7 Warning Signs of a Dangerous Nutrient Deficiency

Iodine is vital for the health of your thyroid, which impacts almost every part of your body. Unfortunately, iodine deficiency has become increasingly common due to depleted soils and chemicals in the water supply. Find out how to spot the early signs of iodine deficiency in this video.

today I’m going to talk about seven strange signs that your body is begging for iodine and the last one number seven is going to be the most important and the most interesting the iodine in our soils have been depleted over the years iodine is not in the soil it’s not going to end up in the grass if it’s not in the grass it’s not going to be in the animal and if it’s not going to be in the animal that’s going to create a deficiency in you back in the 40s there was a huge uh problem with goers where you have this enlarged thyroid and that was an iodine deficiency in certain parts of the country this is when they introduced iodized salt but then in the 70s you know this whole iodized salt kind of disappeared and it was replaced with sea salt problem is there’s not a lot of iodine in sea salt the combination of not getting enough iodine from our Foods on top of that there’s certain things that will deplete iodine like the fluoride in your water the chlorine in the water especially if someone is a vegan they’re not consuming foods high in iodine and more if someone goes more vegetarian or vegan the less they’re going to start consuming shellfish Dairy eggs Seafood that normally contain iodine let’s go through this list right now number one if someone starts losing the outer onethird of their eyebrows you can see I’m not losing my eyebrows they’re quite bushy but if you start losing this part right here suspect you are iodine deficient number two hair loss iodine is crucial in making sure you have enough thyroid hormones that support your hair and one of the biggest symptoms of a hypo low thyroid situation is hair loss number three heness almost like there’s a lump in your throat and that is because the thyroid is enlarging because it’s trying to reach out and grab onto some iodine that puts pressure on your vocal cords which can not only affect your voice but it can affect other errors as well number four is an enlarged tongue your tongue starts to get bigger and the way that you’re going to know that it’s enlarged is you’re going to look on the part of the tongue and you’ll see these little indentations suspect you are deficient in iodine number five unexplained weight gain for no reason you’re just gaining more weight you’re not doing anything out of the usual you just find your metabolism is just super slow suspect an iodine efficiency because the iodine is not supporting the master metabolism gland in the body called the thyroid gland you’re going to notice that you’re going to gain weight all over equally not necessarily in one place number six your estrogen is going to go up that can show up as a heavy period or heavy cramping or headaches that time of the month even waking in your hips but then on the flip side you might find that your testosterone is low not just in men but in women as well without a fully functioning thyroid your estrogen’s going to be high and your testosterone is going to be low so many men are deficient in iodine they can’t make enough testosterone the testosterone is not activated a lot of men find that just when they reintroduce iodine into their diet that handles their low testosterone right off the bat testosterone is not just about libido testosterone is a very potent anti-inflammatory it helps certain things in your immune system reduce inflammation testosterone is all about preventing the loss of muscle both in men and women testosterone also supports your bone health so if you’re deficient in testosterone you may find that you’re getting osteoporosis or even osteopenia number seven is the most interesting and most important about iodine when you are deficient in iodine your IQ will be lower this is not just in small children it’s in adults at any age iodine affects your cognitive function from different angles number one the thyroid directly affects the brain there’s two parts of the brain that have a lot of concentrated receptors for thyroid hormones one is something called a Hipp campus which is all about executive function making decisions problem solving giving you enough attention and focus certain people are more susceptible to this problem if the child is 1 2 3 years old into development it’s very important for them to get enough iodine if you’re deficient in iodine you’re going to have problems with your cerebral cortex as well as your hippocampus and this is going to show up in the inability to remember certain things have a strong amount of attention and focus on certain things problem solving functions overall creativity will be diminished the interesting thing about the IQ is that yes it’s true that over the last 40 years IQ has been decreasing but it’s very difficult to measure the actual IQ over time because there’s not just one standard test that everyone does over the years this test has been altered and changed the way that we deliver this test has been changed if we measured the IQ from someone in the 50s versus now it’s like apples and oranges the glitch in this whole IQ test is we’re not comparing your IQ with someone from 1950 with the same test no we’re comparing your IQ to the average IQ from a random sampling the IQ has been dropping but you’re not going to necessarily see it because we keep readjusting the normal it’s very similar to when you test testosterone now we know in 1950 testosterone for someone 50 years old was a certain amount and now it’s a lot less but if you look at the normal ranges those normal ranges are based on the average of the population basically comparing you to a bunch of unhealthy people yes there are other factors the school system the way we’re taught the screen time overall nutrition but we can’t forget about iodine and just some random assessments looking at urine iodine levels from 1990 to present time we’re at a 50% less iodine level the most important thing about iodine is to provide the thyroid enough of its trace minerals for these thyroid hormones to work thyroid hormones go into every part of the body they affect both the ovines and the testicles they help regulate or modulate or control estrogen dominance thyroid hormones directly help cognitive function as well as your mood people with a low thyroid are usually depressed and if we’re just talking about low thyroid we’re describing a hypothyroid condition and by the way hypothyroidism is one of the most common health problems worldwide there’s another uh partner Trace mineral that’s really important in Hashimoto which is the autoimmune hypothyroid condition and that partner Trace mineral is selenium instead of waiting till you get one of these symptoms I suggest you just prevent an iodine deficiency by starting to consume Foods in your diet that have enough iodine and sea salt is not going to cut it here are the foods that are high in iodine SE or seaweed shellfish and fish from the ocean now you will get iodine from eggs and dairy but only if that chicken or cow has enough iodine in their diet last important point about this topic get a filter that filters out chlorine and fluide to make sure both of those do not interfere with your thyroid also be careful of the toothpaste that is filled with fluoride as well as getting fluid treatments at the dentist that can affect your thyroid as well because it blocks iodine thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video