Iodine was added to salt at a time when food sources were regional. That time is long past; it would be nearly impossible for an American today to have an iodine deficiency.
If you don’t supplement with iodine (or eat like a Japanese person) you are highly deficient in iodine. Most in America are very deficient.
“Iodine was added to salt at a time when food sources were regional. That time is long past; it would be nearly impossible for an American today to have an iodine deficiency.”
Iodized salt has barely enough to help prevent goiter. Iodine is a serious deficiency in America today. But that is for at least two reasons...
1. Iodines needs in the body are not well known.
2. Because those needs are not well known, we do not get enough iodine in our diets.
If a woman had enough iodine in her system she would not get breast cancer, and if a man had enough he would not get prostate cancer.
Iodine is needed in microgram amounts for the thyroid, mg amounts for breast and other tissues, and can be used therapeutically in gram amounts.[3]
- Dr. David Miller
Along with magnesium and selenium, iodine is one of the most deficient minerals in our bodies. The toxicity of modern life must be impacting iodine levels. It is well known that the toxic halides, fluoride and bromide, having a similar structure as iodine, can competitively inhibit iodine absorption and binding in the body. Because of the elevated levels of toxic halides in the environment and in the food supply, iodine levels have not only fallen but larger amounts of iodine are necessary to correct iodine deficiency as well as to promote a detoxifying effect of heavy metals.
Dr. Michael B. Schachter says, “The treatment dose when a person is iodine insufficient is generally between 12.5 mg and 50 mg daily. Preliminary research indicates that if a person is iodine insufficient, it takes about 3 months to become iodine sufficient while ingesting a dosage of 50 mg of iodine and a year to become iodine sufficient while ingesting a dosage of 12.5 mg of iodine daily.
When you look at mainstream recommendations all the above information seems strange but this is because dosage and RDA are set obscenely low. Note instead of talking in milligrams (mg) the RDA is in micrograms (mcg) which is a scale exactly 1000 times less. Meaning it takes 1000 mcg to equal 1 mg and it takes 1000 mg to equal a gram.
Iodine is necessary to get rid of the bromides and fluorides poisoning our bodies, and it takes a lot to do that. Supplementation is the only way we can accomplish that. Iodine helps unclog arteries that otherwise cause cardiovascular problems.