Iodine Information

IODINE is an important naturally occuring mineral for your body to function normally.

The main use of iodine by your body is by a small organ called the thryroid (pronounced thigh-roy-duh), at the front of your neck to make a hormone called Thyroxine. This is the energy pedal of your body. The more you have, the more revved up your body feels.

Iodine Body Functions:

• Heat and Energy production
• Metabolism of fat
• Physical and Mental development
• Production of Thyroid hormone

Iodine Uses:

• Goiter - enlargement of the thyroid gland
• Hyperthyroidism - too much thyroxine production
• Hypothyroidism - too little thyroxine production

Your doctor may suspect you have a deficiency by your symptoms of lethargy, and gaining weight rapidly. Long-term deficiency is rare in Western society, but if it happens for long enough the thyroid gland in your neck will actually grow into a neck bulge called a goitre.

The US RDA for Iodine is 150 mcg per day.

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