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This week was all about iodine:

• What is iodine, why do we need it and how does our bodies utilize iodine? Blog
• Benefits of consuming iodine for your body's health. Blog
• How much iodine should someone take and what foods contain iodine? Blog
• The dangers of iodine deficiency and consuming too much iodine. Blog

Today's tip of the day:

Now is the time. Not later, not too late, but now. Everyone in the world says your too young or now your too old to do something. But now is the time. You are ready now to do anything you want in this life. Be ready now!

If it has to do with your weight, your lifestyle, your job, business, education or anything you can put your mind to you have the ability to change anything in your life.

Get focused and clear about what you want. Where do you want to be? No one explains it better than Tony Robbins.

 

Don't forget that success leaves clues. You're not too young and you're definitely not too old. 80% to the success to anything is your phycology and 20% is the mechanics.

The dangers of iodine deficiency and consuming too much iodine. Iodine, Health Tips, Healthy Living & Homeopathic Medicine

As I sit here writing this post while drinking my iodized water I'm realizing how beneficial iodine can be for my body.

By 1924 salt was iodized and sold nationally. Iodine was originally added to salt to prevent goiters. Which you get from lack of iodine.

Iodized table salt contains 74 mcg of iodine for every gram of salt. To get sufficient iodine you’d need to eat 168 grams of salt every day! 

I personally don't use table salt. I purchase a celtic sea salt or a salt that is 100% organic and has never been processed.

Symptoms of iodine deficiency include:

• muscle cramps, 
• cold hands and feet, 
• proneness to weight gain, 
• poor memory, 
• constipation, 
• depression and headaches, 
• edema, 
• myalgia, 
• weakness, 
• dry skin, and brittle nails. 

Please consult your physician first to determine if iodine supplements should be added into your daily routine. First find out if you do have a specific condition that requires you to take iodine supplements in the first place.

The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Mayo Clinic) explains that the problem with a thyroid conditions might not be a lack of iodine in your diet, but a lack of ability for your thyroid to absorb the iodine you are eating.

Taking more iodine supplements would not solve this problem.

Too much iodine can overload your body. The results of this may be:

• seizures, 
• vomiting, 
• delirium and other short-term problems.
• goiters 
• permanent damage to your intestines and brain.

If you have any questions about iodine there are a couple books you should read.

• Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can't Live Without It by David Brownstein, M.D
• Iodine- Bring Back the Universal Medicine by Mark Sircus, Ac. O.M.D

How much iodine should someone take and what foods contain iodine? Iodine, Health Tips, Healthy Living & Homeopathic Medicine

There are many different ways you can supplement iodine into your daily routine.

You can either supplement iodine as:

• A pill called KI which means potassium iodine. (People usually take potassium iodine when used as the treatment against radioactive exposure.)
• By certain foods 
• Or by a liquid form.

Adults need no less than 150 micrograms a day. Excessive consumption of iodine can inhibit the synthesis of thyroid hormones, leading to the development of goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland) and hypothyroidism.

Excessive iodine intake may also cause hyperthyroidism, thyroid papillary cancer, and/or iodermia (a serious skin reaction).

In an attempt to prevent these symptoms of iodine toxicity, the Institute of Medicine established the following Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (TUL) for iodine:

• 1-3 years: 900 mcg
• 4-8 years: 300 mcg
• 9-13 years: 600 mcg
• 14-18 years: 900 mcg
• 19 years and older: 1,100 mcg
• Pregnant women 14-18 years: 900 mcg
• Pregnant women 19 years and older: 1,100 mcg
• Lactating women 14-18 years: 900 mcg
• Lactating women 19 years and older: 1,100 mcg

Here's a list of high iodine foods:

• Yogurt, 
• cow's milk, 
• eggs, 
• strawberries,  
• mozzarella cheese,

It is important to note that if you have an autoimmune thyroid disease (for example, Grave's disease or Hashimoto's disease) or if you have experienced an iodine deficiency at some point in your life, you may be more susceptible to the dangers of excessive iodine consumption, and may need to monitor your iodine intake more carefully.

Tomorrow dangers on consuming too much iodine and some dangers of lacking of this important element.

Benefits of consuming iodine for your body's health. Iodine, Health Tips, Healthy Living & Homeopathic Medicine

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, up to 80 percent of the body's iodine is found in the thyroid, while the other 20 percent is spread throughout the body to other muscles, tissues and organs.

If you are like me and do not eat processed foods or table salt then you may need to consider either an iodine supplement or specifically keep a look out for foods that contain iodine.

Since iodine is not produced in our body it's very important we get an efficient amount to keep our thyroid happy.

Some of the benefits of supplementing iodine are:

• regulate moods, 
• Healthy teeth, skin, hair and nails,
• preventing cancer (especially in breasts, ovaries, uterus, prostate and thyroid gland), 
• preventing and treating fibrocystic breasts in women, 
• Iodine removes toxic chemicals (Iodine can flush out chemical toxins like fluoride, lead, mercury etc., apart from biological toxins and can strengthen immune system.) 
• May prevents the proliferation of harmful bacteria in the stomach.
• normal growth and maturity of reproductive organs,
• helping to regulate blood pressure, 
• Prevents Goitre,
• helping to regulate blood sugar,
•  Iodine programmed cell death (Iodine ensures the apoptosis or the programmed cell death which is essential in the formation of new organs as well as in the removal of malignant cells like cancer cells or diseased cells)
• prevent and treat diabetes, 
• help to prevent abnormal cardiac rhythms
• With unborn babies proper development of the brain and for proper thyroid function later in the growing child.

 The following list below are all disorders that are treated with iodine:

• Breast Disease
• Dupuytren’s Contracture
• Excess Mucous Production
• Fatigue
• Fibrocystic Breasts
• Graves Disease
• Hemorrhoids
• Headaches and Migraine
• Keloids
• Ovarian Cysts
• Parotid Duct Stones
• Peyronie’s
• Sebaceous Cysts
• Thyroid Disorders
• Cancers (breast, ovarian, thyroid, prostate)
• and more...

Tomorrow I'm going over how to take iodine and the controversial parts of the misunderstood element. Also what foods you can eat in order to insure you put the proper amounts or iodine into your body.

What is iodine, why do we need it and how does our bodies utilize iodine? Iodine, Health Tips, Healthy Living & Homeopathic Medicine

I recently went to a holistic chiropractor who performs muscle tests on your body. These muscle tests are known to show you what your body lacks in regards to hormones, supplements, minerals etc.

The holistic doctor put me on a eat for your blood type sugar control program for the next 14 days along with a candida, parasite herbal cleanse and also gave me iodine drops to drink every day in 24 ounces of water.

I take the herbs twice a day with juice which tastes pretty nasty and drink the iodine water slowly throughout the day.

I understood why the holistic doctor gave me the herbs, but I didn't understand why he wanted me to drink iodine for the next 14 days.

With a little research this is what I found... 

I found it interesting that iodine was discovered in 1811 by Bernard Courois. His family was in the Saltpeter business which is a vital part of gunpowder. This was around the Napoleonic Wars in France and gunpowder was on high demand.

While trying to make sodium carbonate for their families product, Bernard added too much sulfuric acid to the burnt seaweed and a cloud of purple vapor formed. He noticed that the vapor crystallized on cold surfaces, making dark crystals.

Courtois suspected that this was a new element but lacked funding to pursue it further.

What exactly is iodine?

Iodine has the atomic number of 53 and is used as a mild antiseptic. 

Iodine is extremely important for our thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones. Without thyroid hormones being produce there would be nothing regulating out:

• Protein
• Fat
• Carbohydrate metabolism
• Our use of energetic compounds
• Stimulation of vitamin metabolism in our bodies.

Tomorrow learn out the some benefits of taking iodine and how the lack of iodine in your body could be the cause of your weight gain and that sluggish feeling you may have throughout the day.