7 Warning Signs of an IODINE Deficiency

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now there are seven warning signs of an iodine deficiency you may be familiar with a thyroid problem if you’re low iodine you can actually create a hypothyroid condition and the various signs and symptoms of that would be hair loss thinning of the hair lethargy depression dry hair dry skin as well as weight gain and cold intolerance you do not tolerate cold and by the way like in the us alone there’s like 10 million people who have hypothyroidism in europe it’s 40 million people and just so you know 90 of all hypothyroidism is more autoimmune and so it may not be an iodine deficiency however iodine deficiency in general is very very common 1. 88 billion people on this planet have an iodine deficiency so it’s quite a few people one of the best ways to know for sure if you are low on iodine i’ve talked about the patch test where you put a little drop of iodine on your skin and you see if it gets absorbed but if you really wanted to do an accurate test to find out if you have an iodine deficiency you’d want to measure your thyroid stimulating hormone because that’s a really good indicator to know what’s happening at the level between the pituitary and your thyroid simply because the thyroid is an iodine hog so it’s going to start hogging up all the iodine and so if there’s a deficiency of thyroid hormones you won’t get this feedback loop to turn off the thyroid so the pituitary just keeps putting out more thyroid stimulating hormones so it’s going to be higher and that’s a really good indication to know if you’re really deficient in iodine and relating to that as far as the numbers go you want it to be under four but some institutions are bringing that number lower like 2. 5 there’s some interesting data on that that might be true but in this video i want to talk mainly about the symptoms that you may not be aware of that are related to an iodine deficiency okay number one intellectual disability that’s right your cognitive function diminishes greatly when you don’t have iodine in adults and in children in fact if you’re deficient in iodine your iq could go down by 15 points if a child is deficient it can go down by 13 points if you add to this an iron deficiency in a child that can bring it another seven points lowered so you’re talking 20 points lowered iq from a simple mineral deficiency and not just a mineral it’s a trace mineral and what’s really bizarre to me is that we only need these tiny tiny trace amounts of this mineral and if you’re deficient the consequences are not tiny they are huge so this really involves your ability to solve problems your advancement in your job and it can relate to your future success number two infertility now if you take a look at the body’s main purpose its purpose is to survive reproduce and continue okay and so this little symptom of infertility is not so little it’s actually a huge symptom for the body in its purpose to reproduce and so there’s a huge importance in this connection between having this little trace mineral and having the ability to reproduce if an infant is deficient okay in iodine or if a mother is deficient while she’s carrying a baby the child is very very vulnerable to developing hearing loss because out of all the parts of the brain okay the part of the brain that needs the most oxygen the most metabolism and the most iodine which they’re all connected is the auditory centers and so if a mother is deficient in this one trace mineral the child can end up not being able to hear or having hearing deficiencies and before fibrocystic breast now why would an iodine deficiency show up in the breast well because iodine has a very big importance of regulating excess amount of estrogen and when you have too much estrogen and not enough iodine you can develop like these mini little cysts either in the breast tissue or in the ovary and as a side note if you have fibrocystic breast you should be taking iodine as a supplement and it works very effectively all right number five heavy periods now why would you have the heavy period well because you’re estrogen dominant and iodine can help regulate that and it can help regulate your periods and as a side note too this doesn’t work all the time but i’d say about 50 of the time it can also help hot flashes all right number six and this is interesting having a deficiency of iodine can reduce your productivity your ability to achieve something in children and adults and i know what you’re thinking this probably explains a lot of things that’s happening nowadays with a certain percent of the population but iodine can help people increase their ability to get things done all right number seven brain damage now now wait a second an iodine deficiency causing brain damage i thought you’d have to have physical trauma to cause brain damage well guess what if you don’t have enough iodine all sorts of things occur because iodine is essential for certain enzymes that not just create brain tissue but also repair brain tissue and if you’re deficient you actually develop brain damage in fact it’s the number one cause of brain damage in children fascinating now i know you’re thinking right now well what foods are in iodine what causes an iodine deficiency i’ve done a whole other video about that but i will just touch on it briefly the number one cause of iodine deficiency is not necessarily related to not getting enough iodine from your diet okay i want to primarily focus on number three goitrogen foods these are foods that can cause a goiter which is swelling of your thyroid usually because of an iodine deficiency so what’s interesting is this you could be getting enough dietary iodine but consuming these foods at the same time and end up with an iodine deficiency and creating a lot of problems so this point right right here number three goitrogen foods is the most important information okay and out of these foods that can deplete iodine cassava is the number one that has the ability to block iodine why because in addition to its ability to bind to iodine and lock it up it also has two additional chemicals that can also bind in a potent way to iodine hydrocyanic acid which then turns into this theocyanate which is a very strong and potent binder to iodine so because of these two chemicals right here it is not good to consume a lot of cassava simply because it can block iodine so unless you’re consuming a lot of iodine okay you’re probably going to be deficient there is certain parts of the world that consume a lot of cassava in their diet and this is one of the reasons why large populations are deficient in iodine now you also have soy and corn and canola okay which also block iodine and take a while to guess what they feed animals okay soy corn and sometimes canola but if you actually feed animals this food you can actually create deficiencies in the animals so here you are thinking well you know i don’t consume soy i don’t consume corn i don’t consume cassava i’m good to go but you’re consuming the animals that live off these foods now also cruciferous foods that would be the cabbage the broccoli the brussels sprouts things like that now i’ve done videos on this and there’s two points i want to make on it if you’re steaming or cooking these foods as in the cauliflower or steaming the broccoli or cooking the cabbage it’s going to greatly reduce the effect of binding to iodine also you would have to consume a lot of cruciferous to create a deficiency so this is not at the top of the list okay now peanuts and pine nuts also can bind with iodine in large amounts they are not the strongest foods that will do it but i wanted to put it on the list and you also have millet and rice that can also bind with iodine so this is why there’s a larger population that are deficient in iodine in india south east asia south america as well as africa so what are the best foods for iodine th