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While most of us are aware that iodine is a precursor to making thyroid hormones (T4 into T3), the role of iodine only begins with the thyroid.
Iodine receptors exist in each of the many trillions of cells in the body and regulate cellular function, like the movement of nutrition into the cell and the lymph drainage of toxins out of each cell.
Iodine was thought to be an antibiotic in the 1800s. Even today, before surgery, doctors rub the area to be operated on with iodine to support immunity.
## The Far-Reaching Benefits of Iodine
• Supports the body’s antioxidant activity
• Supports natural detoxification
• Supports healthy thyroid function
• Supports optimal hormonal function
• Supports memory, energy, mood, and weight
## Iodine Protects Against Heavy Metals, Chemicals & Toxins
One of the most important roles of iodine is to protect cells from the chemical and toxic load that has reached unprecedented levels in our environment.
Today, we dump 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals into the American environment each year and 72 million of them are cancer-causing. (19) Fluoride is in toothpaste and some drinking water, and chlorine is in every flame retardant fabric, your shower, some drinking water, and most hot tubs and pools. Heavy metals, environmental pollutants, pesticides, off-gassing furniture, carpets, pollutants, pesticides and estrogens from plastics may be more aggressive when iodine levels are low.
Chlorine, bromine, fluorine and iodine are all halogens – this means that they attach to and compete for the same receptors in the body. (9) When iodine levels are low, the empty iodine receptors will pick up these other halogens, as well as their chemical by-products that may be even more toxic.
These toxins further compromise iodine levels, which may inhibit thyroid function, hormonal balance, and many other detox functions.
Iodine Protects Against Radiation
Since Chernobyl and, more recently, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, radioactive iodines have been released into the global environment. These radioactive iodines compete for iodine receptors and may rob the body of functional iodine.
After Chernobyl, people for hundreds of miles around the area were given potassium iodide pills to fill their iodine receptors and protect from environmental radiation exposure. Radiation may damage the thyroid and other iodine-sensitive tissues like the breast, prostate, brain, gastric mucosa, salivary glands, cerebrospinal fluid and ovaries.
## Why We Are Iodine Deficient: Possible Factors Linked to Iodine Deficiency
• Toxins compete with iodine receptors
• Iodine-depleted soil
• Chlorinated and fluoridated water
• Lack of iodine in our diet
• Lower salt consumption
• Lack of dairy and wheat in our diet
• Iodized salt loses 100% of iodine content after exposure to air for 4 weeks
## Food Sources of Iodine: Iodine-Rich Foods
• Seaweed, 1 g
• Cod, 3 oz
• Yogurt, plain, 1 cup
• Salt (iodized), not exposed to air for more than 4 weeks 1.5 g
• Milk (cow’s), 1 cup
• Fish sticks, 3 oz
• Bread, enriched, 2 slices
• Fruit cocktail in heavy syrup, canned, ½ cup
• Shrimp, 3 oz
• Ice cream, ½ cup
• Tuna, canned in oil, drained, 3 oz
• Egg, boiled, 2 large
Diets that are at risk for iodine deficiency include those void of ocean fish and sea vegetables, reduced salt (or consuming sea salt replacements instead), and vegetarian and vegan diets.
- Read article "The Far-Reaching Benefits of Iodine": https://lifespa.com/ayurvedic-supplement-facts/iodine/
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