The Big Iodine Mistake 50% Of People Are Making

Did you know that too much iodine AND low iodine can both contribute to hypothyroidism? Discover the big iodine mistake 50% of people are making, common iodine deficiency signs, the problem with too much iodine, and how to make sure you get just the right amount.

The big iodine mistake 50% of people are making. Did you realize that too little iodine can turn into hypothyroidism just as much as too much iodine can turn into hypothyroidism? It’s a paradox. Same gland, same symptoms, fatigue, weight gain, hair loss, loss of the outer part of your eyebrow right here, cold hands, cold feet, dry skin, brain fog. The opposite spectrum of iodine can give you the same disease.

And the reason for that is that iodine is the most confusing mineral in the area of nutrition, as well as the most dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Now, if we compare people who are deficient versus people who are taking too much, there are way more people that are deficient. In order to get enough iodine, you obviously need to be getting it from your diet. So, the question is, are you consuming any seaweed at all in your diet? Do you consume cod fish, shrimp, oysters, dairy, eggs, or iodized salt?

These are the foods that have the most iodine. And a lot of people are not even consuming any of these foods and don’t realize that they’re even deficient. I think it’s about 38 to 39% of Americans tested below the iodine threshold. And definitely people that are on plant-based diets are running at very low levels. And sometimes people think, well, I’m consuming sea salt, so I’m getting my iodine.

Actually, if you’re consuming sea salt, especially Himalayan sea salt, you’re probably getting close to zero iodine. It’s just such a tiny amount, it’s not going to even add up to anything. Now, back in the ’20s, people were developing goiters, these enlarged thyroid glands, or cretinism, which is stunted physical and mental growth. And it was epidemic. And even my father told me in school, I think it was in 1948, that they were passing around iodine tablets to everyone.

And I think also, if you’re doing a lot of intermittent fasting and also prolonged fasting, you have to make sure you’re getting your iodine, and it’s kind of under the radar. A lot of people don’t realize they’re not getting enough. So, before I get into how much to take, let’s just get into what iodine actually does for your body. One of the first things iodine does, especially in a child or even a baby, is it actually influences your IQ. If a mother is deficient in iodine, unfortunately, the offspring of that mother that’s deficient could end up having a lower IQ by between 8 to 13 points.

Now, this is not just in babies. This is something that can happen in young children and teenagers as well. If they don’t have enough iodine, it affects the IQ. The brain is highly affected by the thyroid. 80% of all the iodine in your body concentrates in the thyroid gland.

And the thyroid controls the rate of metabolism. It controls also the speed at which the cells work, especially the mitochondria. The thyroid connects to literally every single cell in your body and the brain. And we talk about thyroid hormones, and you hear T4 or T3, T4 is the inactive thyroid hormone, and then it has to be converted to T3 to become activated. And in this process, you need another trace mineral called selenium to allow this conversion.

So, iodine is not some cofactor helper mineral. It is the thing that’s embedded in that hormone. Now, the next thing I want to explain is what iodine does to estrogen. Iodine helps break down estradiol, which is the most powerful form of estrogen. As you may or may not know, estradiol in excess creates a lot of problems in our body, and it just so happens that iodine regulates the estrogen receptor.

So, if you don’t have enough iodine, that receptor becomes too sensitive, and you can have all sorts of issues, because now we can’t regulate the estrogen appropriately. So, for example, the second most abundant place for iodine is in the breast tissue. So, when you’re deficient in iodine in the breast tissue, many times a woman will develop fibrocystic breast. And actually, from my experience, I have observed it being reversed very quickly when the person starts taking iodine. And then also, we need iodine in the ovaries.

And if we don’t have enough, we can develop ovarian cysts. The uterus also needs iodine to keep estrogen regulated. And then we also have iodine necessary to allow the fallopian tubes to work. Now, let’s talk about the relationship between iodine and another trace mineral called selenium. So, iodine is needed to make thyroid hormone.

So, iodine through certain biochemistry, this little enzyme called TPO, then helps you build up the thyroid proteins. And as a byproduct, you will end up with a type of bleach, okay? It’s called hydrogen peroxide. So, in other words, it can create like a rusting effect on the body or a corrosive action on the body. This is where selenium comes in.

A certain selenium enzyme, it’s kind of an enzyme that works with selenium, is really the cleanup crew to clean up the excess hydrogen peroxide. And so, if you don’t have enough selenium, yet you have sufficient iodine, here you are making all this hydrogen peroxide, but it can’t be eliminated. Here’s where it gets very interesting and very important to know. So, if you’ve checked out in this video, check back in right now, cuz this is the most important thing. Excess iodine can trigger an autoimmune disease.

Now, normally, with a healthy thyroid, if you take excess iodine, you literally pause the thyroid. You kind of shut it down temporarily, and then it kicks back in and starts working. But if the thyroid is sick, let’s say you have Hashimoto’s, you’re not only going to pause that thyroid, it’s not going to be able to bounce back. So you literally shut it down and you really create a hypothyroid condition. And so you might think, “Oh wow, I think I need more iodine, right?

” No, you’re actually going to create more and more damage. So people have to be very careful of never taking too much iodine. So this is just as important as having enough iodine. We don’t want too little, don’t want too much, we want just the right amount. And it actually is true that selenium can actually lower the antibodies to TPO, but it doesn’t necessarily protect you from this excess iodine triggering an autoimmune disease.

I know also in Japan, people take massive amounts of iodine and you might think, “Wow, I can also do the same. ” But you have to realize their genetics have evolved over a thousand years because they’ve been consuming a lot of sea kelp for a long time. You might not be able to tolerate the amounts that they consume. I have a free download that I want to give to you. This free download is my daily routine and a checklist.

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Some of the symptoms for excess iodine are a metallic taste in your mouth, a burning sensation, especially acne on the chest or the face or the back. That could be excess iodine as well. Most adults need between 150 to 300 micrograms of iodine. And 150 micrograms is the RDA for iodine. So, that’s up the floor, the base.

It’s not the goal, but it’s the minimum amount that you would need. But, if you’re taking 200 to 300 micrograms a day, you should be fine, okay? Especially to overcome all of the toxicity that we have to push through. Also, for pregnancy, 220 micrograms. You just want to make sure bec