You NEED a daily supply of Iodine in your diet. Here's why...
— Ken D Berry MD (@KenDBerryMD) October 20, 2024
NO you're not allergic to iodine (impossible)
NO it's not bad if you have Hashimoto's (false)
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00:30. Mammals need iodine. It's very important. Adults, if they have an iodine deficiency, can wind up with fatigue; they can wind up with trouble losing weight; they can wind up with a goiter. If children don't have enough in the womb and when they're breastfeeding and when they're growing, they can actually lose up to 10 to 15 IQ points and can wind up with lots of different developmental delays and disorders.
01:35. Iodine is an element it's number 53 on the periodic table of the elements.
02:10. The predominant source of iodine on our planet comes from the ocean. So if you live near the coastline, then there's tons of iodine in seafood, kelp, sea plants, and in the soil, in the ocean, some of the iodine gets in the air and it gets rained down onto the soil. But as you get farther away from the coastline, there is less iodine in the soil. Indeed, there are regions in the central part of North America that have almost no iodine in the soil whatsoever. Back before we started thinking about iodine and putting it in things like salt, these people, all almost all of them, had a goiter, which is a swelling of the thyroid gland. There is no iodine in the soil. So when they grow their crops and harvest their animals, there is no iodine for them so their thyroid had to work double or triple time and it got much bigger than it than it should be. During one of the wars when we were trying to draft young men for service, we couldn't take them if they had a goiter. So the federal government came up with the brilliant 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 and everyone needs salt, everyone eats salt. So that was a good way to get iodine into people's diet, and indeed there are much worse ideas than that. Better ways to get your iodine than that.
03:55. Every vertebrate needs iodine to survive from humans to lions to gorillas, all the way down to the tiniest lizard, tiniest little rodent, every animal with a spinal column has to have iodine in order to be alive. If I could magically reach into your body and pull out every atom of iodine out of your body, you would be dead within an hour; that's how important it is. We always think about iodine in reference to the thyroid gland but you'll find out that it's much more important than that it's very important for other functions as well a deficiency leads to goiters but it also leads to hundreds of other Medical problem signs and symptoms and other suffering so I want you to understand how important iodine is.
04:45. Why do you need it? Let's talk about this. You have to have iodine in order for your thyroid to make thyroid hormones. So thyroxine, which is T4, the 4 stands for four atoms of iodine. Triiodothyroidine , or T3, has 3 atoms of iodine, and there's actually T1 and T2 which are thyroid hormones you've never heard of. Doctors will say well they don't do anything if you follow me much you'll know that the human body doesn't do anything for no reason. So T1 and T2 definitely serve purposes we just don't know what they are yet we need to get on that and find that out so the thyroid concentrates iodine out of your bloodstream that you've eaten and that's how you make thyroid hormone you may know the thyroid is your master gland and it's in charge of really the function of all other glands and all other tissues in your body so this is first and foremost very important that you have optimized a thyroid function and you cannot have that without adequate amounts of iodine here's what most people don't know including most doctors every gland in your body from your sweat glands to your salivary glands to your spit glands to your pancreas to your liver every gland, whether exocrine or endocrine, concentrates iodine now the human body never waste energy it never does something that it doesn't need to do so if you're the mammary glands in your breasts, if they concentrate iodine there's a reason they do that that's important and so that's actually true the glands in the human rest concentrate iodine in that means something that means that it's important so every gland concentrates iodine but here is something else you may not have known every single cell in the human body that we have looked at has something called a sodium iodine symporter and that's on the cell membrane it's a little machine that basically spits out sodium and sucks in an iodine so it looks like every cell in the human body concentrates iodine to some degree meaning that the cells need that iodine and that's why I pulled out
Iodine does many things that we know about it also does many things that we do not know about at all so far we've documented that 84 different tissues in your body need iodine to function properly there's a link below in the show notes.
07:29. Next big question is how much iodine do we need? I've told you what it is. I have told you why we need it, now let's talk about how much? The official recommended daily allowance for daily intake in the United States is 150 micrograms in the microgram is 1,000 of a milligram so it's a tiny amount so the average adult should get a hundred and fifty micrograms according to the federal government even the federal government realizes that pregnant women who are breastfeeding need more iodine than that so the RDI for pregnant women is 220 micrograms a day and for breastfeeding or lactating women 290 micrograms a day almost double of what it is for just a regular person right off the bat that ought to tell you that odd you know wondering why pregnant women need more if it's not that big of a deal. Remember 150 micrograms is what the average person needs in order to make their thyroid have enough so that they don't have a goiter that I talked about earlier right a swollen thyroid but what about the other glands in your body 150 micrograms the day is enough for your thyroid, yes, it's true, but what about all your salivary glands your sweat glands your lymph your liver your pancreas your adrenal glands what about your ovaries and testicles they need iodine as well in order to function optimally so it's my contention that you need more then 150 micrograms a day I think the average person needs more than 290 micrograms a day. Some experts recommend that you take up to 50 mg a day of iodine now that seems like a little much to me that would be 50,000 micrograms and the Rd I is $150 so that's a big jump for a frame of reference here are two examples the average person living in Japan eats from 10 to 15 mg or 10 to 15,000 micrograms of iodine everyday because they eat such a seafood heavy diet they eat lots of seafood they eat lots of sea vegetables and all these things are very rich sources of iodine so if as some people have said eating more than a milligram of iodine a day is very dangerous than the Japanese should be extinct indeed any other population of people who lived near the ocean who get anywhere from 8 to 15 mg of iodine a day they should die if it's that terrible they should all have hypothyroidism or autoimmune thyroiditis or whatever it is that the expert says oh if you get too much iodine it'll harm you.
10:22. Example number two there is a medication called Amy odorone that doctors like me give to patients who have hard heart failure or severe heart problems Annie odorone has 75 mg of iodine in it and most people take 200 mg of amiodarone either once or twice a day that so that means the average person taking amiodarone is getting between 75 mg a day and 150 mg a day of iodine and they don't die we watch their thyroid function because they're taking so much iodine but they don't get all these terrible complications that you have heard that people get more than a milligram of iodine a date they just don't get that so the Japanese aren't harmed by 15 mg a day people taking amiodarone aren't harmed by taking 75 mg a day so therefore the RDI now looks very puny in comparison to the 150 micrograms or 015 mg. So how much should you take?
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