Iodine

so if you know someone who has any of these symptoms who's thinking of having a child who's breastfeeding who's pregnant please consider sharing this video with them because this is important information that you don't normally get told in your high school health class or even in college level courses we all know that iodine somehow related to thyroid function and that's fine it is but iodine does so much more and it's so much more very very important to optimizing your human life so let's talk about iodine now first of all iodine is an element it's number 53 on the periodic table of the elements remember that table iodine's on there it was discovered way back in 1812 by a chemist it's we've known about it for a long long time it's in the group on the periodic table of the halogens so that also includes fluorine or fluoride you may have heard of chlorine or chloride bromine or bromide and then there's another one called astatine which you probably have never heard of I hadn't until I was making this video so the predominant source of iodine on our planet comes from the ocean and so if you live near the coastline then there's tons of iodine in seafood and kelp and sea plants and also in the soil near the ocean because of the the pounding of the waves and some of the iodine gets in the air then it comes in and it's rained down on the soil but as you get further and further away from the coastline there's less and less iodine in the soil indeed there are regions in the central part of the north american continent that have almost no iodine in the soil whatsoever and back before we started to think about iodine and actually put it in things like salt these people all of almost all of them had a gorder which is a swelling of the thyroid gland because there was just no iodine in the soil and so when they grow grew their crops and harvested their animals there was no iodine for them and so their thyroid had to work double time or triple time and it got much bigger than it should be And so during one of the wars when we were trying to draft young men for the service, we couldn't take them if they had a goiter.

And so the federal government and Big Food came up with the bright idea of putting iodine into salt, which is a completely artificial construction.

Iodine doesn't typically come in salt in any meaningful amount.

But that's how they decided to do it because everyone loves salt.

Everyone needs salt.

That means that the cells need that iodine.

And that's why if I pulled all yours out, you'd be dead within the hour.

Iodine does many things in the body that we know about.

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iodine.

Iodine, yeah, that's one of my favorite topics.

Iodine's been on my radar for probably 15 years.

Dr. David Brownstein, you heard of this guy? He's got a couple of books.

He's got a ton of YouTube lectures about iodine.

and how it's so vital, not just for thyroid health.

Some women even use Lugo's solution.

It's an iodine solution with a little bit of oil and they rub it into the breast as a way of reducing fibrocystic breast.

Iodine also has another effect on cancer cells.

It causes the cancer cell to commit suicide.

Iodine also strengthens the thyroid, which increases your overall health and your resistance against health problems.

Iodine improves the immune system, and iodine also reduces inflammation.

And it's very important for anyone who's pregnant to consume enough iodine.

A deficiency of iodine in pregnant women can increase the risk of miscarriage.

Some women even use Lugo's solution.

It's an iodine solution with a little bit of oil and they rub it into the breast as a way of reducing fibrocystic breast.

Iodine also has another effect on cancer cells.

It causes the cancer cell to commit suicide.

Iodine also strengthens the thyroid, which increases your overall health and your resistance against health problems.

Iodine improves the immune system, and iodine also reduces inflammation.

And it's very important for anyone who's pregnant to consume enough iodine.

A deficiency of iodine in pregnant women can increase the risk of miscarriage, as well as increase the chance of ADHD.

If only.

Now, just before we start, I'm going to be taking a supplement of iodine.

Now, this is iodine formulated by Dr. Lugos, who was a French physician.

And he formulated this back in the 1820s.

And there was also a saying then in old medicine.

It says, if you know not the where, when, and why, give ye then the K and I, which is the potassium and the iodine.

So I'm just going to take a drop of this, my dropper, as my drop of iodine.

I'm going to dilute this in some ordinary tap water.

So you know, for a woman, uh, who thinks she has ADHD, there's two things that I'm always like we're certain to rule this out before I send you for an assessment.

So the first is like if you are having dry skin, you're cold, you have sluggish digestion, your joints hurt all the time, you're losing hair from the lateral third of your eyebrows, and you have brain fog, you're inattentive, like you can't remember anything, I'ma check your thyroid.

Mm-hmm.

TSH, free T3, free T4, TPO, thyroglobulin antibodies.

so if you know someone who has any of these symptoms who's thinking of having a child who's breastfeeding who's pregnant please consider sharing this video with them because this is important information that you don't normally get told in your high school health class or even in college level courses we all know that iodine somehow related to thyroid function and that's fine it is but iodine does so much more and it's so much more very very important to optimizing your human life so let's talk about iodine now first of all iodine is an element it's number 53 on the periodic table of the elements remember that table iodine's on there it was discovered way back in 1812 by a chemist it's we've known about it for a long long time it's in the group on the periodic table of the halogens so that also includes fluorine or fluoride you may have heard of chlorine or chloride bromine or bromide and then there's another one called astatine which you probably have never heard of I hadn't until I was making this video so the predominant source of iodine on our planet comes from the ocean and so if you live near the coastline then there's tons of iodine in seafood and kelp and sea plants and also in the soil near the ocean because of the the pounding of the waves and some of the iodine gets in the air then it comes in and it's rained down on the soil but as you get further and further away from the coastline there's less and less iodine in the soil indeed there are regions in the central part of the north american continent that have almost no iodine in the soil whatsoever and back before we started to think about iodine and actually put it in things like salt these people all of almost all of them had a gorder which is a swelling of the thyroid gland because there was just no iodine in the soil and so when they grow grew their crops and harvested their animals there was no iodine for them and so their thyroid had to work double time or triple time and it got much bigger than it should be And so during one of the wars when we were trying to draft young men for the service, we couldn't take them if they had a goiter.

And so the federal government and Big Food came up with the bright idea of putting iodine into salt, which is a completely artificial construction.

Iodine doesn't typically come in salt in any meaningful amount.

But that's how they decided to do it because everyone loves salt.

Everyone needs salt.

That means that the cells need that iodine.

And that's why if I pulled all yours out, you'd be dead within the hour.

Iodine does many things in the body that we know about.

I've tested over 8,000 patients in my office.

Over 97% are deficient in iodine.

Iodine deficiency is a large part of that underlying cause of why we're having so much glandular disease

Thyroid, breast cancer, prostate cancer

Throw in ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, and pancreatic cancer into that list, too.

And really the interest in iodine went away after that.

And I, I was taught in medical school goiter was a condition of the past.

Iodine, iodized salt treated it.