Your Thyroid and Kelp: Podcast #15
This podcast starts with something all men love to do: complain about women. However, Martin and Scott use this only as a starting off point to observe how hormonal imbalances due can do a great deal to harm our quality of life. Whether it manifests itself as road rage or menstrual pain chances are it is the same thing.
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The most important controller of hormones in the body is unquestionably the thyroid gland. Martin informs us that though the gland is supported by magnesium, it is really iodine which is the primary controlling element. In fact, most people are magnesium deficient without even realizing it. The thyroid uses up a great deal of iodine and will even go as far as to steal it from our organs if it needs to.
All it takes is a couple of milligrams of iodine a day to cure deficiency. These few milligrams can make all the difference too. If we are deficient over a long period of time, the thyroid will continue to take iodine from other organs and tissues. For example: the breast tissue in women. Certain studies have suggested that this could lead to breast cancer later in life.
At the Life Enthusiast Co-op, we offer a good number of Super Nutrients which can be very beneficial in combating this. I also always recommend kelp to my customers, which is found in every Superfood product we offer. However, you deal with it, it is an important factor to be aware of. I can’t tell you how people I talk to who tell me they simply haven’t been feeling right, and more often than not this is a big factor.
Iodine Research at Life Enthusiast.
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