,<br />
constipation, unexplained aches and<br />
pains, sensitivity to cold, joint aches, dry<br />
skin, hair loss, irregular menstrual cycles,<br />
memory loss and confusion, fluid<br />
retention, and elevated cholesterol levels.<br />
If you get less than 20 mcg a day of<br />
iodine, you likely have a severe iodine<br />
deficiency that can lead to serious, even<br />
life-threatening ailments, including<br />
mental retardation, elevated cholesterol<br />
levels and perhaps breast tumors.<br />
Malfunctioning Thyroids Linked to<br />
a Host of Serious Health Problems<br />
A hundred years ago, doctors blamed<br />
insufficient dietary iodine for the<br />
epidemic of goiters ... or enlarged<br />
thyroid glands.<br />
Now, scientists are beginning to<br />
suspect that iodine deficiencies may be<br />
behind some of the modern world’s<br />
worst health problems, including the<br />
epidemic of breast tumors in North<br />
America and Europe.<br />
Japanese women, whose incidence of<br />
breast tumors is among the lowest in the<br />
world, get as much as 25 times more<br />
iodine than American women (due<br />
largely to the consumption of iodine-rich<br />
seafoods and seaweed).<br />
That’s why some scientists believe<br />
there is a correlation between thyroid<br />
ailments and increased risk of<br />
breast tumors 2 .<br />
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