Natural Support for Your Thyroid
Your thyroid gland is one of your body's largest endocrine glands (secretes their hormones directly into your blood). It controls how quickly you use energy, make proteins, and controls how sensitive your body should be to other hormones. The thyroid does this by utilizing both iodine and tyrosine to aid in the production of thyroid hormones such as T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). Without proper levels of iodine, your thyroid would not be able to maintain production of T3 and T4 and deficiencies, such as hypothyroidism, can occur.
Solutions? Allopathic medicine says that the microscopic amount of iodine put in table salt is sufficient to meet man's physiological needs. While a more radical school of natural health speaks of taking grams (thousands of milligrams) of iodine at a time and how that is safe. As with everything the truth lies between these two extremes. Those who advocate taking no iodine are trying to make customers for the medical industry. Those who advocate a very high iodine intake are trying to get past its lack of absorption by pumping in more, even if it causes toxicity (which according to toxicology might be had at a level of dosing above 1000 mcg. daily).
What if you could get an optimal level of iodine into your blood and tissues without mega dosing?
Then your thyroid would have all the necessary nutrients it needs to support its proper function. |